Tag: Nairobi
Kenyan president condemns murder of conservationist
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has condemned the killing of conservationist Joannah Stutchbury, who was shot by unknown assailants Thursday.
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2 runners dropped from Kenya Olympic team over doping tests
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya was forced to drop two runners from its Olympic team just over a week before the Tokyo Games because they...
Police: 17 soldiers dead when helicopter crashes in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — A police official in Kenya says 17 soldiers have died when the helicopter they were travelling in for a training exercise...
Kipruto, Cheruiyots left out of Kenya Olympic team
NAIROBI, Kenya — Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto and world 1,500-meter titleholder Timothy Cheruiyot missed out on Kenya's provisional team for the Tokyo Games...
Family of American killed in Kenya wants separate probe
NAIROBI — The family of an American investor of Somali origin whose body was found with torture wounds days after he went missing in...
Kenya’s president names country’s first female chief justice
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has appointed Court of Appeal Judge Martha Koome as the East African country's first woman chief justice...
Tanzania’s new president on two-day state visit to Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is on a two-day state visit to Kenya aimed at improving trade relations between the two...
Kenya eases curfew, other virus measures after cases decline
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta loosened infection-control measures Saturday after the number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country dropped from...
Trash scavengers who help keep cities clean plea for vaccine
NEW DELHI — The scavengers wait patiently for a dump truck to tip the trash on the summit of the landfill outside New Delhi....
Kenya tightens restrictions amid a spike of COVID-19 deaths
NAIROBI, Kenya — With Kenya's COVID-19 cases and deaths surging, President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced tightened restrictions in five of the most affected counties.
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