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/ 23 October 2009
One of Kenya’s most prominent white aristocrats was released from prison on Friday after more than three years in jail for killing a black poacher.
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/ 19 October 2009
As Rwanda reintegrates into East Africa and more Kenyans are drawn there, Lloyd Igane is amused by the resulting culture clash.
Somalia’s government has recruited more than 170 young Kenyans and former servicemen to help it fight rebels, local leaders in eastern Kenya say.
Kenya will cooperate with the ICC to try key suspects behind unrest after the country’s bitterly disputed 2007 election, a top minister said.
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/ 26 September 2009
The Dutch tourists came well prepared for the walking safari: strong shoes and sunscreen, backpacks and bottled water.
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/ 25 September 2009
The United States has sent warning letters to 15 prominent Kenyans it says are blocking reform in East Africa’s biggest economy.
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/ 24 September 2009
Trina’s dad decided to buy an ”African cake” to celebrate her first birthday. Munene Kilongi explains why there are no candles.
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/ 22 September 2009
An intersexed Kenyan has applied to Kenya’s constitutional court to be released on the grounds that he belongs in neither a jail for men nor women
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/ 21 September 2009
It pushed through malarial swamps and hostile tribal territory, served up workers as dinner for man-eating lions.
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/ 20 September 2009
Kenya’s rainmakers — with meteorological equipment consisting of trees and herbs — are being enlisted to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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/ 18 September 2009
The devastating drought sweeping across Kenya is causing widespread hunger, thirst and, in the case of cattle, death.
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/ 13 September 2009
An African cellphone hotline that reports when clinics are out of essential drugs could be the solution to government denialism.
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/ 10 September 2009
A drought in Kenya is so bad that it is even felling the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants.
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/ 8 September 2009
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sacked his police chief on Tuesday and sent him to run the post office.
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/ 3 September 2009
Islamic banks have grown to account for about 1% of gross assets in the Kenyan banking sector since they first opened their doors early last year.
In Nairobi’s posh, leafy neighbourhoods, light bulbs flicker as generators rumble to life. Gym treadmills in luxury hotels jolt to a halt.
Japan gave Kenya a ,7-billion grant on Monday to buy food in response to an appeal by the east African country’s president.
United States President Barack Obama’s step-grandmother Sarah proudly announced on Thursday that her modest Kenyan homestead was now solar-powered.
Hundreds of Somali refugees have started moving out of the world’s biggest refugee camp in Kenya to relieve pressure on the overcrowded complex.
Kenya signed an agreement with SA on Tuesday to encourage tourism investment in both countries and share data from the sector to maximise re
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday honoured the victims of the deadly 1998 attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
The US on Wednesday warned that bad governance was holding back Africa.
Can cellphones make grain cheaper for a poor consumer or mitigate the impact of a food crisis on a country? Yes, says research released on Monday.
Kenya said its Cabinet would meet on Thursday in a third attempt to reach agreement on a tribunal to deal with perpetrators of last year’s violence
Two men pleaded guilty in a Kenyan court on Monday to illegally possessing 700kg of elephant tusks.
Vigilantes in a central Kenyan town took up arms against a violent gang, sparking battles in which at least 29 people were stoned and hacked to death.
A Protestant church in Kenya is trying to convert the US president’s step-grandmother to Christianity against her will, a Muslim group said on Monday.
In a country where rugby has made little impression beyond its borders, the swift rise of the Kenyan Sevens squad has caught the imagination.
Kenya’s power-sharing deal must pull through until 2012 despite the divisions that threaten to tear apart the ruling government, the Commonwealth said
Kenya’s fragile coalition government lost its first minister on Monday, a day after talks to heal rifts within the alliance collapsed in acrimony.
Kenya’s huge and squalid slums don’t have much of anything, except mountains of trash that fill rivers and muddy streets, breeding disease.
Even an exploding petrol tanker can’t keep inquisitive spectators from having one more look in Nairobi, writes Munene Kilongi.