Kenya

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...

By:The Star The national government is set open a consulate at Hargeisa in Somaliland aimed to increase exports to the autonomous country. Trade CS Peter Munya said Miraa will be the leading export to the country and that the Embassy will help negotiate  favourable  trade barriers...

Somalia is threatening to re-impose a ban on miraa from Kenya in what it accuses Nairobi of disregarding an agreement to resume direct flights with Mogadishu. Mogadishu claims it agreed to lift the ban back in September because Kenya had agreed to allow direct flights...

By STEPHEN ASTARIKO @stephen ASTARIKO Several people sustained minor injuries after supporters of the main JP and Wiper rivals for Garissa Township MP clashed in Garissa Ndogo on Thursday evening. Police fired in the air and used tear gas to disperse the fighters that were hurling...

  The return of Somali refugees is 'no longer voluntary, dignified nor safe,' an aid agency has said. Kenya wants to close down the Dadaab refugee camp, home to over 280,000 refugees, by November. Kenya is violating international law by removing residents of the world's largest...

NAIROBI – Somaliland government, through its Liaison office in Nairobi, will on Friday hold a major investment conference in the Kenyan capital to woo investors to the Horn of Africa nation. Somaliland is targeting top Kenyan and East African investors to Hargeisa and Berbera, the...

The Kenyan government has warned that it will not cede an inch of its soil in the disputed maritime border with Somalia even as it affirmed that it is committed to a peaceful resolution of the row. At a Cabinet meeting at in Nairobi Thursday,...

British MP has described Kenya's election standoff as “total chaos”. Richmond Park MP Zac Goldsmith suggested that the recent elections in Somaliland, a self-proclaimed state and former British protectorate, were better than Kenyan ones by far. He made the assertion as he addressed House of...

by John Aglionby Polling data company says October 17 election date is ‘way too risky’ Kenya’s electoral commission is set to postpone the repeat presidential election after the company providing the electronic voter list and results transmission system said it would not be ready by October...

By:Zakariye Ahmed, Horn diplomat correspondent The leaders of the Horn of Africa countries of Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, and Kenya who gathered in Mogadishu on Wednesday for a day-long security summit agreed on a joint final push for...