The Latest Breaking News from Kenya

After a 10-day break, Kenya's opposition coalition plans to hold another protest in Nairobi on 16 April, renewing the demands they have been making since the country's elections in August 2022.

For newlywed Dalljiet Kaur, who has taken her husband’s surname Patel, this Baisakhi is special. “This being my first Baisakhi after marriage, is absolutely special,” she says speaking to us from Kenya where she has shifted after marrying Nik Patel. She adds, “Though Nik is an NRI, he believes in…

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from Africa and abroad.

In tonight's edition: Kenya's cash crunch won't see it default on its debt repayments, the government says. But it is struggling to pay its workers on time. Also, locals speak of the toll of the brutality inflicted upon the community of Kishishe in eastern DR Congo by M23 militants. Finally,…

In tonight's edition: At least two people have been killed in Ethiopia's Amhara region amid protests against the government's efforts to disband regional special forces. Also, Rome says that more than 28,000 migrants have arrived in Italy since the start of the year and the UN reckons the number of…

The Russian Embassy in Kenya shared an image on Twitter on April 6 showing an exhausted-looking Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who has been incarcerated in the United Kingdom since 2019. However, it turns out that one of his supporters generated the image using artificial intelligence.

Rupali Ganguly was pleasantly surprised recently when she got to know that somebody had adopted an elephant on her behalf. A fan from Canada adopted an elephant called Mayan, which is in Kenya with the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Incidentally, Rupali wasn’t even aware of this; it was brought to her…

The pupil, who is in Grade 8 - the equivalent of Year 9 in the UK - had to undergo surgery after being beaten so badly that one of his testicles completely rotated in Kisii, Kenya

A number of African countries, including Kenya, Egypt, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Ghana and Zambia, are currently experiencing shortages of US dollars. The dollar is the dominant currency in international transactions. These countries rely on the US currency to pay for foreign debts, essential goods and industrial inputs. Development economist Christopher Adam…