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President Mwai Kibaki dissolved Kenya's parliament Monday, starting the countdown to elections in December that promise to be the most closely contested in the country's history.
A ruling party candidate for parliament was arrested Saturday after his bodyguards allegedly shot and killed a supporter of Kenya's largest opposition party and injured two others, police said.
Harrison Juma lives on the edge of one of Africa's biggest garbage dumps, and the toxic smoke from burning trash has leeched into his clothes, his hair — and the 15-year-old's lungs.
A Kenya Airways jet that took off during a midnight storm crashed early Saturday with 114 on board after sending out a distress signal over remote southern Cameroon, officials said. Nearby villagers reported hearing an explosion and seeing a flash of fire.
Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.
British troops fatally shot an endangered white rhinoceros after it charged them while they were lost on military exercises in northern Kenya, a wildlife official said Sunday.
An elephant trampled and killed a British man on his honeymoon in Kenya, officials said Monday.
A descendant of Kenya's most famous white settlers fatally shot a black man on his vast estate simply because the man was poaching a gazelle, not because he posed any threat, a prosecutor said Monday in a case that has stirred racial tensions in East Africa.
During a visit to his father's homeland, Sen. Barack Obama electrified the thousands of Kenyans who thronged every stop of his tour.
Sen. Barack Obama urged Kenyans to take control of their country's destiny by opposing corruption and ethnic divisions in government during a policy speech Monday at the main university in his father's homeland.
Chinese President Hu Jintao couldn't resist the rhythm on the last day of his African tour Saturday: He walked off the red carpet at Nairobi's airport to beat a skin drum for traditional dancers.
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Friday finalized another oil deal in Africa, the poorest and most corrupt continent in the world but one that is rich in natural resources.
James Alede has never seen anything like it. His small farm has produced a bumper maize crop, and for the first time in recent memory he doesn't have to worry about his family going hungry.
A troop of monkeys has been making "lewd signs" at women and children trying to harvest crops south of Nairobi, and the farmers feel so harassed that Kenya's Wildlife Service is sending in animal-control teams to confront the animals.
A troop of monkeys has been making "lewd signs" at women and children trying to harvest crops south of Nairobi, and the farmers feel so harassed that Kenya's Wildlife Service is sending in animal-control teams to confront the animals. The monkeys in the Kabete area even ea …
Kenyan officials are not sure how to handle a troop of rude monkeys that's been making lewd gestures at women, London's Daily Telegraph reports.
Elephants can apparently smell and see which humans might be out to get them, research now suggests.
Nairobi, Kenya - With a click of a cellphone key, Bernard Otieno makes the transfer – sending funds instantly from his residence in a sprawling Nairobi slum to his wife, who holds down their rural family farm some 250 miles away.
The buzz of angry bees frightens African elephants into fleeing, according to a study in Kenya that provides evidence this type of sound could help keep the massive animals from trampling farms and threatening people.
In a bizarre mishap that conservationists describe as "heartbreaking," an estimated 10,000 wildebeest have drowned while attempting to cross Kenya's Mara River during an annual migration.
Environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai of Kenya gave a lecture recently in Seattle. When she said that we should be (like) a hummingbird, many in the audience were puzzled.
Police in Kenya say one of their officers has been beheaded by members of the illegal Mungiki sect. The decapitated body was discovered by residents in the town of Gatundu, about 40km north-east of Nairobi.
Kenya is trying to recover the remains of two infamous lions which killed 140 railway workers in the 19th Century. They are the legendary man-eaters of Tsavo who caused havoc among the Indian labourers who built the railway line between Mombasa and Lake Victoria.
Scientists disagree on what is causing the disappearance of the African snows. Some blame global warming. Others point to the reduced levels of annual precipitation in the area, the decline of the ozone layer and the earth's natural cycles.
Seven developing countries in Africa and Asia will be the first to take part in a new global health campaign aimed at directing aid more effectively at the basic needs of poor countries, Britain said on Wednesday.
The Kenyan Government is planning to develop three resort cities in the next five years, so that Kenya can join the rangs of top tourist destinations in the world.
The breathtaking extent of corruption perpetrated by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi was exposed last night in a secret report that laid bare a web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen that his entourage used to funnel hundreds of millions of poun …
A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis.
Kenyan journalists can breathe a sigh of relief now that President Mwai Kibaki has finally bowed down to pressure and rejected a controversial bill that would have forced journalists to reveal their news sources in the event of legal contentions.
A troop of vervet monkeys is giving Kenyan villagers long days and sleepless nights, destroying crops and causing a food crisis. Earlier this month, local MP Paul Muite urged the Kenyan Wildlife Service to help contain their aggressive behaviour.
The police force in Kenya remains the most corrupt government department for a sixth year running, a report by Transparency International (TI) says. Richard Leakey, who heads TI's Kenya branch, said despite reforms in the force, policemen still demand bribes.
Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, today reiterated her claim that the AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
Hundreds of Kenyan journalists held street marches in Nairobi to protest against a proposed media law.
Kenyan reporters have been covering their mouths in a silent protest against amendments to a new media bill they say would suppress press freedom by forcing them to reveal confidential sources. They have urged President Mwai Kibaki not to sign the bill.
Kenyan journalists have staged a silent protest through the streets of the capital against a media law that would compel them to disclose their sources. Hundreds of journalists taped their mouths and carried placards asking President Mwai Kibaki to reject the legislation.
Surprising research based on two African fossils suggests our family tree is more like a wayward bush with stubby branches, challenging what had been common thinking on how early humans evolved.
With headlines such as "Current Crop of Runners Not Up to Task" and "Change Tact[ics] Or Sink", recent articles published by Kenyan journalists have been harshly critical of Kenyan distance running.
Kenyan churches have urged President Mwai Kibaki not to sign an amendment to a media bill that requires journalists to disclose their sources. The controversial amendment was passed by parliament last week.
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