Man shot dead after stabbing guard at US Embassy in Kenya
A Kenyan police official says a man has been shot dead after stabbing a policeman guarding the perimeter wall of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. Vitalis Otieno, the officer in…
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Kenya burns huge pile of ivory tusks to protest poaching
By TOM ODULA Kenya’s president set fire Saturday to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn, believed to be the largest stockpile ever destroyed,…
APNewsBreak: Kenya athletes allege doping bribery
By JOHN LEICESTER Two Kenyan athletes serving four-year bans for doping at the 2015 world championships say the chief executive of Athletics Kenya, the country’s governing body for track and…
Pope calls slum conditions in Nairobi an injustice
Visiting one of Nairobi’s many shantytowns on Friday, Pope Francis denounced conditions slum-dwellers are forced to live in, saying access to safe water is a basic human right and that…
Bin Laden top aide sentenced to life in embassy bombing plot
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER A former top aide to Osama bin Laden was given life in prison for the 1998 bombings of two embassies in Africa, a sentence…
Libyan charged in 1998 US embassy bombings dies
By MAGGIE MICHAEL Fifteen years after allegedly helping al-Qaida plot the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Abu Anas al-Libi parked his car on a quiet street…
Kenya security shakeup after extremist killings
By TOM ODULA Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting the president to shake up his security team, firing his interior minister and accepting the…
48 Kenyans dead: Witness: Gunmen spared Muslims
By TOM ODULA A member of the Kenyan security forces walks past the body of one of those who were killed by militants, in the village of Kibaoni just outside…