Kenya: Supreme Court Upholds Kenyatta Victory

Kenya's Supreme Court on Saturday ruled to uphold the victory of president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, whose win was challenged by his leading contender, Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Read more »

Kenya: Kenyatta Wins Presidency, Provisional Results Show

Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s founding president, narrowly won last Monday's presidential election outright, defeating main rival Prime Minister Raila Odinga, according… Read more »

Kenya: Women-Led Farm Initiative Aims For Peace, Prosperity

Fear of violence surrounding the upcoming general elections next week has raised anxiety among many Kenyans, but less so for Nyokabi Wamuyu. She is counting on a new initiative in… Read more »

Africa: Six Nations Bid to Host 2019 Afcon

A total of six countries are bidding to the host the 2019 African Nations Cup finals but the Confederation of African Football are refusing to name them. Read more »

Africa: Kangaroo Care Boosts the Odds for Preterm Infants

In one world, Tabitha Wanjiku is shimmying under cars, tweaking transmissions and rewiring brake lights on her way to certification as a mechanic. In another, the soft-spoken,… Read more »

Africa: Columbia University Hub Aims to Engage African Research

We live in an increasingly globalised world and this is transforming how we live. Thanks to new technology we can now communicate seamlessly and instantly across the globe.… Read more »

Africa: Will an African Be Chosen to Lead the World Trade Organization?

Notwithstanding the fact that the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has few real powers as executive head of a member-driven organization, it is one of the… Read more »

Africa: Tapping Africa's Scientific Potential

When John Mwero looks at charred sugar cane ash he sees sturdy bridges, soaring skyscrapers and stable roads. He's convinced that bagasse ash - the residue that's left after… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Kenya: Vaccines, Vitamins and Vegetables - The Nutrition Fight Front Lines

A glossy nutrition pamphlet flies through the clinic's open doorway and hits a pacing rooster head-on. The disgruntled bird stops mid cockle-doodle-doo and struts away. Read more »

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 »

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 »

Kenya: Ngilu Pursues Presidency on Pro-Poor Platform

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Kenya: Court Ruling on Generic Drugs Sets Precedent for the Region

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 »

Africa: U.S. in Drive to Boost Africa's Energy Supply

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: African Democracies 'Represent the Future,' Says U.S. Policymaker

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 »