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News Articles: Kenya

Plumpy'Nut bars manufactured at the Edesia Nutrition plant in Rhode Island. Has the "ready-to-use therapeutic food" — credited with an 80 to 90% recovery rate among malnourished children — been caught up in the U.S. aid cuts?

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  • Global Health

Where's Plumpy'Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts

It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.

April 25, 2025
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By:
  • Jewel Bright,
  • Gabrielle Emanuel,
  • and 1 more
Distressed parents and relatives stand near a burned-out dormitory, following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (AP Photo)

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  • Africa

A fire at a school dormitory in Kenya kills at least 17 students

There are fears that the death toll may rise, police said, as President William Ruto called the news “devastating.”

September 06, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Peter Nyongesa walks through the mangroves to monitor his beehives in the Bangladesh slums in Mombasa, Kenya, on May 30, 2024. The 69-year-old Nyongesa recalled how he would plead unsuccessfully with loggers to spare the mangroves or cut only the mature ones while leaving the younger ones intact. So he has turned to deterring the loggers with bees, hidden in the mangroves and ready to sting.

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  • Environment

To protect mangroves, some Kenyans combat logging with hidden beehives

As part of a local conservation effort, beehives dot a section of coastline in Mombasa to try to deter people who chop mangroves for firewood or home construction.

July 15, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Kenyan President William Ruto gives an address at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday. He said he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead.

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  • Africa

Kenya's president has withdrawn the controversial tax bill after deadly protests

Kenya's president axed the bill after large demonstrations, in which rights groups say police shot at protesters and more than 20 people were killed. But protesters vow to march on.

June 26, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Igunza
Protesters scatter as Kenyan police spray water canon at them during a protest over proposed tax hikes in a finance bill in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday.

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  • Africa

Kenya's parliament burns and police shoot at protesters against new taxes

Thousands of protesters against a new finance bill entered parliament in Nairobi and legislators fled, in the most direct assault on the government in decades in Kenya.

June 25, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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  • Politics

Biden names Kenya a major non-NATO ally during state visit

It’s been more than 15 years since an African leader was granted a White House state visit. President Biden is trying to upgrade the U.S. relationship with Kenya.

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Asma Khalid
Kenya's President William Ruto (third from left) and his wife Rachel Ruto (in red) are flanked by Carter Center executives and U.S. Ambassador to Kenya (second from right) Meg Whitman outside the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum during the African leader's visit to Atlanta on May 20, 2024.

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  • World

Kenyan president arrives in Atlanta ahead of Biden talks in D.C.

President William Ruto and first lady Rachel Ruto of the Republic of Kenya met with leaders at the Carter Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Monday before convening with other city officials and heading to Washington, D.C., where the East African leader is scheduled for talks with President Joe Biden.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Kristi York Wooten
Ltesekwa Lekuuk, Paris's half-brother and a fellow moran, heads toward the mountain campsite where Paris had been living until a few weeks ago.

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  • Global Health

Kenya's Samburu boys share a sacred bond. Why one teen broke with the brotherhood

After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the mountains. It's a way of life that climate change is testing.

May 12, 2024
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Isabella Mogeni, 54, from the neighborhood of Mukuru kwa Reuben, looks on as bulldozers destroy homes in the slum area on May 3.

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  • Climate

In Kenya's flooded slums, people mourn their losses and slam their leaders

The government has declared May 10 a day of mourning to mark the deaths from disastrous floods and pledged to help. But some say the authorities aren't doing enough. And the rains keep falling.

May 10, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Igunza
A man swims from a submerged church compound, after the River Tana broke its banks following heavy rains at Mororo, border of Tana River and Garissa counties, northeastern Kenya, April 28. Heavy rains pounding different parts of Kenya have led to dozens of deaths and the displacement of tens of thousands of people, according to the United Nations.

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  • Africa

As Kenya's flood toll rises, Human Rights Watch says officials must step up efforts

Human Rights Watch accuses Kenyan authorities of not responding adequately to ongoing floods that have killed more than 170 people since the start of the rainy season.

May 02, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
A worker separates bags of donated blood at a campaign organized by the Rotary Blood Bank in New Delhi, India.

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  • Global Health

Here are 3 solutions to get blood to folks in 'blood deserts.' One is often illegal

Doctors have coined a term to describe places where blood for transfusions is not readily available: "blood deserts." When blood banks aren't around, they try different strategies to help patients.

April 11, 2024
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By:
  • Simar Bajaj

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  • Children's Health

Raising a child with autism in Kenya: Facing stigma, finding glimmers of hope

In Africa, there is a shortage of specialists and a lack of financial support for famlies who can't afford therapy. We look at how three families are coping.

February 26, 2024
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By:
  • Scovian Lillian
Activists march through the Central Business District of Nairobi on Jan. 27 at a demonstration calling for government action to address the murders of young women.

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  • Global Health

Murders of women in Kenya lead to a public outcry for a law on femicide

A brutally violent series of murders of women has been documented. Thousands of Kenyans are protesting to demand government action on gender-based violence.

February 18, 2024
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By:
  • Jacky Habib
Is the series of snowy storms in North America making you a little ... um ... squirrely? Well imagine if this was the first time you ever saw snow in your life! We reached out to people in the Global South and other parts to share their stories of the first time they saw snow.

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  • Global Health

In between shoveling, we asked folks from hot spots about their first time seeing snow

If snow has lost its charms for you, consider what it's like to experience it for the first time. People from the Global South and other snowless places share what it was like to discover snow.

January 20, 2024
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By:
  • Gabriel Spitzer
People wade through a section of a road destroyed by floods in Mandera County, Kenya, Wednesday.

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  • Africa

With a rising death toll, Kenya's military evacuates people from flood-hit areas

The floods have killed at least 170 and displaced more than 600,000 since the onset of heavy rains in November.

December 14, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
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