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Report claims 1,000 Kenyans lured with job promises, deployed to Russia’s war in Ukraine
Kenya’s parliament has been presented with a troubling intelligence assessment alleging that hundreds of young Kenyans were lured abroad with job offers, only to end up on the battlefields of Ukraine. According to the National Intelligence Service report tabled on Wednesday, about 1,000 Kenyans were recruited under the guise of employment opportunities in Russia. Once…
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Two-day strike ends, Kenya’s main airport set to restore full operations
Flights at Kenya’s busiest airport are expected to return to full capacity after workers...
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Strike grounds flights at Nairobi’s main airport, leaves thousands stranded
Operations at Kenya’s busiest airport slowed to a crawl on Monday after staff downed...
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How a 20-year-old student started a nonprofit that feeds over half a million schoolchildren in Kenya a day
Wawira Njiru founded Food4Education, a nonprofit that has served over 100 million meals to...
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Former British soldier battles Kenya extradition in Agnes Wanjiru murder case
A former British soldier accused of murdering a Kenyan woman more than a decade ago appeared in a London court on Friday. He vowed to resist extradition to face trial. Robert James Purkiss, 38, is wanted...
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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...
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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 arrested amid a crackdown on dissenting voices ahead of general elections next week. While attempting to attend...
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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 Prime Minister Raila Odinga, held Friday at a packed stadium in Nairobi. The tragedy occurred as thousands of...
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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 of mourners showed up to receive the body of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a day after he died in India...
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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...
