An investigation by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) into the "execution" of three of its workers during a humanitarian mission in Ethiopia's war-hit northern Tigray region has found evidence that the country's army was responsible for (...)
The death toll from Kenya's anti-government protests on Monday has surged to 31, the state-funded human rights commission said on Tuesday.
It marks the highest single-day toll since demonstrations began earlier this year. Over 50 people have (...)
Kenya's security forces have blocked all major roads leading into central Nairobi, ahead of planned nationwide protests.
Much of the city centre is deserted, with businesses shut and a heavy security presence on the streets. Some schools have (...)
At least eight people have been killed and 400 injured as thousands took to the streets in a day of protests across Kenya against President William Ruto's government.
Police clashed with protesters in the capital Nairobi and other cities exactly a (...)
Kenya's deputy police chief Eliud Lagat has stepped aside pending the outcome of investigations into the death in detention of blogger Albert Ojwang.
Lagat had been under pressure to resign from the opposition and human rights activists as Ojwang (...)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature — a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness.
His work spanned roughly six decades, primarily documenting the transformation of his country — (...)
Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country's former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been deported from Tanzania to prevent her from attending the court case of opposition leader Tundu Lissu.
Two colleagues accompanying her were also reportedly (...)
The Kenyan government has described as "shameful" an incident in which a shoe was thrown at President William Ruto during a rally on Sunday.
Ruto fended off a shoe thrown at him during a speech about the cost of living which has been a source of (...)
General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the son of Uganda's president, has confirmed the detention of an opposition leader's bodyguard, who has been missing for five days.
Edward Sebuufu, alias Eddie Mutwe, was reportedly picked up on Sunday by unidentified (...)
A Kenyan member of parliament has been shot dead in the streets of the capital Nairobi by gunmen on a motorcycle in a suspected assassination.
Police said the attackers had been trailing Charles Ong'ondo Were's vehicle before one of them got off the (...)
The members of Kenya's security forces who shot dead anti-tax protesters at the country's parliament last June have been identified by the BBC.
The BBC's analysis of more than 5,000 images also shows that those killed there were unarmed and not (...)
Millions of African Catholics, as well as the continent's leaders, are mourning a man who they felt spoke for Africa.
Home to nearly a fifth of the Church's followers, or 272 million people, Africa is becoming increasingly important in the Catholic (...)
A 14-year-old girl was killed by a lion on the outskirts of Nairobi, according to a statement issued by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Sunday.
The girl was reportedly taken from a residential compound on a ranch adjacent to Nairobi National (...)
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
Lornoy David and (...)
A high-level international conference is under way in London to find "a pathway to peace" in Sudan, hosted by the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy.
Sudan's civil war began exactly two years ago causing what aid agencies call the world's worst (...)
Police in Kenya have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who tried to occupy a church that was recently given a substantial donation by President William Ruto.
The gift to the Jesus Winner Ministry in the Roysambu suburb of Nairobi of 20m (...)
The freezing of US humanitarian assistance has forced the closure of almost 80% of the emergency food kitchens set up to help people left destitute by Sudan's civil war, the BBC has learned. Aid volunteers said the impact of President Donald Trump's (...)
The bodies of at least 28 migrants have been recovered from a mass grave in a desert in south-east Libya, the country's attorney general said.
The grave was discovered north of Kufra, just days after another mass grave with 19 bodies was found on a (...)
Another contingent of 217 Kenyan police officers arrived in Haiti on Saturday as part of a UN-backed mission to address gang violence and restore stability in the Caribbean nation, the Kenyan presidency confirmed.
"The officers arrived Saturday in (...)
A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country's national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the national space agency.
The object has since been (...)
Kenyan business student Nelson Amenya has been hailed as a hero by those campaigning for greater transparency in the deals his government makes with private firms.
Recent Kenyan history is littered with stories of huge contracts that have resulted (...)
Once regarded as a safe haven for refugees, Kenya is slowly becoming a hostile place for some of those seeking protection from political persecution and war, rights groups say.
Their concerns come after masked men abducted at gunpoint four Turkish (...)
At least 25 people, including several children, died after their boat was "deliberately capsized by traffickers" near the Comoros Islands, the local office of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Monday.
"IOM Comoros is saddened (...)
A top Sudanese general has said the army will press on with its offensive despite international efforts to broker a ceasefire in the 17-month civil war.
"Peace talks can go on, but the army will not stop for that," Assistant Commander-in-Chief Lt (...)
NAIROBI — Secretary General of the Muslim World League (MWL) and Chairman of the Organization of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa honored the winners of the Global Elite Competition of the Ten Recitations in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The (...)
