Police on Friday morning arrested three people caught transporting contraband goods in a lorry along Kericho-Litein road.
The National Police Service said in a statement that the lorry was intercepted by officers from Bureti Subcounty.
The three were booked at Kericho Police Station before being arraigned in the afternoon.
"A multi-agency team comprising of Kenya Revenue Authority officers inspected the goods and established that the 1,100 cartons each containing 20 bottles of Best Classic Gin valued at Sh4.4 million were counterfeit," NPS said.
The suspects pleaded guilty before a Magistrate Court in Kericho and are awaiting sentencing on Monday, December 19.
NPS further said the lorry has been forfeited to the State while the counterfeit goods are condemned for destruction. - SHARON MWENDE, The Star
President William Ruto and First Lady Rachel Ruto meeting US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden at White House on December 15, 2022.
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President William Ruto has already secured six major deals for Kenya that will be realised through partnerships with the United States (US) Government as well as private investors.
The deals were secured on Thursday, December 15, during US-Africa Leaders’ Summit.
Some of the deals are set to benefit Kenya directly while others are meant to bring democracy, peace, and stability to the Sub-Saharan Africa region.
One of the key deals is a partnership with World Bank on various economic projects.
President Ruto addressing Kenyans in diaspora at Washington DC on December 15, 2022 TWITTER STATE HOUSE KENYA
“Kenya will intensify its engagement with the World Bank on the country development priorities,” Ruto announced on Thursday, December 15, in Washington DC during a meeting with World Bank President David Malpass.
In a meeting attended by Yoweri Museveni (Ugandan President), Paul Kagame (Rwanda), Samia Suluhu (Tanzania), and Evariste Ndayishimiye (Burundi), the president on December 15, charted a way forward towards achieving peace and stability at DRC.
“It is in our interest as a region to find a lasting solution to the current instability in the DRC. We cannot allow the situation to get worse," the President urged other Heads of State.
This was announced by the president after he was hosted at a high-level roundtable at Arizona State University’s Thunderbird School of Management by US investors on December 15.
During the same meeting, it was announced that Kenya would partner with the US on climate innovations and carbon removal.
He attributed that to its competitive advantage to a maturing constitutional democracy and well-developed financial and commercial ecosystem.
Lastly, the President has secured a huge deal toward attaining peace in the Horn of Africa which will benefit Kenya as the country has been hurt economically by terrorist attacks by Al Shabaab.
"The United States of America will work with Kenya to ensure there is peace in the Horn of Africa," the President announced during a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on December 15.
President William Ruto during talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at Washington DC on December 15, 2022 TWITTER WILLIAM RUTO
A Sudanese woman charged with adultery has had her life spared and will instead spend six months behind bars after she admitted to kissing a man.
The 20-year-old was initially sentenced to death by stoning, sparking an international outcry.
She was arrested by police after her cousin killed her boyfriend.
The African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) described the initial penalty as a "grave violation of international law".
The divorcee was sentenced to death after she was found guilty of adultery by a court in the city of Kosti, in Sudan's White Nile state.
Following international condemnation, the White Nile state court retried the case. Ultimately, the presiding judge changed the charge from "adultery" to an "obscene act" which meant she would instead serve prison time for her actions.
She confessed in court to being with a man and admitted that the pair had kissed.
Her lawyer, Intisar Abdullah, said the judge "didn't have many options but to convict her".
"The thing is she confessed at the court that she was with a man, she is very young and she doesn't know the complications of the case," the lawyertold the BBC.
The woman had been free on bail but has now gone to prison to start her sentence.
The ACJPS said she was not allowed a lawyer in the initial case, and procedural errors led to the stoning sentence being overturned.
Sudan still imposes the death penalty for some hudud crimes - offences specified by Allah in the Quran, including theft and adultery. In Sudanese law they carry penalties such as flogging, the amputation of hands and feet, hanging and stoning.
The majority of stoning sentences in Sudan - laid predominantly against women - have been overturned at the High Court.
L-R: Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni's daughter Natasha Karugire, President Museveni, US President Joe Biden and US First Lady Jill Biden pose for a photo at the White House on December 15, 2022.
