Anti-corruption official is shot in Kenya

A senior official at Kenya's anti-corruption agency was shot outside his house in the capital.- 29/10/2010, Africa

New tool predicts malaria 90 days before an outbreak

A collaborative nine-year research project in Kenya has created the September launch of a new tool that calculates data based on environmental factors (weather, geography) and mosquitoes' mating schedule to successfully (within 86-100 percent) predict a malaria epidemic.- 17/09/2010, Health & Families

'Brain haemorrhage' SMS stir panic in Kenya

Kenya's telecommunications regulator on Wednesday told mobile phone users to ignore swirling rumours that receiving calls from some numbers appearing in red can cause brain haemorrhage.- 05/09/2010, Health & Families

Kenya’s green beans hit UK supermarket shelves

The green bean farming industry provides a stable livelihood for hundreds of farmers and their families in Kenya. Now thanks to a new initiative Kenyan beans will be hitting UK supermarket shelves to further safeguard that livelihood. The UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) has set up a �1.9 million challenge fund, the F...- 02/09/2010, Africa

Leading article: A victory for peace and stability

It is rare to be able to hail anything in international politics as an unadulterated success, but this week's constitutional referendum in Kenya must come pretty close. Less than three years after a disputed election almost threatened the country's very survival, Kenyans have voted in a referendum that appears to have been exemplary in almost every respec- 06/08/2010, Leading Articles

Vote on constitution set to challenge Kenya's 'poisoned' tribal politics

Kenya is back at the crossroads. That is the warning emanating from the pulpits of its church leaders, fretted over by academics, and fought over by its politicians and commentators. For the first time since the violence that devastated the country in the wake of a flawed election in 2007, leaving more than 1,000 people dead, East Africa's biggest econ...- 02/08/2010, Africa

Kenya's tourism booms

Tourism in Kenya is booming, according to figures released by the Kenyan Tourist board this week.- 30/07/2010, News & Advice

Somali pirates jailed for 10 years

The island nation of Seychelles says it has prosecuted and convicted Somali pirates for the first time. The office of the President said yesterday that a Seychelles court sentenced 11 Somali pirates to 10 years each in prison for their attempt to hijack the Seychelles coastguard patrol boat Topaz last December. Eight of the Somalis were convic...- 27/07/2010, Africa

Travel by numbers: Wildebeest

The number of major river crossings which the herd negotiates during the course of its migration. The first is the Grumeti River in Tanzania, where the wildebeest congregate on the south bank in order to build up a high density before crossing – the aim is to avoid the lurking crocodiles. Those that survive must then cross the Mara Rive...- 17/07/2010, News & Advice

Alex Kiprotich: I envy the land of Her Majesty - where a fox can be such a big problem.

Coming from Kenya, a country where wild animals frequently clash with people, at first I could not understand how a fox – an animal slightly bigger than a cat – could cause panic to the citizens of such a developed nation. But that was the story that greeted me in every national newspaper this week, my first week in London, where I hav...- 12/06/2010, Commentators

Nicholas Hoult: A Tale of Two Slums

Skins actor Nicholas Hoult has just returned from Kenya where he spent a few days visiting a community sanitation project to highlight this year’s Christian Aid Week 9 – 15 May 2010. He visited two slums, Kiambiu and Matopeni, both in Nairobi. - 12/05/2010, Africa

European airspace shutdown batters Kenya's flowers

Kenya's flower exports were wilting Monday under the economic burden of European airspace closures, leaving growers facing huge losses as they sought costly re-routing to foreign markets.- 19/04/2010, House & Home

New probe into tourist Julie Ward's Kenya murder

Police have visited Kenya as part of a fresh investigation into the murder of a British tourist more than 20 years ago, it was confirmed today. Detectives from the Metropolitan Police visited the east African country last month as part of a new inquiry into Julie Ward's death. The photographer, 28, from Bury St Edmunds, was brutally murdered while ...- 13/04/2010, Africa

Kenya lions, top carnivores may be wiped out by 2060: minister

Kenya's carnivores -- one of the east African country's big tourist attractions -- could all be extinct in the next 50 years unless action is taken, a minister warned Wednesday.(AFP) - - 20/02/2010, Environment

The camps that "threaten to destroy" Kenya's black rhinos

The riverine forest on the banks of the Olkeju Ronkai, close to where it meets the waters of its sister river the Mara, has long been a sanctuary for critically endangered black rhinos. Two-thirds of Kenya's remaining population of these shy leviathans were until recently living among the fever trees in what was the largest intact forest of its kind in th To...- 19/02/2010, Nature