Kenya

After an absence of more than 30 years, Abdirizak Omar Mohamed has returned to Somalia, the country of his birth. Last year...

After spending years supporting charitable work in Africa, John Coors, chief executive of CoorsTek, the US ceramics...

Africa has the lowest internet penetration rate globally, but some of the world's tech giants think they may have touched a...

MasterCard is teaming up with the Nigerian authorities to launch identity cards that will double up as electronic payment...

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) goodwill ambassador and Chinese actress Li Bingbing (2nd R) dances with members...

When it comes to interest rates, Kenya is hard to predict. Having cut interest rates from 18 per cent in mid-2012 in great...

When Moses Bockarie was conducting fieldwork in Papua New Guinea in the 1990s, he noticed a striking side effect when he...

Less than two years after independence, South Sudan is attracting the attention of insurance companies in east Africa. And...

M-Pesa, the mobile money transfer tool set up in Kenya back in 2007, has now launched in large areas of India. Vodafone...

A pedestrian walks past a row of new shoes for sale on a mud-covered street, following heavy rains in recent days, in a...

In the three weeks since Nairobi’s first governor Evans Kidero took office, he has fired 11 people for delivering fictitious...

This is a guest post by Jean-François Groff, the CEO of Mobino, a Geneva-based mobile payments company. He is also one of...

"Don't let success stories like M-Pesa in Kenya fool you: the worldwide digital divide is still increasing and Africa...

♦ Kenya's new leader Uhuru Kenyatta is proving deft at politics even with a charge for crimes against humanity hanging over...

Friday's picks from beyondbrics: tackling China's graft; tragedy and farce in Venezuela; Japan's "Volker moment"; and how...

For years after Kenya won independence from the UK in 1963, its former colonial ruler ran its army, navy and air force. The...

Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in as Kenya’s fourth president on Tuesday, becoming the second sitting president in the world to...

Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in as Kenya’s fourth president on Tuesday, becoming the second sitting president in the world to be...

Uhuru Kenyatta was sworn in as Kenya's president on Tuesday. The March election was largely peaceful, free of the...

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in on Tuesday as Kenya's new president, following his victory in March against Raila Odinga....

Kenya’s supreme court has upheld the victory of president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, rejecting the claims of two petitions...

There were two choirs laid on at the national tallying centre to distract the diplomats, politicians and assorted...

This week’s Brics summit in Durban feels like a relic of the previous decade. After a boom in the 2000s, the pace of growth...

A growing desire for a decent burial among the less well-off in Africa is changing the map of things as far as insurance...

Abloody hostage stand-off in Algeria, battles against Islamic insurgents in Mali, and kidnappings of western workers in...

It has been a tumultuous few days for shares in National Bank of Kenya, the country's ninth biggest lender by market...

Strong production growth from fields off Nigeria’s coast helped Africa-focused oil and gas producer Afren more than double...

Output and profits at Premier Oil rose sharply last year as the FTSE 250 company committed itself to further significant...

Bowleven, the west Africa-focused oil and gas explorer, said it was poised to push ahead with gasfield development after...

The International Criminal Court in The Hague will hold hearings on Monday afternoon on whether to proceed with its case...

His name, Uhuru, means “freedom” in Swahili. But the man declared the winner of this month’s presidential election in Kenya...

By Bright B Simons of IMANI Ghana There are two prevailing and conflicting views of progress in Africa: the...

The strong performance of many African economies can come with an old fashioned sting in the tail. With import demand...

In recent months Africa’s largest pharmaceutical group has withdrawn staff from northern Nigeria because of fighting between...

By Dambisa Moyo In my book Dead Aid I suggested that African governments could and should access the international capital...

Wednesday's recommended reading from the beyondbrics team: who really won the Iraq war? Misunderstanding Putin; the state vs...

Nobody, it seems, wants to miss out on the African growth story (as many telecoms did in the 1990s). Another rallying cry...