Kenya

Aid group says seven Americans quarantining at Kenya Ebola facility after US travel ban

Washington's new policy says American citizens returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo, where there is an Ebola outbreak, must spend three weeks in a third country before entering the US

Protesters hold a banner and chant slogans as they march during a demonstration against a controversial US-built Ebola quarantine centre slated to begin operations at Laikipia Air Base in Nanyuki on June 9, 2026.
A police officer clears the way for rescued Air France hostages arriving in Tel Aviv after returning from Entebbe

State Archives releases thousands of documents for Entebbe rescue's 50th anniversary

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Kenyan police fire tear gas during protest against US Ebola quarantine facility

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say


How many Kenyans are Christian? Accurate numbers are hard to come by

Opinion: The reasons why the accuracy of statistics on religious affiliations is questionable.

 Kenyan school children

How a conversion split, and then strengthened, Kenya’s Jewish community

In Kenya there are about 300 Jews, and about half of them have ties with the Nairobi synagogue.

Kenya Parliament building

Kenyan police officer kills six in shooting rampage - police

The officer first killed his wife before shooting five other people with an Ak-47.

Kenya Defense Force soldiers 370

Iranian arrested in Kenya for planning terror attacks against Israeli targets - report

Iranian Mohammed Saeid Golabi was arrested in Kenya for coordinating a terror cell in Nairobi attacking both Israeli and local sites.

 A man crosses the road during the closing of businesses on First Avenue in Eastleigh district of Nairobi, Kenya November 16, 2021. Picture taken November 16, 2021.

SupPlant to help 500,000 Kenyan maize-growers avoid crop failure

Afula-based SupPlant’s new sensor-less technology collects and analyzes hyperlocal climatic, plant, and irrigation data to offers extremely low-cost Irrigation recommendations and weather forecasts.

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Did Turkey conduct illegal rendition of “terrorist” abroad

It is not the first time Turkey sent agents to abduct someone they accuse of terrorism. What laws enable Turkey to do so remains unclear.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan talks to media after attending Friday prayers at Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey August 7, 2020.

Kenya set to appoint first female chief justice at sensitive moment

A child of subsistence farmers, she was chosen by a judicial panel over the lawyer who argued President Uhuru Kenyatta's case in a 2017 battle with the Supreme Court that she will now head.

Judge Martha Koome arrives for the interview for the post of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court buil

New agricultural fellowship grant creates global impact

The Dean Family Fellowship Grant program is a 5-year partnership between JNF-USA, the Dean family from Philadelphia, PA., and AICAT.

AICAT students enjoy their time learning in Israel.

Former US president Obama's grandmother, Sarah, dies at 99

"My family and I are mourning the loss of our beloved grandmother, Sarah Ogwel Onyango Obama, affectionately known to many as “Mama Sarah” but known to us as “Dani” or Granny" - Barack Obama.

Sarah Hussein Obama, step-grandmother to US President Barack Obama, smiles at their homestead in the village of Kogelo, west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, July 14, 2015. US President Barack Obama visits Kenya and Ethiopia later this month. His ancestral home of Kogelo is home to Sarah Hussein Obama, h

Amid Kenya's coronavirus shutdown, chickens roost in empty classrooms

No students have thundered down these eerily quiet corridors since March, when Kenya abruptly closed its schools three days after the first case of COVID-19 was detected.

Chickens are seen in a classroom converted into a poultry house because of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the town of Wang'uru, Kenya, August 28, 2020.