Francisca Atonga

Francisca Atonga who is studying for an advanced diploma of accounting at Challenger Institute of …

A Web site hosting information on Kenyan politicians has been re-launched to provide a more effective analysis of parliament members' performances, months before that country's upcoming election.

The site, called Mzalendo, has information and contacts for MPs, as well as ratings of their performance and accessibility, and a database of their parliament records…

A young Kenyan woman is fighting for her life in a Dubaihospital following a brutal weekend assault in a car park behind the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road.



A Rashid Hospital official confirmed yesterday that doctors are…

Girl linked to ex-TV personality was killed

The family of IT specialist Careen Chepchumba who was found dead in her apartment on Tuesday is now demanding thorough investigations by the police after a post-mortem showed the 26-year-old girl was murdered.

A post-mortem conducted on…

 At least 460,000 men are battered in Central Kenya and Nairobi every year, according…

A Kenyan refugee who fled to South Africa in 2007 during the political violence that erupted in his…

A Nairobi high court has issued an order for the arrest and detention of former President Daniel Moi’s son Philip Moi for failing to pay the maintenance of his estranged wife Rossana Pluda Moi.



Mr Moi, in a divorce settlement, is to pay a monthly allowance of Sh250,000 to Ms Pluda Moi.…

There were 66 Kenyan convicts in UK prisons by the end of last year, the country’s Justice Ministry has said.



According to the Ministry’s official website, 60 of the convicts were men and only six were women.



However, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice declined a written request to disclose the number of Kenyans who have been convicted in the UK for the last five…

Homosexual acts may be outlawed in Kenya but there is a long tradition among some communities of women marrying each other.

This is hard to fathom in a country where religious leaders condemn gay unions as "un-African" - and those who dare to declare their partnerships openly often receive a hostile public reaction.

But these cases involving women are not regarded in the same light.…

Makau Mutua - Dean, SUNY Buffalo Law School, the State University of New York

On Being a Black …

Shuga: love, sex, money dished out some hard lessons on Friday night as it…

At the heart of Korogocho slum resides Elizabeth Wanjiku, an elderly 75-year-old woman living with HIV, ailing and…

 A police officer killed himself at the Ngong Police Station early on Monday after returning from night duty.

Constable Stanley Narangwi shot himself in the head at about 6am using an AK-47 rifle that was assigned to him on Sunday night, when he was deployed for night patrol alongside two colleagues.

“He had just returned from night duties but before he could return his firearm, a loud blast was heard in his house…

Zambia won the African Cup of Nations Sunday, beating pre-tournament favorite Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in a nerve-racking final at Stade de l'Amitie.

Stophira Sunzu scored the deciding sudden-death penalty after Gervinho missed his spot kick for Ivory Coast.

It's Zambia's first African title and came, poignantly, in the same city where nearly the entire national team was killed in a plane crash in 1993 in the country's worst sporting disaster.…

Of course the world has changed (and is continuing to change) and with the change women have become more career focused than ever that some things have been forced to take back seats. There are women who want it all, everyone wants it all I know, but then there are those who want it all more than others but when it comes to matters fertility, age and looks that deteriorate with time we don’t have so much power to get exactly what we want and when we want it. We therefore end up going about…

Young people tweeting from BlackBerrys and iPhones are driving the growth of Twitter in Africa, with South Africans by far the most vociferous, according to new research published Thursday.

Kenya-based Portland Communications and Tweetminster published findings indicating Twitter in Africa is widely used for social conversation and is fast becoming an important source of information. More…