The Latest Breaking News from Kenya

Lord Coe backs UK Athletics board to solve money woes after £1.8million loss

Mounting outgoings of £19.6million have contributed to the post-tax losses.

The National (Scotland) · Dec 16, 2022

Lord Coe backs UK Athletics board to solve money woes after £1.8m loss

Mounting outgoings of £19.6million have contributed to the post-tax losses

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

Many Kenyans have embraced vigilante cops – an ineffective police force is to blame

In March 2017, Ahmed Rashid, a Kenyan police officer, shot and killed two unarmed teenagers accused of theft. They had surrendered and were lying on the ground in a Nairobi neighbourhood. Rashid executed them in full view of the public. This was caught on camera.

The Conversation · Dec 15, 2022

Joe Biden is meeting African leaders - why free trade is a major talking point

African leaders face a dilemma over trade relations with the United States. Should they push for the extension of the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) or for each country’s bilateral trade deal with the world’s biggest economy?

The Conversation · Dec 13, 2022

In Kenya, these interventions are decreasing maternal mortality

In five years, a Kenyan county with one of the highest maternal mortality numbers nationwide has changed its fortunes.

Al Jazeera · Dec 13, 2022

Ex-Olympic champion David Rudisha survives plane crash three years on from bus collision

The two-time Olympic Gold medallist was one of six passengers on a light aircraft which crash landed in his native Kenya, but they all remarkably walked away from the scene with minor injuries

Daily Mirror · Dec 12, 2022

Former Olympic champion David Rudisha survives plane crash in Kenya

The two-times Olympic 800m champion David Rudisha has survived a plane crash in south-east Kenya three years after also escaping unharmed from a car wreck

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2022

Kenya's Lapsset development corridor: between a bright future and a grim past

The Lamu Port-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport – or Lapsset – corridor is the flagship project of Kenya’s Vision 2030 development agenda. Inaugurated in 2012, the planned corridor includes a railway, highways and an oil pipeline connecting newly discovered oil fields in the north to a new port in Lamu, north of…

The Conversation · Dec 12, 2022

Brit who disappeared in Kenya sparking manhunt found in pub after four-day bender

The 22-year-old Brit, Nelson Newbery, disappeared last week in Nairobi, Kenya, prompting a police manhunt and his dad to fly out from England - but he was actually in the pub

Daily Mirror · Dec 12, 2022

In Kenya, some Maasai turn from lion-killing to Olympics

Kenya’s most identifiable community is abandoning spear-aided lion hunting for a modern javelin competition at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics

The Independent UK · Dec 12, 2022