Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — Kenyan police named Albert John Olando Molanda as the main suspect in a Dec. 20 bomb blast in the capital, Nairobi, which killed three people including Molanda.

NAIROBI – The 12 nominations presented by Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Spain for inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity were approved here Tuesday by a panel of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural...

The largest refugee camp in the world, in Dadaab, Kenya, is facing an overcrowding crisis with at least 700 families now residing in “unacceptable living conditions” outside the camp and in peril with the approaching rain season, the...

Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo-Johnson, head of the Convention démocratique des peuples africains (Democratic Convention of African Peoples (CDPA) opposition party, is Togo’s first female presidential candidate. But she has withdrawn from the...

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya — Rose is 17 months old. She weighs 15 pounds and looks the size of an American 5-month-old. She cannot sit up, walk or speak. She has the toothpick limbs and saucer eyes of the malnourished and the dull skin of...

Three foreign workers with the French aid group Action Against Hunger (ACF) were freed Saturday after being held in Somalia since July, a humanitarian agency source said. The three, whose nationalities were not known, were expected to fly to Nairobi...

Kenya, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations, is being targeted by Western paedophiles who are exploiting the country’s poverty and lax law enforcement to abuse children, an investigation has discovered. Undercover reporters for Channel...

The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. Millions of impoverished Ethiopians face the threat of...

In a radio advertisement at the centre of a controversy in Kenya, a distraught teenage girl asks for help after having unprotected sex. “What shall I do? I’m still in college. What happens to my future, my friends, my family, my...

Africa’s first female president was propelled to power on a tide of democratic passion from voters eager to turn the page on the years of civil carnage. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was hailed as the woman whose level head and calm, almost grandmotherly,...