The Latest Breaking News from Kenya

Australian Jessica Hull will get another shot at legendary Kenyan Faith Kipyegon in the 1500m final at the world athletics championships.

Lamu is a historic Swahili port town on an island off the northern coast of Kenya. Each year it hosts the famous Lamu Maulidi Festival, a sacred Muslim celebration, planned this year for 17-18 September.

The sport, a popular pastime of the white elite during the colonial period, has struggled in recent years, but its fortunes may be changing

The Kenyan athlete tested positive for the banned substance in the same month she won a historic UTMB victory

The UK is moving to lower its voting age from 18 to 16. The new legislation takes effect ahead of the country’s next general election in 2029, and is aimed at boosting its democracy. The move has ignited global debate: should 16-year-olds be trusted with the ballot?

A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture

ON THE GROUND: Attendees in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa tell Nick Ferris while the US president’s attitude makes things difficult, the realities of the climate crisis represent a far more pressing problem

Under the Kenyan stars tourists and tribal dancers looked up at the rust red "blood moon" as the east African country launched a new tourism initiative promoting the country's night skies.

The Central Bank of Kenya has made two significant changes in the country’s banking sector. The first is to lift a decade-long moratorium on licensing new banks. Second is to raise capital requirements, the amount of money banks are required to keep readily available compared with the value of other…