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World Athletics President Sebastian Coe speaks during a news conference before the World Athletics Championships Thursday, July 14, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Tokyo chosen to host 2025 track world championships

Jul. 14, 2022 05:47 PM EDT

Antti Pihlakoski, evaluation panel chairman of the World Athletics (WA), center left, and Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike, surrounded by other WA members, pose for a photo before their talk in Tokyo, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Council member Nawal El Moutawakel, back, from left, Vice President Ximena Restrepo and Director of Competitions & Events Jakob Larsen join the photo session. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)
Tokyo a candidate for track and field world championships

By Stephen Wade May. 25, 2022 12:44 AM EDT

2 runners dropped from Kenya Olympic team over doping tests

By Mutwiri Mutuota And Gerald Imray Jul. 15, 2021 05:34 AM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya was forced to drop two runners from its Olympic team just over a week before the Tokyo Games because they haven't taken the...

Kipruto, Cheruiyots left out of Kenya Olympic team

By Mutwiri Mutuota Jun. 19, 2021 12:29 PM EDT
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Olympic steeplechase champion Conseslus Kipruto and world 1,500-meter titleholder Timothy Cheruiyot missed out on Kenya's provisional...

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

FILE - In this March 15, 2021, file photo, boxes of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India and provided through the COVAX global initiative arrive at the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia. COVAX is providing vaccines to poorer countries lacking the clout to negotiate for them on their own, but it has only cleared 2 million doses in the past two weeks because nearly all deliveries through the program are blocked until as late as June. On March 25, COVAX announced a major setback in its vaccine rollout because a surge in infections in India had caused the Serum Institute of India to cater to domestic demand, resulting in a delay in global shipments of up to 90 million doses. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
Stalled at first jab: Vaccine shortages hit poor countries

By Lori Hinnant And Maria Cheng Apr. 10, 2021 02:20 AM EDT

Isaac Kivai, who scavenges recyclables for a living, puts on a protective suit found in the trash at Dandora, the largest garbage dump in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, Sunday, March 28, 2021. Trash pickers, who are not eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine shot, say the gear especially protects them from the weather during the rainy season. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
Vital to a clean world, scavengers left to plead for vaccine

By Aniruddha Ghosal Mar. 29, 2021 09:51 PM 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

FILE - In this July 11, 2020, file photo, party members have their temperature checked and sanitize their hands as a precaution against the coronavirus at the national congress of the ruling Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party in Dodoma, Tanzania. Opposition politicians on Wednesday March 10 2021, are raising questions about the health of Tanzania's COVID-19-denying president John Magufuli, as he has not been seen in public for more than a week and there has been no responce to questions from The Associated Press about Magufuli’s health and whereabouts.  (AP Photo, File)
Politicians ask about health of Tanzania's populist leader

By Tom Odula Mar. 10, 2021 09:18 AM EST

The first arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Kenya is offloaded from a Qatar Airways flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, early Wednesday, March 3, 2021. Around 1.02 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived at the airport as part of the COVAX facility, according to the Ministry of Health. (AP Photo)
Kenya receives receives 1 million vaccines from COVAX

By Tom Odula Mar. 03, 2021 02:20 AM EST

European Tour adds new golf tournament in Kenya

Feb. 12, 2021 08:38 AM EST
VIRGINIA WATER, England (AP) — The Kenya Open will be followed by a new tournament in the East African country next month, the European Tour said Friday. ...

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, truck drivers entering Kenya queue to be tested for the coronavirus on the Kenya side of the Namanga border crossing with Tanzania. Tanzania's President John Magufuli openly expressed doubt about COVID-19 vaccines and accused people who were vaccinated outside the East African nation of bringing new infections into the country. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
Tanzania's leader denies COVID-19, and countrymen push back.

By Cara Anna Jan. 27, 2021 09:04 AM EST

Kenya: Doctors call off strike, nurses continue picketing

Dec. 24, 2020 11:25 AM EST
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors, pharmacists and dentists in Kenya called off a three-day strike over inadequate personal protective equipment and insurance...

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

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

FILE - In this Friday, May 5, 2017 file photo, Tanzanian opposition politician Zitto Kabwe, right, speaks at the national assembly in Dodoma, Tanzania. Tanzanians are due to go to the polls on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020 with the future of one of Africa's most populous countries at stake and, at least before the COVID-19 pandemic, one of its fastest-growing economies. (AP Photo, File)
Observers say Tanzania's presidential vote is already flawed

By Tom Odula Oct. 25, 2020 04:02 AM EDT

Kevin Mutinda, 7, center, his sister Irene Wanzila, 10, 2nd right, and their mother Florence Mumbua, right, work to break rocks with a hammer, after Mumbua say she was left without a choice after she lost her cleaning job at a private school when coronavirus pandemic restrictions were imposed, at Kayole quarry in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020. The United Nations says the COVID-19 pandemic risks significantly reducing gains made in the fight against child labor, putting millions of children at risk of being forced into exploitative and hazardous jobs, and school closures could exacerbate the problem. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labor rises

By Tom Odula Oct. 20, 2020 03:57 AM EDT

Unused school materials lay on a shelf at a school in the community of Nuevo Yibeljoj, Chiapas state, Mexico, Friday, Sept. 11, 2020. Amid the new coronavirus pandemic, Mexican education officials recently said that enrollment for the new school year was down about 10%, but teachers warn that many students enrolled out of habit, but aren't participating. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
Pandemic driving children back to work, jeopardizing gains

By María Verza, Carlos Valdez And William Costa Oct. 15, 2020 09:13 AM EDT