A fire at a school for girls in central Kenya has caused an unknown number of deaths, according to police, who said search teams have been deployed.

Hundreds of women have taken to the streets of Kenya's capital, calling for the government to urgently investigate rising cases of gender-based violence and the killing of women.

Kenya’s government is pushing ahead with plans to establish an Ebola quarantine and treatment facility at a military installation in partnership with the United States after a Kenyan high court temporarily barred the arrangement earlier this week.

A government official in Kenya says 16 students died in an overnight fire that started in the dormitory of a girls’ boarding school

Catholic hospitals in Kenya have long been sources of quality medical care for the poor and disadvantaged as government-run facilities lack medicine, and are mismanaged. But the mission hospitals, as commonly known in the country, are facing financial ...