Kenya

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp

Partnering with IsraAID, former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel toured the camp's facilities as part of their recent entry into humanitarian work.

|ByASHER SMITH
Keith and Aviva Siegel speak at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025
Ismail Shirwac is seen holding a Somaliland flag and a Israeli flag.

Israel recognized Somaliland – African nations like Ethiopia, Kenya should be next - opinion

Israel recognized Somaliland after decades of patience and Africa can no longer afford to look away.

|ByISMAIL SHIRWAC
Cholo Abdi Abdullah training as a pilot as part of an al-Shabaab plot to attack on US soil.

Justice Dept. sentences al-Shabaab terrorist for planning 9/11-inspired plane hijacking, crash plot

A Kenyan al-Shabaab operative was sentenced to two life terms after plotting a 9/11-style aircraft attack on US soil, including training as a pilot to hijack a commercial plane.

|ByJAMES GENN
People enter the Federal High Court, as the trial of Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous people of Biafra continues, in Abuja, Nigeria December 2, 2021.

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Kanu for terrorism

Nigerian court convicts separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu on terrorism charges, raising fears of renewed social unrest.

|ByREUTERS

Aspiring to inspire

At the first anniversary of the Global Goals, Israel emerges as a leader in development. But there’s work to be done at home.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016BySTEPHANIE GRANOT
The Joel Omino Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, saw the first Israeli-backed program of Education for Sustainable Development

Kenyan-born runner going the distance for Israel at the Olympics

Lonah Chemtai gained Israeli citizenship earlier in 2016 through her coach, Dan Salpeter, after the two married in Kenya.

JULY 21, 2016ByREUTERS
Lonah Chemtai will represent Israel in the women's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Picture taken July 14, 2016

Netanyahu's alliance of the African periphery

JULY 19, 2016ByNEVILLE TELLER
The Jerusalem Post

PM: Attempt on my life in Kenya ‘nonsense’

Anonymous source tells Kuwaiti newspaper that on Tuesday the Kenyan authorities informed the PM's security guards that the convoy must change its route.

JULY 7, 2016ByHERB KEINON, YASSER OKBI/ MAARIV HASHAVUA
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

During historic Netanyahu visit, Kenyan president says Africa needs Israel

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vows to work to upgrade Israel's status in the African Union.

JULY 5, 2016ByHERB KEINON
PM Netanyahu and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta

The cost of war

The story centers on one joint US-UK military drone strike directed against Islamic militants in Kenya preparing to carry out an imminent suicide bombing.

APRIL 7, 2016ByCALEV BEN-DAVID
IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot

Singing in Swahili

Gilad Millo, a former Israeli career diplomat, has become a hit in his adopted Kenya.

MARCH 15, 2016ByBERNARD DICHEK
Gilad Millo at Kenya’s Bingwa Music Awards where he performed ‘Sema milele’

Netanyahu: Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is returning to Israel

“The cooperation between our countries since the time of our independence has been formidable," Kenyan president says in Jerusalem.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016ByHERB KEINON
Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta meets Netanyahu

Kenyan president arrives in Israel for first visit since 1994

President’s spokesman expresses ‘appreciation’ for Israeli training of Kenyan security personnel.

FEBRUARY 22, 2016ByHERB KEINON
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta

Netanyahu to mark Entebbe anniversary with Africa visit

This would be the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to Sub-Saharan Africa since Yitzhak Shamir visited four west African states in 1987.

FEBRUARY 17, 2016ByHERB KEINON
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife, Sara, pay respects to the premier's late brother, Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed during the Entebbe raid