Kenya government

FILE - A fan of Kenya holds up a national flag during the final in the women's 5000-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on July 23, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. World Athletics President Seb Coe said Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022 that reports about a possible full-scale ban for Kenya due to a protracted doping crisis were misguided, and that increased funding and vigilance from the Kenyan government persuaded authorities to stop short of the most radical sanctions. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Kenya avoids track doping ban; Russia gets mixed news

By Eddie Pells Nov. 30, 2022 12:42 PM EST

FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 2, 2021 file photo, Kenya's Hellen Obiri, center, and Agnes Tirop, right, compete in the women's 5,000-meters final at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop, a two-time world championships bronze medalist, has been found dead at her home in Iten in western Kenya, the country's track federation said Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Husband arrested in killing of Olympic runner Agnes Tirop

By Mutwiri Mutuota And Gerald Imray Oct. 15, 2021 04:47 AM EDT

Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop found dead, police hunt husband

By Gerald Imray Oct. 13, 2021 08:24 AM EDT

Ex-Kenya sports minister guilty in Olympic corruption case

Sep. 15, 2021 11:47 AM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's former sports minister was convicted Wednesday of corruption and abuse of office relating to the misuse of more than $800,000...

Tanzania's new president on two-day state visit to Kenya

By Tom Odula May. 04, 2021 12:46 PM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan is on a two-day state visit to Kenya aimed at improving trade relations between the two East...

Kenya eases curfew, other virus measures after cases decline

By Tom Odula May. 01, 2021 08:01 AM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta loosened infection-control measures Saturday after the number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the...

A protester holds a placard during a demonstration over shortages of anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines, organized by people living with HIV or AIDS, sex-workers, members of the LGBT community, and their supporters, in the port city of Mombasa, Kenya Thursday, April 22, 2021. Kenyans living with HIV say their lives are in danger due to a shortage of anti-retroviral drugs donated by the United States amid a dispute between the U.S. aid agency and the Kenyan government. (AP Photo)

HIV drugs run short in Kenya as people say lives at risk

By Tom Odula Apr. 24, 2021 12:52 AM EDT

Flags fly at half-staff on the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney as a tribute to Prince Philip, Saturday, April 10, 2021. Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died. He was 99. Philip spent a month in hospital earlier this year before being released on March 16 to return to Windsor Castle. (AP Photo/Mark Baker))

The Latest: Australia mourns Prince Philip

By The Associated Press Apr. 09, 2021 03:30 PM EDT

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 22, 2015, file photo, a painting depicting the Obama family and step-grandmother Sarah Obama above, stands outside an exhibition about the Global Entrepreneurship Summit which U.S. President Barack Obama will attend later in the week, in Nairobi, Kenya. Sarah Obama, the matriarch of Barack Obama's Kenyan family has died, relatives and officials confirmed Monday, March 29, 2021 but did not disclose the cause of death. She was at least 99 years old. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi, File)

Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99

By Tom Odula Mar. 29, 2021 06:06 AM EDT

A frontline worker receives a shot of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, in Machakos, Kenya, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. AstraZeneca's repeated missteps in reporting vaccine data coupled with a blood clot scare could do lasting damage to the credibility of a shot that is the linchpin in the global strategy to stop the coronavirus pandemic, potentially even undermining vaccine confidence more broadly, experts say. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya tightens restrictions amid a spike of COVID-19 deaths

By Tom Odula Mar. 26, 2021 12:41 PM EDT

Kenya wants United Nations agency to shut down refugee camps

By Tom Odula Mar. 24, 2021 01:40 PM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya says it has given the United Nations 14 days to come up with a plan to close refugee camps in the country that host hundreds of...

Members of the military parade with a portrait of former president John Magufuli as his body lies in state at Uhuru stadium in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Saturday, March 20, 2021. Magufuli, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic whose populist rule often cast his country in a harsh international spotlight, died Wednesday aged 61 of heart failure, it was announced by Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who was sworn-in as the country's new president on Friday. (AP Photo)

5 die in stampede to view body of Tanzania's Magufuli

By Tom Odula Mar. 22, 2021 01:19 PM EDT

Tanzania's Vice President Samia Suluhu speaks during a tour of the Tanga region of Tanzania Tuesday, March 16, 2021. Vice President Suluhu announced Wednesday, March 17, 2021 that President John Magufuli of Tanzania, a prominent COVID-19 skeptic whose populist rule often cast his country in a harsh international spotlight, has died aged 61 of heart failure. (AP Photo)

Death of Tanzania's Magufuli draws sorrow but ire from some

By Tom Odula Mar. 18, 2021 05:36 AM EDT

Tanzania cops arrest man for reporting that president is ill

By Tom Odula Mar. 14, 2021 10:48 AM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian police have arrested a man for circulating posts saying that President John Magufuli is in ill health. ...

Tanzanian PM rejects claims COVID-denying leader is unwell

By Tom Odula Mar. 12, 2021 04:08 PM EST
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is well, the country’s prime minister said Friday, rejecting opposition claims that the COVID-denying...