The fifteen-year-old from Mwanza city died in hospital. His mother, who is believed to suffer from a mental illness, also burned another child and a grandson while they slept. Read more »
Bushra al-Fadil has won the 2017 Caine Prize for African Writing for his short story entitled The Story of the Girl Whose Birds Flew Away. Read more »
The Ministry of Public Service says employees have been disobeying standing orders to dress in a way that upholds the image of the service and has now issued a dress code banning ... Read more »
The 2014 Big Brother Africa winner has been cast in the upcoming American motion picture 'Ballin...On the Other Side of the World.' Read more »
Former Democratic Party president John Ssebaana Kizito has died. Kizito, who was also a former Uganda cabinet minister, mayor of Kampala and a leading businessman, died at ... Read more »
A month after closing down two outlets in Nairobi, troubled regional retail chain Nakumatt has closed stores in Acacia mall in Kololo, Village mall in Bugolobi, and Victoria mall ... Read more »
The move by Abraaj Group has been described as calculated to expanded Java's well-known culture and products across East Africa and beyond. Read more »
Donald Trump's administration will make the final decision on permanently dropping the sanctions by July 13, which the government says are directly responsible for the adverse ... Read more »
In a joint statement, 29 women's groups said that any move to deny girls the opportunity to go back to school after giving birth would only punish them, their children - and the ... Read more »
Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki, popularly known as GG, died at a Nairobi hospital at the age of 78. He was first elected to Parliament in May 1963, and served for 20 years before losing in ... Read more »
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