KenyaForum

Mukhtar Ahmed, a Nairobi-based businessman dealing with electronics, paid for a full page advertisement on the Daily Nation on Wednesday, in protest of what he terms as “harassment and illegal eviction” from his business premises by the Administration Police(AP). In the a full-page advertisement addressed to president Uhuru Kenyatta, Mukhtar, gives a detailed account of […]

Read the full story

More than 1.7 million people have died of Aids related illnesses in Kenya since the virus was first identified in 1984. Each year it is estimated that there are over 100,000 new HIV infections in the country, of which 13,000 are children. 1.6 million people are living with HIV in Kenya which is now ranked […]

Read the full story

Good news: a “re-basing” of the way in which Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is calculated means that the country’s economy is officially 25 per cent bigger today than it was yesterday under the old method of adding up the nation’s wealth. Bad news: because politicians and officials of various political colours didn’t get their […]

Read the full story

When Australia’s Channel 7 News broke the news on Thursday that a Kenyan couple had been taken by the police for questioning after their baby died under mysterious circumstances, the news spread like bush fire in Kenya, not because the victims were just Kenyans but because the couple has been controversial public figures in the […]

Read the full story

The BBC is reporting that at least five people have been killed in an attack on the Kenyan coast, near to Mpeketoni where raids last week led to the death of more than 60 people. Local officials have said that that happened last night an armed gang descended on the village of Witu, about 15km (9 […]

Read the full story