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Here is what you need to know to get up to speed with today’s happenings.

KUPPET strike on

Learning is set to be paralysed for the fourth day after the Kenya Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) union vowed to proceed with a nationwide strike despite a court order stopping the same.

In some instances, the striking secondary school teachers roughed up and ejected teachers they found continuing with learning for the third term.

This comes after the union said the government had failed to meet its demands in the Collective Bargaining Agreement signed earlier.

On Wednesday, President William Ruto said that his government would disburse Ksh13 billion towards the striking teachers’ accounts by the end of the week.

Ruto’s Nyanza tour

President William Ruto’s tour of Nyanza region enters day two today with the President set to tour Homa Bay County where he is set to commission a water project in Oyugis town, inspect a fish market together with Homa Bay governor Gladys Wanga and launch the Rusinga ring road in Suba North.

Ruto’s tour of Homa Bay will culminate in presiding over the homecoming ceremony of Treasury cabinet secretary John Mbadi at his backyard in Magunga- Suba-South constituency.

Also ahead, he is set to preside over the homecoming ceremony of Energy and Petroleum cabinet secretary Opiyo Wandayi on Friday, August 30, 2024, after commissioning the Mageta island solar mini-grid, launching a market and launching a rice mill in Siaya County.

Nairobi power outage

The bustling capital Nairobi is set to experience a mother of all blackouts unlike others in recent days – according to an outage notice issued by Kenya Power.

The planned blackout is expected to affect a majority of the city, with the utility provider warning of widespread disruptions that will last for eight hours on Thursday, August 29, 2024.

Areas in Nairobi which will experience the power outage include Kibiku, Utawala, Sewage, Kibarage Way, Joska, Njiru, Vicken and North Impact.

The blackout will also affect several other areas across the country.