Africa hopes to speed up medicine approval systems
Bringing a new medicine to market in Africa requires 54 separate applications to each country on the continent, a time-intensive process that could ...

Kenyan joy: Britain "regrets" colonial abuse
The wrinkled faces of the elderly Kenyans who gathered in a downtown Nairobi hotel registered gratitude, relief and joy Thursday as Britain's high ...

Poaching problem: Number of elephant orphans rises
An elephant orphanage in Kenya is seeing an upsurge in orphaned elephants brought there because of the poaching crisis occurring across Africa, the ...
Start of Ruto ICC trial pushed back to Sept. 10
International Criminal Court judges pushed back the start of the trial of Kenya's deputy president Monday until Sept. 10 to give defense attorneys ...

Man accused of killing UK soldier appears in court
A prime suspect in the vicious slaying of a British soldier sat handcuffed in court Thursday, given permission not to stand up before a judge because ...
Lawyer: UK envoys sought suspect release in Kenya
British diplomats recommended that a British man detained in Kenya 2 ½ years ago on suspicion of attempting to join Islamic fighters in Somalia be ...
Kenya police accused of abusing Somali refugees
Kenyan police abused and extorted money from Somali refugees after attacks in the capital believed to have been carried out by the Somali militant ...

1 suspect in UK soldier slaying out of hospital
One of two suspects shot by police following the slaying of a British soldier in London last week has been released from the hospital and taken to a ...
Kenyan legislators vote to increase their own pay
Kenyan members of parliament voted Tuesday to overturn a directive that had reduced their pay, hoping it will force the government to pay the higher ...
UK suspect linked to Kenyan radical cleric
Kenya police believe the suspect in last week's killing of a British soldier in the U.K. had earlier associated with a radical Kenyan imam who tried ...

UK police arrest 10th suspect in soldier's slaying
British police arrested a 10th suspect Monday in connection with the vicious street killing of a soldier in London, an apparent Islamic extremist ...
African leaders urge ICC to transfer charges
African leaders on Monday asked the International Criminal Court to transfer charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Kenyan legal ...

Kenya: UK soldier killing suspect arrested in 2010
A suspect in last week's savage killing of a British soldier on a London street was arrested in Kenya in 2010 while apparently preparing to train and ...
Kenya police kill terrorist linked to al-Shabab
A Kenyan police official says the country's anti-terrorism police have killed a wanted terrorist and recovered a cache of weapons in the port city of ...
Militants kill 6 in attack on Kenyan police posts
Gunmen believed to be Somali militants killed six people in an overnight attack on police posts near Kenya's border with Somalia, Kenya's police chief ...

Anti-Muslim actions rise in UK over slain soldier
Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a ...
Kenya's mental hospital drugs, confines patients
Patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them in a comatose-like state, factors that may ...
S. Sudan leader: Int'l court 'humiliates' Africa
South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders. Salva Kiir spoke ...

'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gains
The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is ...

Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft
Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among ...
Kenya police kill "terror couple"
Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police ...
S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined
The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ...

Kenyan protesters release pigs over parliament pay
Nearly three dozen piglets were released and animal blood spilled Tuesday at an entrance to Kenya's parliament as civil society activists protested ...
Kenya: 31 psychiatric hospital patients on loose
Kenya police on Monday searched for 31 mentally ill patients who escaped from the country's only public psychiatric facility. Samuel Anampiu, the ...
Elephant protectors in Kenya arrested with ivory
Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory ...