Kenya

The Kenyan government has extended 12-hour curfew in border region of Mandera for three months following Al-Shabaab terror attacks in the remote region that borders Somalia. Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Nkaissery said in a gazette notice issued on Tuesday that the curfew that begins on...

As forecasters warn of more heavy rain to come, Kenyans are blaming the government for exacerbating the situation due to water mismanagement. At least 15 people have died and numerous families have been displaced across Kenya following two days of heavy rainfall, according to officials. The...

By PATRICK LANG'AT and NYAMBEGA GISESA The Kenyan government has submitted the name of Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed to be the next head of the African Union (AU) Commission. Ms Mohamed will face Agapito Mba Mokuy of Equatorial Guinea, Abdoulaye Bathily of Senegal and...

By:Jama AHmed, Horndiplomat Kenya correspondent  Kenya health ministry on Tuesday reported 2,402 new COVID-19 infections, taking the country's total number of confirmed cases to 302,134. The new cases were derived from a sample size of 10,638 tested in the last 24 hours. In health ministry also announced...

Mateship is alive in Somalia. In Australia when there is a drought, rural people don't die. Nor do children suffer acute malnutrition. But here in Somalia it is the norm. In recent weeks, aid agencies have become increasingly anxious as conditions in Somalia have deteriorated. More...

By:Reuters - A top U.S. Treasury official will highlight Washington's efforts to facilitate Russian grain and fertilizer exports during a visit to Kenya and Somalia and stress that Moscow's exit from the Black Sea grain deal will...

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...

BY CONOR GAFFEY Kenya’s establishment as an independent nation, free from British sovereignty, was dominated by two nascent political dynasties. Jomo Kenyatta, affectionately remembered as the father of the East African nation, spearheaded a long campaign for independence, eventually becomingKenya’s first post-independence president in 1964. In...

By: WASHINGTON POST Analysis by Tyler Cowen | Bloomberg Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put the...

In yet another attack, suspected Al-Shabaab terrorists damage Safaricom and Orange telecommunication masts in Kotulo, Mandera County, on Monday night. Elwak Deputy County Commissioner Peter Karanja on Tuesday confirmed the incident and said the masts were destroyed at Chuma Mrefu. Speaking to Nation.co.ke by phone, Mr...