Tag: Kenya

Villagers targetted in a recent wave of tit-for-tat killings in southeast Kenya say trained militia, including men from outside the region, are behind the...

A radical Kenyan preacher accused by the US of supporting Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked militants was Monday charged with inciting violent protests, after he surrendered...

Masked gunmen killed 17 people and wounded dozens in gun and grenade attacks on two churches Sunday in the Kenyan town of Garissa near...

A Kenyan player is being investigated over suspicion of fixing a 2011 Cricket World Cup game against Pakistan in Hambantota in Sri Lanka, according...

Kenya have appointed former Zimbabwe cricket coach Robin Brown as head of its national elite programme to oversee the development of the game from...

Twenty-two wickets fell in just one day on Sunday as Kenya and Ireland clashed in a four-day ICC Intercontinental Cup game. Ireland were dismissed in...

Cricket Kenya on Thursday promised high-level security for Ireland during a four-day Intercontinental Cup and two one-day internationals starting next week. The fixtures, which...

Kenya admitted Saturday the threat from Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents from neighbouring Somalia was not "totally neutralised," as Britain warned its nationals of a heightened...

Kenyan authorities have seized a container loaded with 87 elephant tusks and disguised as soapstone carvings destined for Hong Kong, a customs official said....

Kenya will probe reports of civilian deaths in an air raid against Somalia's Shebab rebels, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Tuesday, after an aid...

Attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at a vehicle and killed four people in northern Kenya Thursday, police said. "The vehicle was carrying eight people but...

Two Spanish aid workers kidnapped from Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp are believed to have been taken across the border into lawless Somalia, police said...

Kenya on Saturday bade farewell to the late environmentalist and Nobel peace laureate Wangari Maathai at a state funeral held in a public Nairobi...

Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, has died of cancer aged 71, her family...

Kenyan authorities on Friday impounded 1.4 tonnes of ivory, among the largest seizures in recent months, at the country’s main airport in the capital...

MOMBASA - Police in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Friday said they seized 196kg of heroin valued at about $5 million and arrested six people in the latest step by authorities to end drug trafficking in the country.
Officers acting on a tip off said they had arrested three Kenyans, two Iranians and a Pakistani, who oversaw the offloading of the drugs from a fishing boat into two waiting vehicles at dawn. The drugs were concealed in dog food packaging, police said.
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KOLKATA - Craig Ervine, Vusimuzi Sibanda and Tatenda Taibu cracked impressive half-centuries to set up Zimbabwe's crushing 161-run victory over hapless Kenya in their final World Cup match on Sunday. Zimbabwe showed their batting prowess to post 308-6, their highest total of the tournament, with man-of-the-match Ervine (66), Sibanda (61) and Taibu (53) all making the most of a mediocre Kenyan attack.
Kenya, who have looked out of their depth on the Indian subcontinent, losing all