Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...

Looking around East Africa, indeed Africa, you can see the diplomatic space has become quite black. A few weeks ago, Nairobi was turned upside down with the MTV Africa...

I find this rather disturbing though I would not be quick to make any tangible comment and this to me is the stuff nightmares are made of. I read this story in one of...

Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...

Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for...

As Kenya awaits the big visit by ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo, the internally displaced persons have lined up their petitions among which they want Ocampo to spearhead...

Kenya’s attorney general said Wednesday he is seeking legal advice about whether he can sue the U.S. government for revoking his travel visa. Attorney General...

What have you been up to since returning to Kenya last year? Some media reports have it that you are still in self-imposed exile... I have been very much around, just...

The Obama administration’s new “incentives and pressure” policy toward S Sudan confirms that it will resort to punishing errant African governments only after...

Recently when BBC carried a story that Kenya could face worse crises in the next general election than witnessed in 2007, leaders were quick to dismiss the story as...

Majority of Cabinet Ministers, their Assistants and Permanent Secretaries on Friday still clung to their fuel guzzlers and refused to pick VW Passat replacements. Only...

James Christian remembers the night a few years ago when he and his wife took a Scottish travel agent camping on their land in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau. As they...

Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...

The half-naked bodies of Tony Joel, 70, and his wife, Rita, 67, were found dumped more than 20 miles inland from the coastal city of Mombasa, police said. Mr Joel was...

The Kenya Meteorological Society says rains have ended the country’s long drought but aid officials warn that millions of hungry people still need food...

Muslims have been ordered to withdraw their children from Catholic-run schools in protest at the church’s Hijab ban. Sheikh Mohammed Dor said the church’s...

It has been a newsful day since 6 am when Thomas Cholmondeley, the white Kenyan aristocrat jailed in May for killing a black poacher, was freed three months ahead of...

Our people cannot live in fear over harassment by foreigners, the ongoing tension in Turkana West is unwarranted unless someone is sleeping on his job. The last time I...

Six people died and 14 were still missing after a three-story building collapsed on the outskirts of the country’s capital, a police official said Tuesday, as...

Kenya has once again topped the list of the most corrupt countries in the region. Transparency international’s bribery index says Kenya has the most incidents of...