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July 24, 2021 at 6:50 am

Tanzania receives 1st batch of COVID-19 vaccines

Tanzania had been among the few countries in Africa yet to receive vaccines or start inoculating its population, mainly because its former leader had claimed...

July 18, 2021 at 12:53 am

13 killed in Kenya fuel tanker explosion

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fuel tanker exploded in western Kenya while people were siphoning fuel from it, killing 13 people, police said Sunday. Residents...

Bashir Mohamud, 36, was murdered earlier this month under mysterious circumstances. His body was found 80 miles outside Nairobi by Kenyan police on May 13.

May 29, 2021 at 1:08 pm

Family of former Boeing engineer killed in Kenya wants separate probe

The family of Bashir Mohamud, a former Boeing engineer, was found with torture wounds days after he went missing in Nairobi. Family want Kenya's director...

May 1, 2021 at 5:01 am

Kenya eases curfew, other virus measures after cases decline

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta loosened infection-control measures Saturday after the number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the country dropped from...

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April 29, 2021 at 10:14 am

Kenya camps with 400,000 refugees to be closed next year

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya wants two refugee camps which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn countries closed by June 30 next year,...

April 24, 2021 at 12:42 am

HIV drugs run short in Kenya as people say lives at risk

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United...

April 8, 2021 at 1:17 am

Poor rains bring optimism African locust outbreak will fade VIEW

BARAKA, Kenya (AP) — In a convoy of pickup trucks fitted with spray guns, soldiers zoom through Baraka' s hills leaving a trail of dust...

April 6, 2021 at 8:41 am

Tanzania’s new president changes policy on COVID-19, media

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania's new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. President Samia Suluhu Hassan said...

April 3, 2021 at 12:35 pm

Kenya stops the private importation of COVID-19 vaccines

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya has ordered an immediate suspension to the private importation of coronavirus vaccines, citing fears that otherwise counterfeit inoculations may get...

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FILE – In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012, file photo, Sarah Obama, step-grandmother of President Barack Obama, speaks to the media about her reaction to Obama’s re-election, in the garden of her house in the village of Kogelo, western Kenya. Sarah Obama, the matriarch of former U.S. President Barack Obama’s Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, March 29, 2021 but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) NAI101 NAI101

March 29, 2021 at 12:37 am

Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99 VIEW

Mama Sarah, as the step-grandmother of the former U.S. president was fondly called, promoted education for girls and orphans in her village. She was the...