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/ 11 November 2011
After reports of arms deliveries to rebels, military warns villagers of imminent strikes.
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/ 6 November 2011
A grenade attack in Garissa, northern Kenya, killed two people on Saturday, hours after a UN aid convoy struck a landmine.
Kenya says Somali Islamist rebels have received a third planeload of armaments as its forces prepare to push forward against the militants.
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/ 1 November 2011
Altech is in talks to pay up to $60-million for unlisted Kenyan IT firm Symphony to help revive its struggling business in fast-growing East Africa.
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/ 31 October 2011
Somali rebels have vowed to avenge a deadly Kenyan air raid that killed at least five civilians, which Kenya insisted hit an al-Shabaab target.
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/ 31 October 2011
The last time Nairobi was bombed, in December, the would-be attacker got edgy and dropped his grenade. Three people, including the bomber, died.
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/ 31 October 2011
A Kenyan air raid that struck a camp hosting thousands of displaced Somalis has killed five people and wounded dozens, aid officials say.
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/ 29 October 2011
Kenya will end its campaign against the al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia when it is satisfied it has stripped the group of its capacity to attack.
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/ 29 October 2011
From affluent denizens in gated communities to the inhabitants of hovels, everyone in Kenya will give you an earful about their trip in a matatu.
Kenyan police have arrested a man suspected of belonging to a terrorist group, after two blasts in Nairobi killed one person and injured more than 20.
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/ 25 October 2011
Two grenade blasts killed one and wounded more than 20 in Nairobi, apparently in retaliation for Kenya’s hunt for al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia.
A grenade attack in a Nairobi disco has injured 14 Kenyans, in an attack police linked with threats made by Somalia’s al-Shabaab insurgents.
Somali Islamist rebels warned they would bring the "flames of war" to Nairobi after Kenyan forces mounted a cross-border land and air assault.
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/ 17 October 2011
Kenyan troops have pushed deep into Somalia to hunt al-Qaeda-linked fighters, in an unprecedented move that raises fears of a regional escalation.
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/ 14 October 2011
Poor women believe they have no option other than to terminate unwanted pregnancies, even if it kills them.
There are fears that Somali pirates are searching for easier pickings along the Kenyan coast as it becomes more difficult to hijack ships.
Some of the Kenya’s Maasai young women are running away from of the age-old custom of circumcision, now frayed by health risks and new laws.
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/ 28 September 2011
The regional trade bloc Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is considering issuing a regional infrastructure bond and is seeking advisers.
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/ 26 September 2011
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital where she was undergoing treatment for cancer.
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/ 23 September 2011
"So, will I have to pay a bribe?" I ask the driving instructor, watching out for the heart-stopping sight of Nairobi’s minibuses scooting past.
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/ 14 September 2011
The death toll from a gasoline pipeline explosion in the Kenyan capital has risen to 87 and the Kenyan government has declared two days of mourning.
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/ 12 September 2011
At least 61 bodies have been found after an explosion of a petroleum pipeline ripped through an informal settlement in Kenya.
Kenya isn’t a lush country. Rain falls steadily and often heavily in Mombasa, Nairobi and Kisumu, the three main cities and the best known to tourists
Parents fleeing the devastating famine on foot — sometimes with as many as seven children in tow — are having to make unimaginably cruel choices.
Even among refugees fleeing Somalia there are "haves" and "have-nots" — those who cross the border in a battle for survival and those who drive.
Kenya’s president set fire to more than five tonnes of ivory worth $16-million in an act meant to focus attention on a rising tide of poaching deaths.
The mountains of Kenya’s Rift Valley is better known for its zebras and flamingoes, but here James Farquharson hopes to make quality Kenyan wine.
One-year-old Siad Abdikadir was so weak that he could not support his own head, resting it on his mother’s heavily pregnant stomach.
Across the Horn of Africa, a fierce drought is forcing more than 10-million people to rely on emergency food aid, up from a forecast of six-million.
Ethiopia and Kenya are buckling under the weight of the hundreds of thousands of refugees seeking relief from the drought ravaging the Horn of Africa.
Villagers vow to resist as wildlife vanishes and they are driven from their land to make way for water-thirsty crops.
Camel’s milk, cherished by the Cushite people of Kenya, is now enjoying a renaissance in the capital Nairobi and could become internationally coveted.