America's top diplomat to Kenya has announced that the United States has suspended a $7 million "capacity building" program for the country's Ministry of Education, citing corruption.
Al-Shabaab, a hard-line Somali rebel group that is on the U.S. government's terror watch list, has threatened to attack neighboring Kenya, according to an online audio recording.
Kenya has deported a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who was previously jailed in Britain for inciting racial hatred, the Kenyan immigration minister said Thursday.
An American woman who was trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya, where she lived with her family, was a librarian who was determined to see that schools and libraries be built in poor villages, a former boss said Wednesday.
Kevin Pearce One of the country's top snowboarders, who was considered a favorite to make the U.S. Olympic team, was in critical but stable condition Sunday after an accident while training last week at Park City, Utah.
Kenyan police are searching for 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team who failed to return home after competing in a regional tournament in Nairobi, a spokesman said Monday.
Recent rainfall has brought new vegetation to parts of Kenya that haven't seen rain for years, but aid workers say it's too little, too late to undo the damage caused by years of drought.
More than 2 tons of ivory has been seized and more than 100 people arrested in an international operation targeting wildlife crime in eastern Africa, Interpol announced Monday.
On one Sunday each month Pastor Lawrence Omambia, the lead preacher at the Community of Christ church in Kisii, Kenya, shows off his gift -- healing and exorcism.
A global human rights group is urging Kenya to stop Somali military recruiters from enlisting displaced men and boys in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camps to fight in their war against Islamic militants.
America's top diplomat to Kenya has announced that the United States has suspended a $7 million "capacity building" program for the country's Ministry of Education, citing corruption.
Al-Shabaab, a hard-line Somali rebel group that is on the U.S. government's terror watch list, has threatened to attack neighboring Kenya, according to an online audio recording.
Kenya has deported a Jamaican-born Muslim cleric who was previously jailed in Britain for inciting racial hatred, the Kenyan immigration minister said Thursday.
An American woman who was trampled to death by an elephant in Kenya, where she lived with her family, was a librarian who was determined to see that schools and libraries be built in poor villages, a former boss said Wednesday.
Kevin Pearce One of the country's top snowboarders, who was considered a favorite to make the U.S. Olympic team, was in critical but stable condition Sunday after an accident while training last week at Park City, Utah.
Kenyan police are searching for 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team who failed to return home after competing in a regional tournament in Nairobi, a spokesman said Monday.
Recent rainfall has brought new vegetation to parts of Kenya that haven't seen rain for years, but aid workers say it's too little, too late to undo the damage caused by years of drought.
More than 2 tons of ivory has been seized and more than 100 people arrested in an international operation targeting wildlife crime in eastern Africa, Interpol announced Monday.
On one Sunday each month Pastor Lawrence Omambia, the lead preacher at the Community of Christ church in Kisii, Kenya, shows off his gift -- healing and exorcism.
A global human rights group is urging Kenya to stop Somali military recruiters from enlisting displaced men and boys in Kenya's sprawling Dadaab refugee camps to fight in their war against Islamic militants.
The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor on Thursday told Kenya's leaders that he will proceed with trials against suspected perpetrators of postelection violence that left more than 1,000 dead.
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Heavy rains triggered by El Nino weather patterns could potentially prove devastating for east African nations that have been water-starved for months, the United Nations has warned.
Those most responsible for last year's post-election violence in Kenya may now be punished by the International Criminal Court, after Kenya missed a deadline to address the issue.
The civil warfare and social instability in Somalia have prompted the flight of more than 50,000 refugees to neighboring Kenya this year alone, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.
A cattle-rustling attack in central Kenya has left 32 people dead, including three women and eight children, the Kenya Red Cross said.
For as long as anyone cares to remember, the pastoralists of Kenya's Rift Valley have fled with their herds to the fertile slopes of Mount Kenya when times are tough.
Kenya needs $230 million over the next six months to feed millions affected by drought, the United Nations said in a new report.
Efforts to curb overfishing in five of the world's marine ecosystems are starting to show signs of working.
