Cheptegei, 33, died from multiple organ failure at a hospital Wednesday, four days after boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, allegedly charged at her with a jerrican of fuel and lit her on fire.
Kenya burned huge pyres with hundred tons of illegal seized ivory in Kenya. This is a move by African leaders to end the illegal ivory trade endangering elephants as well as rhinos.
Several groups of Taiwanese nationals have been deported back to China. The Kenyan government who carried out the deportation alleged the Taiwanese of engaging in cyber crimes.
Kenyan Supreme Court judge Phillip Tunoi is being probe for allegedly accepting $2 million, or £ 1.4 million, bribe to rule in favour of Nairobi governor, Dr Evans Kidero.
Yassin Juma has been arrested and interrogated by the police. Police officers in Kenya have arrested a prominent blogger and former NTV journalist. According to sources, Yassin Juma has spent his second night at the Muthaiga Police Station in Nairobi, Kenya.
Kenya said on Thursday it was ready to quit the International Criminal Court if it did not get assurances about the handling of the trial of its vice president, hardening a rift between African powers and the tribunal.
Pope Francis steps onto African soil for the first time on Wednesday to address the continent's fast-growing Catholic congregation during a trip that will test his ability to bridge faultlines between Christians and Muslims.
A Kenyan court on Thursday lifted an order to freeze the bank accounts of two Muslim human rights organizations which had been blocked over alleged links to terrorism funding.
Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested a journalist who wrote about corruption at the Interior Ministry, drawing accusations from media groups that the government was trying to trample free speech.
The International Criminal Court on Thursday unsealed, or made public, arrest warrants against two Kenyan men on accusations of "corruptly influencing witnesses" in the east African nation.
Judges will reopen a hearing into whether to take action against Kenya over allegations it obstructed investigations into its President Uhuru Kenyatta, after an appeals court ordered them on Wednesday to reconsider their rejection of the case.
Burundi's embattled President Pierre Nkurunziza sacked his defense and foreign ministers on Monday, five days after surviving an attempted coup by generals opposed to his bid for a third term in office.
Tens of thousands of runners, including some of the world's best, and hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to hit the streets of Boston on Monday for the 119th running of the Boston Marathon.
The United Nations refugee agency urged Kenya on Tuesday to reconsider an order to close the teeming Dadaab refugee camp, saying it would not be part of any transfer of Somalis back to their homeland that violated international law.
Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by Somali gunmen at a Kenyan university.
Drug use in Kenya has risen fast in the past few years, according to religious leaders, politicians and charities working to tackle the problem. They say domestic use has soared as international drug cartels have turned east Africa into a major transit route for narcotics from Afghanistan. Some of the drugs spill onto the local market, they say.
The U.S. Homeland Security Department said on Sunday it was not aware of any specific plot against U.S. shopping malls, backing away from comments by the department's chief that he takes seriously a threat by Somali-based Islamist militants against the Mall of America in Minnesota and other shopping sites in the West.
A top United Nations climate official, Rajendra Pachauri, has pulled out of a high-level meeting in Kenya next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, as Indian police investigate a sexual harassment complaint against him.
An Egyptian man was sentenced in New York on Friday to 25 years in U.S. prison in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people.
Kenya is considering a request from Beijing to extradite 76 Chinese nationals charged with cyber crime for trial in their homeland, Kenya's attorney-general said on Thursday.
