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Fifty-eight people have been killed in Tanzania and 13 people have been killed in Kenya in the past two weeks by flooding caused by torrential rains, with more than 125,000 people in coastal areas of East Africa affected by the flooding. Tanzania announces plans to construct fourteen dams in an attempt to reduce the damage from future floods.
2024-04-15

Five people are killed, some by decapitation, by al-Shabaab jihadists across two villages in Lamu County, Kenya. [https:--english.alarabiya.net-News-world-2023-06-25-Al-Shabaab-extremists-kill-five-civilians-in-Kenya-some-by-beheading-Police-source (AFP via Al Arabiya)]Terrorism in Kenya
2023-06-25

The World Health Organization endorses the mass rollout of the malaria vaccine RTS,S across Sub-Saharan Africa and other countries affected by the disease after pilot programs with the vaccine in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi reduced malaria-related hospitalization and death rates among children by 70%.
2021-10-6

The High Court of Kenya rules against a bid to strike down Section 162 and 165 of the Kenyan Penal Code, a sodomy law. The plaintiffs plan to appeal to the Court of Appeal.
2019-05-24

The Kenya Film Classification Board bans the lesbian romance film "Rafiki" saying it intends to "promote lesbianism".
2018-04-27

An oil tanker explodes on a main highway near Naivasha, Kenya, killing at least 42 people, according to the Kenya National Disaster Operation Centre.
2016-12-11

Kenyan AMISOM troops, advancing towards the al-Shabaab stronghold of Kismayo, "deliberately" shoot dead seven Somali civilians, according to a Somali Army spokesman. The Hizbul Islam faction announces that it leaves the al-Shabaab.
2012-09-24

Police in Mtwapa arrest five men accused of being homosexuals, two of whom had wedding rings and were attempting to marry in a first for Kenya.
2010-02-12

Somalia sends a letter of protest to Kenya after the arrest of MPs and other officials, including Muslim leader Al-Amin Kimathi, over recent riots.
2010-01-18

The United Nations seeks to virtually eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV-AIDS in Africa. Michel Sidibé visited Sauri in western Kenya, which is a village of the Millennium Villages Project.
2010-01-11