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.
Hundreds of thousands of Somalis refugees in Kenya suffer extortion and abuse by corrupt and violent police, a human rights watchdog said on Monday.
A man wanted on suspicion of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia has been arrested in Kenya, police said on Friday.
If faith is the oxygen of a young state, faith in a viable future, there is very little oxygen in Kenya right now.
To many of us, the issue of the male cut vis-à-vis political leadership was finally an issue totally buried in the past.
Two human rights campaigners were shot dead in Nairobi just hours after a government spokesperson accused their organisation of being a front.
On a bus ride to Koforidua, Francis Kokutse’s ears burn as his fellow passengers lie into their cellphones.
Police killings during the post-election violence in January 2008 and a counter-insurgency campaign have been criticised by human rights groups.
No image available
/ 27 February 2009
A Congolese family uprooted by war went to court on Friday seeking to be reunited with a Kenyan baby they say they found abandoned on the roadside.
No image available
/ 27 February 2009
Anthropologists have uncovered footprints in Kenya dating back 1,5-million years, the oldest evidence tthat our ancestors walked like modern humans.
No image available
/ 26 February 2009
Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 16 February 2009
A UN official began investigations on Monday into alleged brutality by Kenyan security forces, including accusations of summary executions by police.
No image available
/ 2 February 2009
Kenya began a week of mourning on Monday for at least 131 people who died in a petrol tanker blaze and another fire in a Nairobi supermarket.
No image available
/ 1 February 2009
At least 94 people died when an overturned petrol tanker swarmed by locals trying to scoop up free fuel exploded in central Kenya.
No image available
/ 1 February 2009
On Monday morning, President Barack Obama will sit down in the White House to receive his daily intelligence briefing from security officials.
No image available
/ 30 January 2009
Phathisani Moyo catches up with legendary runner Haile Gebrselassie and his crew of future super athletes in Kenya.