News: Kenya

We have started to collect the most important news related to Kenya in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Kenya: news

A vote for peace

Saturday, August 5th 2017, 23:18

Ten years after a contested election led to 1,500 deaths in Kenya, two perpetrators of that violence are trying to prevent a repetition.
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Gilbert Deya: 'Miracle babies' pastor extradited to Kenya

Friday, August 4th 2017, 10:54

An evangelist, who said he could make infertile women pregnant, is charged with stealing children.
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Kenya Election 2017: What you need to know

Thursday, August 3rd 2017, 23:45

A visual guide to the key issues, candidates and risks ahead of Kenya's general election on 8 August.
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Kenyan election official Chris Msando 'tortured to death'

Wednesday, August 2nd 2017, 18:22

Chris Msando was tortured and strangled to death, an autopsy finds, days ahead of the polls.
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'My first time'

Wednesday, August 2nd 2017, 0:03

The youth could have a big influence on who becomes Kenya's next president, so what are first-time voters thinking?
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Kenyan election IT head Chris Msando found dead

Monday, July 31st 2017, 18:06

Chris Msando was in charge of the computerised voting system in next week's election.
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Suits, oranges and brooms

Friday, July 28th 2017, 23:21

Why do people wear oranges and other curiosities about the Kenyan election, explained by Dickens Olewe.
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Three Kenyan men sentenced to death for stripping woman

Wednesday, July 19th 2017, 16:52

The incident was recorded and shared widely on social media in Kenya three years ago.
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Kenyan MPs to get 15% pay cut

Monday, July 10th 2017, 16:27

The salary review is part of a plan to cut the public sector wage bill by 35%.
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How I survived

Thursday, June 29th 2017, 23:20
related places: Nairobi

On the day a Nairobi pastor was due to get married a gang of men raped her, stabbed her and left her for dead. But Terry Gobanga is a survivor.
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Street named after footballer for a day

Monday, June 26th 2017, 12:21
related countries: Tanzania

The Tottenham and Kenyan midfielder has a street named after him in Tanzania - but not for long.
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Kenya's schoolgirls to get free sanitary pads from government

Thursday, June 22nd 2017, 15:48

Many Kenyan girls end up missing school because sanitary protection is too expensive.
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Kenya cholera outbreak hits dozens at health conference

Thursday, June 22nd 2017, 14:18
related places: Nairobi

Delegates were attending a conference organised by Kenya's Ministry of Health in Nairobi.
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Nairobi building collapse: Two children rescued

Tuesday, June 13th 2017, 22:00
related places: Nairobi

A boy and a girl survive, but two deaths are confirmed after a building collapsed in Nairobi.
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Nairobi building collapse: 'I don't know where my son is'

Tuesday, June 13th 2017, 13:03
related places: Nairobi

The BBC's Anne Soy reports from Nairobi, where a seven-storey building has collapsed.
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Nairobi building collapse: People missing as residents join search

Tuesday, June 13th 2017, 11:56
related places: Nairobi

At least five people are missing after the seven-storey building crumbled in an eastern Nairobi suburb.
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How much?!

Wednesday, June 7th 2017, 23:37

The first major new railway in Kenya for more than a century has some challenging goals to meet if it is justify its high cost.
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Kenya opens Nairobi-Mombasa Madaraka Express railway

Wednesday, May 31st 2017, 14:22
related countries: China
related places: Nairobi

The Chinese-funded train line is the country's biggest infrastructure project since independence.
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In pictures

Wednesday, May 31st 2017, 12:30
related places: Mombasa, Nairobi

A peek at Africa's newest railway, running from Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to the port city of Mombasa.
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Votes for food

Tuesday, May 30th 2017, 23:15

In our series of letters from African journalists, Joseph Warungu looks at how Kenya's staple has been the source of intrigue.
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The magic words that reduce road deaths

Tuesday, May 30th 2017, 21:51

Safety stickers on Kenya's notoriously hazardous buses have saved hundreds of lives.
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Kenya election: Peter Gichira charged with attempted suicide

Monday, May 29th 2017, 15:59

A Kenyan is charged with trying to take his life after his presidential ambitions were thwarted.
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Legal victory for Kenya hunter-gatherers

Friday, May 26th 2017, 18:20

A court blocks the Kenyan government's plan to evict hunter-gatherers from their ancestral land.
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Sexual slavery

Wednesday, May 24th 2017, 23:18

Last year Salama Ali uncovered a secret - that the al-Shabab militant group was seizing Kenyan woman and turning them into sex slaves.
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Mercy mission

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, 23:46

Five years ago a midwife in Kenya delivered a child with male and female sexual organs. The father told her to kill it, but instead she hid it and raised it as her own.
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Losing Kenyan candidates rush to stand as independents

Wednesday, May 3rd 2017, 12:15

Hundreds resign their political parties after losing out in primaries so they can still stand in August's election.
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Raila Odinga chosen to challenge president in Kenya vote

Thursday, April 27th 2017, 16:34

This will be the fourth time that veteran politician Raila Odinga runs for president.
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Arrests over shooting of Kuki Gallmann at Kenya conservation park

Monday, April 24th 2017, 16:56

Multiple suspects and a gun are in police hands after author Kuki Gallmann was ambushed and shot.
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Kuki Gallmann shot and wounded at Kenya conservation park

Sunday, April 23rd 2017, 10:54

Kuki Gallmann, author of I Dreamed of Africa, is flown to hospital after an ambush.
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Random breath tests illegal, Kenyan court rules

Saturday, April 8th 2017, 10:19
related places: Nairobi

A Nairobi bar owner launched the legal challenge, claiming the rules had damaged his business.
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Rio marathon winner fails drugs test

Friday, April 7th 2017, 8:02
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: London

Reigning Olympic and London marathon champion Jemima Sumgong is the latest high-profile Kenyan athlete to fail a drugs test.
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Dancing shoes

Monday, April 3rd 2017, 0:54
related countries: United States

Joel Kioko has gone from growing up in a slum in Kenya's capital to being trained in a US ballet school.
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Kenya's high court rules that one third of MPs must be women

Sunday, April 2nd 2017, 11:31

Kenya's High Court has ordered parliament to enact a law that will ensure women get at least a third of all elective seats.
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Kuki Gallmann's Kenya safari lodge burned down

Thursday, March 30th 2017, 16:55

The attack comes after police reportedly shot cattle that had invaded Kuki Gallmann's land.
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Credentials, please

Wednesday, March 29th 2017, 23:33

In our series of letters from African journalists, Joseph Warungu looks at why Kenya insists that its senior political leaders must hold a university degree.
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Kenya Revenue Authority 'lost $39m to hacker'

Wednesday, March 22nd 2017, 16:39

An IT expert appears in court charged with stealing $39m from Kenya's national tax authority.
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Opening the skies to children in Kenya

Thursday, March 16th 2017, 0:41

Astronomer Susan Murabana takes a telescope round Kenya to enthuse schoolchildren.
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Tristan Voorspuy killing: Suspect arrested in Kenya

Monday, March 13th 2017, 16:17

The suspect, Samson Lokayi, appears in court but has not yet submitted a plea.
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Meet Kenya's podcasting 'sex queens'

Friday, March 10th 2017, 0:23
related places: Nairobi

Nini Wacera and Kaz Lucas are the self proclaimed "sex queens" of Nairobi.
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Satao, one of the last 'giant tusker' elephants, killed in Kenya

Monday, March 6th 2017, 23:56

There are fewer than 30 such animals left in Africa after Satao II was apparently shot.
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Tristan Voorspuy, ex-British army officer, killed in Kenya

Monday, March 6th 2017, 6:32
related countries: United Kingdom

Police say Tristan Voorspuy was killed by pastoral herders while inspecting a fire-damaged lodge.
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No bed of roses

Sunday, March 5th 2017, 1:12

The initiatives aiming to help female flower pickers in Kenya fight sexual harassment and earn higher wages.
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Doing aid differently

Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 2:21

How charities working in Kenya are experimenting with cash transfers instead of more traditional forms of aid.
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Fox show apologises for Kenya Westgate attack video

Thursday, February 23rd 2017, 17:31

The producers of 24: Legacy say footage of the 2013 Nairobi attack will be cut from all broadcasts.
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Drought battle

Sunday, February 19th 2017, 1:27

Kenyan herders are giving their own food to animals to keep them alive during the severe drought.
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'I only had basic painkillers'

Friday, February 17th 2017, 10:45

A patient and a doctor in Kenya tell their stories of the dispute that is now into its 10th week.
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Kenyan couple treated to lavish ceremony after $1 wedding

Tuesday, February 14th 2017, 16:34

A Kenyan couple who spent $1 on their wedding get at a Valentine's Day ceremony funded by well-wishers.
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