NAIROBI: Kenya's shilling weakened on Thursday to nearly an 11-month low due to increased importer dollar demand across all sectors and low inflows, traders said.

At 0733 GMT, commercial banks quoted the shilling at 111.45/65 to the dollar, compared with Wednesday's close of 111.25/45.

The shilling hit 111.55/75 in earlier trade, a level last hit on Dec.17, 2020, according to Refinitiv data.

It is shy of its all-time low of 111.65/75 hit on Dec.3, 2020. Reuters

Police are looking for a 25-year-old woman who stabbed another woman after clashing in a man's house in Subukia.

Speaking to The Standard, Subukia Police Commander Patricia Nasio said that the suspect vanished minutes after stabbing Bernice Wangeci, 21, on Tuesday morning.

“We received a report of an assault case from the residents on Tuesday at around 1am. The case turned fatal after the victim was pronounced dead hours later. The suspect is now on the run,” said Nasio.

The drama started after Stephen Chege arrived at his house accompanied by the suspect at around 1am and found Wanjiru in the house. An altercation between the two ensued as they argued on who was rightfully in Chege’s house, leading to the suspect picking a kitchen knife and attacking Wangeci as the man watched.

The police boss added that Chege rushed Wangeci to Subukia Sub County Hospital leaving the suspect in the house.

“Wangeci was pronounced dead on arrival at the health facility. Her body was moved to Nyahururu Hospital mortuary as Chege led the police to his house,” said Nasio.

The police found the house deserted with neighbours revealing that the suspect vanished immediately after the victim was rushed to the hospital. - Kennedy Gachuhi and Yvonne Chepkwony, The Standard

DAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian education authorities said on Wednesday plans are underway to construct a state-of-the-art 44.5-million-U.S. dollar university to be named after the country's founding leader, Julius Nyerere.

The university to be known as Julius Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology will be built at Butiama, Nyerere's the native village, Omary Kipanga, the Deputy Minister for Education, Science and Technology, told parliament in Dodoma.

Kipanga said the university seeks to transform the country's agriculture through use of technology and highly skilled manpower.

He said that the high learning institution will be built through the Higher Education for Economic Transformation (HEET) program supported by the World Bank aimed at helping strengthen the capacity and quality of selected universities to build high skilled workforce.

Kipanga was responding to a Member of Parliament for Butiama constituency, Abdallah Sagini, who had requested the government to explain when the university will be constructed.

He said preparations for the construction of the university were at the advanced stage, including acquisition of 573.5 hectares of land, preparation of a master plan, undertaking of an environmental and social impact assessment, and architectural designs. - Xinhua