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Boon or doom: Cap des Biches in Senegal is an 86 MW thermal generation facility developed and constructed by Contour Global in two phases.
Photo: Contour

IFC’s new gas projects will destroy Africa

This is a familiar pattern. International financial institutions socialise risk and privatise profit, while invoking development rhetoric to justify fossil fuel expansion in the…

Can of worms: KwaZulu-Natal Police commissioner Lieutenant-General Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi laid the ground work for the commissions and probes currently sitting.

A glance beyond the 6 July presser

The public confrontation between senior officials, the establishment of inquiries and the intense public debate surrounding the allegations all indicate that accountability…

A relative is overcome by emotions as she pays tribute during the funeral service for the victims of a major flood and landslide that claimed dozens of lives near the Rift Valley town of Mai Mahiu on May 9, 2024. (Photo by SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images)

Dams burst, bridges washed-away and lives lost in Kenya floods

The worst floods in 30 years took the country by surprise

Hotspot: In search of work, Kenya’s beach boys, who sell jewellery and other wares, are drawn into sex tourism and trade. Photo: Dan Baciu

Kenya’s beach boys fall into sex tourism, trafficking

In the face of their families’ poverty, young men, persuaded by the prospect of wealth or education, travel to Europe with their older female sponsors only to be trafficked for sex

Stability in Kenya hinges on a just, equitable distribution of resources, and a commitment to progress human development for the marginalised.  (Photo by Donwilson Odhiambo/Getty Images)

Pockets of instability in Kenya are underpinned by unequal development

Stability in Kenya hinges on a just, equitable distribution of resources, and a commitment to progress human development for the marginalised

Bloop: Kenya plans to give new meaning to the term ‘tourist dive’

Africa’s first underwater museum set to open in Kenya

The museum stretches along the coast from Lamu to Malinda and showcases shipwrecks and their stories in a unique ecosystem

Aerial view of a truck passing in the Konso hills and terraces, Omo Valley, Konso, Ethiopia on March 10, 2017 in Konso, Ethiopia. (Eric Lafforgue/Art In All Of Us/Corbis via Getty Images)

On the road with East African truck drivers

In East Africa, truck drivers are being attacked, robbed and used as diplomatic footballs

Former party leader Mmusi Maimane said that he holds no bitterness towards the DA, but has instead learnt from his experiences. (David Harrison/M&G)

Maimane’s next move: starting the ‘Uber’ of politics

“Unemployed” former DA leader announces return to politics at Oppenheimer-backed conference

President Uhuru Kenyatta flies the flag as a cargo train leaves the Mombasa container terminal for its inaugural journey to Nairobi. The new line is expected to invigorate Kenya’s economy by making trade easier and cheaper.

The Lunatic Express rides again

Kenya’s shiny new railway line is the first stage in a network that promises to transform the region

Big explosions in Westgate Mall left big parts of it destroyed.

Kenya: Grenade attack leaves several people injured

A grenade attack at a crowded restaurant south of Mombasa has left at least 10 people wounded.

Christian gathering targeted in Kenyan blast

At least one person has been killed and 18 others wounded in attacks on a restaurant in Mombasa city and a church gathering in Mtwapa.

Yugoslav war crimes suspect arrested in Kenya

A man wanted on suspicion of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia has been arrested in Kenya, police said on Friday.

Kenya, Uganda plan new railway to Mombasa port

Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway to cope with increased trade between the east African countries and their landlocked neighbours

Kenyans deny hiding terror suspect

Three relatives plead not guilty to harbouring a man accused of masterminding the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa 10 years ago.

Sex and the Kenyan girl

The sex industry in Kenya is on the rise, as is the prevalence of HIV/Aids. Child sex work is not uncommon along the coast.

One home, many hopes

A former journalist and human rights activist is giving some of Kenya’s abandoned girls a second chance at childhood, writes Judy Bryant.

Hundreds of Kenyans ill after ‘toxic leak’

Hundreds of Kenyans have fallen ill after a chemical consignment was dumped on the roadside near the port city of Mombasa, officials said on Thursday. According to a local…

Kenya’s coastal resorts become ghost towns

In 16 years of working at resorts along Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, hotel manager Mohamed Hersi has never seen it this bad. His five-star hotel in Mombasa is devoid of tourists…

Older white women join Kenya’s sex tourists

Bethan lives in southern England on the same street as best friend Allie (64). They are on their first holiday to Kenya, a country they say is ”just full of big young boys who…

Kenyan cops arrest man over child porn allegations

Kenyan police are investigating a retired German national who frequently visits Kenya after he was arrested last week photographing children’s genitals and found to be in…