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Kenya's Supreme Court on Thursday blocked sweeping constitutional changes proposed by President Uhuru Kenyatta, the court said, declaring the process unconstitutional through a majority ruling.

Kenya's Supreme Court is scheduled on Thursday to rule on President Uhuru Kenyatta's bid to make sweeping constitutional changes, which critics have seized and turned into a top issue for a presidential election this August.

Yoghurt cups are among the most popular beach litter in Mombasa but they have become an unlikely reforesting apparatus.

The recent party nomination of deputy president William Samoei Ruto as a presidential candidate sets the stage for a tight race in Kenya’s elections scheduled for early August.

Shortly after his controversial electoral victory in early 2019, the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Felix Tshisekedi sought to get his country admitted into the East African Community. Recently, the East African Community ministers recommended the DRC’s admission, a decision set to be formalised by the bloc’s…

Kenyans are caught in the grip of higher food prices brought about by a combination of adverse weather, rising input costs – which have been worsened by the Ukraine war – as well as policy adjustments the government agreed to to access funding from the International Monetary Fund. The prices…

As Kenya heads towards elections, concerns about the outbreak of electoral violence tend to rise.

On 5 March 2022, Kenya declared an outbreak of yellow fever in Isiolo County after the death of three people. More than 20 people were reported to have contracted the deadly viral disease in Isiolo in the previous month. Counties bordering Isiolo were placed in the high-risk bracket.

The effects of climate change are already being felt by the pastoral peoples of Kenya, so we should try to learn how these people are living with uncertainty, writes Samuel Derbyshire