President Barack Obama's itinerary in Kenya does not include the village where his step-grandmother and half-brother reside.
Aiming at al-Shabab, Kenyan warplanes killed five Somali children on their way to a religious school Sunday, local residents told news organizations.
Nairobi County officials have nonetheless insisted that the bustling capital city's beautification was not about U.S. President Barack Obama.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide, Kenyans have warned Obama not to bring his "gay agenda" during his visit.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has been blamed for rising violence in the country.
Last month, the Somalia-based terrorist group threatened to attack "non-believers" in Kenya during Islam's holy fasting month of Ramadan.
A poll found that 96 percent of Kenya's population is opposed to homosexuality.
"We are planning to give Kenyan non-believers a true taste of Jihad in the next few days and weeks," a senior al-Shabab commander said.
Many of the foreigners still living in the Chatsworth displacement camp were unwilling or unable to return to their home countries or to their South African communities.
The U.K. Prime Minister says the world must reject "anyone whose views condone the Islamist extremist narrative and create the conditions for it to flourish.”
The damning report was made worse by the fact that the U.N. provided assistance to only 12 percent of the victims of sexual offenses.
Jaguar Land Rover just made its 2 millionth Defender as it's poised to retire a classic look after 67 years.
Nairobi's is aiming to choke off the flow of money to Islamists whose cross-border raids have hammered Kenya and its tourism industry.
The assault is the latest in a string of attacks carried out by the jihadist group al-Shabab, targeting the Western-backed government in Somalia.
Ivory poaching has drastically reduced Tanzania's elephant population over the last few years.
At least 129 children were killed in fighting in May, while several others were raped or castrated, Unicef says.
At least two dozen people were killed in two separate terror attacks in southwest and central Somalia on Thursday.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir can still be arrested anywhere and by anyone -- but the will to do so is lacking.
The convert to Islam is believed to have been part of a group of militants who launched a predawn raid Sunday on an army base.
China has agreed to invest billions of dollars in the East African nation, which is set to become East Africa's first oil exporter.
The raid came just a few hours after members of the group targeted a military vehicle with a road side bomb.
The accused, four Kenyans and one Tanzanian, have applied for bail, claiming torture in police custody.