Environment Minister John Michuki is dead. The 80-year-old minister was admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital on Sunday morning, only two days after arriving from the United Kingdom where he was undergoing treatment.

On Monday, Government Spokesman Alfre...

A young Kenyan woman is fighting for her life in a Dubai hospital following a brutal weekend assault in a car park behind the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road.

A Rashid Hospital official confirmed yesterday that doctors are administering critical emergen...

An inter-ministerial committee set up to enable Kenyans abroad to vote has a huge task ahead, Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo said on Sunday.

“Enabling Kenyans in the diaspora to vote is not as easy as people think. It is a huge task and we have to get things r...

Presidential aspirants are making unprecedented efforts to secure votes of Kenyans living outside the country in the belief that they could be crucial in winning the contest for State House in the forthcoming General Election.

Leading aspirants have opened offices...

Competition in the mobile money transfer market is set to intensify, with the launch of a cross-border mobile money platform by electronic payments processor Visa.

The platform will be available to all mobile users irrespective of their network, breaking the cu...

Investors who had hoped to cash in on the proximity to Kenya’s first ICT Park in Konza to make capital gains will be disappointed as the government moved to bar human settlement within two kilometres of the park.

The promoters of the Sh800 billion-technopolis s...

Amid the wrangles in the G7 group, there is at least one place where the Vice President is being awaited with bated breath - and that is at his new house put up by the Government in Karen. The residence is partially ready for occupation but a parliamentary watchdog is rai...

With the arrest of five foreign nationals, Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have busted a racket of printing counterfeit US dollars, fake passports, visas and residential permits and recovered a huge cache of fake currency and documents from their possession.

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A Kenyan refugee who fled to South Africa in 2007 during the political violence that erupted in his country now has to endure the pain of watching his life coming to an end – because he is a foreigner.

Dishon Muriuki, 37, urgently requires a kidney transplant,...

Kenyans working for international firms earning in foreign currencies face tough times as the shilling firms against hard currencies. The Kenya shilling begun crawling back ground last November after touching an-all time low of Sh107 to the dollar in November, reversing w...

A Nairobi high court has issued an order for the arrest and detention of former President Daniel Moi’s son Philip Moi for failing to pay the maintenance of his estranged wife Rossana Pluda Moi.

Mr Moi, in a divorce settlement, is to pay a monthly allowance of S...

Called Shuga: Love, Sex, Money, it looks at the complexity of love in the age of Aids and HIV - and especially at how Kenyan teenage girls and teenagers in poor countries in general - go out with older men who have the financial means to finance the young girls' expensive...

Baltimore, Maryland - Kenya National Congress (KNC) presidential candidate Peter Kenneth challenged Kenyans in the Diaspora to be the driving force behind transforming the country into what he termed - a ‘brighter Kenya’- as outlined in his vision for the country.

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There were 66 Kenyan convicts in UK prisons by the end of last year, the country’s Justice Ministry has said.

According to the Ministry’s official website, 60 of the convicts were men and only six were women.

However, a spokesman for the Ministry of...

International electronic transaction facilitators are avoiding the Kenyan market as losses mount from card fraud.

Borderlinx, an American company which deals in cross-border electronic commerce, has suspended its services in the local market in a move that wil...

On Being a Black Lawyer (OBABL) recently selected the 100 most influential black attorneys in the United States. SUNY Buffalo Law School is very pleased to announce that Dean Makau Mutua has been named to this exceptional group.

OBABL will publish “The Power 10...

Members of Parliament plan to continue earning their salaries after President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga dissolve the National Accord as expected on October 17 to allow for elections in December.

These details are set out in the Constitution Amendme...

As part of its national research capacity-strengthening mandate, Consortium for National Health Research (C.N.H.R) invites applications for Research Career Development Grants (RCDGs) from qualified Kenyan researchers (currently based in Kenya or working within the Diaspor...

Presidential aspirant Raphael Tuju on Sunday launched the Party of Action (POA) which he would use to vie for the top seat in the forthcoming general elections.

At the launch at KICC, Tuju pledged that his party which has a youth centered political agenda was d...

Joy and jubilation marked the first day of the Las Vegas tournament of the International Rugby Board Sevens circuit as the National rugby Sevens team qualified for the Main Cup quarter-final.

Two impressive victories over bitter rivals Scotland 17-14 and underdogs...

In its opener at the 2012 USA Sevens, the Kenyan rugby team rallied from an early deficit to defeat Pool D opponent Scotland 17-14.

Scotland’s Sean Kennedy scored the first of his two tries in the opening minute of the game, and Colin Gregor matched his effort...