A grenade attack targeting a church in the Kenyan capital left one person dead and 16 others injured Sunday, authorities said.
Terrorists may be planning to attack hotels and government buildings in Kenya, the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi warned Monday.
Kenyan pair Wilson Kipsang and Mary Keitany won the men's and women's races at the London Marathon Sunday to serve notice of their gold medal credentials for the Olympics later this year.
Students asked to fork out thousands of Kenyan shillings for a bursary; drivers pushed to pay police officers for traffic offences; people asked to shell out large sums to speed up the process of getting a new passport or making a land transfer.
IHS CERA managing director Jim Burkhard on why opening the Strategic Petroleum Reserve won't stop gas prices from rising.
Not long ago, attending international oil and gas conferences, East Africa was the graveyard session. All the smart money was on the Gulf of Guinea and I and a few other analysts would sit through almost empty sessions more out of courtesy than curiosity.
Two separate grenade attacks hit the Kenyan coast Saturday night, killing one person and wounding at least 33 others, officials said.
Kenya has finally struck oil after decades of exploration, the country's president announced Monday.
CNN's David McKenzie reports on Somali pirates releasing a British hostage who is mourning her murdered husband.
Somali pirates freed a British hostage Wednesday, nearly seven months after she was taken captive in a raid at a Kenyan beach resort in which her husband was killed.
Kenya will hold a general election on March 4 next year, the country's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission Chairman Issak Hassan announced Saturday.
The death toll has risen to six following an attack on a Kenyan bus station that left dozens wounded, the Red Cross said Sunday.
CNN's David McKenzie reports on how farmers in Kenya are being affected by a ban on imports of khat.
Asha Mohamed sits in her cramped room in Pumwani slum clutching a tiny photo of her son, Harun. He's dressed in a blue-striped tie framed by a crisp white T-shirt -- a typical 15-year-old Kenyan high school student.
A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.
As Kenya's leading psychiatrist, Frank Njenga has been championing the cause of better mental health care on the east African country and the continent for more than three decades.
Kenyan psychiatrist Frank Njenga talks to CNN about his journey into mental heath care.
Clashes between two tribes in northern Kenya left at least seven people dead this week, a local government official said Saturday.
Four Kenyan officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, will stand trial on human rights violations that are alleged to have occurred after the 2007 election, the International Criminal Court ruled Monday.
Al-Shabaab members raided a Kenyan police camp, killing seven and taking others prisoner, the al Qaeda-linked militant Islamist group said Thursday.
A former U.S. Army soldier, charged with attempting to travel to Somalia to join the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, will be in court Wednesday for a detention hearing.
A former U.S. Army soldier was charged Monday with attempting to travel to Somalia to join the terrorist group Al-Shabaab, according to the Justice Department.
British officials Saturday warned of terror threats in Kenya as the east African nation battles Islamist militants in neighboring Somalia.
UK officials warn of terror threats in Kenya as the east African nation battles Islamist militants in neighboring Somali.
Backed by Ethiopian forces, Somali troops have wrested control of a key trading town after fierce fighting with Islamic militants, officials with Somalia's transitional government and witnesses said Saturday.
African Union forces in Somalia have successfully pushed the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab out of the capital Mogadishu, a commander told CNN Thursday.
We had tried for weeks to get access to Kenya's incursion into lawless Somalia. The go finally came from the Kenyan military in a text message late one Saturday night. We're told to be at the Nairobi's military airbase before dawn.
CNN's David McKenzie has rare access to the front line of Kenya's war with Al-Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant group.
Two-time Olympic gold medalist Kipchoge Keino takes African Voices to his training academy where he trains young people.
The Kenyan government plans to appeal a warrant issued by its high court calling for the arrest of the Sudanese president over alleged war crimes.
The government of Sudan on Monday ordered Kenya's ambassador to leave the country, after the Kenyan High Court ruled that Sudan's president must be arrested if he sets foot on Kenyan soil.
The leaders of Kenya, Somalia and Uganda held a closed-door meeting in Nairobi Wednesday, reaffirming their commitment to military operations against the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
Kenya makes a military foray into Somalia to pursue armed militants. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
Two Kenyan police officers were injured in Dadaab refugee camp in Northern Kenya when their vehicle struck a land mine on Tuesday, according to a senior official.
