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Kenya's President William Ruto, left, Burundi's President and summit chairperson Evariste Ndayishimiye, center, and Kenya's former President and summit facilitator Uhuru Kenyatta, right, pose for a group photograph ahead of the Third Inter-Congolese Consultations of the Nairobi Peace Process, the political track, Nairobi III, at a hotel in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. The East African Community (EAC) led summit aims to find solutions to the ongoing armed conflict in Eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Talks begin on disarmament of rebel groups in eastern Congo

The third round of Congo peace talks facilitated by the East Africa regional bloc has begun in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, with a plan to discuss reforms that will facilitate disarmament of rebel groups.
November 28, 2022
FILE — President of Rwanda Paul Kagame addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. Kagame sent his Foreign Affairs Minister Vincent Biruta to attend a summit with Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in Angola on Wednesday, as regional leaders tried to cool tensions between the two countries amid mounting rebel attacks near their shared border. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

East Congo crisis summit issues call for Friday cease-fire

November 23, 2022
Kenya's President William Ruto speaks at a flag-handover ceremony for members from the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), ahead of their future deployment to eastern Congo as part of the newly-created East African Community Regional Force (EACRF), at the Embakasi garrison in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. Kenya is sending more than 900 military personnel to eastern Congo to join a new regional force trying to calm deadly tensions fueled by armed groups that have led to a diplomatic crisis between Congo and neighboring Rwanda. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya’s president dismisses suggestions of unlimited terms

November 16, 2022
People fleeing the fighting between government forces and M-23 rebels make their way towards Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tuesday Nov. 15, 2022. Violence by armed groups in eastern Congo has led to a diplomatic crisis between Congo and Rwanda, with the two neighboring countries accusing each other of backing hostile armed groups. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Rumors of rebel advance cause panic in eastern Congo

November 15, 2022
FILE - Ethiopians protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of Tigray's fugitive leaders, at a rally organized by the city administration in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. A South Africa government spokesman says African Union-led peace talks to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. (AP Photo, File)

Ethiopia peace talks have begun on Tigray, South Africa says

October 25, 2022

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Kenyan lawyer Paul Gicheru appears before a pre-trial chamber, via video-link from the ICC detention center, before facing charges against him of bribing and threatening prosecution witnesses in the case against Kenya's recently elected President William Ruto, which was ultimately dropped amid allegations of witness interference, at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands on Nov. 6, 2020. Kenyan police say that Gicheru was found dead at his home late Monday, Sept. 26, 2022 though it was not immediately clear how he died. (International Criminal Court via AP)

Kenyan lawyer in ICC case linked to new president found dead

September 27, 2022
Kenya's new president William Ruto holds up a ceremonial sword as he is sworn in to office at a ceremony held at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. William Ruto was sworn in as Kenya's president on Tuesday after narrowly winning the Aug. 9 election and after the Supreme Court last week rejected a challenge to the official results by losing candidate Raila Odinga. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

From humble past, William Ruto sworn in as Kenya’s president

September 13, 2022
Sen. Chris Coons, second right, leading a U.S. congressional delegation, is accompanied by his wife Annie Coons, right, and Rep Dave Joyce, left, as he speaks to patient David Oduor, center, at his home, after visiting the Tabitha Medical Clinic run by CFK Africa in the Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. The delegation also met with current President Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's new president-elect William Ruto, and opposition figure Raila Odinga who has said he will challenge his recent election loss in court. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

US senator urges Kenyan president to aid peaceful transition

August 18, 2022
Kenya's President-elect William Ruto, standing under a photograph of current president Uhuru Kenyatta, addresses the media at his official residence of the deputy president in the Karen area of Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Kenya’s president-elect will ‘engage’ in any court challenge

August 17, 2022
Party agents and election officials verify the vote-tallying at the Electoral Commission headquarters, in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Vote-tallying in Kenya's close presidential election isn't moving fast enough, the electoral commission chair said Friday, while parallel counting by local media dramatically slowed amid concerns about censorship or meddling. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Slow tallies in close Kenya presidential vote feed anxiety

August 12, 2022
Kenyan presidential candidate William Ruto greets supporters at his final electoral campaign rally at Nyayo stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022. Kenya is due to hold its general election on Tuesday, Aug. 9 as the East Africa's economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

