NAIROBI, Kenya - Four women died in a stampede in western Kenya Friday after a crowd panicked when people mistook the effect of tea spilt on a fire for tear gas, police said. The incident in the town of Kericho happened outside a stadium where President William Ruto was due to deliver a...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan investigators unearthed 29 more bodies on Friday bringing the number of victims linked to a doomsday starvation cult to 179, many of them children. Police believe most of the bodies found in a forest near the Indian Ocean town of Malindi belong to followers of Paul...
MALINDI, Kenya -- Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday vowed to crack down on "unacceptable" religious movements after police discovered the bodies of 51 people suspected of belonging to a Christian cult that practised starvation. A major search is underway in a forest near the coastal town of...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The United Nations' rights chief voiced alarm Saturday at the grisly murder of LGBTQ rights campaigner Edwin Chiloba in Kenya, calling for more protection of such activists worldwide. "Shaken by the murder of human rights advocate #EdwinChiloba," Volker Turk, the High...
The Philippine Embassy in Kenya has opened the country's first-ever art exhibition at the Kenyan national museum to give locals an idea about the similarities of the Philippines with the African country despite their geographical distance. Ambassador Marie Charlotte Tang opened on June 17 the...
The government's pandemic task force has approved the proposal to accept and recognize the Covid-19 vaccine certificates of Morocco, the Republic of Kenya, and the Republic of Serbia as sufficient proof of vaccination for several purposes, including entry to the country. PIXABAY / MANILA BULLETIN...
The Philippine Embassy in Nairobi successfully conducted a consular outreach mission and mobile voting for the 2022 elections in Seychelles on April 17, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said. Photos from the Philippine Embassy in Nairobi and the Philippine Consulate General in Los Angeles,...
LAMU, Kenya-- At least six villagers were killed on Monday in an attack by al-Shabab militants at a village in Kenya's coastal county of Lamu, local officials said. Lamu County Commissioner Irungu Macharia said that the attackers, believed to have crossed over from neighboring Somalia, also torched...
Kenya on Thursday started vaccinating its Olympic athletes against COVID-19, paving the way to compete in the Tokyo Games. All the 75 athletes in the Olympic team bubble at Nairobi's Kasarani stadium were vaccinated on Thursday, in an exercise which will also cover the Paralympic teams, rugby...
