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Nashulai: The community trying to conserve Kenya's wildlife

Tuesday, December 29th 2020, 16:32

The Nashulai conservancy, on the edge of the Maasai Mara, is reviving ancient practices to protect the ecosystem.
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FBI accuses man of al-Shabab-led '9/11-style' plot

Wednesday, December 16th 2020, 18:53
related countries: Philippines Philippines, United States United States

A Kenyan man allegedly got a pilot's license in the Philippines in order to crash a plane in the US.
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The stranded giraffes being rescued by raft

Wednesday, December 9th 2020, 0:18

A group of the animals in Kenya, who became trapped on a new island, are being rehomed and it isn't easy.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: The doctor who helped children to smile

Tuesday, December 8th 2020, 0:16

Dr Ashraf Emarah is one of 14 doctors to have died from coronavirus in Kenya, prompting a strike call.
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Viewpoint: Why Kenya's giant fig tree won over a president

Monday, November 30th 2020, 0:08

The campaign to save a 100-year-old tree shows cultural fears can make politicians listen in Kenya.
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Kenyan online cartel is luring girls to orgies, police warn

Saturday, November 21st 2020, 14:03

Police say they have rescued teenage girls being targeted online during the coronavirus lockdown.
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World's only known white giraffe fitted with tracker to deter poachers

Tuesday, November 17th 2020, 20:43

Rangers are tracking the giraffe in north-east Kenya, after poachers killed his family members.
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Coronavirus: Kenya doctors' fury over Covid-19 deaths

Monday, November 16th 2020, 12:34

Kenya's healthcare workers threaten strike action after the deaths of four more doctors.
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Three elders give advice for Trump and Biden

Tuesday, November 3rd 2020, 0:08

From deep in the Maasai lands of Kenya to high in the mountains of Tibet, we found this advice for Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
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Westgate attack: Two jailed over Kenyan shopping mall attack

Friday, October 30th 2020, 14:50
related places: Nairobi

The men are sentenced to 18 and 33 years for helping the attackers of Nairobi's Westgate complex.
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Kenya's Jepchirchir breaks half-marathon record

Saturday, October 17th 2020, 11:52
related countries: Poland Poland
related places: Gdynia

Kenya's Peres Jepchirchir breaks her own world record for a women-only half marathon in Gdynia, Poland.
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The Kenyan school helping to rebuild communities along a violent border

Friday, October 9th 2020, 7:16

In a community torn apart by violence, this Kenyan school is bringing students together from opposite sides of the divide.
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Westgate: Two found guilty over Kenya shopping mall attack

Wednesday, October 7th 2020, 11:24
related places: Nairobi

At least 67 people died in the assault by al-Shabab on Nairobi's Westgate shopping complex in 2013.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: Pubs to reopen but schools stay shut

Monday, September 28th 2020, 17:50

The president says pupil safety has to be guaranteed before Covid-19 school restrictions can lift.
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Coronavirus corruption in Kenya: Officials and businesspeople targeted

Thursday, September 24th 2020, 14:06

Millions of dollars meant for buying Covid-19 medical supplies are alleged to have been misused.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: From salon to sewer worker

Tuesday, September 15th 2020, 23:03

Some of those who lost their jobs amid the pandemic are being paid to clean up their neighbourhoods.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: How it turned classrooms into chicken coops

Tuesday, August 25th 2020, 0:10

Some Kenyan private schools have found new sources of income after they were forced to close.
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Rising water levels in Kenya's Great Rift Valley threaten jobs and wildlife

Saturday, August 15th 2020, 23:08

Thousands of people have been forced out of their homes by rising water levels in two Kenyan lakes.
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Kenya's Tsavo National Park: Fire put out after two days

Monday, August 10th 2020, 13:26
related places: Tsavo

The Kenya Wildlife Service blames the huge fire in the country's biggest park on arsonists.
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Phyllis Omido: The woman who won $12m fighting lead battery poisoners

Saturday, August 1st 2020, 0:33

Kenyan activist Phyllis Omido has been ignored, harassed and arrested, but she never gave up.
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Kenyan police officers arrested after fatal shooting in Garissa

Sunday, July 26th 2020, 13:24
related places: Garissa

Two people were killed during a protest in Garissa sparked by the arrest of a murder suspect.
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Papa Shirandula: Kenyan actor Charles Bukeko remembered

Friday, July 24th 2020, 23:22

The BBC's Ferdinand Omondi, a former soap actor himself, remembers an infectious comedic talent.
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Legacy of Kenyan clan 'branded evil' by colonialists

Thursday, July 23rd 2020, 23:00

The BBC’s Anne Soy travelled to her birthplace to meet clan members in her Kalenjin ethnic community.
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Why some Kenyans still deny coronavirus exists

