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Hundreds of workers at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, go on strike to protest against a planned deal to lease the airport to the Indian conglomerate Adani Group for 30 years.
2024-09-11

The death toll from floods in Kenya rises to 76 as 40,000 people are displaced from their homes.
2023-11-27

At least two protesters are shot by police, 14 more are hospitalized, and at least 300 are arrested during protests in Kenya.
2023-07-19

Yalemzerf Yehualaw of Ethiopia becomes the youngest woman to win the London Marathon while Amos Kipruto of Kenya wins the men's race.
2022-10-2

Thirty-four people are killed when a bus traveling from Meru plunges into a river in Nairobi, Kenya.
2022-07-24

A forum for the promotion of LGBT rights is hosted in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to address minority rights. At the forum, a Rwandan man describes being assaulted by family members when he came out as gay. The forum also documented and urged the governments of Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi and Kenya to decriminalize homosexuality and protect the minority.
2021-09-10

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

Tools found near Lake Turkana in Kenya by Sonia Harmand and Jason Lewis of Stony Brook University are dated at 3.3 million years making them the oldest yet discovered.
2015-05-20

At least nineteen people die in northern Kenya in clashes with raiders from Ethiopia.
2011-05-3

A new text service to report hate speech and to be monitored by the National Cohesion and Integration Commission is launched in Kenya ahead of the upcoming referendum on a new constitution.
2010-07-14