KENYA

Three prominent Kenyan musicians have been charged with using hate speech in their song lyrics and inciting ethnic violence for political purposes.

To some extent, monetary easing has been accommodated because of stable-to-lower inflationary pressures.

Kenyan had signed a deal in June to purchase about 4 million tons of oil from the Iranian National Oil Company.

Dadaab lies near Kenya's border with Somalia, and members of the Somali rebel group al Shabab have carried out attacks and kidnappings in Kenya in the past.

Migrants seeking to escape from the Horn of Africa are often transported south by smugglers whose motives are far from humanitarian.

Lena Pettersson was on an international flight from Amsterdam to Tanzania where she was forced to sit near a corpse during the 10-hour flight, prompting Kenya Airways to partially reimburse the Swedish journalist.

A new study says the swine flu pandemic of 2009 might have killed as many as 579,000 people. The original count, compiled by the World Health Organization, put the number at 18,500.

Based on numerous reports of abuse and violence, the Kenyan government has ordered its citizens not to seek domestic work in the Middle East.

A landslide has struck three villages and killed at least 18 people in Budada, an eastern district of Uganda.

KWS estimates that only about 2,000 lions remain in the country, implying they could completely vanish within two decades.

The United States and India Wednesday agreed to further strengthen bilateral relations and cooperation on global issues and said that their ties had entered a new and more mature phase defined by constant consultations of strategic importance.

Tanzanian officials have arrested a German national for his suspected involvement in a bomb attack in Nairobi last month.

Five major corporations will join the emergency campaign to save the world's threatened forests by pledging to buy REDD multimillion dollar credits from projects protecting threatened forests around the world, the campaign announced Tuesday at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, commonly known as Rio+20.

The helicopter crash that killed Kenyan Security Minister George Saitoti on Sunday morning was a foggy event in more ways than one.

Washington, which put a $33 million bounty on the heads of six al Shabab commanders last week, said on Sunday that it will continue to provide assistance to the African Union Mission in Somalia, of which Kenya is a part, but did not elaborate.

African governments -- and international animal-rights organizations -- contend the Chinese luxury consumer's appetite for ivory is driving a new wave of illegal killing of one of their continent's most iconic animals.

Ending six years of terror is clearly in Somalia's best interest, especially as the transitional government's mandate nears its end, but scattering the rebels could realize Washington's fear that al Shabab will move deeper into Africa.

The Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab has made another threat to target buildings in Nairobi, Kenya, following a bomb attack Monday in the city's downtown.

A blast that ripped through a building in downtown Nairobi Monday, injuring 33 people, was caused by an improvised explosive device, Kenyan authorities said Tuesday.

African Union and Somali troops captured an al-Shabab stronghold outside of Mogadishu on Friday, claiming another key victory against the al Qaeda-backed rebel group.

On Wednesday, Somalia's interim leaders agreed on a schedule to end the current transitional period. By August, they hope, a newly elected government will lead a unified Somalia away from its tumultuous past.