Nairobi News

Nairobi - A shooting attack around noon today at a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya, left at least 30 people dead and about 50 injured. Early reports speak of armed men throwing hand grenades and shooting people in the most exclusive shopping mall in the city.

Nairobi - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, was engulfed in flames on Wednesday morning. Firefighters are battling the blaze and passengers are being evacuated. (Updated).

Toronto - The recent spate of explosions that have rocked Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighbourhood in Kenya has taken a new twist with the apparent targeting of Mr. Yusuf Hassan, a member of Parliament who was injured in a blast outside a Nairobi mosque.

Garissa - The attacks on Kenyan Christian churches may have their roots in the October, 2011 incursion into Somalia by Kenyan troops.

Nairobi - The British government has issued a warning to its citizens abroad that a terrorist attack in Nairobi is imminent. This follows the activities of the Kenyan army in Somalia. The UK warning comes after a similar alert issued by the USA.

Nairobi - Reports coming out of Kenya's capital city say that a fire in a slum area of the city has killed at least 100 people with police saying the number could rise.

Nairobi - At least two people have been killed, six have been injured and 14 individuals are unaccounted for after a building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The Red Cross immediately dispatched emergency crews to the scene.

Riots have broken out in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, over the holding of a radical Muslim cleric. Authorities have been trying to deport Abdullah Al-Faisal, who is on a global terror watchlist, without success.

Is 'Poorism' a voyeuristic expedition to see people less fortunate than ourselves or is it a sustainable form of tourism that will benefit residents of impoversihed neighbourhoods?

After a UNICEF conference it has been found that an estimated 900 babies are at risk each year in Africa as their Mothers are not getting adequete treatment from the governemnt to prevent contracting HIV at birth.