Catherine Kasavuli died aged 60 at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) on December 29th. Kasavuli was battling cancer and had been admitted to the KNH private wing since October 26, 2022.
The Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) has unveiled veteran journalist Fayyaz Qureishi to take the place of the late news anchor Catherine Kasavuli as Saturday prime-time news anchor.

Qureishi joined KTN in the 1990s where he anchored news alongside Kasavuli and gradually rose to become one of the common faces of prime-time news. He now joins KBC’s English bulletin team made up of John Jacob Kioria, Shiksha Arora and Tom Mboya.
Qureishi boasts of a journalism career that exceeds 2 decades.