Kenya bombs Al-Shabab targets in Somalia

Medecins Sans Frontieres, the international medical and humanitarian organisation, says that Kenyan planes have struck a camp for displaced people in Somalia close to the border with Kenya, killing at least five people and wounding dozens, mainly women and children....

Counterfeit medicine circulating in Kenya

Kenya's government is acting to remove thousands of counterfeit antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from circulation across the country. The existence of the fake medicine first came to light in September when nurses working with the Médecins Sans Frontières in Kenya reported...

Kenya cracks down on Al-Shabab

The Kenyan government has announced that it will launch a major security operation against followers of the Somali Islamist movement, Al-Shabab, based in the country’s capital Nairobi. This comes in the wake of recent kidnappings and killings of foreign tourists...

Relocation of Kenya’s elephants

Kenyan park rangers have begun relocating 50 elephants to the Maasai Mara game reserve from the outskirts of Narok, a town situated some 150 km north-west of the capital Nairobi. Narok has suffered deaths and property destruction as a result...

Funeral of Wangari Maathai in Nairobi

The body of Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai will be cremated at the Kariokor Crematorium and her remains interred at the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies in Nairobi, in a state funeral on 8 October. The arrangements are in...

Nairobi mourns Wangari Maathai

As her family and friends prepare the funeral arrangements for Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, they have announced that prayers will be said for her at a public ceremony on 28 September from 17.30 at St Andrews Church, University...

Over 100 die in Nairobi fire

Over 100 people perished in a fire in the densely-populated Lunga Lunga industrial area of Nairobi on 12 September. Police believe that the fire started after a cigarette butt was dropped into a fuel-contaminated open sewer in the Sinai slum...

High-speed, low-cost broadband in Nairobi

A recent partnership between international internet giant Google and ISP Wananchi Group, a Nairobi-based telecoms provider, has resulted in the launch of a low-cost, high-speed wireless broadband network in Nairobi. Known as Wazi Wi-Fi, the experimental system is provided with cloud-based...

Aladwa elected mayor of Nairobi

George Aladwa of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has been elected as the new mayor of Nairobi. He won 57 votes to 45 for James Gakuya of the Party of National Unity (PNU). Aladwa has been acting mayor of the...

Nairobi election for mayor

Local elections are taking place across Kenya in the last vote before the new devolved system of government outlined by the 2010 constitution becomes operative next year. The minister for local government has said that all such elections should take...