The Latest Breaking News from Kenya

US gravel rider shares photos and lessons learned after spending 12 days with Black Mamba Development women

Kenya has been accused by various non-state and state actors of supporting extraordinary rendition, which refers to the secret transfer of people from one country to another without due process of law and against their will. The most recent case of extraordinary rendition was the removal of Ugandan opposition politician…

Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers have reportedly resigned from the U.N.-backed mission in Haiti, citing unfulfilled pay and inadequate resources amid worsening gang violence. Kenyan authorities deny the claims

As a scholar and researcher of Pentecostalism, I attended a monthly church gathering, known as Daughters of Zion, in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi where women around me were praying loudly and with passion. Usually there are no men present in the gathering, except for the tech team and guest…

Protesters clash with police in Nairobi over femicide crisis, demanding action against gender-based violence in Kenya.

Police in Kenya have hurled teargas cannisters at hundreds of protesters against gender-based violence, or femicide, in the capital, Nairobi, and arrested an unknown number of people

African countries collectively have emitted very little of the greenhouse gases that have caused climate change, but are badly affected by climate-induced floods, droughts and heatwaves. To withstand some of the most devastating extreme weather events, African countries need to adapt fast. Setting up advanced climate information services that predict…

The Kenyan parliament was ablaze, protesters running through the streets, police firing into the crowds.

Kenya’s ousted deputy president, Rigathi Gachagua, who was impeached in October 2024, established his name early enough as a forceful politician unafraid to take a stand. These include his aggressive push for justice for Mau Mau ex-freedom fighters and those who survived them. Landless veterans of the guerrilla war against…

Kenya’s top police official has denied reports that officers serving in the United Nations-backed multinational peacekeeping mission in Haiti have gone unpaid for three months

An armored vehicle carrying Kenyan police rumbles through Haiti’s capital with a shattered window that a high-caliber bullet failed to penetrate, a permanent sign of the violence confronting the United Nations-backed force almost daily in Port-au-Prince