Videos posted on the Chinese-owned TikTok social media platform in Kenya in recent weeks have allegedly featured “hate, incitement and other political disinformation” that may provoke ethnic violence in the run-up to Kenya’s 2022 presidential election in August, Al Jazeera reported on Friday.
A former professional comedian named Walter Mong’are Nyambane on Monday became the first official candidate for the upcoming presidential election in Kenya, the country’s Capital FM news website reported.
Kenya’s fertility rate declined over the past decade, particularly in urban areas of the country, Kenya’s the Star newspaper reported on Friday citing newly released data from the Kenyan government.
Billy Chemirmir, a 48-year-old Kenyan accused of murdering 24 elderly Americans, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole in Dallas County, Texas.
The Biden administration has torpedoed a post-Brexit free trade agreement between the U.S. and the U.K. on Tuesday.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi spent much of Sunday discussing potential Chinese investments with his counterparts from Algeria, Tanzania, and Zambia, claiming that the war between Ukraine and Russia demands even more Chinese attention on the continent of Africa.
Moderna finalized an agreement with Kenya’s government on Monday to build the U.S.-based pharmaceutical giant’s first manufacturing facility for mRNA vaccines on the African continent, Africanews reported Tuesday.
The Prince of Wales has led the tributes to the Queen following her “remarkable achievement” of “serving” her subjects for 70 years.
At least 25 million people in Kenya endured an hours-long, nationwide power outage on Tuesday, allegedly the product of collapsed transmission towers.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday urged Kenyan government authorities to drop a mandate requiring anyone seeking government services in Kenya to show proof of Chinese coronavirus vaccination, arguing the system undermines “basic rights.”
A man in southwestern Kenya recently gave his one-year-old granddaughter to another man aged approximately 50 years old “to raise as a future wife,” Kenya’s Daily Nation reported Sunday.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the group behind the “Panama Papers” leak of financial data five years ago, released a sequel of sorts on Sunday. Dubbed the “Pandora Papers,” the new trove of leaked confidential financial documents suggests dozens of world leaders and hundreds of public officials are stashing large sums of money in hidden bank accounts and secret investment projects.
Lawmakers in Kenya are planning legislation to ban companies from importing fish from China, the country’s Daily Nation reported Tuesday, after years of controversy involving exploitation of natural resources and reports of Beijing selling the African country poisoned fish.
Two Kenyan activists filed suit in Mombasa on Tuesday seeking the public disclosure of all contracts, agreements, and studies related to the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project — the massive Chinese-funded railroad project critics have denounced as a boondoggle and “debt trap.”
Kenya’s Daily Nation on Sunday reported President Joe Biden is deploying U.S. troops to Kenya to assist with counter-terrorism efforts, particularly against the Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist organization.
Police in western Kenya arrested a 41-year-old mother of six Monday for leaving her husband to “wed” the Holy Spirit, Kenya’s Tuko news site reported on Wednesday.
The Atheists in Kenya society (AIK) announced Saturday that the secretary of the organization, Mr. Seth Mahiga, resigned from his post because “he has found Jesus Christ and is no longer interested in promoting atheism in Kenya.”
Kenya on Thursday opened a new port in the northern city of Lamu, financed with a $3 billion investment from the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), an enterprise owned by the Chinese government.
The Chinese coronavirus pandemic has allowed dozens of countries around the world to expand the power of their central governments, presumably to protect populations and facilitate processes like mass vaccinations.
Two Kenyan health ministry agencies denied authorizing the use of the Russian-made coronavirus vaccine candidate Sputnik V in Kenya on Thursday despite reports that some Kenyan hospitals are already charging citizens to register for the shot.
The Interior Ministry of Kenya announced Wednesday it would shut down two camps populated by over 400,000 refugees, mostly from Somalia and Sudan.
Tanzanian President John Magufuli is allegedly in India receiving medical treatment for the Chinese coronavirus, Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu told Reuters on Thursday.
Jon Ossoff’s production company produced a two-part report for Al-Jazeera in 2015 that praised China’s growing power and influence in Africa.
A year into the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, government officials across the globe are facing accusations of taking advantage of the crisis to profit off of increased aid intended for public health relief.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Union (KMPDU) announced a nationwide general strike to begin Monday in the face of mounting Chinese coronavirus infections and deaths, which doctors say are the product of government incompetence in issuing proper protective gear.
A Kenyan national indicted this week for allegedly plotting an Islamic terrorist attack on Americans similar to that of the September 11, 2001, attacks sought a visa to the United States.
Thirty-year-old Kenyan national Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a suspected member of Somalian terrorist organization al-Shabaab, was extradited from the Philippines to the United States on Tuesday to face terrorism charges for a 9/11-style hijacking scheme. Abdullah made his first court appearance in New York on Wednesday.
Charles Juma, a manager in the Kenyan government agency responsible for organizing medical supplies, told lawmakers that his boss received death threats from the “deep state” if he did not give Coronavirus supply contracts to companies owned by their friends, the Daily Nation reported on Tuesday.
Flood victims in the Kenyan region of Tana River County will receive a beating before their rescue in future calamities as they have ignored the government’s safety instructions, the regional governor, Dhahdo Godhana, warned on Monday.
Long-distance truck drivers in East Africa are paying bribes to avoid state-enforced coronavirus testing at the Uganda-Kenya border, the head of Uganda’s Professional Drivers Network (UPDN) revealed on Monday.
Australia announced that, for the first time since 2007, it will participate in the Malabar military exercises, joining India, Japan, and the United States in a large-scale naval drill designed to prepare for any potential Chinese aggression in the Indo-Pacific, Reuters reported Tuesday.
Cuba’s communist regime denied reports on Thursday that two of its slave doctors captured by the Islamic terror group Al-Shabaab are free following reports across international media that they had been released.
Britain’s former ambassador to the U.S. has said there is “resentment and unhappiness” towards Boris Johnson on Joe Biden’s team, and that a Biden presidency might not give him a “warm, welcoming embrace”.
U.S. Africa Command is seeking new authorities to carry out armed drone strikes targeting al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab fighters in eastern Kenya, four American government officials told the New York Times anonymously in a report published on Tuesday.
Hospitals in Kenya are running out of medical oxygen used to treat critical coronavirus patients, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported on Wednesday.
Health workers across Africa have repeatedly gone on strike since the Chinese coronavirus pandemic began over adverse working conditions. In Kenya, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, doctors and nurses say a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE), no health insurance, and no pay are among the reasons they have chosen to strike.
China sent a new ambassador to Kenya in an effort to overhaul its public image amid increasing local scrutiny over Nairobi’s debt obligations to Beijing, the country’s Daily Nation reported this weekend.
Kenya’s largest doctors’ union protested the government welcoming more Cuban slave doctors to the country this week, taking positions that the union says would greatly help 1,000 unemployed Kenyan doctors survive.
Abortion giant Planned Parenthood is throwing its weight behind proposed legislation in Kenya that would legalize abortion-on-demand, for any reason, up to birth.
The murder trial against an accused serial killer in Texas is set to be delayed beyond its April 2021 scheduled date due to the Chinese coronavirus crisis.