Tag: Nairobi

Kenyan president condemns murder of conservationist

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has condemned the killing of conservationist Joannah Stutchbury, who was shot by unknown assailants Thursday. ...

2 runners dropped from Kenya Olympic team over doping tests

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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. ...