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Kenyan Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru died in a fall from a balcony after a domestic dispute involving his wife and another woman, police said Monday. One police official said Wanjiru committed suicide, while another said he jumped to stop his wife from leaving the house after she discovered him with another woman.

HIV is a curse from God. That's what Patricia Sawo used to tell others as a church leader in Kitale, Kenya.

The Kenya Wildlife Service on Friday said its agents shot dead two suspected poachers who they saw shooting at a herd of elephants in one of the country's famous national parks.

It is a happy ending to a very long and torturous saga. The British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler are enjoying their hard-won freedom at the residence Monday of the U.K. High Commissioner (or Ambassador) in Nairobi, Kenya.

Somali pirates have hijacked a South Korean-operated fishing boat with 43 sailors, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.

Two South Korean, two Chinese and 39 Kenyans were aboard the 241-ton Kenya-registered trawler when it was attacked Oct. 9 in the waters off Kenya's Lamu Island, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Police in Kenya arrest five men accused of planning a "gay wedding" - a day after another union was halted.

You don't have to wear a hair shirt and dig a well to give back when you travel. Here are eight great trips that connect you with the world.

The fight for political reform in Kenya has moved into an unlikely venue -- the nation's bedrooms.

Rescuers combed a crash site in Kenya on Sunday where oil spilled from a truck caught fire and killed around 100 people in one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times.

George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police for possession of marijuana and resisting arrest, police said Saturday.