November 14

• Kenya: Operation Hirola - Saving Africa's Rarest Antelope

  While the world focuses on the African Union effort to oust Al Shabaab militants from Somalia, another operation is quietly plugging away along the country's southern border with... Read more »

October 23

• Kenya: Cattle in the Capital - Urban Agriculture Comes to Town

  Leonard Gichuru Gitau is a city dweller, but it doesn't take a detective to see that he is also a livestock farmer. The lowing of cattle greets visitors to his neatly... Read more »

October 15

• Kenya: Vaccines, Vitamins and Vegetables - On Nutrition Fight Frontlines

  A colorful pamphlet flies through the clinic's open doorway and hits the rooster headed towards it head-on. The disgruntled bird stops mid cockle-doodle-doo and struts away. Read more »

October 5

• Kenya: Mau Mau War Victims Win Right to Sue Britain

  Three Kenyans who say they were victims of torture and sexual abuse at the hands of British colonial rulers during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising have been granted the right to sue... Read more »

September 18

• Kenya: Mass Grave Found in Tana Area

  A mass grave was discovered on Monday in Kenya's Tana River region, a police source in the area has told AFP. Read more »

September 7

• Kenya: Ngilu Pursues Presidency on Pro-Poor Platform [interview]

  Kenya's water and irrigation minister, Charity Kaluki Ngilu announced her bid for the presidency this week as leader of the National Rainbow Coalition. She calls it the "party of... Read more »

August 17

• Africa: Toilet Tales - Health Gains Without Wasting Water, or Excrement

  Although there were no African prizewinners this week from a toilet challenge sponsored by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, South African Professor Chris Buckley doesn't... Read more »

August 12

• Uganda/Kenya: Uganda Finishes Olympics in Burst of Glory

  Uganda's Stephen Kiprotich set the seal on East Africa's dominance of long-distance running at this year's Olympics - and won glory for his country - when he took the gold medal in... Read more »

May 31

• Kenya: Vaccine Could Reduce Cervical Cancer Deaths

  At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western... Read more »

• Kenya: Lack of Screening, Vaccines for Cervical Cancer Costs Lives

  At age 22, all Martha Achieng' Ooko really craved was freedom and a place to call her own. She was working hard as a beautician, giving manicures and pedicures in the western... Read more »

May 16

• Kenya: Woman Dies After Mombasa Grenade Attack

  A woman has died after a grenade attack in Mombasa, police told AFP on Wednesday - a day after armed men attacked a restaurant in the Kenyan port city. Read more »

May 5

• Kenya: Court Ruling on Generic Drugs Sets Precedent for the Region [guest column]

  Thousands of people living with HIV and Aids in East Africa were given new hope on 25 April 2012, when a high court judge in Nairobi ruled that Kenya’s anti-counterfeit law... Read more »

April 24

• Africa: U.S. in Drive to Boost Africa's Energy Supply [guest column]

  As I fly over Africa at night - a regular occurrence in my job - the continent is an indelible image of sporadic pinpricks of light that identify the largest cities and towns, with... Read more »

April 4

• Kenya: Slum Midwives Bridge Labour Gap

  To the casual visitor, the dusty, dimly lit room may not look much like a birthing center. But many women consider their babies lucky to enter the world in this mud-walled space in... Read more »

March 27

• Kenya: Cultivating Traditional Crops to Fight Malnutrition

  If growing up in an agricultural community were the key to health, the children of Kiamwangi would be thriving. But Jane Hunyu, who farms a quarter-acre plot here, says the... Read more »

March 16

• Kenya: Traditional Male Circumcision With a Modern Edge

  A chorus of ululations pierces the dawn at Pius Nyaga's homestead in eastern Kenya, marking the end of a brief ritual near the family cowshed. Nyaga's son, Antony Mwiti, has just... Read more »

March 15

• Africa: African Democracies 'Represent the Future,' Says U.S. Policymaker [interview]

  Promoting democracy in Africa has been a policy focus for successive U.S. administrations in the post-Cold War era. Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the American... Read more »

January 25

• Kenya: New Seeds Boost Yields for Drought-Hit Farmers

  For a couple that has weathered the dual tests of early retirement and repeated crop failures, it might have seemed an impossible dream to former primary-school teacher Philip... Read more »

January 23

• Kenya: Hague Court Confirms Charges Against Four Leaders

  The son of Kenya's founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, and a former cabinet minister are among four Kenyan leaders who will face trial by the International Criminal Court on charges... Read more »

January 10

• Kenya: Livestock Insurance - A Chance to Outsmart Drought?

  The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Read more »

December 27, 2011

• Africa: Malaria Scientist Does Groundbreaking Research

  At the Malaria Forum hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in October, the latest findings on what is currently the most viable malaria vaccine candidate in medical... Read more »

December 15, 2011

• Kenya: Young Men Bend Tradition With Fathering Skills

  The repeated hooting of the Ostrich bus announces the break of dawn in Nguruman, a pastoralist village about 150 kilometers south of Nairobi near the Tanzania border. It also stirs... Read more »

December 6, 2011

• South Africa: Africa Shoots Beyond Stars in Radio Telescope Bid [interview]

  South Africa's science and technology minister, Naledi Pandor, reflects a face of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) which is often eclipsed by populist rhetoric, party... Read more »

December 3, 2011

• Africa: Audacious Aim to End Poverty - Conversation with Lloyd Pierson [interview]

  The United States African Development Foundation (ADF) tackles tough problems. An independent public agency established by an act of Congress, it operates among the most... Read more »

November 18, 2011

• Kenya: Breaking Toilet Taboos

  Among members of the Mijikenda community of Kenya's Coastal Province, it is taboo for a father-in-law's faeces to mix with those of his daughter-in-law. Read more »