Kenya is facing scarcity of condoms after the Government of the country had stopped importing condoms from China. The import was discontinued following the complaints that they do not fit.

Kenya’s Citizen Television has filmed desperate Kenyans, washing condoms in order to use them again. Social networking site Twitter has expressed shock at the news.

A woman from Featherston had reached back home recently from Nairobi in Kenya. She was in the African continent to provide help to the sick and the down trodden, and despite the lack of decent toilets, electricity and mounds of garbage all around she gave care for a period spanning four-weeks.

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has partnered with Novartis Pharma Services to help Kenyan renal patients get affordable kidney transplants, reducing it from Sh700,000 to less than Sh500,000, thereby adding to their lifeline.

Archaeologists have reported that they have found footprints of a human ancestor, left 1.5 million years ago in Kenya; the footprints show that the ancient humans walked in the similar way as the modern human beings walk with modern feet.

Nairobi  - George Obama, the Kenyan half-brother of President Barack Obama, is to face no charges after he was arrested in a weekend drug raid, police said Monday.

Nairobi  - At least 91 people died in Kenya after a tanker truck from which they were siphoning off petrol exploded, an official said Sunday.

Rift Valley provincial commissioner Noor Hassan Noor said the accident happened Saturday evening near the town of Molo, north-west of the capital Nairobi.

Nairobi/Accra - Ghana's opposition candidate John Atta Mills has won an incredibly tight run-off presidential election, Ghana's electoral commission announced Saturday.

Atta Mills, who was running for president for the first time, took 50.23 per cent of the vote, ensuring he will be the man to lead Ghana into the oil era.

Nairobi/Accra  - The last Ghanaian constituency to vote in a run-off presidential election appeared Saturday to have handed victory to opposition candidate John Atta Mills, although final results were yet to be announced amid claims of fraud.

Nairobi/Mogadishu - The man named prime minister by Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed in a controversial move last week resigned on Wednesday, saying his appointment was an impediment to peace.

Nairobi - Mountain gorillas living in a Congolese national park controlled by rebels battling the government are doing well despite the conflict, the director of the park said Tuesday after rangers gained access for the first time in 15 months.