How can new packaging help bring clean water to inaccessible parts of the world? Marketplace Africa investigates.
When Joel Mwale was hospitalized with dysentery, his doctors advised him to focus his energies on making a full recovery.
Kenya's Geoffrey Mutai set a course record in the ING New York Marathon on Sunday, cutting nearly three minutes from a previous best time that had stood for a decade.
NEW YORK -- At Sunday's New York City Marathon, Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai detonated the men's course record by over two-and-a-half minutes in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 6 seconds -- with the second and third place finishers also under the course record -- and Ethiopian Firehiwot Dado won the women's race in a swift 2:23:15, the sixth-fastest time ever in the five boroughs. It's been that kind of year.
Kenyan troops are battling the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab in neighboring Somalia, westerners are being targeted at Kenyan tourist resorts and fears are high of terror attacks in Nairobi. What are the reasons behind the unrest and what is likely to happen next?
Conflicting accounts emerged Thursday over whether the extremist group Al-Shabaab has signaled a desire to negotiate with Kenya amid a Kenyan military offensive targeting the group.
Four people were killed and several injured in an attack on a vehicle carrying government officials transporting school examination papers in northeastern Kenya Thursday, police said.
Somalia praised Kenya Wednesday, thanking it for helping battle the Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab, in an apparent effort to heal tensions sparked by the Somali president's criticism of Kenya earlier this week.
Two separate blasts in Nairobi kill at least one and injure dozens more. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
A Kenyan man pleaded guilty Wednesday to being a member of the Islamic militant group Al-Shabaab and was charged with causing grievous bodily harm in a grenade attack on a crowded bus station Monday.
Somalia's president has spoken out against Kenya's military incursion into his country, saying his nation's African neighbor has overstepped its bounds by pursuing Islamic militants beyond its borders.
Separate blasts rocked the capital of Kenya on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring 20, officials said.
The U.S. Embassy in Kenya warned it has credible information of an imminent terror attack, days after the east African nation announced it is sending troops to Somalia to battle Islamist militants.
Two 18-year-old men questioned under anti-terrorism legislation after arriving in Britain from Kenya, where they were initially arrested, were released Thursday, police said.
Two 18-year-old men were detained Wednesday under anti-terrorism legislation as they arrived in Britain from Kenya, where they were initially arrested, London's Metropolitan Police said.
A malaria vaccine has eluded scientists for decades, but preliminary results from a phase 3 clinical trial in Africa are providing hope.
A trial study finds a malaria vaccine appears to cut infections by half in a one-year period.
A Frenchwoman kidnapped from her holiday home in northern Kenya and taken to Somalia has died, the French Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.
Kenya is known for producing some of the world's greatest runners and now a company wants to get them noticed wearing a brand from their country.
Islamic militants have moved fighters to the Somali border town of Afmado in an effort to combat Kenyan forces who have entered Somalia, the militant group Al-Shabaab said Tuesday.
Islamic militants in Somalia have threatened to "come into Kenya" if Kenyan forces do not leave Somalia, according to an online message posted on a jihadist website.
Kenyan troops are pursuing suspected Islamic militants from Al-Shabaab across the border into Somalia, Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua told CNN Sunday.
The medical charity Medicins Sans Frontieres -- also known as Doctors without Borders -- said Friday the abduction of two of its workers is jeopardizing assistance to refugees in Kenya.
Gunmen abducted two workers for the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres from the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya Thursday, agency staff told CNN.
The Kenyan environmental campaigner returns to Japan and explains the local's meaning of the term Mottainai.
Somalia's pirates have long made the country's coastline a no-go area for sailors, but two brutal attacks on resorts in neighboring Kenya have sparked fears the militants may have dramatically altered their tactics.
World leaders have paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who passed away while having treatment for ovarian cancer on Monday.
Kenyan officials sent mediators into Somalia Sunday after captors took a kidnapped French woman there, a Kenyan government official said.
CNN's David McKenzie takes a look at a theory that Somali pirates might be turning to abductions.
A French woman seized in northern Kenya was taken to Somalia by her captors after a sea battle to rescue her failed, Kenyan government officials said.
"Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine" is the first single off Tom Morello's new solo album, and it's an ode to his guitar.
Kenyan Wangari Maathai, the first woman from Africa to win the Nobel Peace Prize, died Monday after a battle with cancer. She was 71.
