Tag: Kenya

15 dead in Kenya hotel compound attack

NAIROBI:  Gunmen blasted their way into a hotel and office complex in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and sending workers...

Kenyan troops kill 10 al Shabaab fighters: army

NAIROBI: Kenyan soldiers killed 10 fighters from the Somalian militant group al Shabaab in a clash on Monday in eastern Kenya, the military said. Three...

Kenya’s gay community celebrates screening of lesbian love story

The lights dim in the packed cinema as the holding music fades. The film title Rafiki flashes up on the screen, and some 230 hushed...

Kenyan marathon master Kipchoge smashes world record

BERLIN:  Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge set a new marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, smashing the previous best as he clocked 2hr 1min 39sec. The 33-year-old Olympic...

PM May says Britain committed to free trade with Kenya after...

NAIROBI: Britain is committed to free trade with Kenya after it leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday on...

Disastrous transfer leaves 10th critically endangered black rhino dead in Kenya

NAIROBI: A tenth critically endangered black rhino has been reported dead after a botched operation to move the animals to a new reserve in...

Kenya sentences beauty queen to death for murder

NAIROBI: A Kenyan court has sentenced a 24-year-old jail beauty queen to death for murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times, drawing criticism...

Kenya’s Lake Turkana put on World Heritage danger list

MANAMA: A UNESCO panel on Thursday added Lake Turkana, a conservation hotspot in Kenya and a candidate site for the birthplace of mankind, to...

10 killed in Kenyan plane crash

NAIROBI: All 10 passengers aboard a small plane, whose wreckage was discovered in central Kenya two days after it went missing, died in the...

Building collapse kills at least three in Kenyan capital

NAIROBI: At least three people were killed after a five-story building collapsed in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the early hours of Sunday, officials...

Kenya arrests 17 officials amid graft investigation

NAIROBI: Kenyan authorities arrested the head of a government agency on Monday in a corruption investigation into the theft of nearly $100 million, a...

Southern white rhino at US zoo impregnated to save subspecies

SAN DIEGO: A southern white rhino at a California zoo has been impregnated through artificial insemination, researchers announced on Thursday, in what could prove...

At least 27 dead after dam bursts in Kenya: police

NAIROBI: At least 27 people died when their homes were swept away after a dam burst in southern Kenya following heavy rains, police said...

Poachers kill three endangered rhinos inside Kenyan sanctuary

NAIROBI: Poachers have shot dead three critically endangered black rhinos in a specially-protected sanctuary in northern Kenya, the wildlife service said Thursday. Two adults and...

Founder of Kenya’s iconic ‘elephant orphanage’ passes away

NAIROBI: Dame Daphne Sheldrick, a conservationist famous for her work rearing baby elephants in Kenya and fighting for the protection of the species, has...

Kenya marks rhinos in $600,000 conservation drive

MERU: Kenya has started marking rhinos as part of conserving their dwindling numbers and aims to tag and identify 22 of them in two...

East Africa’s storied Safari Rally seeks a revival

NAIROBI: In its heyday, half a century ago, East Africa's Safari Rally was renowned as being among the toughest in the world, a formidable...