Kenya News

East African leaders are due to sign a common market treaty later on Friday. The presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi are expected to agree to the free movement of people and goods across the region.

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Centum Investment Ltd has reported a 72 per cent drop in pre-tax profit for the six months period ended September 30, 2009.

Today marks a major turning point in the history of the revived East African Community.

Obama: China helping...Wholesale inflation up...Iran on nuclear tour BEIJING President Barack Obama says China has helped the U.S. pull out of the recession.

A wheat flour shortage looms as Somali pirates hit closer home -- our dinner tables.

A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.

When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis , she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help.

Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama on Wednesday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted by private guards on board the U.S.-flagged ship who fired off guns and a high-decibel noise device.

More green energy and climate-friendly projects target Africa than ever before, but the numbers still lag behind Asia and Latin America, the United Nations Environment Programme announced today .

Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama for the second time in seven months on Wednesday, but guards on board the U.S.-flagged cargo ship repelled the takeover attempt, the EU's naval force said.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 6:46 a.m. NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States will attend an annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, a body it has so far refused to participate in, the U.S. envoy for war crimes said Monday.

G20 governments see climate change as the greatest humanitarian challenge facing the world, according to a survey released Tuesday by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies .

The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago.

A chemical tanker with a crew of 28 North Koreans has been hijacked by pirates in waters off Somalia, the EU's naval force says.

DADAAB, Kenya: The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas and driven through the night.

MPs have confirmed that Kenyans are being recruited to fight on behalf of the Transitional Federation Government of Somalia.

The violence was widespread. It erupted immediately after the announcement of the presidential election results on 30 December 2007.