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Collapsed Kenya building 'had no occupancy permit'

With up to 16 people now dead and dozens feared missing, reports from Kenya say the six-storey residential block that collapsed late on Friday amid

Kenya

Kenya burns huge ivory stockpile calling for ban on trade

A stockpile of more than 100 tonnes of ivory from some 8,000 animals was set alight near Nairobi on Saturday, to highlight the threat to endangered

Kenya

Rescue teams keep searching after deadly Kenya collapse

At least ten bodies have now been recovered from the rubble of a collapsed building in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Visiting the site of the disaster

Kenya

Kenya burns over a hundred tons of elephant tusks and calls for a worldwide ban on ivory sales

Kenyan authorities were preparing to burn a stockpile of over a hundred tons of elephant tusks on Saturday as a message to the world over the threat

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Chaotic scenes in Kenyan capital

Many are feared trapped in a collapsed residential building in the Huruma area of Nairobi.

Kenya

Kenyan opposition calls for electoral commission to quit

Kenya’s opposition has called for the country’s electoral commission to disband before next year’s presidential vote. On Monday (April 25) some 500

Kenya

ICC decision to drop second Kenya case 'fails victims'

The International Criminal Court has thrown out election violence charges against Kenya’s Vice-President William Ruto and ended his trial. It also

Kenya

Kenya marks Garissa University attacks anniversary

The campus reopened in January but only 150 of its 700 students have returned to class.

Kenya

Missing Kenyan lions 'return to Nairobi National Park'

Kenyan authorities sent park rangers into residential areas near Nairobi looking for several lions that had left a national park near the capital

Sport

Kenya could miss Rio Olympics due to doping record

The chairman of Kenya’s national Olympic committee has urged the government to act urgently to stave off the threat of an Olympic ban because of its

Somalia

Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed 61 Kenyan soldiers in Somalia

Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed 61 Kenyan soldiers in an assault on an African Union military base in south-west Somalia. The Islamist

Somalia

Al-Shabaab militants claim to have killed 61 Kenyan soldiers in Somalia

Kenya

Kenya: Pope Francis visits slum, calls for more to be done about poverty

On his final day in Kenya, Pope Francis calls on the government to do more to lift people out of poverty.

Kenya

Pope disgusted by 'barbarous attacks' in God's name

Pope Francis celebrated mass with tens of thousands at the university of Nairobi. Pope Francis, in Kenya, denounces "barbarous attacks" carried out

World News

Pope Francis heads to Africa with a message of religious tolerance

Pope Francis is on his way to Africa for his first papal visit to the continent. First trip in Africa for Pope Francis has begun! AZ4000 has taken

Sport

Kenyan athletes continue protest at federation HQ

Kenya’s government met athletes to discuss their grievances on Tuesday, as runners occupied the athletics federation building for a second day

Cinema

Caught by the Maasai at mid-on 'Warriors' play cricket

Hardly Lords on the first day of a test match, never mind ‘Warriors’ is a fascinating documentary which plots the progress of a group of Maasai who

Kenya

World Travel Market 2015 interview – Phyllis Kandie, Kenya

World

Innovative education ideas reap rewards and awards in Kenya and Ghana

WISE, the World Innovation Summit for Education, kicks off this week in Doha. Around 1,500 experts and policy makers will discuss the latest hot

Sport

IAAF Championships Beijing: Two Kenyan runners test positive for doping

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