Glowing tributes were paid to former First Lady Lucy Kibaki, with speeches by a number of leaders and family members, which offered Kenyans a peep into the extensive influence she wielded behind the scenes. Deputy President William Ruto told how during ceremonies to mark the endorsement of the Constitution in[…]
Hours after a residential building collapsed in a heap of rubble in Kenya’s capital, a man emerged holding up a baby wrapped in a pink blanket as the crowd erupted into cheers. Another man followed him, carrying a toddler also pulled from the debris. Both children were rushed to waiting[…]
From anti-poaching commandos deployed by helicopter to boosting court prosecutions: Kenya on Friday hosted a summit on how to end ivory trafficking and prevent the extinction of elephants in the wild. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is heading the meeting which groups African heads of state and conservationists in the central[…]
Kenyan police fired tear gas into a crowd of opposition leaders and their supporters as they marched on the office of the country’s electoral commission to demand it disband before next year’s election. Several protesters were arrested and at least two policemen were injured by stones, police said. The opposition[…]
Kenya on Tuesday defended its deportation of two groups of Taiwanese to China after they were acquitted in a cyber crime case, a move that has drawn an angry reaction from Taipei. The Kenyan government said the people were in Kenya illegally and were being sent back to where they[…]
Students who survived the massacre at Garissa University in Kenya last year are still struggling to cope with the trauma of losing their friends who were shot and killed by the al-Shabab fighters. A year ago, attackers from the Somali armed group stormed the Garissa University College campus in the[…]
President Uhuru Kenyatta Saturday made a surprise visit to Joytown Secondary school for the physically handicapped where he reiterated that the government will look into ways of reforming the education sector to carter for the needs of students with disabilities. President Kenyatta said the government will ensure that the reforms[…]
South Africa’s hosting of a summit of African leaders will give it the chance to repair relations with the rest of the continent, after an outbreak of xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals that left seven people dead. While President Jacob Zuma deployed the army to halt attacks on African migrants[…]
Kenyan police have charged five men in connection with the attack by the armed group al-Shabab on a university in eastern Kenya in April in which 148 people were killed. The five men pleaded not guilty to 152 counts of committing acts of terrorism in a Nairobi court on Thursday.[…]
Kenya has suspended the licences of 13 Somali remittance firms following the assault on a college by al-Shabab fighters killing more than 200 people. The April 2 attack in Garissa, 200km from the Somalia border, was Kenya’s deadliest since al-Qaeda bombed the US embassy in 1998. Bashir Issa Ali, Somalia’s[…]
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