East Africa’s huge locust outbreak now spreads to Congo
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization says a small group of desert locusts has entered Con...
Victims of 2 African embassy bombings await US court case
WASHINGTON (AP) — Doreen Oport was pulled from the rubble of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1998 covered in bloo...
Trump, Kenyan leader talk positive about US-Kenya trade deal
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta sounded positive notes Thursday about a future trade deal between their countr...
Former Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi dies at 95
NAIROBI, Kenya — Daniel arap Moi, a former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and econom...
Spray planes combat the huge locust outbreak in East Africa
NASUULU CONSERVANCY, Kenya — As locusts by the billions — yes, billions — descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, small planes ar...
Burundi’s ruling party picks general as presidential hopeful
NAIROBI, Kenya — Burundi's ruling party has chosen an army general to be its candidate in the presidential election set for May, signaling that the co...
‘This is huge’: Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades
KATITIKA, Kenya — The hum of millions of locusts on the move is broken by the screams of farmers and the clanging of pots and pans. But their noise-ma...
Locust outbreak, most serious in 25 years, hits East Africa
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food se...
1st malaria vaccine tried out in babies in 3 African nations
TOMALI, Malawi — A pinch in the leg, a squeal and a trickle of tears. One baby after another in Malawi is getting the first and only vaccine against m...
‘Amazing’: New embryo made of nearly extinct rhino species
JOHANNESBURG — Researchers say they have successfully created another embryo of the nearly extinct northern white rhino in a global effort to keep the...
Car bomb kills 3, wounds 6 at checkpoint in Somali capital
NAIROBI, Kenya — A Somali official says a car bomb has killed three people and wounded six others at a checkpoint in the capital.
Extremists attack Kenya military base, 3 Americans killed
NAIROBI, Kenya — Al-Shabab extremists overran a key military base used by U.S. counterterror forces in Kenya before dawn Sunday, killing three America...
Burundi’s president again says he won’t run for another term
NAIROBI, Kenya — Burundi’s president has again indicated he will not run for another term next year in the politically volatile East African nation.
6-story building collapses in Nairobi; at least 4 killed
NAIROBI, Kenya — A six-story residential building collapsed Friday in Kenya's capital, officials said, with at least four people killed and others tra...
Italian priest, and 2 Kenyan men who say he’s their father
NAIROBI — Steven Lacchin grew up a fatherless boy, but he knew some very basic facts about the man who was his father.
East Africa struggles with heavy rains, with more to come
NAIROBI, Kenya — Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations said the equi...
Mudslides, floods kill 34 people in western Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s interior minister says 29 people have been killed in mudslides, among the 34 people overall who lost their lives Saturday ami...
South Sudan faces crisis in forming new coalition government
NAIROBI, Kenya — War-torn South Sudan is "barreling toward a crisis" and could slide back into fighting, warned the International Crisis Group on Mond...
Flooding in East Africa affects more than 1 million people
NAIROBI, Kenya — More than 1 million people in East Africa are affected by flooding after higher than normal rainfall, an aid group said Friday. Parts...