Kenya’s televised presidential debate saw hopefuls play down fears of a repeat of the post-election tribal violence that erupted in 2007.
The stakes are high, and the choice is between two presidential candidates who both lack integrity.
Kenya’s Safaricom has announced the release of the Yolo smartphone, the first smartphone for Africa using the Intel smartphone platform.
Rights activists have hailed anti-poverty and Aids activist David Kuria as a pioneer despite an aborted election campaign.
Iman Hassan reflects on her trip to Nairobi, and her dismay at finding that she and other Somalis are no longer welcome in her home country.
Kenya’s chief justice, Willy Mutunga is a tad revolutionary by Kenyan standards and he is out to stop the rot.
Violence has broken out again in Kenya’s northeast, with eight people shot and wounded, a day after security forces cracked down on rioters.
Africa’s booming mobile market’s edge lies in its role as an innovative hub for new products in the banking, health, education and commerce sectors.
Three up-and-coming African nations, Nigeria, Zambia and Kenya have each received their first sovereign credit rating by Moody’s investor service.
Paved roads, electricity, running water: Barack Obama’s ancestral home has seen much change, and residents are preparing to watch the polls.
Health campaigners want to close a dump in Nairobi that spreads disease, but thousands of scavengers rely on it for survival.
At least 38 people have been killed and more than 150 houses burned in fighting between rival communities in a dispute over land and water in Kenya.
A relatively inexpensive safari in a small game conservancy in Kenya provides plenty of thrills and also benefits the local people.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told Kenya’s leaders that the East African nation has a chance to become a model for other African nations.
The separatist campaign on Kenya’s coast taps into deep local grievances over land ownership and employment being in the hands of outsiders.
At least ten people were killed in grenade attacks on Sunday at two churches in Garissa, a town in northern Kenya.
Officials warn that Kenya is being punished for its political and military interventions in the region, writes Juma Kwayera.
The US embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan city of Mombasa and asked its workers to leave the coastal town.
Two presidential candidates face prosecution and ethnic lines have divided the country, writes Nastasya Tay.
The United States’s FBI has joined the investigation into this week’s Nairobi blast, which officials say was likely caused by a fertiliser bomb.
A blast has struck a shopping centre in Nairobi, wounding 28 people but there was confusion over whether it was caused by a bomb or electrical fault.
A blast has ripped through a small shopping complex in central Nairobi and left at least 10 people wounded – the cause of the explosion is unknown.
At least one person was killed when a grenade was thrown into a Nairobi church on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya.
A case by former subjects of Her Majesty’s British Empire has unearthed awful truths, deliberately hidden, of atrocities in African countries.
At least one person has been killed and 18 others wounded in attacks on a restaurant in Mombasa city and a church gathering in Mtwapa.
Two blasts in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and a nearby town killed one person and wounded more than 20 on Saturday.
Kenyan rangers have shot and killed three suspected poachers, and another there were killed last week after a rise in elephant poaching.
Kenyan girls remain at risk from female genital mutilation, a procedure still considered by rural communities to be a vital rite of passage for a young woman.
Kenya’s central bank chief Njuguna Ndung’u has had a career dogged by persistent market chaos, drawing heavy criticism about his tenure.
A spokesperson for the UN says two Somali refugees were shot dead and one was injured in Dabaab, Kenya, in what is believed to be a revenge attack.
An Irish terror suspect is using a fake SA passport to evade Kenyan cops and the CIA, but home affairs officials say they can’t be held responsible.
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/ 27 February 2012
The centre of Nairobi’s nightlife is where the sexogenarians of all shapes and sizes gather to party the night away.