The Latest Breaking News from Kenya

Kenyan president William Ruto has lifted a six-year ban on logging, despite public objections. Ruto said it would create jobs and boost economic growth. Lisa E. Fuchs has studied the Mau Forest Complex, one of Kenya’s most important – and most threatened – forests. She unpacks the implications of this…

The bullet was still lodged in Douglas Kalasinga’s head as he lay in the morgue

In tonight's edition: Unrest breaks out in Kenya as protesters clash with police over the cost-of-living crisis. Also, facing an international arrest warrant, Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to South Africa. His South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa calls it a "mutual decision". And in his first apparent public…

The Wednesday-to-Friday demonstrations are the third round of protests that the opposition has called for this month.

One of the world's largest refugee camps offers a stark example of the global food security crisis

In at least 17 countries, suicide remains a criminal offence – a ‘huge barrier’ to mental health care. As Ghana becomes one of four countries to overturn its law in a year, others could follow

Since independence in 1963, Kenya’s politicians have fed and manipulated ethnicity to win elections.

Police in Kenya opened fire amid opposition-organized protests on Wednesday against the rising cost of living, and health workers and witnesses said at least two people were shot dead and 26 others wounded.

At least four protesters have been injured in Kenya as police clash with demonstrators who are calling for the government to lower the cost of living