Kenya looks to close mass refugee camps, send scared Somalis packing
Kenya's plan to close the two refugee camps, including the world's largest, and send Somali refugees home has upset Somalia's government and sparked fear among some who have sought shelter there. "If we are chased away from this place I cannot go back home to ...
Kenyan rescuers race to free woman trapped in rubble of collapsed building
Rescue workers on Thursday were racing to dig out a woman found alive under the rubble of a building in Kenya's capital that collapsed six days earlier, a senior official said. "She cannot move but she is safe," Pius Masai, an official leading the operation, ...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta signed into law an anti-doping bill required to avoid a ban from the Rio Olympics of a nation famed for its runners, the president's office said on Wednesday. Video from the president's office showed Kenyatta at State House signing the bill, ...
Kenya reports killing 34 al-Shabab fighters in Somalia, losing two of its own
Kenyan troops killed 34 al-Shabab militants in two separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday in Somalia and two of its own soldiers were killed in an ambush, a military spokesman said. On Saturday, the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) killed 21 of the insurgents in the ...
Prehistoric cousin of wildebeest boasted dinosaur-like nasal horn
In an ancient streambed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, scientists have unearthed fossils of a wildebeest-like creature named Rusingoryx that boasted a weird nasal structure more befitting of a dinosaur than a mammal. Researchers said on Thursday the crescent-shaped protrusion atop the head of Rusingoryx, which ...
Christian doctor from Wakayama offers hope to disabled kids in Kenya
Japanese pediatrician Kazuko Kumon works to provide support for children with disabilities and their families in Kenya. At The Garden of Siloam, a facility Kumon established on the outskirts of Nairobi, disabled children receive a range of support, from high-quality education to personalized health care. Kumon, ...
Al-Qaida-linked Somalia militants claim killing four security troops in northeast Kenya ambush
The Somali Islamist group al-Shabab said it ambushed a Kenyan security vehicle in remote northeastern Kenya on Sunday, killing four members of the security forces. The Kenyan Red Cross said in a post on Twitter that two police officers had been killed and two others ...
Pope shrugs off terror fears, starts Africa tour in bid to bridge Christian-Muslim divide
Pope Francis called on Wednesday for ethnic and religious reconcilation at the start of his first tour of Africa, where he will address a fast-growing Catholic population and seek to heal Christian-Muslim divisions. The trip will see the head of the Catholic Church travel to ...
In Africa, good fences make for safe species
An innovative conservation project in Kenya using electric fences is both protecting endangered species from poachers and agricultural crops from foraging animals.
Al-Shabab targets sleeping Christian quarry workers in Kenya, killing 14
Al-Shabab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians. Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross said. The raid, in the town ...
Kenya dig yields stone tools 3.3 million years old, 700,000 years older than previous oldest finds
Our ancient ancestors made stone tools, a milestone achievement along the path of human progress, much earlier than previously thought and far before the appearance of the first known member of our genus Homo. Scientists on Wednesday announced the discovery of 3.3-million-year-old stone tools in ...
Stranded Kenyan workers demand evacuation after Islamist attack
Scores of teachers and civil servants were stranded at a remote Kenyan airstrip on Thursday, demanding evacuation and protection five days after Islamist gunmen killed 28 non-Muslim bus passengers in the surrounding border region near Somalia. Somalia's al-Shabaab militants claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack in ...
