Nairobi, Kenya News

Customers make money transfers at an M-Pesa counter in Nairobi, Kenya. A mobile banking service, M-Pesa allows people without a bank account to transfer money between phones instantly.

Wycliffe Lugwiri told the public inquest into the death of the University of Nairobi post-graduate student that he did not kill or dump her body on Waiyaki way two years ago as alleged.

But smallholder carbon projects face serious management and policy challenges, including management complexity and the high cost of project development.

POLICE Inspector General David Kimaiyo yesterday defied National Police Service Commission chairman Johnstone Kavuludi by releasing a list of 47 county commanders without consulting.

The cars jolted fairly steadily over the holes in the road; the place had the air of a rather provincial city: nice climate, nice people, a dark underside of criminality, but a bit slow.

Kenyan motorists will have some relief for the next one month after the Energy Regulatory Commission announced a Sh5.06 cut in the price of super petrol in its latest price review.

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all government departments involved in the running of the Port of Mombasa to streamline and synergise their operations in order to enhance efficiency.

Kenyan police said on Monday they had shot dead a suspected supporter of the Somali militant group al Shabaab during a gunfight and said he had been plotting attacks in the country.

Kenya's capital city of Nairobi has been an epicentre of scams, robbery and other crimes for visiting tourists, who are heading to East Africa's safari parks and Indian Ocean beaches.

Ulinzi Warriors had an easy time when they faced University of Nairobi 'Terrorists' in the Kenya Basketball Federation Premier League.

Livelyhoods, the brain child of two 26-year-old activists, takes Kenya's girls off the streets and transforms them into eco-friendly entrepreneurs.

As we had exclusively revealed earlier, Safaricom today announced the launch of Vuma Online, which will see commuters access WiFi in public transport vehicles.

The GSMA, the global association for the world's mobile operators, opens an African office in Nairobi, White African reports : Back in 2010 when the iHub first opened, we had some of their staff who were in Kenya working out of the iHub and using the space for different meetings.

For a cost of only $1.75 per student, a self-defense training in an impoverished area of Kenya cut rapes among adolescent girls from nearly one in four to fewer than one in 10. A short and simple self-defense class for girls who live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, dramatically reduced the number of rapes.

Defending champions Co-operative Bank suffered a huge setback in its campaign this season after going down 53-61 to Lions in a national classic league match played at the Nyayo National Stadium gymnasium on Saturday.

Zimbabwe might be forced to field two goalkeepers in tonight's World Cup qualifier against Guinea after failing to secure enough seats for the 14 players who made it to Senegal en route Conakry.

BBA housemate, Prezzo, may have finally gotten his wish as the long battle between him and his embattled wife, Daisy Jematia Kiplagat, in court finally reached a resolve last week.

Farmers in Rift Valley have faulted the government for allocating less resources to the agriculture sector.

On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians.

Forget sea glass and bottled messages; flip-flops are the flotsam washing up by the thousands on Kenya's beaches.