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18-month-old girl pulled out alive 4 days after Kenya building collapse
Rescue workers pulled out a one-year-old girl from the rubble of a building in Kenya’s capital on Tuesday morning more than 72 hours after it collapsed...
Whistling MPs bring president’s state of the nation address to a halt
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta was silenced by MPs whose whistling brought his annual speech to parliament to a halt.
Pope Francis, the messenger of peace, arrives for whirlwind tour of Africa
Pope Francis has arrived in Kenya for his first-ever visit to the continent, a whirlwind pilgrimage to three African nations.
Obama: I’m here as a friend who wants Kenya to succeed
Barack Obama told Kenyans on Sunday on his first presidential trip to his father’s homeland that there was “no limit to what you can achieve”...
Obama stirs controversy with gay rights remarks on historic Kenya tour
Barack Obama has called on African nations to treat gay people equally under the law during his first presidential visit to Kenya.
‘Africa is on the move’: Obama hails efforts in Kenya to tackle poverty
U.S. President Barack Obama told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and...
President Barack Obama begins landmark Kenya visit
U.S. President Barack Obama arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi late last night, making his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since...
US President Barack Obama begins landmark Kenya visit
US President Barack Obama arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi late Friday, making his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since his...
Obama in Africa: President won’t back down on gay rights issues
President Obama voiced strong support for gay rights in Africa on Thursday as he began a trip to the continent, bucking calls from some African leaders...
Obama’s Africa visit troubles human rights groups
President Barack Obama’s trip to Kenya and Ethiopia is drawing fresh criticism that the two countries are heavy-handed on human rights and basic...
Obama returns to his father’s homeland amid ‘suffocating security’
Barack Obama will land in Kenya on Friday with a mission to strengthen U.S. security and economic ties but his return to his father’s birthplace...
‘No room’ for gays in Kenya, says deputy president
Kenya’s deputy president has said there is “no room” for homosexuality in Kenyan society, a widely-shared view in African countries that...
Athletics Kenya suspends two agents in runners’ doping probe
Athletics Kenya said on Monday it had suspended two foreign agencies for six months from managing its athletes pending investigations into allegations...
Athletics Kenya suspends two agents in doping probe
Athletics Kenya said on Monday it had suspended two foreign agencies for six months from managing its athletes pending investigations into allegations...
Kenya asks the UN to shut down refugee camp for Somalis
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has three months to close a refugee camp in eastern Kenya and send the more than 400,000 Somalis living...
Kenya orders UN to move massive Somali refugee camp
Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the...
After attack and backlash, Kenya faces battle to win over Muslims
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa university, Kenya’s president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged them to join Nairobi...
Kenyans hold march for national security after massacre
Kenyans marched demanding greater national security Tuesday following last week’s massacre by Somalia’s Shebab Islamists, ahead of a candlelit...
Marginalisation, mismanagement provoked Kenya massacre: experts
Kenya’s government says the university massacre of 148 people was a “surprise” that could happen anywhere: but experts say decades of...
Kenya says government official’s son was among gunmen in Garissa attack
One of the gunmen who slaughtered 148 people at a college in Kenya was identified Sunday as the law-school-educated son of a Kenyan government official,...
Kenya vows retaliation against al Shabaab after university massacre
Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab warned of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College that killed 148 people. The...
Kenya vows retaliation against Shebab after university massacre
Somalia’s Islamic extremist group al-Shabab warned Saturday of more attacks in Kenya like the assault on Garissa University College that killed 148...
Survivor found hiding in cupboard two days after Kenya university massacre
A survivor of the Kenya university massacre that claimed 148 lives has been found two days after the attack.
Five arrested over Kenya massacre as al Shabaab threatens more bloodhsed
Five people have been arrested in connection with the massacre of 148 people at Kenya’s Garissa University, as the al Shabaab terror group threatened...
Kenyan MP and bodyguards gunned down in capital
A prominent Kenyan MP was shot dead along with two bodyguards and a driver in the centre of the capital Nairobi in the early hours of Saturday, police...
Thieves fry Kenya’s power grid to get at toxic oil for fast food
The morning scene is increasingly routine for Kenyans: When it’s time to start the day, the power is already out.
In spite of brawls, Kenya’s president signs security law
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed new anti-terrorism measures into law on Friday, triggering fresh protests from opposition MPs who said they would...
Kenya president ‘vindicated’ after ICC drops charges
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) said he had been “vindicated” after the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor...
Kenyan president ‘excited’ after war crimes court drops all charges
The International Criminal Court dropped its charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday, a decision that took six years to make but only...
Kenya security shake-up after massacre that left 36 dead
Kenya’s president has announced a security shake-up, firing his interior minister and accepting the resignation of the national police chief, in...
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