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Senior politicians and other leaders continue to flock the home of veteran politician Njenga Karume to comfort him in his illness. The family says the former cabinet minister has been unwell but is responding well to treatment. President Mwai Kibaki and Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta are some of the high profile figures that have called on Karume this week.

The Kenya Defence Forces are claiming what they say is their biggest victory yet in their sixteen week stay in Somalia. The forces say last evening they captured two critical centres of Hosingo and Baadade. However, one veteran who now lives in Nyeri says he would be happy to give a few tips to the troops. 62-year-old Layfields Mureithi fought in the 1977 Shifta War in Somalia, and as Brenda Wanga reports, he says it was much more difficult back then.

From a refugee to a top KCPE candidate, and now a proud holder of an admission letter from Alliance High School. That is the Cinderella story of one Southern Sudanese boy who was ranked fourth in last year’s KCPE exams. Ntv’s Rose Wangui covered Tito Yak’s story when he was declared a top candidate and just this week, caught up with him as he took up his place at one of Kenya’s best schools.

Lawyers say the proposal plans by Nairobi Mayor George Aladwa to decriminalize sex work in the city has intriguing implications under the new constitution. However, some of the sex workers we spoke to say the move is long overdue.

The death toll in the horror road accident in Kisumu last night has now risen to 26. One more person died in hospital this afternoon as relatives thronged the local mortuary in search of bodies of their loved ones. Rescuers had battled for most of last night trying to remove bodies from the wreckage. Witnesses say the accident occurred when a lorry rammed into a matatu that had stopped at a roadblock on the Kisumu-Kakamega highway. As Ntv’s Ouko Okusah reports, residents are now blaming the police for the tragedy.

Now to another building collapse that nearly turned into a tragedy. At least six people were seriously injured after a building under construction caved in, in Mwiki, on the outskirts of Nairobi. The afternoon incident saw the first floor of the building come down in what is alleged to be the use of substandard materials in its construction.

The Government is blaming local leaders for fanning the violence that rocked Isiolo town in the last several days. Many survivors are still recuperating at the district hospital there, following riots that rocked the town earlier in the week. Sarah Sendeyo now takes a closer look at the violence that has left many residents baffled.

It is emerging that Kenya has almost no capacity to treat heart ailments in children under the age of six months. Doctors say heart surgeries can only be conducted in children who weigh more than 10 kilos and as Joyce Mkawasi now reports, one family is experiencing that agony first hand.

The death toll in the horror road accident in Kisumu last night has now risen to 25. Rescuers battled for most of the night trying to remove bodies from the wreckage. Witnesses say the accident occurred when a lorry rammed into a matatu that had stopped at a road block on the Kisumu-Kakamega highway. As NTV's Ouko Okusa reports, residents blame police for the tragedy.

The Kenya Defence Forces are claiming what they say is their biggest victory yet in their sixteen week of stay in Somalia. The forces say on Friday evening, they captured two critical centres of Hosingo and Baadade. The two centres are said to have been key transit points for improvised explosive devices and contraband goods to the rest of Somalia and northern Kenya. At the same time the KDF says it is still on the trail of the Kenyans abducted last month in Wajir.

A security guard was found dead and another one is in police custody following a midnight attack in Kisauni, Mombasa. The deceased is said to have been murdered by his colleague after an argument.

A group of MPs allied to ICC suspects Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto have reacted angrily to a statement by UK foreign secretary William Hague regarding the duo's presidential aspirations. In a statement read by trade minister Chirau Ali Mwakwere, the MPs claim the United Kingdom has no right to comment on the case. The MPs are headed for a public meeting in Malindi, where Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto are chief guests. On Thursday high court judge Isaac Lenaola barred public debate on whether Uhuru and Ruto can run for the presidency.

