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.
About 600 000 people fled their homes to escape the ethnic violence that erupted after Kenya’s disputed election results were made public.
The sex industry in Kenya is on the rise, as is the prevalence of HIV/Aids. Child sex work is not uncommon along the coast.
Kenya will regret its failure to protect the environment, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said on Sunday.
A shootout between police and suspected robbers killed five people on Monday in a hotel and casino parking lot in Kenya’s capital.
A Kenyan cigarette maker on Friday filed a suit against a new ban on smoking in public places.
Kenyan robbers armed with clubs and machetes have attacked a missionary couple from Canada and the United States.
Dozens of children filed silently into the room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army.
Kenya has rebuked the UN tribunal for Rwanda over its claims that Nairobi is sluggish in detaining Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga.
Africa’s electricity supply problems result from poor governance and not lack of capital, the head of a union of producers and distributors said.
Kenyan troops fighting rebels in a remote area are killing and torturing civilians, a medical charity said on Tuesday.
A former journalist and human rights activist is giving some of Kenya’s abandoned girls a second chance at childhood, writes Judy Bryant.
It is time to effect change through constructive enterprise
East Africa’s expanding economies unveiled spending plans geared to more growth, but will probably be dampened by food and fuel price inflation.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s party won three parliamentary seats on Thursday after by-elections that went peacefully.
Kenyans voted on Wednesday for five parliamentary seats that will decide who holds the majority, a test of stability in the East African nation.
A Kenyan Cabinet minister and assistant minister died on Tuesday along with two others in the crash of a light plane near the Masai Mara game reserve.
In Kenya, they name babies after him and quaff ”Senator” brand beer in his honour. Global TV networks camp outside his grandmother’s rural home.
Kenya’s prime minister openly dissented with the president on Tuesday in a row over amnesty for post-election crimes. President Mwai Kibaki’s government and Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s opposition came together in April to form a ”Grand Coalition” after violence that killed at least 1 300.