Kenya’s marathon runner Kipkorir is provisionally suspended by Athletics Integrity Unit for doping
Kenya’s Diana Kipyokei was stripped of her 2021 Boston Marathon title for doping in 2022 and handed a six-year ban.
Over 4,000 civilians killed in Goma in 48 hours during the M23 takeover of eastern Congo cities
Congo River Alliance (CRA) is termed a political/military coalition comprising 17 political parties, two political groupings and “several armed groups”. Named are M23, PARECO (Coalition of Congolese Patriotic Resistance in English), Kyahanda, FPDC (People’s Front for Democracy in Congo), Twirwaneho, FRPI (Patriotic Resistance Force of Ituri), Chini ya Kilima and Zaire-FPAC (Ituri Self-defence Popular Front in English).
22 fishermen feared killed in fighting between Ethiopian, Kenyan fishermen near Omo River
Kenya’s Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen wrote on X on Sunday that the government had deployed additional security to the border and that he was engaging with Addis Ababa to “broker peace between the two communities.”
Kenyan police officer killed in action in Haiti as violent gangs unleash terror on island anation’s capital
The police officer was airlifted out of the area and died from his injuries, Godfrey Otunge, the commander of the Kenyan forces in Haiti, said in a statement.
Why Uganda is Pearl of Africa: It’s the only country on Earth where serving soldiers are reserved seats in parliament, martial courts try civilians
Army representation in parliament continues to this day. Uganda is the only country on the globe with a parliamentary system where serving soldiers are in parliament. Army representation in Uganda’s parliament began in 1994. As things stand now, 10 seats are set aside for ‘serving officers’ of the Uganda People’s Defence Force. The 10 are chosen by the Army Council, chaired by President Yoweri Tibuhaburwa Museveni, and they tend to vote with the ruling party, the National Resistance Movement (NRM),
Kenyan autism patient overcomes stigma, joins ordinary school following early intervention
Another student, Peter Kairo, is currently undergoing a similar journey at the same pre-vocational institution. His learning process began with structured training to help him adjust to the school environment – an essential first step for children with intellectual disabilities.
Italy to spend $4.2m over the next three years to restore degraded Cherang’any water tower
The Cherang’any ecosystem, which stretches across Elgeyo Marakwet, West Pokot and Trans Nzoia counties is one of the five major water towers in the country with others being Mt Kenya, the Aberdares, Mt Elgon and the Mau Complex.
13 police officers deny killing two Indian nationals, Kenyan the in run-up to 2022 polls
Amnesty International’s Kenya chapter have linked the SSU to most of more than 500 extrajudicial killings and dozens of enforced disappearances between 2019 and September 2022.
Kenya’s tourism shows strong recovery as minister projects surge in new arrivals and foreign exchange earnings
The domestic tourism sector, CS Rebecca Miano, also recorded impressive gains, with bed night occupancy rising by 12 per cent from 4,618,094 in 2023 to 5,173,966 in 2024.
While it’s known Rwanda is chief architect of scramble for eastern Congo’s minerals, world powers are shy to rein it in
The M23 rebel group entered the outskirts of Bukavu, a city of about 1.3 million in eastern DRC, in mid-February 2025. This happened two weeks after Goma, another city in the region, came under the control of M23 rebels. With support from the Rwandan army, M23 already controls vast territory in eastern DRC.
