BBC Africa is reporting the country of Kenya is launching its first coast guard patrol in the history of the nation. President Uhuru Kenyatta says this initiative is needed to protect and monitor its territorial waters. Prior to t...
Reuters Africa is reporting at least six people were killed when gunmen sprayed two buses with bullets on Friday in Kenya’s Mandera county on the border with Somalia, a regional official said. Mandera County Commissioner Fre...
BBC News is reporting a Kenyan High Court has dismissed a case challenging the legality of anal tests as proof of homosexuality. The author writes: “Two men, who say Kenyan police forced them to undergo the procedure to prov...
Faith Karimi of CNN is reporting the Kenyan government has frozen dozens of accounts linked to suspected terror supporters after militants massacred 147 people last week at a university in Garissa. Karimi writes: “The govern...
New anti-terrorism law requires journalists to get approval from police before publishing or broadcasting stories, imposes anti-stripping sentence and says terrorist suspects can be held up to a year . BBC News Africa is reporting...
BBC Africa is reporting that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has replaced his interior minister and police chief following a massacre by Islamist group al-Shabab. The author writes: “The president asked Kenyans to unite, and...
Brian Ngugi of AllAfrica.com is reporting that Kenya’s nominees for cabinet secretary positions include an unprecedented number of women. Six out of 18 nominees are women, which is a first for the nation whose cabinets are h...
I kept stumbling and falling and stumbling and falling as I searched for the good. ‘Why?’ I asked myself. Now I believe that I was on the right path all along, particularly with the Green Belt Movement, but then others...
BBC Sport and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) are reporting that 19-year-old Kenyan Japhet Korir won the World Cross Country Championships in Poland on March 24. Emily Chebet, also of Kenya, took gold...
BBC Africa is reporting that the International Criminal Court (ICC) dropped charges against Francis Muthaura. Muthaura had been accused of crimes similar to those of Uhuru Kenyatta who, despite these charges, won the recent Kenyan...
