Kenya heads to the polls Tuesday to select the country’s new president amid soaring food and fuel prices, a crippling drought and, crucially, concerns over whether the vote will be free, fair and ...

The Republic of Somaliland is in the Horn of Africa, along the southern coast of the Gulf of Aden. Its borders are Djibouti ...

The sun had barely risen on October 15 when Kenya awoke to the shocking news that its veteran leader, Raila Odinga, had died while in India at the age of 80. According to hospital officials in Kerala, ...

Kenya's journey to becoming a properly democratic society has been a mixed bag of fortunes from when Africans began advocating for the right to vote during colonial times to the struggle for ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — The most widely watched television stations in Kenya are shuttered, and the government has defied a court order to return them to the air. Opposition politicians are under arrest, and ...

Kenya: Scholars, civil society and lawyers have warned that Kenya risks reversing democratic gains unless ethnicity, corruption, centralisation of power and electoral systems are fixed. In a newly ...

Lawmakers in Kenya have proposed changes to the law that governs political parties to make it easier for the ruling party to poach members of the opposition. Under the proposal fronted for debate by ...

Former Senate President Abubakar Bukola Saraki has been conferred with the Nana Akufo-Addo Africa Democracy Award. The award was given to him in recognition of his “long-standing record as a champion ...

Kenya heads to the polls Tuesday to select the country’s new president amid soaring food and fuel prices, a crippling drought and, crucially, concerns over whether the vote will be free, fair and ...