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Police kill 122 in 8 months, Nation Newsplex database shows

BY DOROTHY OTIENO An overwhelming majority of the people killed in the 20 months were young men and boys More than 122 people were shot and killed by police in Kenya over the first eight months of 2016, representing a seven per cent increase over the...

Kenya looks to boost local textile industry

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Kenyans are big buyers of second-hand clothes at bargain prices. Thousands of tonnes are imported every year. But some have had enough and want to see their own textile industries make it big instead. Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller reports from Nairobi.

Dismiss Somalia maritime case, Kenya urges Hague court

By FELIX OLICK @olickfelix Kenyan lawyers led by Attorney General Githu Muigai yesterday turned the heat on Somalia and accused the war-torn nation of ignoring a pact to resolve a boundary row. Somalia has sued Kenya at the International Court of Justice seeking fresh delimitation of...

Ethiopia’s Abiy steps up mediation in Kenya, Somalia sea row

The area in the Kenya-Somalia maritime border dispute forms a triangle east of the Kenya coast. Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has stepped up efforts to have the row resolved without worsening the fragile diplomatic ties in the Horn of Africa. GRAPHIC | NATION MEDIA GROUP
By : East Africa Ethiopia prime minister has sent emissaries to Kenya and Somalia seeking to have their maritime border dispute resolved without worsening flagile diplomatic ties in the Horn of Africa. Officials in Nairobi and Mogadishu said Abiy, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Authority on...

Kenya Airways Gets Air Traffic Rights in U.S. Paving Way for Direct Flights

By Kennedy Kangethe Nairobi — Kenya Airways (KQ) has been granted air traffic rights to the United States (US) airspaces inching closer to direct flights to the US. Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia told Capital FM Business the airline now awaits other crucial licenses to see...

US Ambassador to Somalia Discloses Plan to Move Mission to Mogadishu From Nairobi

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United States Ambassador to Somalia Donald Yamamoto on Friday disclosed that the U.S Mission to Somalia located at the U.S embassy in Nairobi, Kenya would soon be moved to Mogadishu. In an interview with Voice of America (VOA), Yamamoto stated that the move could take...

Nairobi now limits flights to turn around Kenya Airways’ fortunes

By NJIRAINI MUCHIRA Kenya is limiting the issuing of new licences for global airlines seeking to exploit the strategic Nairobi hub in a protectionist move aimed at reviving the dwindling fortunes of national carrier Kenya Airways. The policy shift is already being applied after the government hastily...

Kenya, France agree to expedite implementation of Sh10 billion project

Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic to Kenya Stéphane Séjournérime with Prime Cabinet Secretary Musalia Mudavadi in a joint press address with in Nairobi on April 6, 2024. Image: PCS/X
By: THE STAR Kenya and France have resolved to strengthen their bilateral relations, even as they finalised an agreement to enhance the infrastructure and transport sector. Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Cabinet Secretary Musalia...

Kenya:Uhuru ready to concede defeat if he loses, asks opponents to do the same

  President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday evening admitted that he will concede if he loses fairly. During a TV live chat, the Head of State also asked his opponents to do the same so as to maintain peace in the country. “I’m the man who abides by...

Kenya: life sentence for driver implicated in kidnapping of two Cuban doctors

Cuban doctors Assel Herrera (left) and Landy Rodríguez (right), kidnapped on April 12, 2019 in Kenya, presumably by militants of the extremist group Al-Shabaab. Photo: Escambray/Archive
By:OnCuba A Kenyan court sentenced the driver of the vehicle in which the two Cuban doctors who were kidnapped were traveling, during 2019, to life in prison after convicting him of collaborating in their abduction. The incident took place...