Kenya Travel News

The global economic recession and heavy rains that cut off a section of the road connecting Mombasa and Lamu has made organisers of this years' Lamu Cultural festival worried about the success of the annual event.

Traders in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti will have their turnaround time on roads while transporting their goods from within and outside the countries reduced because of the planned improvement in the region's road infrastructure.

The scourge of so-called "flying toilets" - where human waste is put into a plastic bag and tossed into the air, landing on roads or in gutters - has plagued the slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi for decades.

Snowmass Village firefighter and paramedic Brandon Potter prepares to hand out stuffed animals to children in the African village of Kolunga, an island community in Lake Victoria, Kenya, last year.

TEACHERS across Weymouth and Portland are urging other schools to build links with other countries.

Imagine the vast open plains of Africa. Picture a pride of lions resting in the shade of an acacia tree.

Forward: In 2006 USA Today created a panel of great thinkers to come up with a modern version of the Seven Wonders of the World.

NAIROBI: China wants to address the imbalance in its trade with Kenya by encouraging Chinese firms to import more from east Africa's largest economy, its envoy to Nairobi said on Monday.

It has already launched new daily flights to Mombasa, Kenya effective 25 October 2009, according to the Ethiopian Public Relations Office.

Kenya on Thursday called on the people of Sudan to respect the Comprehensive Peace Agreement which was inked in Nairobi in January 2005, ahead of their country's elections.

National carrier Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Bangui, the largest city in the Central African Republic.

The US has imposed a travel ban on a senior Kenyan government official for obstructing efforts to rid the country of corruption.

Kenyans have overwhelmingly welcomed United States travel ban on an unnamed key government official for impeding much needed reforms.

Luis Moreno-Ocampo arrives next week having warned President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to hand over key suspects of post-election violence.

Kenya's economy is well on the recovery path following the global economic recession which affected most of the key sectors, according to local economists.

Travelers from Britain, including medical and public health students, brought the new pandemic swine flu to Kenya in the space of a few weeks, researchers reported on Thursday.

My family and friends back home in the U.S. want to know my first impressions of Kenya.

To be honest, like most people, I would not have thought of a quick trip to Africa when planning for a vacation.

The Government will not buy grabbed land to resettle the internally displaced people.

Of Kenya's wildlife parks none is as famous, and many say as magnificent, as the Masai Mara National Reserve, home to all of the "Big Five" safari animals: Lions, rhinos, elephants, buffalos, and leopards .