NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates hijacked a Greek-owned bulk carrier on Thursday in the Gulf of Aden near Yemen, a Kenyan maritime official said ...
Obafemi Martins was the two-goal hero as Nigeria defeated Kenya 3-2 in Nairobi Saturday and snatched a place at the 2010 World Cup ...
A Danish firm has launched Vitamin A-packed chewing gum in Nairobi to help fight malnutrition among children in developing countries, the company said in a statement Thursday. Each piece of sugar-free gum in a pack of six contains 375 microgrammes of Vitamin ...
The spokesman of a Kenyan criminal gang notorious for beheading some of its victims was shot dead on Thursday in downtown Nairobi, witnesses and police said. Njuguna Gitau, who last week announced the official disbanding of the Mungiki group, was gunned down ...
Somalia's main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, on Thursday wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategise its response to the rise and radicalisation of the Shebab group. Dozens of the usually quiet religious movement's leaders have in recent days ...
The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May, researchers have said. The vaccine -- known as the RTS,S -- is targeted to be at least ...
Health experts and researchers met in the Kenyan capital Tuesday to find ways of eradicating malaria, the world's deadliest infectious disease that kills around 900,000 people every year. Key among the strategies for the fifth Multilateral Initiative on Malaria is the development ...
Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Copyright 2009 AP ...
Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Copyright 2009 AP ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt on Monday adopted a cheetah cub in Kenya's Nairobi National Park. The head of the Kenya Wildlife Service, Julius Kipng'etich, described the event as "the first time in history where the fastest ...
LONDON (Reuters) - More than 5,500 children across Africa have been given an experimental new malaria vaccine and the British drugmaker behind it, GlaxoSmithKline, promised on Wednesday that price would be no hurdle if it works. The vaccine, called Mosquirix and the ...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States has banned a senior Kenyan government official from visiting the country and may slap similar travel bans on three more people, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said on Monday. Carson sent letters to 15 ...
