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An explosion near a police station in northern Kenya has killed 4 people, including 3 officers

Mar. 25, 2024 14:15 PM EDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in northeastern Kenya killed four people, including three officers, and wounded several others on Monday, authorities said. The blast in the town of Mandera, which is on the border with Somalia, was...

E-waste from trashed electric devices is piling up and recycling isn't keeping pace, UN says

Mar. 21, 2024 12:46 PM EDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further. The agencies were referring to “e-waste,” which is defined as discarded devices with a plug or battery,...

Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at public hospitals as strike enters second week

Mar. 21, 2024 07:23 AM EDT

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals on Thursday, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week. Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last Thursday over poor pay and working...

UN member states are meeting to plan how to tackle the world's environmental crises

Feb. 26, 2024 11:09 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world’s top decision-making body on the environment is meeting in Kenya's capital this week to discuss how countries can work together to tackle environmental crises like climate change, pollution and loss of biodiversity. The meeting in Nairobi is the...

Flowers, chocolates and flash mobs: Valentine's Day celebrations around the world

Feb. 14, 2024 17:41 PM EST

Flowers, chocolates, handwritten cards — and flash mobs. People around the world expressed their love in myriad ways on Valentine's Day: hanging hundreds of paper hearts in the streets to honor a recently deceased “Valentine's Day Bandit" in Portland, Maine; vowing to cherish...

Man wanted in Massachusetts for murder rearrested in Kenya after a week-long escape

Feb. 13, 2024 21:44 PM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A man wanted in Massachusetts to face murder charges was has been rearrested, a week after he dramatically escaped from police custody, Kenyan police said Wednesday. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe escaped while awaiting extradition on a Massachusetts warrant...

A man accused of killing his girlfriend in Massachusetts escapes from police custody in Kenya

Feb. 08, 2024 00:53 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A man awaiting extradition on a Massachusetts warrant alleging he killed his girlfriend and left her body in a car at a Boston airport escaped from police custody in Kenya, police said Thursday. Kevin Adam Kinyanjui Kangethe slipped out of the police station...

Hyenas kill 1 person and injure 2 near Kenyan university, where students say they don't feel safe

Feb. 06, 2024 20:35 PM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Marauding hyenas killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, officials said Tuesday, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security. One of the wounded was a...

Kenya's president blames corruption and incompetence for huge fireball that hurt hundreds in Nairobi

Feb. 03, 2024 09:36 AM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president says corruption and officials’ incompetence allowed a liquid petroleum plant to operate in one of Nairobi’s most crowded residential neighborhoods, where its explosion and fire killed three people and injured more than 280 others. ...

A fire set off by a gas explosion in Kenya kills at least 3 people and injures 280 others

Feb. 02, 2024 13:47 PM EST

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Liquid petroleum gas cylinders exploded in an illegal depot in a residential area of the Kenyan capital, officials said Friday, setting off a late-night inferno that killed at least three people and injured 280 others. The death toll was expected to rise. The...