A rapidly growing civil society movement is championing the disinherited indigenous people of the Coast and demanding secession. A photo of a young man, his back to the camera, wearing a black T-shirt ...

Waking up to an email invitation for a weeklong tour of some of Kenya’s most inviting places was a dream come true for Edgar R. Batte who toured the beaches of Mombasa. There are times in this trade ...

Kenya’s Coast Province boasts of wealth of opportunity — pristine beaches, deluxe hotels, a major port and an oil refinery — but for locals in the picturesque city of Mombasa, it’s hardly a paradise.

Preserve or dismantle. That is the dilemma that Kenya faces over a maritime graveyard off the coast of Mombasa. While the wrecks that sunk many years ago offer a tourist attraction, experts say they ...

Violence has flared on election day in Kenya, with at least 13 people killed in co-ordinated attacks on the coast. A group of 200 Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) secessionists armed with guns, ...

For thousands of years, the Indian Ocean winds have brought traders, warriors and religions to the Swahili Coast. From Arabia, Asia and Europe, all clambered ashore, each leaving another layer of ...

Mombasa MPs have urged the national government to grant the county part of revenues generated from the port. MPs Badi Twalib (Jomvu), Omar Mwinyi (Changamwe) and Rashid Bedzimba of Kisauni said the ...

Mombasa has been cited as one of the counties with the highest levels of youth unemployment rates in the country, standing at 44 percent according to recent local labour assessments. In a report ...