Police are investigating two separate drowning incidents that occurred in Kilifi and Nyandarua Counties on January 8, 2026.In Kilifi County, 23-year-old Wright Mbaru Sifa drowned in the Indian Ocean ...

The world was a very different place on March 11th, 2011, than it was on April 26th, 1986. While it was the detection of a ...

Mansur Ile, a resident of Siyu, sorts out porcelain fragments he has collected on the shore near the village. XIE SONGXIN/CHINA DAILY From porcelains at the Lamu Museums in Lamu Island and a family ...

At Lamu’s Mkomani carpentry workshop, Mohamed Juma Bakari sits on a low wooden stool, his calloused hands steady and his eyes ...

UNESCO World Heritage Sites are some of the most celebrated destinations on Earth, known for their cultural, historical, and ...

It’s an occupational hazard that my head is full of useless royal facts: The Queen Mother could play the Marseillaise on the ...

In Lamu, the China story is not confined to museum shelves. It lives in the hands of ordinary people. In Siyu, one of the oldest fortified towns on Pate Island, lives a villager who has become an ...

Kenya is staking its economy on women like Purity Marangu, who left her family to work in Saudi Arabia. They work as housekeepers, normally a safe job. But many have been assaulted, starved and worse.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The UK government has issued a travel advisory warning its citizens against visiting certain parts of Kenya, particularly during the festive season. In an update released on December 2, the UK's ...

Kenya’s Environment and Land Court has upheld a 2019 ruling that revoked the environmental license for the proposed 1,050-megawatt Lamu coal-fired power plant, effectively halting the controversial ...

When Wallid was growing up in Matondoni, a small village on one of Lamu's thirty scattered islands, justice was something that happened elsewhere to other people. If someone was wronged, they went to ...