Rachita Shah of Mombasa's Aga Khan Academy on Sunday set five new Kenya records during the Brookeside swimming championships.

Glimpses of the persona that is Usain Bolt were flashed out in doses at the Segera Ranch, Laikipia where the world's fastest man has spent his last two days in Kenya.

A bottle of water placed on a piece of shiny roofing iron sheet may not look like something that would prevent disease, but according to a leading Kenyan scientist, it is a simple, yet effective, way to keep diarrhoea at bay.

Bodies of two flood victims were recovered over the weekend as another person died of cholera. This triggered fears of a major outbreak of diseases following the unrelenting El Nino rains in the Coast region.

Esther Ekwuon sits among a group of elderly men and women all huddled around a dry acacia tree in Turkana, northwest of Kenya.

The Bombay Natural History Society of which research Dr Viblin Prakash is a deputy director and the Indian Veterinary Research Institute have come up with an alternative drug which is just as good a painkiller as the banned diclofenal without the negative consequences.

In the Holy scriptures of the Hindus, Jatayu the vulture tried to rescue Lord Ram's wife, Sita from the evil clutches of the demon Ravan.

Kenyan taxpayers were last week surprised to learn that more than 45 years after Independence, they were still paying $1.1 million each year to British colonial pensioners.

Kenya's Ministry of East African Community has unveiled a new structure to co-ordinate regional integration.

Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Bangui, the largest city in the Central African Republic.

It's official: British visitors, including some well-meaning medical students, brought swine flu to Kenya -- and probably the East African region as a whole.

Prof Yash Pal Ghai, former chair of the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission, last week spoke out passionately on the dangers we confront -- yet again -- in the latest thrust to conclude our constitutional reform process.

In the sight of God, or under the law, all people are equal -- that is, the same in value. But this is very much a theoretical status.

The much touted fast-tracking of the trials of Kenya's post-election violence perpetrators might not happen after all, though senior government officials say the International Criminal Court has enough evidence to start the proceedings any time.

Internet speeds in Rwanda are set to improve dramatically, with the laying of a 1,500 km cable by Green Future, a last-mile connectivity company. The Kenyan-based firm will spend about Sh900 million in the cross-border project that will connect Rwanda's capital Kigali to Uganda's capital Kampala, with a high capacity fibre optic link.

Kenya's bid for a larger share of the southern Africa fresh produce market took a fresh blow after the Angolan government banned banana imports from Kenya in a move aimed at curbing the spread of banana wilt disease in the region.

The process of regional integration enters a crucial stage this month when heads of state meet in Arusha in the next three weeks to sign the common market protocol.

Most parts of the country were thrown into darkness on Sunday evening following a power blackout. The outage, which happened at around 6.30pm, hit Nairobi Mombasa, Nakuru, Nyeri, Nyahururu, Kisumu, Nanyuki and Eldoret.

A Member of Parliament has published a new Bill seeking to repeal the 30-year ban on brewing and consumption of traditional liquor in a move that promises a big shake-up of Kenya's beer industry.

The Obama administration's new "incentives and pressure" policy toward S Sudan confirms that it will resort to punishing errant African governments only after diplomatic engagement has failed.