Kenya

Landslides kill at least 36 people as heavy rains lash northwestern Kenya

The downpour began on Friday in West Pokot County, which borders Uganda, and worsened overnight,… Read More

Kenyan team aims to stop fatal snake bites

Kenya Snakebite Research and Intervention Centre (KSRIC), partly funded by the Liverpool School of Tropical… Read More

Kenya opens Chinese-built railway linking Rift Valley town to Nairobi

It costs about $800 to truck a container from Mombasa to Nairobi, but $1,100 by… Read More

Kenyan islands await doctors by boat

Kiangwe and surrounding villages have been hard-hit by the Kenyan government's war with Somali extremist… Read More

Was this politician thrown in a river for failing to deliver election promises?

Facebook users around the world have been sharing a video that appears to show a… Read More

People rush to swap banknotes as cash ban looms

A new print of the 1,000 shilling banknote, the largest denomination, was rolled out in… Read More

Kenya becomes third country to adopt world’s first malaria vaccine

The vaccine -- lab name RTS,S -- targets the deadliest and most common form of… Read More

Gentle giraffes threatened with ‘silent extinction’

A single giraffe could feed a village on Kenyan plains for more than a week. Read More

Pakistan, Kenya agree to enhance defence collaboration

The agreement came during a meeting between Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Zafar Mahmood… Read More

Baby elephants find new life in Kenyan orphanage

About 20,000 African elephants per year -- 55 per day -- are killed, mainly for… Read More

Three Americans among five killed in Kenya plane crash: source

'The plane clipped the tree and the rear wheels came off' Read More

Nineteen people still missing after deadly militant attack in Kenya: Red Cross

Al Shabaab, a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate, said it carried the assault on the upscale… Read More

Kenya president says Nairobi attack over as ‘terrorists’ killed

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said Wednesday that gunmen who stormed an upmarket hotel complex, killing… Read More

Fifty killed in Kenyan bus crash

Nairobi: Fifty people have been killed in a bus accident in western Kenya early on Wednesday, authorities… Read More

Melania Trump goes on safari in Kenya and visits an orphanage

NAIROBI: US first lady Melania Trump read to children at an orphanage, fed a baby… Read More

Melania Trump tours former slavery outpost

US First Lady Melania Trump visited a former slave trading fort in Ghana, the second… Read More

Beauty queen sentenced to death for murder

A Kenyan court has sentenced a 24-year-old jail beauty queen to death for murdering her… Read More

Obama visits Kenyan home to launch youth centre

WASHINGTON: Former US president Barack Obama recounted fond memories of his family home in Kenya… Read More

‘Sea of water’ from Kenya dam burst kills at least 32

SOLAI, Kenya: A dam burst on a flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley after weeks… Read More

36 dead in central Kenya bus crash

NAIROBI: Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision… Read More