Kenya Airways’ bumpy run in air persists as the national carrier posts first-half pre-tax loss
Kenya Airways went into insolvency in 2018 after an expansion drive left it with hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
Kenya calls for co-option of civil society-military diplomacy in peacekeeping
Ambassador Josphat K. Maikara, the director-general for political and diplomatic affairs at the ministry of foreign and diaspora affairs, during the inaugural Joint Technical-Level Workshop on International Peacekeeping held at the International Peace Support Training Centre.
Panic as teargas canister hurled at women’s rally in Siaya County sends crowd scampering
The women legislators, among them the host Ombaka, went on with their programme. They called on Kenyans to be united under the broad-based government which, they said, had done a lot for the common man.
Kenyan minister de-gazettes 45 health facilities implicated in $23.2 million fraud
Health Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale speaking on the health care matters at Afya House on Monday, on August 25, 2025. Credit: Wangari Ndirangu.
Kenya now wants China to convert dollar rail loan into yuan for lower interest rate
Last year, the East African nation’s efforts to hike taxes to improve its financial situation sparked deadly protests, leading the government to backtrack. It has since tried to find other ways to create more fiscal space.
Japan’s Samurai loans Kenya’s $169 million to boost vehicle assembly industries, energy production
Speaking on the sidelines at TICAD on Thursday, Raphael Otieno, Kenya’s director-general of debt management in the ministry of finance, said Nairobi’s debt strategy is shifting focus from short-term refinancing risks to addressing high borrowing costs.
20 people, including five journalists, killed in an Israel attack on a Gaza hospital
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said Israel deeply regretted what he called a “tragic mishap”. Israel valued the work of journalists and medical staff, he said, adding that Israel’s war was with Hamas.
British Army in Kenya comes fire for promoting ‘transactional sex’ in Nanyuki as UK pays out £2.9m over wildfires
A report released by Britain’s Ministry of Defence earlier this month shows that, despite instituting a ban against transactional sex, British soldiers stationed in central Kenya’s Nanyuki area continue to fuel prostitution, which is illegal in Kenya.
WHO data show more women die giving birth in Nigeria than anywhere else in the world
The prospects of more health resources have dwindled in the region. US foreign aid data shows that Nigeria received almost $4 billion in aid from the now-dismantled US Agency for International Development between 2020 and 2025, with $423 million going to maternal health and family planning.
Hundreds of scholars, conservationists from all the world expected to grace 14th Mara Day celebrations in Tanzania
LVBC Executive Secretary Masinde Bwire said the scientific conference to be held on September 14 at the Mwalimu Nyerere University of Science and Technology (MNUAT) has already attracted more than 60 submissions from researchers in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Norway.