I'm often asked who has been an inspiration in my life and my career. The answer I've always given is Wangari Maathai.
Kenya's Patrick Makau set a new world record for the marathon in Berlin Sunday as previous record holder Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia failed to finish.
A British man is killed and his wife kidnapped while on holiday at a remote villa in Kenya. ITN's Rohit Kachroo reports.
An English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort is being held by pirates in a remote corner of Somalia, according to experts and security analysts in Nairobi.
An English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort is being held by Somali pirates in a remote corner of the lawless country, according to experts and security analysts in Nairobi.
Kenyan and English police officers are conducting an "active search" for an English tourist kidnapped from a remote Kenyan resort, a local police spokesman said Friday.
Leaking petrol explodes into flames in a Kenyan slum, killing dozens. CNN's Isha Sesay reports.
The death toll has gone up to 96 after a gas pipeline leaked fuel and exploded this week in a densely populated slum in the Kenyan capital, Red Cross officials said Thursday.
A fuel pipeline exploded in a densely populated Nairobi slum Monday morning, flattening homes, reducing some bodies to dust and forcing a massive evacuation of the area amid fears that big pools of leaked fuel could ignite, police and Kenya Red Cross officials said.
One British citizen was killed and another one was kidnapped overnight at a resort near Kenya's border with Somalia, Britain's Foreign Office told CNN Sunday.
A Red Cross emergency worker describes the suspected cause and scene after a fuel pipeline in Kenya kills scores.
Work to recover bodies from the scene of a pipeline explosion in a densely populated Nairobi slum has ended, Kenya Red Cross said Tuesday.
Kenyan police have detained a suspect in connection with the killing of a British tourist and the kidnapping of his wife, police spokesman Charles Owino told CNN Tuesday.
Kenya police are investigating an attack of a British couple in Kenya. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.
Prominent human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi was released from custody Monday at the outset of the trial for suspects in the fatal July 2010 bombings in Kampala, Uganda.
Kenyan police have launched an investigation into the killing Sunday of a British man and the abduction of his wife from a remote safari lodge on the coast, near the border with Somalia.
The International Criminal Court will present charges Thursday in the first phase of hearings against prominent Kenyans for their alleged roles in postelection violence that left hundreds dead four years ago.
Twelve million people are facing a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa, and they are in desperate need of help.
A campaign to raise funds for starving Kenyans has galvanized the nation as families battle a devastating drought in the nation's northern region.
David McKenzie talks to World Bank, Kenya lead economist Wolfgang Fengler about the East African food crisis.
As the Horn of Africa struggles to deal with its worst drought in more than half a century, rising food prices are adding to growing hunger in Kenya.
For young children in drought-stricken areas of Kenya, primary schools providing free lunchtime meals are operating as "life-saving centers" in communities where food is increasingly scarce.
Parts of Somalia are experiencing their first famine in 19 years amid a "perfect storm" of weather and conflict.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki set five tons of elephant tusks and ivory carvings ablaze Wednesday in the first national celebration of African Elephant Law Enforcement Day.
Portella of Mercy Corps documents drought and desperation in East Africa.
I recently visited Garissa, Kenya -- a city of at least 180,000 people not far from the border with Somalia -- and areas to the north to see how this year's drought has impacted families in the area.
By the end of its 2010 financial year Kenya Airways reached several milestones, including flying three-million passengers a year.
Asunta Wagura has emerged as a symbol of hope for those suffering with HIV and AIDS.
Two weeks after a routine medical test, Kenyan nursing student Asunta Wagura was summoned into her principal's office. There, a crowd of tutors, student leaders and her mother was waiting for her.
The top prize at this year's CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2011 Awards Ceremony was scooped by Fatuma Noor, an investigative journalist from Kenya.
For Africa's poorest a chronic shortage of affordable health care is costing lives. But one organization is convinced it can make treatment affordable, and make money at the same time.
More than 800 Somali children are arriving at crowded refugee camps in Kenya daily after walking for days to escape a prolonged drought, an aid group said this week.
CNN's David McKenzie asks Teresia Tikoishi about her work to replace harmful traditions in Kenya with education for young girls.
For tourists visiting Kenya, elephants represent the majesty of nature -- but for those living on the land the animals are often seen as pests.
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