When Kenyan President William Ruto took office in 2022, he pledged to end police brutality. Such comments seem a long way ...

Kenya’s pro-democracy anniversary protests on June 7, 2025, were marked by violence, looting and vandalism. Following these ...

Three Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) officers have died after sustaining injuries from an improvised explosive device (IED) attack along the Sankuri-Kiunga Main Supply Route (MSR) in Lamu County.

Protesters braving police batons, water cannon and occasional bullets on Kenya's streets this week have taken up a rallying ...

The directive from Kenya’s President William Ruto last week was clear: shoot protesters in the legs. It came just days after ...

Tens of thousands of people protested in at least 27 of Kenya’s 47 counties last week, some of the biggest anti-government ...

Kenyan President William Ruto has declared that protesters attacking security forces and businesses are engaging in acts of ...

Police say at least 11 people were killed - as a doctor tells the BBC protesters taken to hospital died of gunshot wounds.

Businesses remained closed and roadblocks in place amid tentative calm after violent unrest in Nairobi and other parts ...

Boniface Kariuki, a hawker who was fatally shot by police during protests in Nairobi, was remembered in a low-key requiem ...

Kenyan authorities launched an investigation into a major kidney-trafficking ring. Wealthy international patients have been ...

Unrest on the anniversary of the 1990 Saba Saba pro-democracy uprising led to 31 deaths this week. As calm returned to most parts of the country, the situation remained tense in northeastern Embu ...