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Type of site | Media |
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Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
Key people | Cyprian Nyakundi (editor) |
Industry | Online media |
URL | Cnyakundi.com |
Current status | Active |
cnyakundi.com is a Kenyan news website founded by Cyprian Nyakundi. Some court rulings in Kenya have described the blog as an advocate of free speech on matters of corruption, corporate-fraud and breaking news in Kenya [1] [2] [3] while other court rulings have described it as a blog for unverified news. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Cyprian Nyakundi has been sued several times for articles on cnyakundi.com, sometimes courts have ruled in his favour, sometimes he has been jailed and sometimes fined. [8] [9] [10] In 2015 safaricom sued Nyakundi for publishing unverified news on cnyakundi.com. [11] In 2018 politician and infamous fraudster repeatedly involved multiple advance fee scams of "fake gold" in Kenya with multiple foreigners repeatedly conned into disguised transactions for non-existent sometimes fake products. [12] [13] [14] Steve Mbogo sued Nyakundi for publishing defamatory articles on the blog. [15] In the same year the high court barred Nyakundi from authoring defamatory words against the politician and suspected fraudster. [7] [16] [17] In March 2020 Nyakundi published an article on cnyakundi.com demanding a postmortem of a deceased Kenya Revenue Authority staff member who he accused the tax authority of concealing his cause of death, according to Nyakundi the cause of death was COVID-19. [18] In June 2020 the law society of Kenya opposed the arrest of bloggers in Kenya and arraignment of blogger Nyakundi for publications on cnyakundi.com [19]
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Type of site | Media |
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Founded | 2013 |
Headquarters | Nairobi, Kenya |
Key people | Cyprian Nyakundi (editor) |
Industry | Online media |
URL | Cnyakundi.com |
Current status | Active |
cnyakundi.com is a Kenyan news website founded by Cyprian Nyakundi. Some court rulings in Kenya have described the blog as an advocate of free speech on matters of corruption, corporate-fraud and breaking news in Kenya [1] [2] [3] while other court rulings have described it as a blog for unverified news. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Cyprian Nyakundi has been sued several times for articles on cnyakundi.com, sometimes courts have ruled in his favour, sometimes he has been jailed and sometimes fined. [8] [9] [10] In 2015 safaricom sued Nyakundi for publishing unverified news on cnyakundi.com. [11] In 2018 politician and infamous fraudster repeatedly involved multiple advance fee scams of "fake gold" in Kenya with multiple foreigners repeatedly conned into disguised transactions for non-existent sometimes fake products. [12] [13] [14] Steve Mbogo sued Nyakundi for publishing defamatory articles on the blog. [15] In the same year the high court barred Nyakundi from authoring defamatory words against the politician and suspected fraudster. [7] [16] [17] In March 2020 Nyakundi published an article on cnyakundi.com demanding a postmortem of a deceased Kenya Revenue Authority staff member who he accused the tax authority of concealing his cause of death, according to Nyakundi the cause of death was COVID-19. [18] In June 2020 the law society of Kenya opposed the arrest of bloggers in Kenya and arraignment of blogger Nyakundi for publications on cnyakundi.com [19]