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Arts, Culture & Media
Series of reimagined African folk tales launches on Netflix
Kenya's Ferdinand Omanyala celebrates after winning gold in the men's 100m final during the athletics in the Alexander Stadium at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England
Sports
This Kenyan sprinter is inspiring more youth from his country to take up the sport
People line up to cast their vote in Kenya's general election in Eldoret, Kenya, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2022. Kenyans are voting to choose between opposition leader Raila Odinga Deputy President William Ruto to succeed President Uhuru Kenyatta after a decade in
Elections
Kenyan presidential election sparks debate on haves and have-nots in Kenya 
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Foreign policy
New US ambassador to Kenya arrives ahead of Tuesday’s election
Plastic pollution has become a major concern in Ghana.
Environment
Ghana’s fishermen are drowning in plastic. The govt is trying to tackle pollution before it’s too late.
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Kenyan environmentalists protest proposed forest bill amendments
A Kenyan police officer talks on his phone inside the compound of the command center in Malindi, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. 
Critical State
If not police, what? Part I
Rows of fresh Wau Eats samosas waiting to be packed and delivered to eager customers, Nairobi, Kenya
Food
Apple pie samosas for Thanksgiving? In East Africa, these fried treats are a hit.
Camel milk latte
Got camel milk? Entrepreneurs in Kenya hope more people will embrace the taste of this dairy alternative.
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Environment
Kenya launches its first-ever national census for wildlife
Two people gather locusts from trees
Environment
This start-up turns locust swarms in Kenya into animal feed
A man wearing jeans and sweater throws a rock near a fire burning outside
Critical State
When it rains, it wars: Tracking intersecting security threats, Part I
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Arts, Culture & Media
The pop culture that got us through 2020
(Clockwise from top left) Meklit Hadero in red lighting, Sinkane stsnding in front of wooden wall, Diana Gameros standing in front of a brick wall and Hello Psychaleppo looking down at a keyboard.
Movement
Four musicians grapple with the same question: What is home?
Schoolchildren joke around and play at the Olympic Primary School in Kibera, Kenya, on Oct. 12, 2020.
Education
After months of closure, Kenya’s schools adjust to sudden reopening
A Somali woman wearing a purple headscarf answers the phone in an office with American flags and East Africa map on the wall.
Migration
US-based Somali Bantu face deportation to a country they’ve never known
Several African women sit in a room with light blue walls, next to luggage and personal belongings.
Migrant workers stuck in Beirut in wake of blast
Several white airplanes with Kenya Airways logo on them in red and green parked in airport.
Business
International flights resume in East Africa
Two women wearing long colorful robes and hijab walk down a street in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi, Kenya.
Religion
Under lockdown, mosques in Kenya offer virtual prayers for Ramadan
Residents watch a television at the beginning of a curfew which was ordered by the Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) inside a house within Kibera slums in Nairobi, Kenya, March 27, 2020.
COVID-19
As coronavirus spreads, poor communities in Kenya are left vulnerable
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Education
Doing Western students’ homework is big business in Kenya
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Gender
‘Intersex’ is counted in Kenya’s census — but is this a victory?
Three women sit around a laptop with background of colorful handprints
LGBTQ
In Kenya, LGBTQ activists mobilize in support of historic court decision to decriminalize gay sex
Portrait of the late Binyavanga Wainaina in shiny purple suit with white shirt
Obituary
The world mourns Binyavanga Wainaina: Kenyan literary legend, visionary and LGBTQ activist
Women in colorful robes escape from building after explosion.
Global Politics
Attacked on all sides: Somali civilians bombed by US airstrikes and targeted by al-Shabab
Kenyan musician J.S. Ondara backstage before a recent show in Boston
Global Hit
This Kenyan musician followed his love for Dylan to a new life and career
Conflict
The group behind Nairobi’s recent terror attack recruits young people from many faiths. Officials can’t stop it.
Car ablaze near hotel rocked by terrorist attack.
Global Politics
Al-Shabab claims lethal attack on hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenya
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Lifestyle & Belief
These Kenyan widows are fighting against sexual ‘cleansing’
A family of elephants in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
Conflict
Kenyans mourn the loss of a wildlife advocate and leading ivory trade investigator
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Culture
What it is like to win the green card lottery
Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi says his country's politicians must heal the country's ethnic divide.
Culture
Ethnic tensions threaten to engulf post-election Kenya. This activist sees a way out.
An opposition supporter returns a teargas canister fired by police during clashes in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 26, 2017.