Kenya's plan to use its judiciary to try perpetrators of post-election violence reneges on an earlier pledge to use an independent tribunal, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
A high-level Kenyan delegation has agreed with the International Criminal Court to set up a tribunal by July 2010 to prosecute those who instigated last year's devastating post-election violence.
Somalia's transitional government has the right to request military help from its neighbors against armed militants, the African Union said Monday, but Kenya was quick to reject the idea of sending troops and suggested the AU should spearhead such a move.
Daniel Mungai's family keeps him locked in a room in a wooden shack that is just big enough to fit a bed, a cupboard, Daniel and his wheel-chair. His clothes and bed are soaked with his own waste -- and he's been living like this for 15 years.
The fight for political reform in Kenya has moved into an unlikely venue -- the nation's bedrooms.
Two human-rights activists were shot and killed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, on Thursday evening, leading a U.N. investigator to call for an independent investigation to prove that Kenyan police were not involved.
She calmly recounts her story, her voice firm, her face stoic, in a dim room in Nairobi's Kibera slums.
A Ukrainian cargo vessel laden with tanks and other weapons docked in Kenya on Thursday, nearly five months after pirates captured it.
The trial of eight Somali men accused of piracy in the attempted hijacking of a Danish freighter has been put off until January after a preliminary session Thursday.
The crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry appear to be in good health, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Monday
Buccaneers seize ships almost daily off the coast of Somalia, but the booty doesn't usually include enough T-72s to equip a tank battalion
A police report accuses British authorities of a craven approach in investigating the 1988 murder of a British tourist
The migration of more than a million wildebeest between Kenya and Tanzania is one of the wonders of the natural world. Tourists from around the globe have flocked to Kenya to witness the herds streaming across the savanna and over the Mara River.
It may be difficult for modern-day Western cultures to fathom, but in Western Kenya, beliefs in ghosts and witches are very real. And sometimes they have deadly consequences.
A plane crashed Tuesday in western Kenya, killing all four people on board, including a Cabinet minister and an assistant minister, President Mwai Kibaki said.
The thought of going home terrifies Sarafina Nyambura.
In a downtown Nairobi salon, tucked away in nondescript office building, women sit under hair dryers and gossip. They have their hair trimmed and their feet and hands pampered.
Recovering from bloody ethnic strife, the country's rivals agree to a pricey joint government -- even if power-sharing didn't work the last time
Political uncertainty threatens new chaos as government and opposition fail to agree on power sharing
The IPO of an innovative African mobile phone company sends the country into a frenzy with dreams of profits on the stock market
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The warring factions may have agreed to form a coalition but the tribes of Kenya have learned to fight -- and to make weapons to protect themselves
Kenya's new power-sharing deal is a "critical step toward the legitimate government of the country," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer said Thursday, pledging the United States would keep the parties "on the right track."
Kenya's new power-sharing deal is a critical step toward the legitimate government of the country, the U.S. State Department said Thursday, pledging the United States would keep the parties "on the right track."
A hard-won agreement to form a coalition between bitter rivals is a huge step toward stability. But several hurdles remain
Kenya's opposition leader unexpectedly left the country Friday, a day after government negotiators and their rivals edged toward a power-sharing deal
Kenya's opposition party says it will embark on a "mass civil disobedience campaign next week" if its demands aren't met in the intensive negotiations aimed at defusing the political crisis in the tense East African nation.
Feuding Kenyan political parties are close to a deal that could help end recent post-election violence, according to mediators in the settlement talks.
Kenya's opposition party called for renewed mass protests unless the Parliament meets within a week and changes the constitution to make way for a political settlement.
Kenyan negotiators trying to end the violent ethnic tensions that erupted after the disputed presidential elections last year have reached some sort of a political agreement and will continue talking next week, a spokesman for the mediators said.
Political rivals trying to lead Kenya out of weeks of violence that left more than 1,000 people dead signed an agreement Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said
Both sides in a disputed presidential election in Kenya have agreed not to pursue a recount or audit of the votes, former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said Monday as he suggested a possible solution to a bitter and bloody political crisis.
The death toll from post-election violence in Kenya climbed to more than 1,000 Tuesday as government and opposition politicians discussed plans that could eventually lead to a power-sharing agreement.
