Kenya

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say

Kenyan President William Ruto defended a US-backed Ebola quarantine facility at a military base after two people were killed during protests.

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.
Traders scavenge clothes from debris burnt down by the fire at Toi market, a second hand clothing market, in Nairobi March 16, 2026. According to a police report, the fire was caused by an electricity fault that razed about 250 stalls of second hand clothes.

At least 15 students killed in overnight dormitory blaze in Kenyan girls' school

 Keith and Aviva Siegel  speak at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp

Ismail Shirwac is seen holding a Somaliland flag and a Israeli flag.

Israel recognized Somaliland – African nations like Ethiopia, Kenya should be next - opinion


Kenyan police exhume 21 bodies from suspected Christian cult graves

Police near the coastal town of Malindi started exhuming bodies on Friday and recovered seven bodies that day.

 Kenya police officers stand guard as Forensic experts and homicide detectives exhume bodies of suspected members of a Christian cult named as Good News International Church, who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death, in Shakahola forest of Kilifi county, Kenya

Kenyan police probe Christian cult after discovery of over a dozen graves

"Personally I have visited about 18 children's graves," Mikali told a local TV station. She did not say how she knew the graves contained the remains of children.

Christianity, illustrative

Celebrating a generation of Israel-Kenya relations

For 10 years, students at the Amichai Religious School and a Kenyan school have been corresponding with one another as part of a pen pal program.

 From left to right, Adrienne Assouline, Dalit haskel, Gil haskel, ambassador Samuel Thuita, Gabi Shimon, and Moshe Liberman.

Lessons learned from Al Qaeda terror attack in Kenya, twenty years on - opinion

As the 20th anniversary of the Al Qaeda suicide bombing in Kenya approaches, I’m sitting at my desk sifting through two decades of difficult thoughts and feelings.

Kenyan terror suspects on trial for attack on Israeli owned Paradise hotel in Mombasa

The real face of climate change - opinion

Away from the flashy screens and bombastic speeches – are real people and communities who had no hand in causing the climate disaster, who simply do not have the luxury to wait.

A child digs for water in dry riverbeds in Turkana West, Kenya.

The Maasai people conquer cell phones, social media and pizza

The Maasai are known as warriors and semi-nomadic cattle-raisers, with a diet mostly consisting of raw meat and dairy from their cattle.  

 Maasai people in Kenya.

Kibaki’s capitalist outlook on education in Kenya brought mixed results

Emilio Mwai Kibaki removed restrictions on the Catholic University of East Africa.

 Kibaki's capitalist outlook on education in Kenya brought mixed results

How many Kenyans are Christian? Accurate numbers are hard to come by

Opinion: The reasons why the accuracy of statistics on religious affiliations is questionable.

 Kenyan school children

How a conversion split, and then strengthened, Kenya’s Jewish community

In Kenya there are about 300 Jews, and about half of them have ties with the Nairobi synagogue.

Kenya Parliament building

Kenyan police officer kills six in shooting rampage - police

The officer first killed his wife before shooting five other people with an Ak-47.

Kenya Defense Force soldiers 370