Kenya

Lawyer Miguna Miguna has been deported, again, despite a court order directing the government to release him from detention at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Nairobi. The fiery lawyer and National Super Alliance (Nasa) activist was ejected on Wednesday evening after spending more than 72 hours in a tiny room...

Kenya’s plan to carve out a semi-autonomous region called Jubaland in Somalia had already been finalised as early as 2010. The final process, which placed Kenya at loggerheads with the Somali government in Mogadishu, took place in January 2013 in Kismayu. At least 522 delegates were...

Kenyans, and East Africans in general, are among the most unhappy people in the world, a United Nations report has revealed.In the report titled the UN World Happiness Report 2018, Kenya is ranked at position 124 out of 156 countries. Kenya is however ahead of...

By Faith Karimi and Elise Labott, CNN US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will resume his normal schedule on Sunday after canceling his Saturday schedule of events due to illness. Tillerson arrived in Nairobi on Friday as part of a five-nation tour of Africa that includes Ethiopia, Chad,...

WASHINGTON D.C., United States of America, March 7, 2018,/ -- As United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson begins his first trip to Sub-Saharan Africa as secretary, beginning March 6, travelling to Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Nigeria, Freedom House issued the following statement: “On each of...

By DAVID MUCHUI More by this Author The Foreign Affairs Ministry has allowed miraa dealers to lead trade talks between their Somaliland counterparts and the Meru County government. Nyambene Miraa Traders Association acting chairman Kimathi Munjuri wrote to Governor Kiraitu Murungi last month asking him to revive...

NAIROBI, Kenya, February 23, 2018/ -- Kenya has become the latest Guinea Worm free country in the world after the WHO directorgeneral Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus accepted recommendations made by the International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (ICCDE). Dr. Ghebreyesus signed the recommendations and...

Two Kenyans have been executed by al Shabaab fighters for allegedly spying for Somalia and Kenyan intelligence services in Qunyo Barrow town, Lower Shabelle region. Hassan Yussuf and Mohamed Hassan from Marsabit county were executed by dagger-wielding militants on February 12. Security sources said the militia forcefully gathered...

This year, more than 600 startups from 52 different countries took part, more than 12 000 online votes were gathered, and 41 million people reached on social media   CASABLANCA, Morocco, February 12, 2018/ -- Startup.Info (https://Startup.info) has announced the winners of the “Startup of the Year...

There have been worrying developments in the administration of justice that threaten the rule of law OTTAWA, Canada, February 8, 2018/ -- Global Affairs Canada today (February 7, 2018) issued the following statement on the human rights situation in Kenya: “As a friend to Kenya, Canada...