Kenya

Kenyan President William Ruto has announced seven days of national mourning and a state funeral for opposition leader Raila Odinga, who died Wednesday following a cardiac arrest while receiving medical treatment abroad. Odinga had been at the centre of Kenyan politics for decades, making alliances with rivals and inspiring loyalty from his base. 

The police fired tear gas at demonstrators who were expressing anger at the government over growing economic hardship and a lack of accountability for killings at earlier rallies.

With its economy in crisis, Kenya is now looking beyond the West

Kenyan doomsday cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in court in the Indian Ocean port city of Mombasa on Monday at the start of a high-profile trial over the starvation deaths of more than 400 of his followers. Mackenzie faces terrorism charges and is also accused of murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, and torturing children, along with 94 other defendants.

President William Ruto says he will seek budget cuts after dropping bill to raise taxes following deadly protests

Kenyan President William Ruto on Wednesday said he would withdraw planned tax rises, bowing to pressure after deadly demonstations saw protesters storming parliament and threatening more action this week. 

Chaos has erupted in a major city as hundreds of protesters stormed the capital before being locked in a brutal battle with the military.

William Ruto says it’s unacceptable for “criminals” posing as peaceful protesters to terrorize people

More than 40 people have died in Kenya after a dam burst following heavy rains and flooding, officials have said.

During covid-19 a preacher lured thousands of people into a remote forest. Then he told them to stop eating

A power blackout that plunged Kenya into darkness on Sunday was a possible act of sabotage, a minister says.

King Charles III said Tuesday there could be “no excuse” for British colonial atrocities against Kenyans as he visited the country, but did not offer the apology demanded by some in the East African nation.

William Ruto has been sworn in as Kenya's president. He narrowly won the Aug. 9 election in East Africa’s most stable democracy over longtime opposition figure Raila Odinga. The Supreme Court last week rejected challenges to the official results.

When a student asked Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta in 2018 about how he would like to be remembered when he leaves office, he seemed to have been caught off-guard by the question, before singling out two things.

Losing candidate had lodged several petitions to have result overturned

Dozens of boxes of evidence were unloaded from a truck outside the Supreme Court

William Ruto was declared the winner of Kenya's close-fought presidential poll on a day of high drama Monday, with violent protests in his defeated rival's strongholds, claims of rigging and a split in the commission that oversaw the vote.

Two extremely rare white giraffes have been killed by poachers in north-eastern Kenya, conservationists say.