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DADAAB, Kenya -- The recruits assembled by moonlight at a watering hole. Hundreds of boys and young Kenyan men were herded onto trucks, which were covered with heavy canvas, and driven through the night.It was so hot inside...
Rukiya Ahmed Makhtal, shown earlier this month in Garissa, Kenya, says she was raped in prison. DAVID MacDOUGALL FOR THE GLOBE AND MAIL A Canadian siblings is in jail, and the rest say they are on the run from persecution for...
Nairobi — The number of MPs will increase from 222 to 396 if the draft constitution becomes law. The draft, unveiled on Tuesday, also proposes to set up regional parliaments with a total of 278 members countrywide and county...
Kenya Data Networks, the internet infrastructure provider, is laying a 700-kilometre fibre optic cable from Thika to Mombasa to act as a redundancy path to its cable. Work on the redundancy path that started in mid October is...
Officials deny claims that government is conducting secret campaign Halima Aden, left, and Rhadija Aden, who live in Garissa, in eastern Kenya, say they have lost sons who were recruited and trained to battle Islamic insurgents...
Garissa — Armed with a university certificate, Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji returned to her pastoralist community in Garissa, northeastern Kenya, expecting to serve as a veterinary health assistant. "When I came back to Garissa...
Nairobi — The Nation Media Group Green Brigade this weekend took its environmental crusade to North Eastern Province, where they planted over 1,000 indigenous trees at Garissa Boy's High School. The team led by HR director...
Charles Abani, Oxfam’s regional director for southern Africa, last month attended a ‘climate hearing’ event in Cape Town with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson, former UN commissioner for human rights. Here he tells of...
Nairobi — Kenya could be sucked into the Somalia conflict unless the recruitment of youths to take part in the war stops, analysts have warned. Al Shabaab militants, who some say have links with international terrorist groups,...
The country's three million nomads are being hit hard by lengthy dry spells. When 64-year-old Jimale Irobe was a young man, he guided his herds of cows and camels through knee-high grass. The traditional way of life for Kenya's...
