Kenya is to launch a climate exchange platform to facilitate the trading of carbon credits and help tackle climate change

New evidence on how Kenya’s post-election violence was planned, funded and executed has been revealed. The International Criminal Court says the fresh information was supplied by former soldiers who trained youths who caused the mayhem in various...

Kenya’s police rejected reports they were abusing those fleeing from fighting in Somalia. A brutal three-year insurgency in the failed African nation has caused what the United Nations calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian...

A Turkish flagged bulk carrier en route to the Kenyan port of Mombasa has been hijacked, the head of a regional maritime body said on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers’ Assistance Programme said that...

A drought in Kenya has gotten so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom — the country’s famed elephants which are dying as rivers dry up and grasslands shrivel in parched game reserves. The bones of the elephants bleaching...

Congolese authorities have failed to prevent widespread rapes, Human Rights Watch said in a new report, citing U.N. data showing 7,703 cases of sexual violence by the army were reported last year. Most victims were adolescent girls. While soldiers now...

Wangari Maathai’s office in fuming, downtown Nairobi is full of citations and mementos, but there is one special photograph. It’s of her and Barack Obama planting an olive tree in Uhuru park in the city centre in October 2006. It could be...