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Queen Elizabeth’s committal service will take place at St George’s Chapel in Windsor and will be the scene of some of the most symbolic moments of the day’s ceremonies. The late Queen agreed to most elements of the service. Several of the organ pieces to be played in the chapel…

On Monday, Moses Wetangula the National Assembly speaker pledged to reinstate MPs entitled perks which were abolished by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) in July. Wetangula said he held talks with the commission on Monday to get the allowances back so that parliamentarians could operate smoothly. This is as…

Public universities are struggling to pay their lecturers and non-teaching staff their last month’s salaries after the National Treasury failed to release capitation on time. UASU Secretary General Constance Wasonga said most universities have not paid their academic staff members their May salaries, a trend he said has been there…

As from Monday, Senegal marks to be West Africa’s largest-ever proportion of women MPs in a newly elected legislature. As cautioned in politics by Aminata Toure; a former prime minister and incoming MP for President Macky, female pioneers encounter resistance and suspicion. In Senegal’s next National Assembly, more than 44…

Due to the average annual inflation, excise duty on the products like beer, juice and bottled water will increase by 6.3 per cent. This is effective from October 1 as the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) moved to effect annual inflation tax adjustment on excise duty charged on the products. The…

President-elect William Ruto’s quest to have the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) barred from the case was rejected. Ruto had argued that the LSK cannot be neutral in the matter as Martha Karua, who is a petitioner, is its member and also a former leader. The society had filed an…

Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across most parts of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June. The new death toll came a day after Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif asked for international help in battling deadly flood damage in the impoverished Islamic…

An Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) commissioner has claimed that a foreigner managed to access the electoral body’s server. The foreigner by the name Godino Omor and three IEBC staff deleted some presidential results and uploaded others into the server, commissioner Justus Nyang’aya has disclosed. In a replying affidavit…

In actor and BJP leader Sonali Phogat’s murder case, two more people have been arrested, including a drug dealer and the owner of the Goa restaurant where she was seen partying the night before her death. This brings the total number of arrests in the Haryana BJP leader’s death case…

Police in Limuru, Kiambu County were forced to disperse locals who were spotted with jerricans following an accident at Kamandura involving an oil tanker. The accident occurred at around 1:00 AM after the driver lost control before overturning. died after a tanker exploded at Sachangwan along the Nakuru-Eldoret highway. The…