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Kenya MP Moses Kuria admits taking $1,000 parliamentary bribe

Moses Kuria told the BBC he intended to return one of the bribes he had received. (AFP) Kenya MP Moses Kuria has told the BBC he received...

May 5

Rights groups urge Kenya to reconsider closing refugee camps

Women carry firewood on their heads outside the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana county, northwest of Nairobi, Kenya, Feb. 1, 2018....

May 4

Kenya: Calls for inquest after attack on DW journalist

On Press Freedom Day, Kenyan authorities are being urged to investigate an attack against a DW reporter. Mariel Müller was covering a...

Apr 30

Kenya tells U.N. it will shut two camps with 410,000 refugees by June 2022

An aerial picture shows a section of the Hagadera camp in Dadaab near the Kenya-Somalia border, May 8, 2015. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)...

Apr 26

Kenya’s satire is under threat

Kenyans have long challenged power by laughing. But the Kenyan government has started cracking down on humour. (Patrick Gathara/Al...

Apr 22

Why Kenya is on thin ice in its justification for sending Somali refugees back home

A Somali refugee shops for fresh produce at a market in the Hagadera camp within the sprawling Dadaab complex. (Tony Karumba/AFP via...

Apr 20

Kenya should take note: Recognising ethnic identities can lead to positive outcomes

Countries that adopt ethnic recognition go on to experience less violence, more economic vitality, and more democratic politics. (Simon...

Apr 19

US links loss of Kenya State tenders to graft

President Uhuru Kenyatta addresses the nation from State House, Nairobi on March 12, 2021. By Brian Ngugi The US has decried graft in...

Apr 16

Kenya: Integrate, don’t close, Africa’s largest refugee camps

The forced closure of the Kakuma and Dadaab refugee camps would be a humanitarian and cultural catastrophe. Children seen leaving school...

Apr 14

Kenya trails Tanzania, UG in gender parity - report

According to the World Economic Forum, gender-sensitive recovery strategies will be critical in making up ground lost during 2020. (The...

Apr 12

How we can plug Kenya’s systemic graft loopholes

By Faith Muthaura Kenya has had numerous scandals in the past few years with the most recent being the lost of billions of shillings at...

Apr 9

Kenya court suspends move to close 2 refugee camps

Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees from...

Apr 8

Kenyans protest over growing debt

(Getty Images) In many countries the willingness of global institutions, like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to beef up the state...

Apr 6

‘No other home’: Refugees in Kenya camps devastated over closure

Kenya has given an ultimatum to the UN refugee agency to present a plan over the closure of the Dadaab and Kakuma camps housing more than...

Apr 1

Kenya issues ultimatum to UN to close camps housing almost 400,000 refugees

Threat to shut Dadaab and Kakuma settlements comes amid row with Somalia and prompts alarm about risks during pandemic. An aerial picture...

Mar 29

Kenya's Mike Sonko: The rise and fall of Nairobi's ex-governor

In a dramatic fall from grace, the colourful former governor of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, is now facing numerous criminal charges...

Mar 24

Collapse of moral society: How Kenya’s social death has developed over time

A society that commercialises and hypersexualises female nudity cannot be sensitive to sexual injustices committed against women Rights...

Mar 23

Kenyan police officers to go on trial accused of British aristocrat's murder

Alexander Monson, son of Lord Monson, died in 2012 after allegedly being beaten in a police cell Alexander Monson. Two reports by...

Mar 19

Kenya's High Court upholds crucial ban on FGM in much-needed 'boost' for activists

One in five Kenyan women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation. Two girls walk inside a school compound on the first day of...

Mar 18

1.4 Million People in Kenya Are Facing Starvation: Report

Climate change and COVID-19 have threatened food security for millions of people. Drought in Kenya's Ewaso Ngiro river basin....

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