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Kenya first submitted a film for consideration at the Oscars in 2012.

Kenya has selected Daudi Anguka’s drama Mvera to represent it for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. The English and Swahili-language film takes its name from its heroine Mvera, which is the Swahili word for blessing. She embarks on crusade against corrupt leadership in her coast community outside Mombasa, when she uncovers …

Oscars: Kenya Selects Daudi Anguka’s English and Swahili-language drama Mvera for Best International Feature Film category At The 96th Academy Awards.

THE STANDARD NATIONAL The wreckage of a car involved in an accident with a trailer at Soysambu along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway on May 7, 2021. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] Erick Omondi his wife Ester and their three children, 7-month-old Biden, Judith, 5 and Mary, 10 died yesterday morning while two other relatives and their two friends suffered serious injuries at Samburu area along the Mombasa-Nairobi Highway.  A relative of the deceased, William Okoth, said the victims were travelling to the...

THE STANDARD COUNTIES Pastor Collins Owino [3rd from right] of New Jerusalem Church prays at Eric Omondis residence in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] Erick Otieno who perished with his wife and their three children in a car crash at Samburu area on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway had literally planned to kill two birds with one stone. Otieno had planned to attend his kins burial in Nyakach and later take his children to greet his mother. It is said he was excited that three children were going...

In Kenya, the body of a missing Standard Six pupil who went missing after attending a funeral has been found on a neighbour’s farm. Residents of Namuduru sub-location in Samia Sub-County, Busia County woke up to a rude shock on Monday morning when the body of the 17-year-old Immaculate Auma was found after two days of frantic search. “This girl is reported to have gone missing on Saturday night and her lifeless body has been found today after the family’s fruitless search yesterd...