Sources: BBC
At least 16 people are killed and over 400 others are injured, including demonstrators, police officers and journalists, when police clash with protestors during nationwide anti-government protests across Kenya. 2025-06-25
Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni fires his son Lt. Gen. Muhoozi Kainerugaba as commander of the national infantry forces after Kainerugaba made a series of tweets threatening to capture Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya. 2022-10-5
Ethiopia admits shooting down a Kenyan private aircraft, killing all six on board. The Ethiopian National Defense Force says it believed the plane was on a "potential suicide mission". 2020-05-9
The Patel Dam fails in Kenya, killing at least 47 and leaving at least 2000 homeless. 2018-05-9
Ethiopia officially opens the Omo River Gibe III hydroelectric dam, one of the biggest in Africa, that is predicted to double the country’s electricity output. Critics are concerned about this dam's impact on locals, on the environment, including Kenya's Lake Turkana, and on neighboring countries. 2016-12-17
At least 12 are killed in an attack on a hotel in Kenya. Al-Shabaab claims responsibility. 2016-10-25
A Kenyan lower court judge upholds the use of anal examinations to attempt to determine a suspect’s sexual orientation. Homosexual acts are a crime in Kenya. 2016-06-16
Explosions kill at least five people and injure several more in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. 2014-03-31
Four people are killed and dozens injured in a grenade attack in Nairobi, Kenya 2012-03-10
The United Nations reports the worst drought in six decades is affecting more than 10 million people and forced people in Somalia to flee to Kenya and Ethiopia as they starve to death. 2011-06-28