Kenya

Allegations linking police to systematic extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of suspects a biased, palpable misrepresentation of facts and lack objectivity, the government has said. In the first response to increasing cases of executions of suspects in the hands of police, Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery...

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...

Governor Nathif Jama has declared the worsening drought in Garissa a disaster and called for urgent help. He has urged the national government to intervene and assist residents to avoid loss of lives. Jama spoke in Masalani on Saturday, when he flagged off a convoy...

Thousands of passengers were left stranded yesterday at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport as the national carrier, Kenya Airways, cancelled more than 24 flights. Former politician Kenneth Matiba and his family were among those stranded. Sources said KQ had told passengers there was an “imminent...

Kenya on Saturday has extended indefinitely the amnesty period offered to youths who are considered to have been lured and radicalized to join the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militant group after being promised financial support. Coast regional coordinator Nelson Marwa on Saturday said that government will continue...

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...

  A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced a man to a total of 80 years in prison after convicting him of being a member of the Somalia-based al-Shabaab militant group. Abdirazak Muktar, 24, a car-hire business owner, was found in possession of terrorism-related materials which included...

By ADOW MOHAMED @adowmo A screen shot from a new video by al shabaab militants, of a KDF soldier captured in El Adde, asking President Uhuru Kenyatta to withdraw troops from Somalia/YOUTUBE Al Shabaab militants have released a video of a man allegedly captured in the...

When farmer Isaac Tondo fell on lean times in Liberia's long rainy season, his brother in the capital sent 8,000 Liberian dollars (US$87) to his Lonestar mobile money account, ensuring his children's school fees would still be paid. Across Africa more and more people —...

has been displaying bodies they claim are of Kenyan police officers at their headquarters in the southern Somalia town of Jilib. The militants had claimed to have killed six Kenyan police officers after they attacked Hamey police post in Garissa county on Thursday, September 22. The...