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A million Kenyans expected to know their HIV status during campaign More than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday. The drive is expected to target more than 77 per...

Somalia's Islamist Al-Shabab militia group has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow, 620km south of the capital Mogadishu, causing hundreds of families to flee in fear of violence. November. “They [Al-Shabab] are in control.” Most of the fighting...

Kenya needs $1,02-billion in the next three years to tap its geothermal power potential, seen as an answer to over-reliance on drought-hit hydroelectric power, Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi said on Monday. Drought has slashed capacity at Kenya's main dams, forcing...

Kipkosgei, who bagged sh5m for the 42km race, was closely followed by fellow Kenyans, Naibei Ruto and Thomas Ngelei, who got sh2.6m and sh1.8m respectively. Kenya�s Jane Nyambura won the women�s 42km race on a day that saw a record...

Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of...

The court's chief prosecutor, Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced the decision on Thursday after a Harambee House meeting with top Kenyan leaders, among them President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Mr Moreno-Ocampo will go before the judges to seek their...

Monday its appeals chamber had ordered the immediate release of Protais Zigiranyirazo, known by the nickname "Mr. Z." Zigiranyirazo, a brother-in-law of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, was alleged to have been a member of Akazu, a small but powerful...

The government is fully committed to discharge its primary responsibility in accordance with the Rome Statue to establish a local judicial mechanism to deal with perpetrators of the post election violence," said President Kibaki at the end of a closed...