Kenyan court upholds ban on lesbian film
A Kenyan court has upheld the ban on an award-winning film about a lesbian love story. Rafiki, meaning “friend” in Swahili, was banned by the Kenya Film and Classification Board…
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A Kenyan court has upheld the ban on an award-winning film about a lesbian love story. Rafiki, meaning “friend” in Swahili, was banned by the Kenya Film and Classification Board…
Poisoned camel carcasses have killed 11 rufous vultures, seven tawny eagles and one silver jackal – all endangered species – in Kenya’s central Laikipia county, wildlife authorities have said. The…
Kenya’s police chief has ordered an investigation into the death of a 13-year-old boy said to have been shot on Monday evening as police enforced a curfew. The child was…
A busy coronavirus day across the continent, three countries have recorded index cases of the disease. Ghana in West Africa, Gabon in Central Africa and Kenya in East Africa. The…
Residents of Mombasa, a coastal city in Kenya woke up on Monday to the repellently frightful scene orchestrated and executed by the assistant pastor of Ground for God’s Gospel Church.…
Four civilians including a child were shot dead on Tuesday as suspected Al-Shabaab Islamists attempted to attack a telecommunications mast in eastern Kenya near the Somali border, police said. Two…
It was a case of romance gone sour when a woman allegedly chewed off her lover’s tongue during what appeared to be a rough kissing session in Kenya. According to…
A female doctor in Kenya wants female genital mutilation to be decriminalized. Tatu Kamau is asking Kenya’s courts to allow women above the age of 18 to be able to…
The 17th edition of the World Athletics Championship started on Friday, September 27, 2019, and features several highlights spanning 10 days as the biennial event is staged in the Middle…
Somalia and Kenya have agreed to normalise ties, following months of tension over a maritime border dispute. In talks mediated by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Kenyan and Somali…