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A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after Kenya's December 2007 presidential elections.
Joram Abiero remembers it was not too long ago that his neighbors went to bed hungry.
For years, Charles Wesley Mumbere worked as a nurse's aide in Maryland and Pennsylvania, caring for the elderly and sick. No one there suspected that he had inherited a royal title in his African homeland when he was just 13.
Women and girls who fled the fighting in Darfur face rape and other violence daily in eastern Chad, even inside the very refugee camps where they have sought sanctuary, according to a report released Wednesday.
Many airlines flying into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport have hired private security firms to guard passengers, cargo and aircraft rather than rely on the Kenya Airports Authority or local police for protection.
Doe Cyrille and his crew searched for hours in crashing winds and waves up to 16 feet (5 meters) high for any sign of Yemenia Flight 626. Then they spotted a girl impossibly clinging to a piece of debris.
Eight bodies that have washed ashore in Tanzania may be from a plane that plunged into the Indian Ocean with 153 people onboard, Yemeni authorities said Tuesday. Only one 12-year-old girl survived the crash.
Africa contributes little to global warming but suffers disproportionately from its effects, the continent's environment ministers said Friday, calling for more money and support from rich nations ahead of a landmark climate conference.
Two men pleaded guilty in a Kenyan court Monday to illegally possessing 1,500 pounds (700 kilograms) of elephant tusks in what was believed to be the largest seizure of illegal ivory in recent years, a Kenyan official said.
Pirates are constantly attacking ships off the coast of lawless Somalia despite naval patrols by more than a dozen nations. On land, an extremist Islamic group is targeting African Union peacekeepers and humanitarian workers.
Stone-throwing students clashed with Kenyan riot police and paramilitary officers on Tuesday during a protest demanding the resignation of the police commissioner over the killings of a student and two activists last week.
Italian nuns held captive in the Somali capital for more than two months "prayed all the time" but said they were well treated by kidnappers who identified themselves as being hardline Somali Islamic militants.
The Obama administration reversed years of U.S. policy Monday by calling for a treaty to cut mercury pollution, which it described as the world's gravest chemical problem.
The Dutch sailors aboard a warship scanned the waters off Somalia for an entire month, but they never once saw a pirate — nor fired their weapons except for target practice.
Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with the kidnapping of two foreign journalists, who were in northern Somalia reporting on the region's rampant piracy, police said.
Barack Obama's Kenyan relatives and Africans across the continent sang, danced in the streets and wrapped themselves in U.S. flags Wednesday to cheer for America's first black president. Kenya will party for two days, after the president declared a national holiday.
From the capital of Nairobi to this bustling city near Barack Obama's ancestral home, Kenyans were excited Monday about the man they see as a "son of the soil" — and ready to celebrate if he wins the U.S. presidential election.
Douglas Sidialo woke up in a Nairobi hospital 10 years ago, devastated to find he had been blinded by flying glass after al-Qaida bombed the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
A Kenyan Cabinet minister and an assistant minister were killed with two other people Tuesday when their small plane crashed in southwestern Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki said.
Fighting between Ugandan rebels and Sudanese soldiers killed at least 23 people in a remote area near the countries' border this week, rebel and military officials said.
Kenyan authorities should prosecute militias implicated in the country's devastating postelection violence, but also address any "genuine grievances" they may have, former U.N. leader Kofi Annan said Saturday.
Rebels attacked a town in eastern Chad on Tuesday but the army repulsed them after a four-hour battle, the prime minister said.
Kenyan lawmakers took another step Tuesday toward approving a power-sharing deal to end the country's deadly political crisis sparked by a disputed presidential election.
President Mwai Kibaki urged lawmakers to pass the laws needed to enforce the country's new power-sharing agreement as Parliament convened Thursday for the first time since the deal was reached.
Police say dozens of people armed with assault rifles and machetes have stormed a village in western Kenya, killing at least 13 people.
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