Leaders on both sides of a contested election move toward a new deal, but the impact of weeks of bloodshed may be more difficult to resolve
Kenya's government Tuesday announced it will find and prosecute anyone who sent "hate text messages" that helped incite ethnic tensions after the contested election in December.
Some of the world's most prominent diplomats are in Kenya trying to prevent an all-out ethnic war from plunging east Africa's most important economy into chaos
Talks to mediate an end to Kenya's political crisis were to resume Friday morning after being suspended in the wake of a second opposition lawmaker's killing a day earlier, according to a U.N. spokesman.
Kenyan police say that -- despite political disputes that have plunged this once stable country into chaos -- its officers have not been given shoot to kill orders.
The violence started in response to a flawed election, but it reveals a rift that may be beyond politicians' control
An American diplomat has described the violence in Kenya's Rift Valley as "clear ethnic cleansing" aimed at chasing out members of the Kikuyu tribe who are loyal to President Mwai Kibaki.
As Kofi Annan tries to mediate a settlement, a political assassination and tribal violence exacerbate the crisis
The violence plaguing western Kenya's Rift Valley spread to the country's Western Province Monday, according to an official with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Uganda's government separates those fleeing from its neighbor by tribe in order to keep down simmering tensions
The opposition calls its supporters into the street and the government comes down hard -- but there are also signs the anger may be waning
The Obamas of Kenya still live as they have for decades, even though their most famous relative is in a hotly contested race to become the next president of the United States.
Kenya's president and his chief rival made key concessions Monday to end their election dispute, calling off protests and agreeing to talks under U.S. pressure
After doubts over the accuracy of presidential election results in Kenya sparked riots and disrupted transportation, analysts say the country's economy can recover - provided there is a swift political resolution to the crisis.
Lying in a hospital bed in this rural hub of Kenya's Rift Valley, a man describes surviving two machete wounds to his head and multiple slashes to his hands. He says he was attacked by people who now live by the rules of tribalism.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu rounded on Kenya's ruling elite Friday, saying its people are sick of the corruption that has plagued the nation.
TIME's correspondent goes to the Kenyan countryside, where tribal hatreds have surfaced and neighbors are now enemies
The orgy of violence that has greeted Kenya's disputed election result has led to hundreds of deaths and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes.
The opposition is protesting to demand that the President admit electoral defeat, sparking fears of more violence
Kenya has enjoyed a reputation as one of East Africa's most stable nations since achieving independence from the UK in 1963.
An oil tanker truck rolled down a hill and smashed into four minibuses in rural Kenya, killing 29 people and injuring more than 30, police said Friday.
Kenya's badly paid police force is the most bribe-prone institution in the country, according to a report issued by an anti-corruption watchdog on Tuesday.
It's 8 a.m. in the morning and a group of tiny tots are heading towards a simple building on the outskirts of their village near Mombasa.
New Zealand qualified for the World Cup Super Eights thanks to an emphatic 148-run victory over Kenya in Group C on Tuesday.
A Kenyan Y-12 military aircraft carrying government officials to a peace meeting in northern Kenya crashed Monday as it approached the Marsabit air strip, killing 14 people -- including five members of parliament -- government officials have told CNN.
At least 14 people, including five members of parliament, were killed when a military aircraft carrying government officials to a peace meeting in northern Kenya crashed as it approached an air strip, officials said.
I've covered three droughts in the last six months in Africa.
Masked police carrying AK-47 assault rifles have raided the television station and newspaper owned by Kenya's second-largest media group and briefly detained four journalists.
The Inuit may have countless words that express precisely the myriad types of snow found in their frozen lands, but in the national language of Kenya, Ki Swahili, there is just one -- "theluji."
The United Nations' World Food Program (WFP) appealed Tuesday for $6.7 million to feed nearly a quarter of a million Sudanese and Somali refugees living in camps in Kenya.
We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.
The threat of terrorism can hit both travelers and the tourism industry hard, especially if governments warn their citizens to stay clear of certain places.
Kenyan Sammy Korir, the second fastest marathon runner of all time, has pulled out of the Olympics because of a leg injury.
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