In late October, a three-year-old boy in Western Kenya intentionally ate a handful of carbofuran, a lion-killing pesticide, and later was found dead by his father.

While in China for a brief official state visit, US President Barack Obama met with his half brother Mark who traveled to Beijing from Shenzhen where he is living and doing consultancy work.

African army ants are famous for their ferocity. They can, and do, eat anything in their path. When rival army ant colonies meet, there are border wars. Yet when an army ant queen dies, the ants are “adopted” by other colonies.

Hollywood superstar and debt-ridden actor Nicolas Cage visited a Kenyan prison to talk to the Somali pirates to hear their stories and understand their motivation for their crimes.

Private companies want to edge into the market of providing nutrients to the world's hungry, and fortifying chewing gum with micronutrients is seen as one way to get a foothold on a huge market.

Due to mounting evidence that sexual relations between two men is a major factor in the rise of HIV infections, the Kenyan government will begin addressing homosexuality.

The international aid agency Oxfam has launched a £9.5 million ($15 million) emergency appeal for East Africa as 23 million people in the region find their lives under threat from hunger.

The United States, angry at what it says is the blocking of reform, has written to 15 senior officials in Kenya warning them that they face the imposition of travel bans if they do not support the reform agenda.

A high-ranking official of the international terrorist group al-Qaeda is believed to have been killed by American troops, Monday, during a daylight raid in southern Somalia.

Despite readily available vaccines, death rate of sickle-cell anemia in African children remains to be a growing concern, researchers said Thursday.