Kenyans fumes as tourism board names Naomi Campbell as ambassador
Kenyans on social media have been angered by the Ministry of Tourism’s decision to appoint British supermodel Naomi Campbell as the Magical Kenya International Ambassador....
Kenyan national indicted for plotting 9/11-style attack
A Kenyan national was indicted in federal court Wednesday after prosecutors accused him of going through flight training in the Philippines to conduct a 9/11-style...
It’s true, all that glitter is not gold: Kenyan woman confesses to intentionally infecting many men with HIV because they don’t want to use protection
A Kenyan woman, Jackline Njoki Mwangi has revealed that she knowingly infected men with HIV to punish them for not using protection. Mwangi, also...
“I paid her dowry hence I own her – Controversial Kenyan Twitter personality says women shouldn’t be given freedom after marriage
Captain Kale, an outspoken and popular Twitter personality, who is a household name in Kenya on Friday Septembrer 11, said that married women shouldn't be given freedom after...
Kenya ministry told to publish Covid-19 deals amid graft scandal
Frontline health workers have been among those killed by the coronavirus in Kenya Brian ONGORO AFP President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday ordered Kenya's health ministry...
Kenyan all-female conservation ranger unit patrols amid COVID-19
Purity Amleset Lakara has spent the year capturing armed poachers, running from an aggressive buffalo, and relaxing around a campfire reading “A Day Before my...
Outrage as two boys are allegedly burnt alive after being accused of stealing mobile phones
A number of prominent personalities have expressed outrage after two boys were allegedly burnt alive for allegedly stealing a mobile phone. Anja Ringgren Loven...
Scavenging for human hair: Nairobi hairdressers cut costs amid Covid-19 crisis
A hairdresser searches for discarded human hair at the Dandora dump in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 29, 2020. © Reuters / France 24For decades, Nairobi’s...
In Kenya, alarm over rise in teen pregnancies during pandemic
For many girls like Linnet, left, hopes of ever returning to school will be fully dashed once they give birth Yasuyoshi CHIBA AFP Sixteen-year-old Linnet...
Kenyan police arrest fugitive charged in U.S. with ivory, rhino horn trafficking
Kenyan police arrested a fugitive wanted in the United States on charges of trafficking ivory and rhino horn after he flew into Mombasa, authorities said...
Kenya extends curfew for a month as COVID-19 cases jump
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta extended a nightly curfew on Monday for 30 days to curb the spread of COVID-19 and banned alcohol sales in restaurants...
Kenya COVID-19 hospital gears up for surge in new infections
At the Machakos COVID-19 field hospital about an hour’s drive from the Kenyan capital, workers struggle to put a giant metal tent frame in place...
COVID-19 kills four Kenyan health workers, infections at maternity hospital rise
A woman wearing protective clothes walks past the entrance to the Pumwani Maternity Hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Nairobi, Kenya,...
As city encroaches on Nairobi park, wild animals freedom to roam is under threat
Rhinos, lions, buffalo and leopards range against the background of a city skyline in the Nairobi National Park, Africa’s only game reserve within a capital...
Kenyan museum, Mau Mau fighter shed light on British colonial abuses
Nearing 100, Gitu Wa Kahengeri clearly remembers the day when, as a prisoner of Kenya’s colonial occupier Britain, he wanted to die. Chao Tayiana, a...
Kenyan schools told to refund 2020 school fees due to COVID-19 pandemic
The Kenyan government has asked schools to either refund parents the school fees paid for this academic year or agree to put it towards next...
Free ambulance helps save mothers and babies in Kenya lockdown
As soon as Kenya introduced a coronavirus curfew, Dr. Jemimah Kariuki, an obstetrician-gynecologist at Nairobi’s Kenyatta Hospital, started seeing more death and complications. Medics examine...
Alphabet’s Loon launches its balloon-powered Kenyan internet service
Image Credits: Alphabet Alphabet’s Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya . This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes...
Kenyan police fire teargas, arrest marchers protesting at brutality
Kenyan police on Tuesday fired teargas and arrested activists gathering for a march against perceived government injustice that has been given extra impetus this year...
Kenya uses app in battle against desert locusts
Lorugum village in northwest Kenya is under siege. Hundreds of thousands of young desert locusts perch on trees, shrubs, and in the grass. In the...
Kenyan protesters set fire to police station after killing
Kenyan protesters set a police station on fire after an officer allegedly shot and killed a man for hawking fake hand sanitizer, according to a...
Kenya announces phased re-opening of the country from coronavirus lockdown
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced on Monday a phased re-opening of the country from a lockdown imposed to curb the spread of the new coronavirus,...
35 primary and secondary school students arrested at drug-filled party; used condoms found at venue
35 primary pupils and secondary school students have been arrested in a raid carried out by the Kenyan police in a rental house at Sango Estate...
Punching through the pandemic: Kenyan boxing club gives kids a break
Vanessa Wanjera packs a punch. The 14-year-old Kenyan took up boxing two years ago but she already has big dreams. A child wears boxing gloves...
Swarms of locusts devastate parts of northern Kenya
The branches on trees around Kenya’s northern town of Lodwar have been stripped bare of leaves, bending downwards under the weight of voracious young locusts....
After drought, Kenya’s herders hammered by coronavirus curbs
Peter Olankai, who keeps cattle, sheep and goats, has struggled to buy and sell his animals in Kenya’s Kajiado County as the coronavirus pandemic closed...
Kenya coronavirus: 3,860 cases; corruption probe on donations, funds
Kenya continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic with cases steadily rising each day. Government have locked down a handful of counties including the capital Nairobi...
Close to 4,000 school girls impregnated in Kenya during Covid-19 lockdown
Kenya has reported a sudden surge in teen pregnancies in one single county over a period of five months thus threatening to cut short the...