Kenya

This additional assistance brings EU humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region (including Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti) to nearly €260m since the beginning of the year. “The situation in Horn of Africa has drastically deteriorated in 2017 and it keeps getting worse. Millions...

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...

(Nairobi, July 3, 2017) – Kenyan authorities should urgently investigate allegations of threats and intimidation between community members in Nakuru county’s Naivasha area, as the August, 2017 elections approaches, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch interviewed opposition and ruling party supporters, victims of...

By Gaitano Pessa Kisumu — A bridge in Kenya's Budalang'i Constituency near the border with Uganda has collapsed a fortnight after President Uhuru Kenyatta inspected it. The $12 million (Sh1.2 billion) Sigiri Bridge, in Budalang'i Constituency, Busia County, was being constructed by the Chinese Overseas Construction...

A Kenyan lawyer has filed a petition with the International Court of Justice in The Hague, suggesting that the trial and crucifixion of Jesus Christ was unlawful. Dola Indidis said the State of Israel among others should be held responsible, Kenyan news outlet the Nairobian...

Kenya is the first African country to start using a generic version of the latest AIDS drug that can improve and prolong the lives of tens of thousands of people who suffer severe side effects and resistance to other treatments. A generic of Dolutegravir (DTG),...

  As a teenager, Aden Hussein chose to become a refugee to get an education. With Somalia in collapse, he left his family for neighbouring Kenya where Dadaab, one of the largest and oldest refugee camps in the world, offered a de-facto city served by the...

By PSCU, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 17 – President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed a 14-member Task Force on the Development of the Miraa Industry. The task force has three months to complete its assignment, according to a gazette notice published Friday. Geoffrey Nchooro M’mwenda will chair the task...

An improvised explosive device exploded and killed four people in a passenger vehicle in northern Kenya in a suspected extremist attack, an official said Friday, as fears grew that the al-Shabab extremist group in neighboring Somalia had adopted a deadly new strategy. The Kenya official,...

The national government has promised a raft of measures to help the ailing miraa sector. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett told miraa farmers that the Government has petitioned the UN for the interpretation of a convention on drug trade that European nations had used...