Kenya News

US: Feuding Kenyan leaders need to talk

By theGrio

8:11 AM on 02/16/2010

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - A public dispute between the president and prime minister over how to tackle high-level corruption and the powers each of them has under the Constitution has deepened...

Obama's aunt living illegally in Boston

By theGrio

10:23 AM on 12/01/2009

BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's aunt sobbed over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing...

World's fastest man adopts world's fastest feline

By theGrio

9:10 AM on 11/03/2009

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The world's fastest man has adopted the animal kingdom's fastest sprinter, as Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah named "Lightning Bolt" into his life...

Kenyans celebrate Obama's win

By theGrio

1:20 PM on 10/09/2009

KISUMU, Kenya (AP) - Kenyan radio shows interrupted their programming and bus conductors shouted the news from the windows: President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize...

Somali refugee camps are "barely fit for humans"

By theGrio via AP

10:45 AM on 09/03/2009

Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees are jammed into camps that are "barely fit for humans," with poor sanitation and little access to water and medicine, an international aid agency said...

Secretary of State Clinton vows U.S. support for Somalia

By theGrio via AP

8:05 AM on 08/06/2009

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday pledged continued American support for Somalia's weak interim government as it struggles against Islamist extremists believed linked to al-Qaida.

Hillary Clinton arrives in Kenya, begins 7-nation Africa tour

By theGrio via AP

1:35 PM on 08/04/2009

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is bringing a message of tough love to Kenya: you are a key American friend in east Africa, but you must rein in graft and follow through on political reform.

Prosecutor pursuing 'all black people should leave Wal-Mart' remark

WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - A racial comment made over the public-address system at a Wal-Mart store in southern New Jersey is being investigated as a possible bias crime...