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/ 5 November 2008
Kenyans in Obama’s homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the US president.
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/ 3 November 2008
‘Dem youthboy defied every order and turned a senator’, says a Cameroonian reggae song that captures the country’s rapture with Obama.
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/ 3 November 2008
For Kenyans, Obama has put their country on the world map, writes Nyokabi Baiya.
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/ 22 October 2008
It has been a tough year for Peter Kinywa, a trader in one of Nairobi’s Masai markets. Business has plummeted as tourists stay away from Kenya.
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/ 18 October 2008
The most celebrated woman in Kenya is not a politician, nor a pop star. She is a humble 18-year-old with a devastating sprint.
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/ 16 October 2008
Nyokabi Baiya tries to love her neighbour, but it turns out she’s the crazy person every African market is said to have.
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/ 10 October 2008
Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, on Thursday blasted African leaders’ fear of criticising each other.
Kenya said on Wednesday it will send its navy to help break a two-week-old stand-off with Somali pirates holding an arms shipment.
This whole year a new virus has been spreading to countries where elections are taking place. It is called "Doing a Kibaki".
Media watchdog RSF called on Tuesday for the release of a Kenyan arrested for giving ”alarming” information about the hijacking of a ship off Somalia.
Kenya accused Western envoys on Friday of ”shameless blackmail” and condescension for trying to force the head of the electoral commission to resign.
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/ 28 September 2008
More than 350 000 small-scale farmers in Africa and Central America will soon begin selling produce to the UN.
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/ 19 September 2008
Africa’s economic regeneration needs leadership, South Africa’s Trade and Industry Minister, Mandisi Mpahlwa, said on Friday.
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/ 11 September 2008
The reason why Kenyans are bad musicians is because we are out of touch with our own tastes and instincts.
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/ 5 September 2008
Maasai warrior Lempuris Lalasho went to Kenya’s tourist haven Mombasa to find a white woman to marry, but he ended up working as a hairdresser.
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/ 2 September 2008
The spouses of Kenya’s vice-president and prime minister will be paid R44 800 a month for showcasing the "nation’s family values.
Olympic sensation Pamela Jelimo and footballer Dennis Oliech are two of Kenya’s hottest celebrities –so where are the T-shirts?
Our professionals groan when posted to Uganda, or Tanzania, or South Africa even — these people don’t work; they take long lunches; they don’t save.
Africans again dominated distance running at the Beijing Olympic Games thanks to Kenya and Ethiopia, but athletes pleaded for more funding.
Kenya police have detained a pathologist hired by the state-run rights watchdog to probe claims that security forces tortured civilians.
This is the story of a village, spurred by two extraordinary women, rising from the depths of the Aids pandemic to build a future for itself.
Mary Kiio tries to make the perfect suede shoe fit her budget in a sea of temptation and a money-drought.
For Maasai tribesman Charles Kamami, Kenya’s drive to boost its geothermal capacity spells environmental destruction.
Victor Ngeny may not live down the embarrassment of being arrested for smoking in public in the wake of Kenya’s new ban.
Kenya on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary of explosions that tore through Washington’s missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
Three relatives plead not guilty to harbouring a man accused of masterminding the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa 10 years ago.
Truckers are often blamed for spreading HIV, but new research suggests that they have been misunderstood.
Kenyan Muslim leaders are outraged over alleged official discrimination they say has been documented in a government-commissioned report.
Kenya’s tourism earnings tumbled 32% in the first half of this year from the same period in 2007 after a bloody post-election crisis.
Kenya’s Parliament formed a special committee on Wednesday to probe violent politically linked criminal gangs whose activities have left many dead.
The Kenyan government banned on Tuesday the use of cellphones in schools in a bid to stem a string of deadly riots that have rocked the country.
Kenyan armed forces are accused of preventing aid workers from helping families caught between a brutal militia and an army crackdown.