Nairobi, Kenya

Amid the usual piles of fetid rubbish on the streets of Kibera, Kenya's largest slum, there was clear evidence of the recent political violence in...

Dozens of organisations across the world, with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), dedicated the 16 days leading up to International Human Rights Day...

Amid the violence that engulfed several residential areas of the Kenyan capital following the declaration of controversial results of the...

Amnesty International is concerned about reports that dozens of people have been killed in different parts of Kenya, many by police bullets, during...

Kenya is in the throes of a humanitarian “national disaster” amid post-election violence that has left scores dead, tens of thousands displaced...

Locust swarms are expected in late December and early January in northeast Kenya and southeast Ethiopia in November, the UN Food and Agriculture...

UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes has warned that the humanitarian situation in Ethiopia's Somali and Sudan's Darfur...

Tensions are high in Kenya's New Molo District, Rift Valley province, where ethnic clashes have resulted in 15 deaths and 16,000 villagers displaced...

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has temporarily halted the repatriation of Sudanese refugees to Jonglei state in the south where recent clashes have...

The small compensation Fartun Abdi Ahmed, 25, takes from having her genitalia ritually excised with a knife used on six other girls is that the...