Kenyan players

Kenya’s Quarter-Final Victory Overturned at ISF Football Championships

The dreams of Kenyan boys advancing to the semi-finals in the International Schools Sports Federation (ISF) World Schools Championships (WSC) in Dalian, China, have been dashed. Their 4-0 quarter-final victory against Qatar was overturned. In a statement, the Ministry of Education announced that the victory, which would have been Kenya’s most significant win of the…

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Beatrice Chebet of Team Kenya wins the women's 10,000-meter run with a world record during the Wanda Diamond League Prefontaine Classic at Hayward Field on May 25, 2024 in Eugene, Oregon.

Beatrice Chebet Sets New Women’s 10,000m World Record at Prefontaine Classic

Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet broke the women’s 10,000m world record with a time of 28:54.14 at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting in Eugene, Oregon, on Saturday. The 24-year-old, a two-time world championships medallist at 5,000m and a cross-country world champion, surpassed the previous record of 29:01.03 set by Ethiopia’s Letesenbet Gidey in Hengelo on June…

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President William Ruto speaks to the new CDF Charles Muriu Kahariri.
President William Ruto speaks to the new CDF Charles Muriu Kahariri.

President Ruto Appoints Chief of Defence Forces to New Role

President Ruto has appointed Chief of Defence Forces Charles Muriu Kahariri as the chairperson of the presidential taskforce for the Kenya Home of Human Origins Museum and Science Park in the Lake Turkana Basin. In a Gazette Notice, the President also appointed Mary Gikungu, the Director General of the National Museums of Kenya, as a…

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