Kenya
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A total of 118 people were the victim of extrajudicial killings by Kenyan police last year, local and international rights groups said in a report published on Wednesday, decrying the "impunity" still enjoyed by the security forces. The figure is down around nine percent from 130 in 2022, while the number of "enforced disappearances" dropped…
19 Apr
Kenya marks one year this week since the grisly discovery of hundreds of bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, in a case that provoked horror across the world.
4 Apr
Doctors working in Kenyan state-run hospitals rejected a government offer on Thursday aimed at ending a three-week-long strike, as a court set a deadline for the dispute to be resolved.
2 Apr
Kenya's largest referral hospital said on Tuesday it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that lay unclaimed. Families have up to seven days to identify and collect the 541 bodies at the Kenyatta National Hospital mortuary, it said in a notice on its website. "Failure to which the hospital will…
26 Mar
Four people, including three police officers, have been killed in a suspected attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, police said. The explosion occurred on Monday at a hotel near a police station in Mandera, northeastern Kenya, an area often targeted by the Somalia-based group. Police said several other…
26 Mar
Kenyan authorities are due on Tuesday to release the bodies of several people linked to a doomsday starvation cult in a case that shocked the country and the world. The remains are the first to be handed over to their families after nearly a year of painstaking work to identify them using DNA. Hundreds of…
19 Mar
A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said. The accident occurred at 5:50 pm (2:50 GMT) Monday at Maungu, 360 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Nairobi, when the students from…
13 Mar
The United Kingdom’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has urged startups from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and other parts of Africa to participate in its Unicorn Kingdom – Pathfinder Awards (UKPA).
5 Mar
A student pilot and instructor died on Tuesday when their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police said.
3 Mar
Expensive curtains, lavish garden parties and jet-setting lifestyles: Kenya's cash-strapped government has been on a spending spree even as austerity measures take their toll on weary citizens.
23 Feb
Top athletes and dignitaries led hundreds of mourners at the funeral Friday of Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum in the nation's athletics heartland where he was born, trained and died.
23 Feb
Kenya has exempted passport holders from South Africa and six other countries from paying an unpopular entry fee introduced last month.