Kenya

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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
Angella Okutoyi, 18, seen wearing a red shirt and swinging a ball with her racket, is Kenya's fastest-rising tennis star.
Sports
Kenyan tennis star Angella Okutoyi inspires a new generation
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Leaders
Countries congratulate Kenya’s president-elect William Ruto as competitor challenges election results
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Foreign policy
New US ambassador to Kenya arrives ahead of Tuesday’s election
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Elections
Kenya’s popular band Sauti Sol calls on Kenyans to vote
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o reads a play at the University of Hawaii. 
Arts, Culture & Media
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s famously banned play returns to Kenya
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Kenyan environmentalists protest proposed forest bill amendments
Kenyans queue to vote just after dawn in President Uhuru Kenyatta's hometown of Gatundu, Kenya
Elections
‘They don’t help us’: Apathy, disillusionment with the Kenyan govt blamed for low voter registration
Commuters drive amidst morning haze and toxic smog as schools and some coal-based power plants close down in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
Heavy smog shuts down schools in India’s capital
A view of a tent camp set by migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gathering at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus
Top of The World
EU officials accuse Belarus of creating a new migrant crisis
Ruchi Wario, 60, shepherds livestock at one of the few functioning boreholes in Marsabit County, Kenya, Nov. 3, 2021.
Environment
Ongoing drought devastates parts of Kenya
A still from "I Am Samuel" scene at sunset on a farm in Kenya.
LGBTQ
‘It’s about love’: Kenyan filmmaker says he’ll appeal a government ban on his LGBTQ doc
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Environment
Kenya launches its first-ever national census for wildlife
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 man sits under a graffiti depicting African American man George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, in Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.
Protest
Police killing of George Floyd strikes a chord in Kenya
Residents of Mahiga-Meru village chase desert locusts using old aluminum cooking pots, iron sheets and twigs, in Laikipia County, Kenya, Feb. 25, 2020. 
Food
Coronavirus — and locusts — threaten Kenya’s food security
A worker picks roses that will be thrown way because they cannot be shipped to Europe due to the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the Maridadi flower farm in Naivasha, Kenya, March 19, 2020.
Jobs
Coronavirus pandemic wilts global flower industry
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Environment
Can a controversial in-vitro fertilization process save the northern white rhino?
Author Anna Dahlqvist talking with Saudah, a teenager in Kampala, Uganda
Women & Gender
The ‘menstrual awakening’: Shattering the period stigma
Arts, Culture & Media
Extra Golden
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
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Global Politics
Kenya declares presidential election results ‘invalid, null and void,’ and has set a redo for Oct. 17
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
The remorseful executioner.
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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
Peace messages by graffiti artist Solo7 adorn Nairobi's Kibera slum in the run-up to the election on August 8.
Global Politics
Kenyans worry ‘fake news’ might spark more election violence
Somali refugees run from the dust at Dadaab's Ifo camp, Jan. 8, 2007.
Conflict
These young Somalis refuse to go ‘home’ when Kenya closes the world’s largest refugee camp
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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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Culture
Meet the Maasai women of Laikipia, in photos
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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
Kasiva Mutua first learned percussion from her grandmother
Music
‘Every time I hold a drum…I feel like happiness is going to kill me’
A Kenya Defense Force soldier runs for cover during al-Shabab's attack on a university compound in Garissa on April 2, 2015.
Conflict
Al-Shabab are masters of terror — and masters of the media
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Global Politics
After Nigeria, could voters boot other African leaders?
Kenya and China have developed a closer economic relationship in recent years. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) shakes hands with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in May 2014.
Business
‘No Africans’ policy at Chinese restaurant in Kenya prompts arrest, outrage
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Medicine
Fighting the ‘funk:’ How one Kenyan battles her mental health problems by helping others
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Global Girls’ Education: Breaking Down Barriers
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A relative of a victim lights a candle during the first anniversary memorial service of the Westgate shopping mall terrorist attack in Kenya's capital Nairobi on September 21, 2014.
Conflict
Kenya considers its security on the anniversary of the Westgate mall siege
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When water scarcity leads to conflict
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A water merchant in Nairobi sells to the city's poor.
Business
Women unite in the slums of Nairobi to provide clean water
A water merchant in Nairobi sells to the city's poor.
Business
Women unite in the slums of Nairobi to provide clean water
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Culture
Why some Kenyan villagers take AK-47s to fetch water
al-Shabaab radio stations in Somalia
Conflict & Justice
How al-Shabab is building a media empire and creating chaos in Kenya
Conflict & Justice
A clean election brings Kenya a new constitution
Gay Kenya
Lifestyle & Belief
Kenya’s gay community comes out, one story at a time
"The Samaritans"
Arts, Culture & Media
In Kenya’s twist on ‘The Office,’ a fictional aid organization gets skewered
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Environment
This is how close we got to the King of the Jungle
Conflict & Justice
Protests in Kenya aim to spur outrage over violence against women
Elvis, the Kenyan King
Arts, Culture & Media
If it’s country music and it’s Kenya, it must be Elvis
Investigators suspect this Westgate mall suspect is Hassan Abdi Dhuhulow, who grew up in Norway and was born in Somalia.
Conflict & Justice
How does a boy from a seaside town in Norway end up a terrorist in Kenya?
Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga visiting Boston University's African Presidential Center.
Global Politics
Kenya’s former prime minister criticizes the security forces’ response to the Westgate mall shootings last month
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Global Politics
In Africa, China’s political stability looks good compared to the US
Environment
When you buy ivory, you may be funding al-Shabab terrorists
A Kenyan police officer tries to secure an area inside the Westgate Shopping Centre after a militant siege.
Conflict & Justice
The urban guerrilla comes of age
Sports
Is it even possible for a human to run a marathon in under two hours?