[Nation] Nokia plans to make Nairobi its global hub for research and investment for the India, Middle East and Africa region.

MasterCard Worldwide, a global payments and technology company, today launched its official East African regional headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. This development brings the number

GATUNDU, Kenya (Reuters) - Next door to the mansion where Kenya's richest man, presidential contender and now war crimes suspect Uhuru Kenyatta grew up near the capital Nairobi, stands Francis Karanja's mud hut with a tin roof. Father of two Karanja voted for the 50-year-old Kenyatta to be his member of parliament, hoping the son of Kenya's founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, would help him rise out ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's economic growth will speed up to 5 percent or more in 2012 if rains vital to the key farm sector do not fail and other shocks do not materialise, a senior Treasury official said on Tuesday. He also said high market interest rates should fall in the next six months as the government reduces borrowing on local markets with the help of a foreign loan. Politics, drought ...

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX - News), a leading global medical technology company, and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), ...

[Nairobi Star] The government has until March 1 to raise allowances to medics, or face a nationwide strike from the health practitioners. This comes after the health workers, through Kenya Health Professionals Society, issued a 21-day strike notice to government over what they termed as government failure to fulfil their side of the agreement.

The center’s opening has raised questions about how the University will respond to discrimination and safety issues at its global centers.

[Capital FM] Nairobi - Kenyans have paid glowing tribute to the late pop legend and actress Whitney Houston but said her sudden death should be a monumental wake-up call to substance abuse.

NAIROBI, Kenya _ The International Criminal Court on Monday charged four Kenyans, including two serious presidential contenders, with crimes against humanity for their alleged involvement in ethnic violence after a disputed presidential election in 2007. The charges raised the political stakes ahead of Kenya's next presidential vote, scheduled for later this year or early 2013, but they also ...

When the administrative chief of this western Kenyan village received an urgent 4 a.m. call that thieves were invading a school teacher's home, he sent a message on Twitter. Within minutes residents in this village of stone houses gathered outside the home, and the thugs fled.