SPOTLIGHT EAST AFRICA

Government urged to pay reparations to Kipsigis and Talai people who were removed from ancestral home in now-lucrative tea region in...

A man runs after looting a shopping centre during protests following the imprisonment of former South Africa President Jacob Zuma, in...

Relatives of British-Nigerian citizen Nnamdi Kanu accuse Nigeria of extraordinary rendition, aided by Kenyan authorities Nnamdi Kanu, the...

Conservationists warn that poaching and habitat destruction, particularly due to land conversion for agriculture, is devastating elephant...

Amani National Congress Leader Musalia Mudavadi on Saturday expressed concerns over what he termed as a huge voter registration gap ahead...

Hold Officials Responsible to Account People wait outside a courthouse before the trial of 475 defendants, including generals and fighter...

The Nairobi road sign honouring a trade union leader was replaced after opponents burnt it down. By Jane Flanagan A road sign honouring...

Pensioners gather outside the National Treasury on November 21, 2019, protesting against bad pension laws. (Nation Media Group) By Lucy...

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Secretary General Mukhisa Kituyi. (FILE) By Keshi Ndirangu Mukhisa Kituyi has...

British supermarkets stopped selling avocados grown at Kakuzi farm after reports of human rights abuse. By Emily Dugan A British-owned...

Mudhikwa Musau accuses a Kakuzi security guard of rape. By Vivienne Nunis Two women who say they were raped by security guards at Kenya's...

By Stanley Kimuge More than 250,000 civil servants are facing the axe and heavy financial penalties for using fake academic certificates...

Women chant slogans during a rally to protest violence against women, in Nairobi, Kenya, Nov. 17, 2014. (File) By Victoria Amunga Kenya's...

Judges rule that Uhuru Kenyatta, who claimed BBI plan was to end country’s cycle of post-election violence, overstepped his authority and...

By Mary Wambui Kenya Prisons senior sergeant Grace Nyamohanga, alias Nasra, who is accused of running a Sh200 million con racket, has...

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...

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

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

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

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