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Kenyan app that turns speech into sign language in real-time wins top award for engineering innovation
A Kenyan entrepreneur behind an app that translates speech into sign language has won Africa’s biggest award for engineering innovation. The UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering awarded the 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – the largest dedicated engineering prize in Africa – to Elly Savatia of Kenya for his sign language translation app, Terp…
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Police arrest top opposition politician days before Tanzania’s election
Police have revealed that a senior official of Tanzania’s main opposition party has been...
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Stampede at Raila Odinga’s funeral in Kenya leaves 18 injured
Eighteen people were injured in a stampede during the state funeral of Kenya’s former...
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Flights at a Kenyan airport were delayed as dozens showed up to receive the body of Raila Odinga
For a few hours, operations at Kenya’s main airport were briefly suspended after dozens...
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Kabila resurfaces in Kenya to rally Congo opposition despite death sentence
Former Congolese President Joseph Kabila made his first public appearance on Wednesday since being sentenced to death in absentia for treason and war crimes. The former leader resurfaced in Nairobi, Kenya,...
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Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga dies in India at age 80
Family members of former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga have announced that he has passed away aged 80 in India. On Wednesday, Odinga died while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in India after...
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Kenyan family demands UK extradite soldier suspect in 2012 death of Agnes Wanjiru
Thirteen years after the murder of Kenyan woman Agnes Wanjiru, her family is renewing calls for justice, calling on the U.K. government to ensure the arrest and extradition of the British soldier accused...
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Catholic altar wine replaced after becoming common in Kenyan bars
The Kenyan Catholic Church has introduced a new brand of altar wine for Holy Mass because the previous one became too common for consumption in local bars. The new sacramental drink is simply labelled...
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Kenyan court orders arrest of British soldier over 2012 murder of Agnes Wanjiru
A Kenyan court has issued an arrest order for a British citizen accused of killing Agnes Wanjiru, whose body was discovered in a septic tank near a British army training site in Nanyuki in 2012. The 21-year-old...
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Six killed in Kenya aircraft crash one day after Ghana lost eight lives in similar incident
A small plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in Kenya’s capitol, Nairobi, killing at least six people, according to AP. Charity AMREF Flying Doctors said the aircraft,...
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Pro-democracy activist Boniface Mwangi faces ammunition charge in Kenya
Kenyan pro-democracy activist Boniface Mwangi appeared in court on Monday, where he was charged with unlawful possession of ammunition, a move critics view as an attempt to stifle dissent in the wake of...
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Kenya opposition calls for President Ruto’s resignation over ‘shoot protesters’ remark
Mounting public outrage over a wave of fatal police violence has led Kenya’s opposition leaders to call for President William Ruto’s resignation, following his recent directive to security...
