🌧️ HEAVY RAINFALL ADVISORY 🌧️
Advisory No.: 01/2026 | Update: One
Date of Issue: 20th February 2026 | 4:00 p.m.
⏰ Validity: From 21st February 2026 (3:00 p.m.) to 25th February 2026 (6:00 p.m.)
⚠️ Urgency: Expected
⚠️ Severity: Moderate to Heavy
⚠️ Certainty: Moderate probability (33%–66% chance)
🌧️ Advisory Details
Rainfall currently affecting the Lake Victoria Basin, the Rift Valley, and the Highlands East and West of the Rift Valley (including Nairobi) is expected to intensify:
•>20 mm/24 hrs on 21st February 2026
•>30 mm/24 hrs on 22nd, 23rd, and 24th February 2026
•Likely to spread to the South-eastern Lowlands and the Coastal region, especially the South Coast
•Reduced intensity expected on 25th February 2026
📍 Areas of Concern (Counties):
Migori, Nyamira, Bungoma, Kakamega, Embu, Murang’a, Nyeri, Tharaka-Nithi, Kisii, Narok, Kajiado, Makueni, Machakos, Nairobi, Kericho, Bomet, Taita Taveta, Kitui, Kwale, Mombasa, southern Tana River, and parts of Kilifi.
🚨 Public Safety Advisory
Residents are advised to remain alert for possible flooding, including downstream areas.
Avoid walking or driving through moving floodwaters and open fields. Updates will be issued as conditions evolve.
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👀 Members of the public are encouraged to stay informed through official updates from the Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD).
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Dear ladies never forget that: The same world that shames me for being a single mother also shames you for not being a mother and shames another woman for having too many children..lt shames one woman for having a child at the age of 19 because she's too young but also shames another for having at 36 because she's too old..lt shames a woman who marries young as well as the one who marries old..It shames women who don't have beautiful bodies and shames those who go under the knife to get the bodies. This world shames all women, not a single one of us is spared, not a single one. So love and make yourselves happy.
We want your story! The 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize has begun 📚
Citizens of Commonwealth countries aged over 18 can enter. Stories should be between 2,000–5,000 words and must be unpublished fiction. Entry is free, and you can write on any theme.
Five regional winners will be announced next May. One of these five will be named the overall winner and receive £5,000. The regional winners will receive £2,500. All five regional winning stories will be published on Granta.
The deadline for entries is 11.59pm GMT on 1 November 2025.
Happy writing! ✍️
Read our FAQs and enter your story 👇
https://t.co/ksIVUwUcVg
#cwprize
This @BBCAfrica documentary is heartbreaking and a serious indictment of systemic failure.
A failure by state institutions to protect the most vulnerable and to act swiftly and decisively.
Children as young as 12, are being trafficked, abused and discarded right here in Kenya!
Outrage is not enough. We need urgent justice and reform!
We demand all individuals and networks implicated in these trafficking rings be arrested and prosecuted! There should be zero protection for predators, regardless of their status.
@DPPS_KE@HakiKNCHR@thekhrc@lawsocietykenya
🚨 Call for Applications – COHORT 10
Are you a VI graduate (21–30) with a diploma/degree, registered with NCPWD & based in Nairobi?
Apply for KBTA’s 3-month Employability Skills Training Program!
📩 Send CV: [email protected]
🗓️ Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
Section of Meru residents begins collecting signatures to recall North Imenti MP Rahim Dawood over his support for Finance Bill 2024 and stalled projects.
If you must buy a newspaper, buy The Standard.
If you must subscribe to digital news, subscribe to @StandardKenya
If you must watch TV news, watch @KTNNewsKE.
If the government punishes them for telling the truth, let Kenyans reward them with loyalty.
#June25th
Following the media reports by @StandardKenya and @KTNNewsKE over an alleged scheme to deploy hired goons against protestors, the @LawSocietyofKe sounds a stern caution of the potential detrimental impact of radicalizing youth for political expediency. National security is a function of our organs of National Security, which have the exclusive mandate to deal with and respond to any breach of peace or real threat to security. Every criminal insurgency begins with arming of youth and abusing them as agents of political repression, this cannot be the Kenyan story.
The call for papers for the International Squat Conference: Squat All Over The World is open! Aubervilliers (Paris, France), 8-9 January 2026. https://t.co/gRWgZ5FMFz Submit your abstract by the 7th of July 2025. #urban#sociology
MY EVICTION STORY: A Story by Qassim Kariuki in Mathare
The video illustrates Qassim's eviction story. He narrates that in May 2024, heavy rains caused the government to issue short notices to people living near the river, including him. He had lived in Mathare for long.
Jericho, an estate at the heart of Nairobi’s Eastlands area, has a long and storied history, having been established at the cusp of independence, in the early 1960s for the emerging African working class. #TitleDeals
HOME WAS HERE: MEMORY, LOSS AND THE RIGHT TO CITY
This is Joshua Mutiso’s recollection of his loss of home, a narrative that lends voice to the eviction stories of many residents in Nairobi’s informal settlements.