Sunday, July 19th 2020, 23:40

Kenya has had more than 11,000 cases of Covid-19 and 200 deaths, yet many don't take it seriously.
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Kenyan 12-year old girl married to two men within a month

Wednesday, July 15th 2020, 14:55
related places: Narok

Authorities in Kenya's Narok county rescued the child and are searching for her father and the two men.
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Coronavirus: Kenyan schools to remain closed until 2021

Tuesday, July 7th 2020, 17:55

Final-year exams for primary and secondary pupils have also been cancelled because of Covid-19.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: Police kill three in motorcycle taxi protest

Friday, June 26th 2020, 12:05

The police order the arrest of the officers involved, as they come under scrutiny for excessive force.
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Preventing a plague: Fighting Kenya's locusts

Wednesday, June 24th 2020, 23:12

Locust-trackers in Kenya are fighting to control the country's worst invasion of locusts for more than 70 years.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: 'I couldn't let women die in childbirth during curfew'

Wednesday, June 17th 2020, 10:10

Dr Jemimah Kariuki has been helping pregnant women in Kenya to find emergency transport to hospital.
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US missionary Gregory Dow pleads guilty to sex crimes in Kenya orphanage

Tuesday, June 16th 2020, 14:14
related countries: United States United States

Missionary Gregory Dow, 61, admits to abusing four girls in an orphanage that he helped set up.
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Kenya: Police brutality in the battle against coronavirus in Mathare

Sunday, June 14th 2020, 23:01

In one of Kenya's poorest settlements, brutal policing of a curfew is causing more problems than Covid-19.
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John Nzenze: The founder of 'Africa's best band'

Friday, June 12th 2020, 23:27

Kenyan John Nzenze, famous for love songs going back to the 1960s, has died aged 80.
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Kenyan police arrested after dragging suspect by motorbike

Thursday, June 11th 2020, 15:01

They accused the Kenyan woman of involvement in a robbery, as another man whipped her.
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On patrol with Kenya's locust hunters

Saturday, June 6th 2020, 0:03

Kenya faces a race against time to tackle the swarms as the end of the insects' breeding season clashes with harvests.
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Viewpoint: What it's like to be an African in the US

Wednesday, June 3rd 2020, 23:03
related countries: United States United States

Kenyan journalist Larry Madowo writes about the racism he has experienced in the US.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: 'I buried my cousin on Facebook Live'

Saturday, May 23rd 2020, 1:14

The BBC's Mercy Juma had to watch her cousin's burial online - until her internet connection failed.
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Sudan 'must pay' US East African embassy attack victims

Tuesday, May 19th 2020, 12:56
related countries: Tanzania Tanzania, United States United States

The US Supreme Court rules in favour of damages over the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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Italian aid worker kidnapped in Kenya in 2018 returns home

Sunday, May 10th 2020, 16:38
related countries: Italy Italy, Somalia Somalia

Silvia Romano, 25, was freed on Saturday in Somalia, in an operation by Italy's secret services.
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Coronavirus in Kenya: Fearing 'money heists' amid pandemic

Wednesday, May 6th 2020, 23:13

Kenyans are afraid that money set aside to tackle the virus is being misspent, writes Waihiga Mwaura.
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Coronavirus: Somalia probes Kenyan aid plane crash

Tuesday, May 5th 2020, 14:03

The African Express aircraft crashed in flames before it was due to land, killing all six on board.
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Coronavirus tests cause tailbacks at Kenya-Uganda border

Monday, April 27th 2020, 16:23

Queues stretch 30km at the Kenya-Uganda border after coronavirus tests were imposed for lorry drivers.
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Ken Walibora: How Kenya's 'king' of Swahili writing inspired me

Sunday, April 26th 2020, 23:04

Ken Walibora, who died recently, left behind a generation of Kenyan fans, including the BBC's Basillioh Mutahi.
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Coronavirus: The fear of being sentenced to a Kenyan quarantine centre

Sunday, April 19th 2020, 23:08

Kenyans worry about being put into coronavirus quarantine where conditions are said to be like prison.
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Kenyan weddings, births and deaths in the age of Covid-19

Monday, April 13th 2020, 6:40

Joseph Warungu looks at how the virus has changed the lives of Kenyans, from birth to death.
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Kenyans mourn Catholic Archbishop Ndingi Mwana a'Nzeki

Tuesday, April 7th 2020, 0:00

One of Kenya's most controversial clerics is being buried on Tuesday after he died at the age of 89.
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Coronavirus: The fears of a Kenyan domestic worker who can't stay at home

Sunday, March 29th 2020, 23:29

Esther has to keep working to feed her family in Kenya but is worried about catching coronavirus.
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Coronavirus: A father's fears in Kenya's crowded Kibera settlement

Saturday, March 21st 2020, 14:45
related places: Kibera

A family of seven in one room in Kenya's largest informal settlement fears the spread of Covid-19.
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