At least 15 people have died in Kenya as floods swept away scores of houses and devastated farmland following torrential rains, the Red Cross said on Monday.

Kenyan President William Ruto has declared that there will be an end to visa requirements for all African visitors by the end of the year.

Britain’s King Charles III was heading to Kenya on Monday, his first visit as monarch to a Commonwealth nation, where he faces widespread calls for an apology for abuses committed during colonial rule.

Kenya will lead an international force tasked with bringing order back in Haiti, a country where gangs are responsible for a surge in killings, rapes, and kidnappings.

East African leaders on Wednesday hailed the awarding of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) to a joint bid by Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

The head of Kenya’s airports authority, Alex Gitari, has been fired after a power cut left passengers stranded in darkness for hours at Nairobi’s main airport.

The Kenyan government has reinstated a small subsidy in a bid to stabilise retail fuel prices for the next 30 days, following violent protests that rage for months.

Nigeria has been ranked as the third best English-speaking African country behind South Africa and Kenya which emerge first and second respectively.

Kenya has closed schools in the country’s two main cities as a three-day opposition protest started with demonstrators confronting police.

The death toll in an investigation linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation to “meet Jesus Christ” has exceeded 400 after 12 more bodies were found on Monday, a senior official said.

President Bola Tinubu will travel to Nairobi, Kenya on Saturday, to participate in the Fifth Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (5thMYCM) of the African Union (AU), the Regional Economic Communities (RECs), the Regional Mechanisms (RMs), and the African Union Member States.

Six people were killed on Wednesday in clashes between police and demonstrators in Kenya who joined banned opposition protests against tax hikes, police officers told AFP.

No fewer than 48 people were killed in a road accident in Londiani, western Kenya, on Friday evening.

Kenya’s Chief Justice Martha Koome inaugurated the country’s first digital sex offender registry on Monday.

Two months on from his disappointing performance at the Boston marathon, Eliud Kipchoge tells AFP he is determined to keep on writing history — and secure a third Olympic marathon crown next year.