The News Brief: Ruto Nyanza tour signals making of ‘western alliance’

These are the stories making the headlines in the Star.

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00:00This is the Star News Brief, I'm Mark Gitau.

00:09President William Ruto and allies of opposition chief Renlo Ding on Wednesday hinted a political

00:14marriage ahead of the 2027 polls.

00:17Ruto is on a four-day tour of the Nyanza region, speaking in Miguri on Wednesday, where he

00:21launched several projects.

00:23The president gave the clearest indication yet he will unite with his former political

00:27rival in the next election.

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00:41Civil society groups have continued to pile pressure on President William Ruto to stop

00:45extrajudicial killings by security forces.

00:48The police reform working group, a coalition of human rights lobbyists, yesterday said

00:52it was concerned by the enforced disappearances and obituary arrests, despite Ruto's promise

00:57to end it.

00:58The government was not upholding commitment to stop the vice, the lobby said, but was

01:02going further in offending the rights of those arrested.

01:06The late Mombasa's cement-limited CEO Hasmukh Patel will be cremated on Sunday in Mombasa

01:12with President William Ruto expected to be in attendance, the Star has learned.

01:16This explains why the body of Patel was preserved at the Pandya Memorial Hospital morgue, unlike

01:20the Hindu traditions.

01:22According to Hindu death rituals, the body should remain at home until cremation, which

01:26is usually within 24 hours of the death.

01:29Sources close to the family hinted at the Star that there was a special request for

01:33the delay of the cremation, but they will not state why.

01:37One more body of a middle-aged man was on Thursday night found in El Nika in Bangla

01:41area, Tanah River County, a day after four people were killed.

01:45The decomposing body was found with arrow wounds, a clear indication that he died through

01:49the poisoned arrows.

01:50This brings the number of those killed to five in the last three days.

01:55The Shakahola massacre, which led to the deaths of over 400 people in Cliffie County,

02:00was as a result of police failure, a report on the probe into the tragedy says.

02:04The Commission on Administrative Justice, which probed the Shakahola tragedy, has blamed

02:08the police and state administrators for the deaths.

02:11A report by the commission said there was a dereliction of duty by the two agencies,

02:15which allowed the occurrence of the tragedy.

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