Kenya: First oil exports shipped
MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has flagged off the country’s first export shipment of oil, more than 200,000 barrels of crude. Kenyatta said Monday the oil exports begin an era of greater…
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Kenya: Finance Minister, Top Officials Arrested for Graft
NAIROBI – Kenya’s Finance Minister Henry Rotich and other treasury officials were arrested Monday on corruption and fraud charges over a multi-million dollar project to build two mega-dams, police said. Director of Public Prosecutions Noordin…
Kenya: US Man Accused of Sex Abuse at an Orphanage He Founded
LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA – Federal prosecutors say a Pennsylvania man sexually molested four teenage girls at a Kenyan orphanage he founded with a church’s help. Share on Twitter Africa US Man Accused of Sex Abuse at…
Kenya: MPs accused of greed
Kenyan MPs are demanding an increase to several allowances, including money to buy a vehicle and attending parliamentary sessions, privately owned Daily Nation newspaper is reporting. On the front page, the newspaper says the MPs…
Kenya: Life sentence for accomplice of attack that killed 148
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court on Wednesday sentenced one man to life in jail and two others to 41 years each for being accomplices to the 2015 Garissa University attack in which 148…
UK: Body found in London garden fell from Nairobi flight plane
LONDON (AP) — A stowaway fell from the undercarriage of a jet as it approached Heathrow Airport after a 9-hour flight from Nairobi, landing in a south London garden, police and airline officials said Monday….
Kenya: Some farmers turn to silk production for cash
THIKA, Kenya (AP) — A growing number of Kenyan farmers are turning to silk production, in a move away from traditional cash crops such as coffee, maize, sugarcane and cotton. The rearing of silkworms is…
Kenya: Governor Waititu arrested by anti-corruption unit
Officers from Kenya’s anti-corruption agency have arrested the Governor of central Kiambu County, Ferdinand Waititu. The arrest comes hours after an early morning raid on the Governor’s properties in the capital, Nairobi. Reports say Mr…
Kenya: France seals business deals worth over 2 bln euros
NAIROBI (Reuters) – French firms signed contracts in Kenya worth some 2 billion euros ($2.26 billion) during a visit on Thursday by President Emmanuel Macron, who wants to deepen France’s economic ties with Anglophone East…
Kenya: Airport workers strike disrupts flights
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of air passengers were stranded Wednesday in Kenya because of a strike at Nairobi’s international airport by the Kenya Aviation Workers Union. Police violently dispersed striking workers who attempted to…