A mass grave was discovered on Monday in Kenya's Tana River region which has been rocked by three weeks of fighting between the Pokomo and Orma ethnic groups, police said.

More than 100 people had so

At least 52 Kenyans were hacked or burnt to death in ethnic clashes between two rival groups, the worst single attack since deadly post-election violence four years ago, police said on Wednesday.

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A Kenyan police helicopter crashed on Sunday near Nairobi killing a minister and five others, a police source said.

"We have lost a cabinet minister, his assistant and their bodyguards and the pilots

The US military says an American reconnaissance plane crashed 10 kilometres from the only US base in Africa, killing four service members on board.

A military statement on Monday said that the crash

Little by little, China is forming military links in Africa and in the Indian Ocean in order, experts say, to protect Beijing’s economic interests in the region.

In this maze of windowless tin shacks, school classes are often held outside because even in daytime it’s too dark to see the blackboard. Now a youth group is hoping some 2-liter plastic bottles fille

Kenyan police have now expanded the search for a female British holidaymaker, kidnapped in an attack at a luxury beach resort by suspected Somali Islamist extremists who killed her husband.

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More than 100 people burned to death when a fuel pipeline burst into flames in a slum area in the Kenyan capital, police said on Monday.

"We are putting the number of dead at over 100, we are waiting

Famine spread to a sixth southern Somali region and will likely extend further in the coming four months with 750,000 people at risk of death, the United Nations said on Monday.

"Tens of thousands of

Famine spread to a sixth southern Somali region and will likely extend further in the coming four months with 750,000 people at risk of death, the United Nations said on Monday.

"Tens of thousands of