Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on an island in a lake in northwest Kenya.

Fresh gunfire and an explosion were still being heard at a hotel compound in Kenya’s Nairobi a day after Somali-based al-Shabab militants attacked the building, but the standoff was later declared over.

An explosion and gunfire have rocked the Kenyan capital.

Armed militants in Kenya kidnap an Italian volunteer in a raid on a village in the southeast of the country, police say.

At least 50 people have been killed in a bus crash between Nairobi and Kenya's western city of Kisumu.

A bus traveling from Nairobi to Kakamega in western Kenya overturns, leaving 51 people dead.

Kenya's chairmen of public land and railway have been detained over a land deal for a new flagship Nairobi-Mombasa railway.

At least five soldiers in Kenya are killed in an attack claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militant group, according to a Kenyan official .

A top Iranian official has proposed to create a mechanism to barter Iranian oil products with African gold.

Incessant heavy rainfall in March and April caused dams and rivers in parts of the East African nation to overflow.