A Kenyan man who “came back to life” in a morgue where he had been taken after being presumed dead last week has died, this time for real, local media report. A mortuary attendant is said to have been preparing the “body” last week for preservation when the man woke up and started screaming before […]

Kenya is now looking to the east for a potential Covid-19 vaccine, according to President Uhuru Kenyatta. The president gave the ministry of health the go-ahead to shop for vaccines from China. The country’s decision comes in the wake of rich countries in the west buying nearly 3.8 billion doses of vaccines currently in development, […]

A Kenyan court Friday handed prison terms of 33 and 18 years respectively to two men accused of conspiring with the Al-Shabaab extremists who attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall in 2013, killing 67 people. Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hassan Hussein Mustafa, both 31, were found guilty on October 7 of conspiring with and supporting the […]

Kenya’s health minister has warned that rising Covid-19 infections in the country could lead to a second wave of the pandemic. Minister Mutahi Kagwe said infections spiked after President Uhuru Kenyatta announced further easing of restrictions. The infection rate had jumped to 12% from 4% last month, he said. There were also increased ICU admissions […]

Kenya’s education ministry said Tuesday that select classes would resume this week, after previously declaring the school year lost, following a drop in coronavirus cases. Kenya shut schools in March along with a slew of other measures to contain the pandemic, including  a night curfew, the closure of restaurants and bars, and the cordoning off […]