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The most affected routes were Waiyaki Way, Lang’ata road, and Ngong road with the worst hit being motorists plying along the Thika Super Highway.
As a result, Kenyans showed their frustrations on social media, now a powerful tool for agitation, to call out the law enforcers while displaying the mess as it happened.
YouTuber Diana Marua saying, “They have said we shall spend the night on the road till 4am. The cars are not moving on either side and there’s an ambulance with a patient here, who will also have to wait. This is just before Mountain Mall.”
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From 5,250 reported cases of cervical cancer in Kenya last year, 3,286 women died, making it the top killer variant among women.
But the study at the Nairobi Cancer Registry at the Kenya Medical Research Institute and Eldoret Registry at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) found that Kenya offers the best cervical cancer care in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study compared the quality of care in nine African countries.
“By country, the proportion of patients receiving cancer treatment with curative potential varied from four per cent in Maputo (Mozambique) to 49 per cent in Nairobi.”
Overall, the study decries the low survival rates in Africa at 29 per cent, five years after treatment compared with 67 per cent in the US.
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Autopsy shows businesswoman Caroline Wanjiku Maina, whose body was found in Kajiado five days ago, died of head injuries inflicted with a blunt object.
Investigations into the murder of the 38-year-old have now fanned out to Embu County Government where one of the suspects in her murder works.
Officials from the county government will be required to help investigators to find out whether Wanjiku did business with the county.
The probe team will also seek information from a bank in Embu after it emerged that the woman received Sh2 million from a bank.
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They hope that by following the money trail, they will unravel the murder mystery.