Despite the curse of Nairobbery few travellers know that Nairobi is the centre of a rich music scene.
Members of Kenya’s Parliament were arrested after warning citizens of bloodshed, evictions and religious warfare.
Kenyan premier Raila Odinga is responding well to treatment after a head operation, a doctor said on Wednesday.
New tender must leave space to manoeuvre.
Analysts are upbeat about the continent’s growth, and its ability to innovate is expected to transform the lives of the mainly rural, unbanked poor.
“Vodacom has no intention of becoming a bank. We’d rather work with the banks to enable the development of mobile money transfer services…"
Somali asylum-seekers fleeing their country are routinely raped and beaten by Kenyan police when crossing the border, a report says.
Donors will spend $9,3-million to help Kenya and Seychelles prosecute suspected Somali pirates and improve those countries’ criminal justice systems.
Two explosions ripped through a rally against a proposed new constitution for Kenya being held in Nairobi on Sunday, killing at least five people.
There is a contrived air of political correctness in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoir <i>Dreams in a Time of War</i>, writes <b>Percy Zvomuya</b>
Kenya’s call-centre industry is growing and taking on India at its own game. <b>Jody Clarke</b> reports.
Iceland’s volcanic cloud has hit the East African country’s agriculture industry hard, costing millions in losses, reports <b>Jody Clarke</b>.
The National Consumer Forum (NCF), a non-profit consumer group has taken up the cause of lobbying for support, training and funding for SMEs.
Finding a copy in Kenya of <em>It’s Our Turn to Eat</em> turns out to be a tougher book safari than <em>David L Smith</em> anticipated.
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) approval for an investigation of political unrest in Kenya won widespread praise on Thursday.
The ICC said on Wednesday it has given the green light for a probe by its prosecutor of deadly violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 elections.
The wild enthusiasm may have gone. But in Obama’s ‘home town’, there is still a quiet respect for the man people call ‘our son’.
‘Financial commitment’ of South African businessman to revamp concession is questioned.
The state of a country’s highways is a sure guide to
the state of its economy, writes Busani Bafana.
Kenyan political leaders organised and financed post-election attacks against civilians in 2008, the ICC prosecutor told judges on Wednesday.
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/ 26 February 2010
Barely two years after an election that left 1 500 people dead, Kenya is still on a dangerous road, say some analysts.
Kenya’s first same-sex wedding has brought gay rights out of the closet. But many think it needs to get right back inside.
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/ 23 February 2010
Kenya’s feuding leaders met on Tuesday for the first time since their public clash over the sacking of ministers.
Carbon credits are a new asset class in the global green economy, writes Yolandi Groenewald.
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/ 18 February 2010
An adviser to Kenya’s prime minister says the president and prime minister will meet on Sunday to chart a way out of the country’s political deadlock.
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/ 18 February 2010
The karateka grandmas of Korogocho slum are learning the rudiments of martial arts in order to survive in one of Kenya’s most dangerous shantytowns.
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/ 17 February 2010
About 10 000 Kenyans displaced two years ago by post-electoral violence were on Wednesday marching from the Rift Valley to Nairobi.
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/ 16 February 2010
Kenya police said on Tuesday they were beefing up security in the country’s western region, fearing protests against Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
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/ 15 February 2010
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki reinstates ministers who had been suspended over fraud investigations by his Prime Minister, Raila Odinga.
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/ 10 February 2010
Evans Kinyua says the Nairobi suburb of Eastleigh, which is the capital of the Somali diaspora, is booming because of pirate money.
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/ 3 February 2010
Kenya has increased security on its porous desert border with Somalia ahead of an expected offensive by Somali government forces.
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/ 22 January 2010
Somalia’s hard-line al-Shabaab rebels denied on Friday they had threatened to attack Kenya following a crackdown on Somalis in Nairobi.