Tag Archives: Kenya

Celestine Karoney BBC Sport Africa Former world under-20 athletics champion Kipyegon Bett has died aged 26 in Bomet, Kenya, following a short illness. The 800m specialist won his junior world title in 2016 and then took bronze at the senior World Championships in London the following year. However, his career was halted in 2018 when he was handed a four-year ...

Jewel Kiriungi in Nairobi & Wedaeli Chibelushi in London Hundreds of passengers have been stranded at Kenya’s main airport after workers went on strike in protest at a planned takeover by an Indian business group. Large queues formed outside Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) on Wednesday morning as flights were delayed and cancelled. Union leaders on Wednesday evening said ...

By Associated Press Children giggle as young people flash their smartphones to film robots carrying plates of freshly prepared meals on their inbuilt trays to deliver to diners in a busy eatery in Kenya’s capital. Nairobi has a vibrant tech industry with various startups and innovations in operation and has positioned itself as a tech hub in the East African ...

Kenyan journalist Rukia Bulle has won the 2024 BBC News Komla Dumor Award. The 30-year-old, who is the ninth recipient of the award and works for Kenya’s Nation Media Group, specialises in human interest stories. Bulle has also successfully built a strong following on TikTok through her relatable and informative content on the life of a journalist. The award was ...

A five-story building collapsed in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Tuesday night leading to a major rescue operation, led by the Kenya Red Cross.  The building collapsed in Uthiru – on the outskirts of the city – with initial reports suggesting dozens of people were trapped beneath the rubble.  But on Wednesday morning the Kenya Red Cross said all tenants of ...

The Kenyan government has postponed the reopening of schools by a week due to the ongoing floods that have killed more than 80 people so far.  Data shows schools across the country have been adversely affected by the floods, Education Minister Ezekiel Machogu said in a statement late on Sunday.  “The devastating effects of the rains in some of the ...

https://bbc.com/africalive Kenya’s largest public referral hospital has announced that it will dispose hundreds of unclaimed bodies currently at its morgue if family members will not collect them. “Interested members of the public are therefore requested to identify and collect the bodies within seven days, failure to which the hospital will seek authority from the courts to dispose of them,” the ...

By Dorcas Wangira Africa health correspondent, BBC News, Nairobi Four women living with HIV in Kenya have each been awarded $20,000 (£16,000) in damages for being sterilised without their informed consent. They have spoken to the BBC about their experiences. The women fought a nine-year legal battle – and their names have been changed to protect their identities, which were ...

Image caption, Fred Leparan (left) was convicted after attempting to sell a baby boy to an undercover reporter By Joel Gunter & Anna Payton BBC Africa Eye A Kenyan hospital employee who was caught by the BBC selling a baby on the black market has been convicted of child trafficking. Fred Leparan, who worked at Nairobi’s Mama Lucy Kibaki hospital, was ...

World 200m bronze medallist Alex Quinonez has been killed in his home country of Ecuador.The 32-year-old finished third at the World Championships in Doha two years ago to become the first Ecuadorian athlete to win a global medal in a track event. The Ecuadorian sports ministry announced the news in a statement on its Twitter feed, saying: “Today we lost ...