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Mr Joe Biden who is serving his first term as US President said the agreements reached with work for citizens on the African continent only if the governments guarantee security and peace, adhere to democratic principles and keep their populations healthy.
The United States President Joe Biden has revealed that his administration officials have signed multiple deals with African leaders worth $15b to “improve lives of people all across the continent”.
“And that’s the biggest deal of all,” Mr Biden said in an address to more than 40 heads of state and governments gathered in Washington D.C for the three-day US-Africa Leaders’ Summit that ended yesterday.
“Altogether, the forum has spurred more than $15 billion in new deals, which will turn lift up and improve lives of people all across the continent”, he said, adding, ““All of you — all of you, the deals you’ve signed, the investments we’ve made together, are concrete proof of the enduring commitment we’re making to one another; government-to-government, business-to-business, people-to-people.” By Arthur Arnold Wadero, Daily Monitor
Harry, Meghan and William on the balcony of Buckingham Palace watching a flypast in 2018, before the relationship between the two brothers is said to have broken down. (Getty Images)
The latest episodes of Harry and Meghan's Netflix documentary series have provided new insight into the breakdown of Harry and William's relationship.
The final volume of the controversial show, which was released on Thursday morning, contains a series of allegations by the Sussexes about their treatment at the hands of the royals – including accusations that aides of Prince William deliberately briefed against Harry.
Harry even describes an occasion William "screamed and shouted" at him during a tense meeting discussing the couple's future.
Another scene shows the Sussexes a few days after the couple's 2021 interview with Oprah had been aired.
Meghan can be seen talking on the phone to Tyler Perry – the US comedian who let the couple stay in his mansion after they left their lives in the UK behind.
The duchess and Perry are seen discussing a statement released by the Queen, in which she said "recollections may vary" in response to Meghan's claims of racism in the interview.
Their conversation is then interrupted by Harry showing Meghan something on his phone — a text message from William.
"What am I looking at?" Meghan asks, before realising it is a message from William to which she responds: "Wow".
Harry rubs his nose and both the duke and duchess seem to be shocked and upset.
"H just got a text from his brother", Meghan explains to Perry on the phone while her husband bites his nails and stares at his phone screen.
After Meghan ended the call with Perry, Harry closes his eyes and says, "I wish I knew what to do."
Harry's description of his relationship with William is a far cry from the closeness they used to enjoy. (Getty Images)
"I know. Let’s take a breather. Get some air and decide", Meghan replies as she comforts him with a hug.
The series does not disclose the contents of the message from William, nor does it explain why it chose not to.
The moment is one of a series of apparent interactions between Harry and William which — at least from Harry's perspective — paint an increasingly unhappy picture of their relationship.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Harry claimed he had a "terrifying" encounter with William at January 2020 summit at Sandringham where the Sussexes future role was discussed.
"It was terrifying to have my brother scream and shout at me and my father say things that simply weren’t true and my grandmother quietly sit there and sort of take it all in", he said.
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He also disclosed that the two brothers had once made a pact never to brief the press against each other, as they had seen their father's office do previously.
Harry explained that if a palace press office "want to be able to remove a negative story about their principle, they will trade and give you something about someone else's principle. So the offices end up working against each other."
It is something Harry claims he and his brother had "promised" never to allow to happen in their own teams, with the duke describing it as "heartbreaking" when William's aides leaked against him.
While Harry clarified he wasn't asking if his brother condoned it, he wanted to know why William had not tried to end the practice.
Harry said he felt 'distant' from his family at the 2020 Commonwealth Day Service, one of his last royal engagements. (Getty Images)
"What I am asking is have you [William] have done anything to stop it? And the answer is no. William and I both saw what happened in our Dad's office and we made an agreement we would never let that happen".
Harry also discussed when he saw his family at the Commonwealth Day service in 2020, one of the couple's last engagements before stepping away from the UK for good.
"It's like living through a soap opera", Harry said, "where everybody else views you as entertainment [...] I felt really distant from the rest of my family, which was interesting because so much of how they operate is about what it looks like rather than what it feels like".
Yahoo News UK understands that neither Buckingham nor Kensington Palace will comment on the documentary. By Emma Mackenzie, Yahoo News
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