President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people, and ideas to move freely across the continent.As part of a push to promote trade and travel inside the continent, other African people will no longer need a vis...

Police were out in force on Friday as Kenyans took to the streets in answer to an opposition call to demonstrate over a raft of controversial tax hikes.Tear gas was fired to break up protests in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa, television image...

In a blow to environmental protection, Kenyan President William Ruto has lifted a six-year ban on logging and come under fire by environmentalists.“We can’t have mature trees rotting in forests while locals suffer due to lack of timber," Ruto was quo...

A Kenyan cult leader accused of inciting and possibly forcing his followers to starve themselves to death appeared in court Friday in connection with the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in mass graves.The deeply religious Christian-majori...

In an incident showing how powerful the trade in religion is, close to 100 dead bodies have been exhumed in a graveyard owned by a controversial cult leader in Shakahola forest near Kenya's coastal Kilifi County.Kenyan authorities so far exhumed 89 d...

Kenyan riot police fired tear gas and water cannon Monday against demonstrators joining a day of action called by the opposition to protest a punishing cost-of-living crisis.Running battles erupted between stone-throwing demonstrators and police in p...

By AFPKenyan police said on Thursday that they had arrested six teachers over a viral video of primary school pupils simulating sex as punishment in an incident that caused uproar.The footage showed four boys in school uniform simulating sexual acts...

By AFPKenyan police have arrested more suspects over the killing of LGBTQ activist Edwin Chiloba, whose mutilated body was found on a roadside stuffed in a metal trunk, media reports said Sunday.Rights campaigners have issued calls for heightened eff...

Kenyan soldiers landed in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, AFP reporters saw, as part of regional peacekeeping mission to the troubled region.Their arrival comes as the M23 rebel group has surged across the DRC's...

Pilots at troubled national flag carrier Kenya Airways plan to go on strike from Saturday to seek better working conditions despite a court order suspending the industrial action, their union said Friday.The airline, partly owned by the government as...

By AFPA top Pakistani news anchor was shot dead in Kenya, his wife said Monday, just months after he fled his home country to avoid arrest over sedition charges.Arshad Sharif was a frequent critic of the powerful military establishment and supporter...

AFPIn the dust bowl of Kenya's drought-stricken north, the people of Purapul are edging closer to starvation, surviving on nothing but wild berries as their children waste away from hunger.Loka Metir knows the bitter fruits make her children sick, fu...