Doctors working in Kenyan state-run hospitals rejected a government offer on Thursday aimed at ending a three-week-long strike, as a court set a deadline for the dispute to be resolved.

Kenya's largest referral hospital said on Tuesday it would dispose of more than 500 bodies, most of them children, that lay unclaimed. Families have up to seven days to identify and collect the 541 bodies at the Kenyatta National Hospital mortuary, it said in a notice on its website. "Failure to which the hospital will…

Four people, including three police officers, have been killed in a suspected attack by Al-Shabaab jihadists in a Kenyan town near the border with Somalia, police said. The explosion occurred on Monday at a hotel near a police station in Mandera, northeastern Kenya, an area often targeted by the Somalia-based group. Police said several other…

Kenyan authorities are due on Tuesday to release the bodies of several people linked to a doomsday starvation cult in a case that shocked the country and the world. The remains are the first to be handed over to their families after nearly a year of painstaking work to identify them using DNA. Hundreds of…

A bus carrying students from a top Kenyan university collided with a truck on a busy highway after skidding in heavy rain, killing 11 of them and seriously injuring 42, police said. The accident occurred at 5:50 pm (2:50 GMT) Monday at Maungu, 360 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital Nairobi, when the students from…

The United Kingdom’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has urged startups from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and other parts of Africa to participate in its Unicorn Kingdom – Pathfinder Awards (UKPA).

A student pilot and instructor died on Tuesday when their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police said.

Expensive curtains, lavish garden parties and jet-setting lifestyles: Kenya's cash-strapped government has been on a spending spree even as austerity measures take their toll on weary citizens.

Top athletes and dignitaries led hundreds of mourners at the funeral Friday of Kenya's world marathon record-holder Kelvin Kiptum in the nation's athletics heartland where he was born, trained and died.

Kenya has exempted passport holders from South Africa and six other countries from paying an unpopular entry fee introduced last month.

Kenyan police said Wednesday they have recaptured a man whose daring escape from custody made headlines following his arrest on suspicion of murdering his girlfriend in the United States. Kevin Kang'ethe had been detained in January pending extradition to the United States over the death of Margaret Mbitu, but he slipped out of a police…

A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean.