Wycliffe Muia, Barbara Plett Usher & Brian Waihenya BBC News, Nairobi Albert Ojwang / Facebook Albert Ojwang, who was married with a young son, had graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree a few years ago “My son died like an animal,” said Meshack Ojwang, before breaking down in tears in front of journalists outside...
Hundreds of thousands of people are “slowly starving” in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East African nation. It is...
Leading Kenyan lawyer and the country’s former Justice Minister Martha Karua says she has been detained in Tanzania after flying in for the court appearance of opposition leader Tundu Lissu. Karua said in a social media post that she had been detained at the main international airport and was awaiting deportation, along with two colleagues...
Basillioh Rukanga BBC News, Nairobi Reuters Kenya’s President William Ruto is a man of many nicknames. Deputy Jesus, El Chapo, Hustler and Chicken Seller are just some that he has acquired in recent years. As is often the case when people are given alternative monikers, some are affectionate but some are intended to mock and...