Nairobi, Kenya News

Nairobi - A cholera outbreak has killed eight inmates in Kenya's largest prison outside the capital Nairobi and hospitalised 25 others, the commissioner of prisons said Sunday.

Somali pirates aboard Motor Vessel Win Far are seen firing upon a U.S. Navy Sea Hawk helicopter.

Nairobi - A cholera outbreak in north-eastern Kenya has killed 30 people over the past month, a senior health official said on Tuesday.

Kenyan Islamic faithful have been encouraged to cultivate a culture of reading in the ongoing Islamic Book-fair on Islamic topics and other religions, family, and children at Jamia Mosque Complex in Nairobi.

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East African leaders are due to sign a common market treaty later on Friday. The presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi are expected to agree to the free movement of people and goods across the region.

Somali pirate: Captain of ship captured Monday has died of wounds suffered in hijacking.

Nairobi, Kenya - Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama cargo ship used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships are increasingly hiring armed security teams to thwart hijackings.

When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis , she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships are increasingly hiring armed security teams to thwart hijackings.

FIBA Africa coaches instructor Ronnie Owino will hold a 10 day Module 2 clinic for coaches at the Nairobi Railways Club starting mid next month.

Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

This April 22, 2009 file photo shows the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama , leaving the Port of Mombasa, Kenya .

Delegates from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement are due to meet in Nairobi from Wednesday to address today's most pressing humanitarian challenges.

Obama: China helping...Wholesale inflation up...Iran on nuclear tour BEIJING President Barack Obama says China has helped the U.S. pull out of the recession.

A self-proclaimed pirate and a village elder in Somalia say that pirates holding a Spanish trawler and 36 hostages have been paid $3.3 million, and are freeing the ship and crew.

Monday, November 16, 2009 at 6:46 a.m. NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States will attend an annual meeting of the International Criminal Court, a body it has so far refused to participate in, the U.S. envoy for war crimes said Monday.

With the stroke of a pen, the last of Kenya's honey hunters may soon be homeless.

And though I haven't been to church since coming to Nairobi more than a month ago, I did ride the bus last week.

Resistance to a government scheme to upgrade housing in Nairobi's Kibera slum is enmeshed in economics, history and identity.