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The battle for a piece of Kenya's battery market is set to intensify with the entry of a new manufacturer to be based in Kisii town.
Pastoralists will be compensated for loss of their animals from January after a livestock insurance product is launched in Kenya.
As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.
Early this month Kenya Railways Corporation took a full page advertisement defending its Railways Master Plan.
Agriculture minister William Ruto has accused members of the executive of discussing a graft case against him in public.
In what seems to be a true East African spirit a Kenyan is reported to represent Tanzania at the World's Motor Sports Council, but Arusha rally officials aren't amused.
During the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Arusha early October, there was a heated debate among the legislators and other participants about the viability of coalition governments in Africa. While some legislators argued that the current coalition governments in Kenya and Zimbabwe pose serious threats to parliamentary democracy, others like Prof. Palamegamba Kabuli of Dar es Salaam ...
Uganda surrendered the annual East African AMU motocross championship to Kenya at Jamhuri Park Nairobi on Sunday. Team Kenya collected a total of 2549 points after the third leg to beat outgoing champions Uganda by 549.
The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago.
A Pentecostal bishop who aided the conversion to Christianity of the leader of a violent religious group says she has advised him to go into hiding after he received death threats.
Kenyan telecom companies are bracing for an increase in customer migration and the possibility of price wars when the proposed mobile number portability becomes a reality in a few months.
The Kenyan Government has refuted claims that the evictions of settlers from the Mau Forest are inhuman. The government has not gone back on its word and those leaving the forest were provided with transport and food, Forestry and Wildlife minister Dr Noah Wekesa said in a statement released on Monday evening.
Public debate on the new constitution starts on Tuesday after the Committee of Experts formally publishes its draft at KICC, Nairobi.
Politicians, teachers and Catholic Church leaders are not amused: Married women in central Kenya do not want to have any more babies.
MPs have confirmed that Kenyans are being recruited to fight on behalf of the Transitional Federation Government of Somalia. A senior government official had admitted that he found out that 42 youths from his constituency had been recruited but were intercepted at Mwingi Town on their way to Manyani for training, they said.
The huge green building can be seen from more than 10 kilometres away, surrounded by acres of lush greenery.
The Sh5.8 billion Goldenberg scandal case against three former top civil servants will start afresh on February 3 next year. Chief magistrate Gilbert Mutembei made the order after hearing both the prosecution and defence.
Armed with a university certificate, Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji returned to her pastoralist community in Garissa, northeastern Kenya, expecting to serve as a veterinary health assistant.
Kenya will be the first country to have its nationals go through the pre-trial chamber process at the International Criminal Court.
Electricity consumers will next month pay a record Sh7.90 for a unit of power to finance the running of diesel powered plants across the country despite the ongoing rains in catchments areas that should reduce dependence on expensive generators in favour of the cheaper hydro power option.
A group of Rift Valley leaders has demanded that squatters evicted from the Mau Forest be given alternative land. The leaders, who included two Cabinet ministers, accused the Kenyan Government of breaking a promise to resettle the squatters.
Egerton University intends to establish an academic centre to create awareness on conservation of Mau Forest.
The draft constitution will be officially unveiled on Tuesday in an atmosphere which does not bode well for its eventual passage through a referendum. The Committee of Experts delayed publication of the draft by a week as it sought the endorsement of the main political forces.
The US Government will cooperate with the International Criminal Court to prosecute perpetrators of the post-election violence if a local mechanism fails. President Obama's special envoy on war crimes Stephen Rapp also said in Nairobi that the US would continue issuing visa bans.
The Mau forest saga has sparked a war of words between ministers barely two days after they resolved to end such feuds at a Cabinet bonding session in Mombasa. Two ministers and an assistant minister went personal with the Prime Minister over an issue already agreed by the Cabinet.
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