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Jubilant Kenyans Usher in New Constitution
Cheered by hundreds of thousands of jubilant Kenyans waving national flags, President Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution last week that curbs his sweeping...
Kenya Uses Video Gaming Strategy to Fight AIDS in Slums
Kenyan aid groups, with US government backing, are fighting HIV/AIDS infection in Nairobi slums using a multi-player video game. It teaches young...
Kenya to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees to Counter Deforestation
Kenya said on Wednesday it would plant 7.6 billion trees over the next 20 years to redress decades of chopping down forest cover, the...
Kenya Village Gets Clinic from Brothers it Helped Send to Med School in U.S.
Residents of a remote village sold chickens and cattle to raise the $900.00 needed to fly the siblings to Dartmouth College. A new film...
UN to Help Maasai People From Kenya Preserve Their Heritage
Two people from the Maasai community of Laikipia in Kenya are to be given training in documenting and archiving their cultural heritage through a...
Kenya Rivals Agree to Share Power
Mediator Kofi Annan pushed throuhgh a deal to end post-election turmoil in Kenya that has killed nearly 1,000 people. For the first time in...
Kenyan Youth Club Helps to Heal Ethnic Tensions (Video)
In Nairobi's Mathare slum, a youth association helps to heal ethnic tensions which have flared up recently in Kenya. The group won a Nobel...
Wild Elephants on Increase in Kenya
Kenya's population of elephants is increasing thanks to successful protection measures and a ban on ivory trade, wildlife officials said. (Associated Press via PR...
Kenyan Parties Agree to Peace Plan
Rival political parties in Kenya locked in a deadly dispute over December's elections said Friday they had agreed to take immediate action to end...
Pamphlet Turns Life Around for Drug Addict in Kenya
Sammy Gitau grew up in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. As a teenager, he joined a gang, and became a drug addict. But a...
Children Send Holiday Wishes to 1,000 Kenyan Peacekeepers
Kenyan children have sent more than 2,000 homemade Christmas and New Years messages to their country’s nearly 1,100 peacekeepers serving under United Nations' blue...
Kenya’s Bus Stop Cartoonist Lightens Travelers’ Loads
"A young, innovative artist has turned the bus stop into his very own daily cartoon strip, entertaining commuters on a busy highway in the...
Lions Making a Comeback on Kenya Ranches
"Conservation efforts in southern Kenya have led to an "extremely encouraging" rebound in the lion population there." Masai warriors used to prove their manhood...
Kenyans Plant Trees to Coax Back Flamingos
Where once a million flamingos awashed the shores in pink along Lake Nakuru, a community is replanting saplings to help rebuild the forests they...
KENYA: Slum-Dwellers to Benefit from UN Housing Fund
Millions of people living in urban slums throughout the world are set to benefit from the pro-poor housing fund set up by UN-Habitat and...
Kenya to Provide Free AIDS Drugs
The BBC reports Kenya's president has announced that anti-retroviral drugs will now be free to all people with AIDS within all of its clinics...
Kenya Saves Trees
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi said he would take “drastic measures” to stop the degradation of his African nation's forests, including banning timber harvesting...
Farmers Use Bees to Deter Elephants from Romping Over Crops–a Win-Win for All
In Kenya, on the edge of the legendary Tsavo National Park, African honey bees contentedly buzz about near rows of well-tended crops.
It's a scene...
Britain Celebrates Birth of Baby Bongo Antelope–with Fewer Than 100 Left on Earth
In an English safari park, keepers are celebrating the arrival of a calf from the world's most endangered species of antelope, the eastern mountain...
Good News in History, November 4
287 years ago today, the Teatro di San Carlo was inaugurated in the city of Naples with the opera Achille in Sciro. It is the...