Tag: Kenya
Alarm grows in Africa as it watches India’s COVID-19 crisis
NAIROBI, Kenya — Africa is “watching with total disbelief” as India struggles with a devastating resurgence in COVID-19 cases, the continent’s top public health...
Kenya camps with 400,000 refugees to be closed next year
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya wants two refugee camps which hosts hundreds of thousands of refugees from war-torn countries closed by June 30 next year,...
HIV drugs run short in Kenya as people say lives at risk
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United...
US puts visa restrictions on Uganda, saying vote was flawed
NAIROBI, Kenya — The United States says it is imposing visa restrictions on “those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, undermining the...
Amnesty: Eritrean troops still killing in Ethiopia’s Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya — Eritrean soldiers remain in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region and are killing civilians weeks after Ethiopia said the soldiers would leave, according...
UN says 34 migrants drown off Djibouti after boat capsizes
NAIROBI, Kenya — The International Organization for Migration says 34 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the Horn of Africa nation of...
Pentagon chief orders review of deadly 2020 attack in Kenya
BERLIN — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Monday ordered an Army review of an investigation into a January 2020 militant assault on the Manda...
Poor rains bring optimism African locust outbreak will fade
BARAKA, Kenya — In a convoy of pickup trucks fitted with spray guns, soldiers zoom through Baraka' s hills leaving a trail of dust...
Kenya court suspends gov’t move to close 2 refugee camps
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's high court on Thursday suspended the government move to shut down two camps that hold hundreds of thousands of refugees...
Tanzania’s new president changes policy on COVID-19, media
NAIROBI, Kenya — Tanzania's new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.
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