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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

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)
Kenyan runner Agnes Tirop found dead, police hunt husband

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

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 demonstrator with the Brazilian flag painted on his face, shouts slogans during a caravan backing President Jair Bolsonaro’s anti-coronavirus-lockdown stance, marking May Day, or International Workers' Day, in Brasilia, Brazil, Saturday, May 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The Latest: 10% of Washington town positive for COVID-19

By The Associated Press May. 01, 2021 05:42 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 Friday, March 5, 2021 file photo, a nurse prepares to administer a dose of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya has ordered an immediate suspension on private importations of vaccines, citing fears that it  may lead to counterfeit inoculations getting into the country. The National Emergency Response Committee said the move is meant to ensure transparency and accountability in the process of vaccinations. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, FIle)
Kenya stops the private importation of COVID-19 vaccines

By Tom Odula Apr. 03, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

Craig Rawls, an Army National Guardsman, right, speaks with his wife Chris Rawls, with only a face mask as a protective garment at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Collins, Miss., as part of Operation "Family Reunion," Thursday, April 1, 2021. Due to the relaxation of protocols designed to slow the spread of coronavirus, the veterans home allowed indoor, in-person visits between veterans and two family members without the use of PPE for the first time since March of 2020. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
The Latest: Navajo Nation reports 4 new virus deaths

By The Associated Press Apr. 03, 2021 06:19 AM 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

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

Uganda's Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, center right, and other officials greet the country's first consignment of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the global COVAX initiative, at the airport in Entebbe, Uganda Friday, March 5, 2021. Urgent calls for COVID-19 vaccine fairness rang through African countries on Friday as more welcomed or rolled out doses from the global COVAX initiative, with officials acutely aware their continent needs much more. (AP Photo/Nicholas Bamulanzeki)
Africa welcomes COVAX doses but warns against 'selfishness'

By Rodney Muhumuza Mar. 05, 2021 06:07 AM EST

Youths in an apartment look out of their window as residents below protest on the streets, asking the government to supply them with food and to be allowed to leave, in the Eastleigh area of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, May 11, 2020. A week earlier, the Kenyan government sealed off Eastleigh and the Old Town area of the port city of Mombasa, with no movement permitted in or out for 15 days, due to "a surge in the number of positive coronavirus cases." (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage

By Tom Odula Dec. 16, 2020 12:04 AM EST

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Nov. 30, 2020 08:46 AM EST

A coronavirus patient lies in the intensive care unit of an isolation and treatment center for those with COVID-19 in Machakos, south of the capital Nairobi, in Kenya Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. As Africa is poised to surpass 2 million confirmed coronavirus cases it is Kenya's turn to worry the continent with a second surge in infections well under way. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Kenyans fear they're on their own as COVID-19 surges again

By Tom Odula Nov. 18, 2020 02:05 AM EST

The UN Security Council holds a meeting on the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, in this Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019 file photo, at United Nations headquarters. The coronavirus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it. “We could criticize the U.N. for this — but who are we really talking about, when we blame `the U.N.?'” Switzerland President Simonetta Sommaruga asked. “We are in fact talking about ourselves, because the U.N. is its member states. And it is often member states that stand in the way of the U.N.’s work.”(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms

By Edith M. Lederer Sep. 27, 2020 12:40 PM EDT

In this UNTV image, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, speaks in a pre-recorded video message during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, at UN headquarters in New York. The U.N.'s first virtual meeting of world leaders started Tuesday with pre-recorded speeches from heads-of-state, kept at home by the coronavirus pandemic. (UNTV via AP)
The Latest: Venezuela's Guaidó urges nations to decry Maduro

By The Associated Press Sep. 23, 2020 10:25 AM EDT

French and U.S. flags decorate a house front near Omaha Beach, Thursday, June 4, 2020, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. France has avoided echoing U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus, but legislators applauded Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian mid July 2020 when he condemned abuses of minority Uighurs in China’s northwest. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo, File)
US-China spats rattle world, prompting calls for unity

By Joe Mcdonald Jul. 28, 2020 06:07 AM EDT

Belgium's Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes talks during a news conference following a meeting of the National Security Council amid the coronavirus outbreak in Brussels, Monday, July 27, 2020. Belgian Prime Minister Sophie Wilmes unveiled Monday a new set of drastic social distancing measures aimed at avoiding a new general lockdown amid a surge of COVID-19 infections. (Francois Lenoir, Pool Photo via AP)
The Latest: Kentucky closes bars amid spike in coronavirus

By The Associated Press Jul. 27, 2020 02:37 AM EDT