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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

'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 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 ...

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 co. turns old sandals into colorful objects
The colorful handmade giraffes, elephants and warthogs made in a Nairobi workshop were once only dirty pieces of rubber cruising the Indian Ocean's ...
Correction: Somalia-Famine Deaths story
In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported ...

Kenyan court sentences 2 Iranians to life in jail
A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison. Ahmad Abolfathi ...
Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot
Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of ...

Ethiopia flies first Dreamliner since grounding
A Boeing 787 operated by Ethiopian Airlines flew from Ethiopia to Kenya's capital Saturday, the first commercial flight since air safety authorities ...

Kenyan parliament fights to retain lavish pay
Even before they begin their latest session in earnest, newly elected Kenyan parliamentarians are demanding a pay increase, and legislator Mithika ...

Kenya Supreme Court: Election was not perfect
Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday said the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the ...

Next for Kenya, a president on trial in The Hague
Kenya's powerbrokers and voters carried out a mostly violence-free election five years after tribal clashes ripped apart the country. The next big ...

Uneasy calm in Kenya after court ruling on vote
Kenyan police deployed forces Sunday in the capital and the lakeside city of Kisumu to contain the continuing threat of violence after five people ...

Kenyan Supreme Court upholds election result
Kenya's Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's next president and the loser accepted that verdict, ending ...
Tension in Kenya ahead of court's decision on vote
Lawyers and observers have started gathering inside the courtroom in the Kenyan capital where six Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver a ...

Anxiety ahead of Supreme Court judgment in Kenya
Kenya is on edge awaiting the Supreme Court decision Saturday on whether it will uphold or invalidate the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president, a ...
Tanzania police: 2 dead after building collapse
A Tanzanian police official says two people have died after a building under construction collapsed in the country's largest city and economic center.

Chimps, gorillas, other apes being lost to trade
The multibillion-dollar trade in illegal wildlife — clandestine trafficking that has driven iconic creatures like the tiger to near-extinction — is ...

Kenya court: Partial recount in presidential vote
Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday ordered a recount of votes in some constituencies in the country's March 4 presidential election. The court heard ...