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Kenya: Senior prisons sergeant who ran Sh200m con racket surrenders
By Mary Wambui Kenya Prisons senior sergeant Grace Nyamohanga, alias Nasra, who is accused of running a Sh200 million con racket, has...
May 24, 2021
Kenya MP Moses Kuria admits taking $1,000 parliamentary bribe
Moses Kuria told the BBC he intended to return one of the bribes he had received. (AFP) Kenya MP Moses Kuria has told the BBC he received...
May 14, 2021
Rights groups urge Kenya to reconsider closing refugee camps
Women carry firewood on their heads outside the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana county, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 1, 2018....
May 5, 2021
Kenya: Calls for inquest after attack on DW journalist
On Press Freedom Day, Kenyan authorities are being urged to investigate an attack against a DW reporter. Mariel Müller was covering a...
May 4, 2021
Kenya tells U.N. it will shut two camps with 410,000 refugees by June 2022
An aerial picture shows a section of the Hagadera camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border, May 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)...
Apr 30, 2021
Kenya’s satire is under threat
Kenyans have long challenged power by laughing. But the Kenyan government has started cracking down on humour. (Patrick Gathara/Al...
Apr 26, 2021
Why Kenya is on thin ice in its justification for sending Somali refugees back home
A Somali refugee shops for fresh produce at a market in the Hagadera camp within the sprawling Dadaab complex. (Tony Karumba/AFP via...
Apr 22, 2021
Kenya should take note: Recognising ethnic identities can lead to positive outcomes
Countries that adopt ethnic recognition go on to experience less violence, more economic vitality, and more democratic politics. (Simon...
Apr 20, 2021
US links loss of Kenya State tenders to graft
President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation from State House, Nairobi on March 12, 2021. By Brian Ngugi The US has decried graft in...
Apr 19, 2021
Kenya: Integrate, don’t close, Africa’s largest refugee camps
The forced closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be a humanitarian and cultural catastrophe. Children seen leaving school...
Apr 16, 2021
Kenya trails Tanzania, UG in gender parity - report
According to the World Economic Forum, gender-sensitive recovery strategies will be critical in making up ground lost during 2020. (The...
Apr 14, 2021
How we can plug Kenya’s systemic graft loopholes
By Faith Muthaura Kenya has had numerous scandals in the past few years with the most recent being the lost of billions of shillings at...
Apr 12, 2021
Kenya court suspends move to close 2 refugee camps
Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees from...
Apr 9, 2021
Kenyans protest over growing debt
(Getty Images) In many countries the willingness of global institutions, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to beef up the state...
Apr 8, 2021
‘No other home’: Refugees in Kenya camps devastated over closure
Kenya has given an ultimatum to the UN refugee agency to present a plan over the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma camps housing more than...
Apr 6, 2021
Kenya issues ultimatum to UN to close camps housing almost 400,000 refugees
Threat to shut Dadaab and Kakuma settlements comes amid row with Somalia and prompts alarm about risks during pandemic. An aerial picture...
Apr 1, 2021
Kenya's Mike Sonko: The rise and fall of Nairobi's ex-governor
In a dramatic fall from grace, the colourful former governor of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is now facing numerous criminal charges...
Mar 29, 2021
Collapse of moral society: How Kenya’s social death has developed over time
A society that commercialises and hypersexualises female nudity cannot be sensitive to sexual injustices committed against women Rights...
Mar 24, 2021
Kenyan police officers to go on trial accused of British aristocrat's murder
Alexander Monson, son of Lord Monson, died in 2012 after allegedly being beaten in a police cell Alexander Monson. Two reports by...
Mar 23, 2021
Kenya's High Court upholds crucial ban on FGM in much-needed 'boost' for activists
One in five Kenyan women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation. Two girls walk inside a school compound on the first day of...
Mar 19, 2021
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