Conflict
Kenya’s disputed election re-run turns violent
A woman recycles plastic bags from a river near the Dondora dumpsite close to the slum of Korogocho in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2015
Environment
Where using plastic bags can land you a $38,000 fine
Inmates at Kamiti Maximum Prison in Kenya wait to vote.
Justice
In Kenya this month, prisoners voted for president for the first time ever
Kenyan rapper Octopizzo grew up in the Kibera slum and still has a house there. He has been speaking out against police violence he witnessed against protestors who congregated in the slum the day after the results of Kenya's election were announced.
Conflict
After witnessing police shoot protesters, Kenyan rapper Octopizzo says ‘who will speak out if I don’t?’
Ben and Salma are Kenyan students studying journalism at the Nairobi community news hub, Habari Kibra. They are looking out over their home town, Kibera, one of the largest slums in the world.
Global Politics
Student journalists in Kenya’s largest slum have their own stories about the country’s elections
A child plays at the entrance of a polling station pasted with campaign posters ahead of the presidential election in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya.
Global Politics
Kenyans are taking no chances ahead of high-stakes election
Veronica Mbithe trains at the Dallas Boxing Club in Muthurwa, Nairobi
Culture
This young Kenyan turned to boxing to protect herself from assault
Abdi and Hassan bid farewell to each other at Nairobi Airport in August 2014. A few minutes later, Abdi boarded a flight to Boston. The brothers have not seen each other since. Hassan is still attempting to apply for refugee status in the US.
Conflict
The story of two brothers, one green card and Trump’s ban
Development & Education
Animal populations plummeting at Nairobi National Park
Demonstrators carry a symbol of a coffin stained with red paint as they chant slogans during a protest after the killing of a human rights lawyer, his client and their driver in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 4.
Justice
Alleged police-involved torture and killings in Kenya have sparked a movement
A student carries his classmate out of the Silver Spring Secondary School in Nairobi, Kenya, after she collapsed inside her classroom.
Global Politics
Kenya’s riot police fired tear gas into a high school for no apparent reason (PHOTOS)
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Justice
Police officers treat this Nairobi neighborhood like an ‘ATM machine,’ residents say
Muthoni Ndonga, outside a Java House in Nairobi, Kenya.
Arts
Muthoni the Drummer Queen rules Kenya’s music scene
A girl stands in line in front of a bus with other passengers traveling to Nairobi. They are in the town of Mandera at the Kenya-Somalia border where terrorist group al-Shabab has launched attacks against non-Muslims.
Conflict
On an embattled bus, Kenyan Muslims protect Christians from massacre
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Health
In Kenya’s version of ‘The Biggest Loser,’ contestants win for healthy living, not just dropping pounds
A yoga class for girls and young mothers in the slum of Kariobangi. Mothers bring their kids to class.
Culture
‘When we were doing yoga, they forgot their differences’
Customers enter the re-opened Westgate shopping mall, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 18, 2015. Kenya's Westgate shopping mall reopened for the first time since al Shabaab gunmen stormed the mall killing at least 67 people in September 2013.
Conflict
Although Westgate mall has re-opened in Nairobi, the terrorist threat in Kenya may be getting more unpredictable
A worker arranges a copy of the Business Daily newspaper at a printing press plant on the outskirts of Nairobi.
Culture
What to do when the airwaves and papers tell these women they’re inferior — or worse?
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Business
She’s one of the only women to pilot a ‘matatu,’ the minibus taxis that keep Nairobi moving
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Business
In one of Africa’s largest slums, these girls saved to solve a problem
Drone
How Drones Are Reshaping the World
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Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (L) looks on as U.S. President Barack Obama signs a guest book as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi July 24, 2015.
Global Politics
President Obama talks gay rights ahead of Kenya visit
Media
With Obama traveling in Africa, you may be hearing stories about … donkeys?
Wooden crosses are placed on the ground, symbolising the 147 people killed during an attack by gunmen at the Garissa University College.
Conflict
Kenyans take to the streets and social media to honor the victims of last week’s attack
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Medicine
Fighting the ‘funk:’ How one Kenyan battles her mental health problems by helping others
Many Kenyans, like this man, do not speak English-- but they may speak several African languages.
Development
To make a real difference in some of Africa’s poorest countries, we should train more translators
Abdi Nor Iftin in Maine, where he settled after finally gaining a green card through the US' Diversity Visa Program.
Justice
‘Winning’ the green card lottery is only the start of a harrowing journey
Kenyan women take part in a protest along a main street in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on November 17, 2014. They were demanding justice for a woman who was attacked and stripped recently by men who claimed that she was dressed indecently.
Justice
Miniskirts are only a symptom of Kenya’s problems with women, protesters say