In light of the ongoing desert locust infestations in Kenya, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has teamed up with the company 51 Degrees to get control of the situation — via tracking software integrated with a hotline system, scouts and dispatched aircraft.

APRNEWS - In 2018, Kenya’s growth reached 6.23% thanks notably to the agriculture sector favored by good rainfall, the Office for National Statistics indicated on April 25, 2019.

APRNEWS - Kenyan exports to the USA in the framework of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) rose by 25.8% in 2018, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) announced in a recent report.

APRNEWS - Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge ran the second fastest marathon in history to win the 2019 London Marathon for a fourth time.

Kipchoge, 34, who broke the world record in Berlin last year, triumphed in two hours two minutes 38 seconds.

APRNEWS - Police in Kenya have been left red-faced after thieves stole guns and ammunition from an unattended checkpost as the officers on duty watched UEFA Champions League matches down the road.

APRNEWS - The leaders of France and Kenya have given their support to calls by scientists for urgent action to be taken to address some of the serious environmental issues people the world over are confronted with.

APRNEWS - Victims of Sunday’s Ethiopian airlines crash were from at least 35 nations, according to Kenya’s Transport Minister.

Kenya had 32 nationals aboard flight ET 302 which crashed Sunday morning en route to Nairobi.

APRNEWS - Two Americans and a French citizen were among five people killed when a light aircraft crashed in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley region on Wednesday according to the policed.

APRNEWS - Kenyan police on Wednesday confirmed the death of all five passengers on board a light aircraft that crashed in Kericho County, located in the Western part of the country.

National Police Airwing Commander Rodgers Mbithi told locale media portal, the Nation that the five occupants of the Cesna 206-5-Y BSE including three men and two women had perished.

APRNEWS - The Kenyan Supreme Court has quashed an appeal court ruling in 2016 which said Muslim students could wear the hijab to non-Muslim schools.