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Four US tourists and their pilot killed in Kenya chopper crash
The accident occurred in the Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana at around 8pm (1700 GMT) on Sunday, police said in a statement.
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Forest fire rages on Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest peak
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said the fire began last Saturday and estimated that more than 80,000 hectares in the area had been destroyed.
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Kenya court postpones decision on homosexuality laws
Gay rights organisations are asking the court to scrap two sections of the penal code that criminalise homosexuality.
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Excitement, anger as Kenya awaits ruling on decriminalising gay sex
Phelix Kasanda is one of gay Kenyans hoping judges will strike down a colonial-era law punishing consensual same-sex relationships by 14 years in jail.
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Nairobi attack highlights 'new generation' of Shabaab recruits
Police are hunting Ali Salim Gichunge, the suspected mastermind of the 15 January attack on the Dusit hotel and office complex that left 21 dead, and Violet Kemunto Omwoyo, described as a Christian convert to Islam.
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[OPINION] What mapping Kenya’s child deaths for 50 years revealed
Kenya performed well above average, with a rate of 46 deaths per 1,000 live births compared to an average of 76 across sub-Saharan Africa region.
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Kenya recalls its ambassador to Somalia as territorial row escalates
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague is considering a claim on their maritime boundaries brought by Somalia in 2014 after negotiations over the 100,000 sq. km stretch of sea floor broke down.
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The real 'black panther' spotted in Kenya
Scientists have confirmed the presence of the elusive black leopard, also known as black panthers, in central Kenya with a series of rare images taken by camera traps.
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Kenyan, four foreigners killed in plane crash: police
Edward Mwamburi, police chief for the Rift Valley region said the Cessna plane was heading from the famed Maasai Mara to Lodwar, near Lake Turkana, which is also popular with tourists.
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Kenya bomber's journey offers cautionary tale of intelligence failures
Mahir Khalid Riziki was barely 20 when he joined a radical Islamist cell that assassinated police in his home town of Mombasa, officers said.
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Kenya has room to refinance government debt, central banker says
Bad debts among Kenyan banks jumped to 12.4% of total credit last year, the highest level in more than a decade.
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Kenya central bank holds main lending rate at 9.0%
Policymakers said the decision, the third hold in a row since September, was also supported by their view that the economy was 'operating close to its potential.'
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Kenya repels another suspected al-Shabaab attack - police
The assailants wounded one person while they attempted to hit the site in Garissa county owned by a Chinese road construction company that is building the Garissa-Modogashe highway.
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Kenya police arrest wife, father of hotel suicide bomber
The attacker, one of five al-Shabaab militants who stormed the complex on Tuesday, was identified as 25-year-old Mahir Khalid Riziki, who grew up in Mombasa.
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Six suspects in court over Nairobi hotel attack
A magistrate granted a request from the prosecution to detain four men and one woman for 30 days while investigations continue.
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British soldier who rescued dozens in Kenya hotel siege removed from country
The SAS trooper whose identity was being kept secret has been exposed on social media by eyewitnesses who posted his image online.
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19 people still missing after deadly militant attack in Kenya - Red Cross
Al Shabaab said it carried the assault on the upscale dusitD2 compound over US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
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American killed in Kenya attack was 9/11 survivor
Authorities did not formally name Jason Spindler as one of the victims, but his mother Sarah and brother Jonathan confirmed his death on Facebook and to several US media outlets.
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Kenya’s streets are now safe, assures Kenyatta after deadly attack
This comes less than 24 hours after a deadly terrorist attack on a hotel in the capital, Nairobi, where 14 people died.
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Ramaphosa condemns deadly Nairobi terror attack
Militant group al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility for Tuesday's attack at the dusitD2 Hotel in the capital Nairobi.
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Kenyan president says Nairobi attackers 'eliminated', 14 victims
At least two groups of people remained in the hotel and business complex at nearly 7am on Wednesday, a first responder told Reuters.
