Insufficient anti-venom distribution and poor roads mean countryside suffers high rate of potentially fatal bites. Baringo County, Kenya – Simotwo village in Baringo, a western county in Kenya, is a peaceful place. Cattle, sheep and goats graze leisurely. The grassy area straddles hillocks, boasts a generous outcrop of granite rocks and is rich …
From its palm-fringed beaches to its rolling savannas and all over this country’s abundant farmland, through the capital’s messy patchwork of suburbs and slums — and yet even farther still, across vast deserts and thick montane forests — an army of more than 164,000 Kenyans is carrying out the gargantuan …
There is a growing divide between President Kenyatta and Deputy Ruto, highlighted by a recent corruption scandal. Nairobi, Kenya – In Kenya, a showdown could end the political alliance between President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto. The divide between them grew after July 22, with the arrest of Cabinet Secretary to the National …
Does the international scandal that roiled Kenya this week mark a turning point in the war on corruption? Nairobi, Kenya – A bare piece of land in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, where two hydropower and irrigation dams should be standing. Millions of dollars paid out for projects that still exist only …
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s finance minister will be arrested and charged over allegations of corruption related to the construction of two dams, Kenya’s chief prosecutor said on Monday. The charges against Henry Rotich stem from a police investigation into the misuse of funds in a dam project overseen by the …
Kenya’s High Court has ruled against campaigners seeking to overturn a law banning gay sex. The three judges rejected claims that the colonial-era law violated the new constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy. The penal code criminalises “carnal knowledge against the order of nature” – widely understood to refer …
Poor planning and corruption take their toll Municipal authorities in Nairobi spent much of last year knocking things down. Shopping malls, petrol stations and apartment blocks were levelled; bulldozers cut through slums, leaving tens of thousands homeless. All this destruction may seem rather wanton in a poor city. Yet the government-backed …
The Standard Gauge Railway station in Nairobi is easily the most impressive public building in Kenya. While a lot of Kenyan government buildings are drab and functional and date back to colonial days, this station is adventurous. It’s all gray and modern. Geometric shapes form an abstract locomotive, and red …
BISIL, Kenya (Reuters) – Thousands of Kenyan boys had a blessing of milk and beer sprayed on them as part of a rare Maasai ethnic community initiation ceremony to mark their passing into early manhood. A Maasai boy bites a bull’s heart during an initiation into an age group ceremony …
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Chinese tourist has died in Kenya after being attacked by a hippo on the shores of Lake Naivasha, the East African nation’s wildlife service said on Sunday. The man, who had been taking photographs, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Naivasha District Hospital, while another …
How a new generation of authoritarian leaders are using climate change to seize power National crises make governments vulnerable to autocracy—a rather obvious assessment, perhaps, but one rarely seen in debates about climate change. Take the Maldives, an atoll nation in the Indian Ocean. Rising seawater is projected to consume most, if …
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