They say war is a continuation of politics by other means and in Kenya, prayer is turning out to be another form of hard tackling politics. From Eldoret to Ruiru to Meru the Ocampo four had a chance of getting re-annointed but the question remains, who will be the real annointed one? It’s a question even the man waiting to hand over the mantle is asking and as Emmanuel Juma reports on Bull’s-Eye, playing ignorant for now, is keeping them happy.

The Nairobi City Council is planning to give commercial workers a licence to operate freely in the Central Business District. The Mayor George Aladwa says he has received petitions from hundreds of twilight girls who claim they are harassed by city askaris while on duty. As James Smart reports, City Hall has chosen a rather significant day to make the big announcement.

If you have a child in standard four this year, he or she may well be among the first group of candidates to try out the proposed new education system. The government hopes to put the 2-6-3-3-3 system in motion next year and have the first standard six exams in 2014. But the report launched today must now go to cabinet and parliament before it can be implemented. And as Sheila Sendeyo reports, it will cost you some 1.4 trillion shillings to effect.

People living with HIV are a worried lot after it emerged that the global fund that finances AIDS programmes in the country may soon dry up. The fund has already rejected several applications from African countries owing to a shortage of finances. Kenya received an equivalent of nearly 30 billion shillings in the last disbursement and as Pamela Asigi found out, many aids campaigners are now keeping their fingers crossed.

The global fund also finances anti-malaria programmes in Kenya and now a new study suggests that the disease kills nearly twice as many people than earlier thought. A study published in the British Medical Journal Lancet says malaria killed some 1.24 million people globally in 2010, but only half of that number was reported. NTV's Jane Ngoiri reports on why Kenya needs to worry about this latest finding.

Kenya has the capacity to produce more food and achieve food security. Minister for agriculture Sally Kosgei says that besides the grains in the reserves, there are plenty of seeds and fertilizer available to the farmers, as the planting season approaches.

The World Bank has granted the Kenya government 1.5 billion dollars an equivalent of 124 billion Kenya shillings, set to fund various projects in infrastructure, energy and water resources. The funding will be spread across a period running from 2012 to 2014. It is expected to finance key projects aligned to the country development blue print vision 2030. NTV's Aby Agina reports.

A 17-year-old girl suffering from cerebral palsy has allegedly been defiled and impregnated. It is said the girl confined to female teachers that she was attacked on her way to the river. According to neighbor the mother has neglected the girl due to her condition.

Sharp differences have emerged between a section of matatu operators and the Music Copyright Society of Kenya. Matatu sacco members from the Mount Kenya region have subsequently vowed they won’t pay any amount to the copyright society.

A man and his family have been forced to abandon their home in Homa Bay, after unknown assailants attacked him and left him for dead. Carilus Nyangari says his attack is related to a simmering row over the leadership of Lwanda Kotieno beach.

The two men have declared they will push on with their campaigns and have lined up several rallies to push their bids. But just how do we cover these candidates without breaching that ruling? Here is an idea from Ntv’s Robert Nagila.

The dressing debate is only the latest in a series of legal challenges following the enactment of a new constitution. And it is all down to the expanded Bill of Rights that has changed the country forever, or has it? Here is Ntv’s John-Allan Namu.

The Constitutional Court has barred all public discussion of the presidential bid of Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto. The court issued the orders following an application by members of the civil society seeking to bar the two from running for the country’s top leadership. But as Brenda Wanga reports, the two ICC suspects could not resist discussing that very subject at their latest rally in Meru.

Four more people among them politicians have been arrested as police seek to stem the bloodletting in Moyale. At least 35 people have been killed in the area since November last year while thousands have been displaced. Irene Choge with the latest from Moyale.

President Mwai Kibaki formally inaugurated the upgraded airport in the Lakeside City but failed to grant a request to change the airport’s name. A section of leaders from the region had wanted the new airport named after the late veteran opposition politician Jaramogi Oginga Odinga. Ntv’s Ouko Okusah now reports on that and many other requests that simply couldn’t fly.