EXPLAINER: Why Kenya’s presidential election is important

August 6, 2022
A man pushes a bicycle past campaign posters for Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga, referred to affectionately as "Baba", the Swahili word for "father", and his running mate Martha Karua, in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Friday, July 29, 2022. Kenya's Aug. 9 election is ripping open the scars of inequality and corruption as East Africa's economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya’s election rips open scars of inequality, corruption

August 3, 2022
A military honour guard walks with the coffin of Kenya's former President Mwai Kibaki, at his state funeral in the capital Nairobi, Kenya Friday, April 29, 2022. Kenyans are paying their last respects to the former leader, whose death was announced last Friday, in a state funeral service that is attended by African leaders. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya honors former President Kibaki with state funeral

April 29, 2022
FILE - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki listens to former U.N Secretary General Kofi Annan after signing a power-sharing agreement with opposition leader Raila Odinga following weeks of bitter negotiations on how to end the country's deadly postelection crisis, in Nairobi, Feb. 28, 2008. Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has died at the age of 90. Kibaki’s death was announced Friday, April 22, 2022 by President Uhuru Kenyatta, who said it his passing was a “sad day” for the country and praised his predecessor as a great Kenyan. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, file)

Former Kenyan President Kibaki is dead at 90

April 22, 2022
A woman sells fruits at the Virunga market in Goma, eastern Congo, Tuesday March 29, 2022. Congo has joined the East African Community, widening the trade bloc's footprint with the admission of its seventh member. The bloc also includes Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan. With Congo's admission, it now commands a market of about 300 million people. Its overall goal is to create a political federation. (AP Photo/Jérome Delay)

Congo joins East African trade bloc, widening the market

April 1, 2022
FILE - Richard Leakey, Kenyan wildlife conservationist, places a rhino horn to be burned at the zoo in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017. Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, known for his fossil-finding and conservation work in his native Kenya, has died at 77. His death was announced Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022 by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. The cause of death was not announced. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at 77

January 2, 2022
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, left, and his South Africa counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa address the media after their meeting in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday Nov. 23, 2021. Kenyatta is in South Africa on a state visit to discuss political and economic issues. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Kenyan, South African presidents urge cease-fire in Ethiopia

November 23, 2021
Kenya's Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs Ambassador Raychelle Omamo, left, greets Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, at the start of a meeting at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Blinken is on a five day trip to Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Top US envoy appeals for preservation of democracy in Africa

November 17, 2021
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks during his meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Kenya’s president Kenyatta: Africa is at a crossroads

October 29, 2021
President Joe Biden, right, listens as Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, left, speaks during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden discusses ‘transparency’ with Kenya president

October 15, 2021
FILE - In this Oct. 8, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden speaks about the September jobs report from the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus in Washington. Biden is set to hold his first bilateral talks as president with an African leader on Thursday, hosting Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as war and a humanitarian crisis roil neighboring Ethiopia, according to the White House. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Biden to meet Kenya president as war roils nearby Ethiopia

October 12, 2021
In this photo taken from video shown at United Nations headquarters, Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta remotely addresses the 76th session of the U.N. General Assembly in a pre-recorded message, Wednesday Sept. 22, 2021. (UN Web TV via AP)

The Latest: Kenya’s president outlines his UN priorities

September 22, 2021
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson alongside former PM of Australia Julia Gillard during a summit to raise funds for the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), in London Thursday July 29, 2021. The UK last month pledged 430 million pounds (dollars 700 million US) to the project, which aims to secure at least five billion US dollars over the next five years. (Tolga Akmen/PA via AP)

World pledges $4B in push to repair COVID’s education damage

July 29, 2021

Kenyan president condemns murder of conservationist

July 16, 2021

Kenya’s president names country’s first female chief justice

May 19, 2021

Seven Kenyan soldiers killed in jihadi ambush in Lamu county

May 19, 2021

Somalia says it has resumed diplomatic ties with Kenya

May 6, 2021

Tanzania’s new president on two-day state visit to Kenya

May 4, 2021

Kenya eases curfew, other virus measures after cases decline

May 1, 2021

Kenya camps with 400,000 refugees to be closed next year

April 29, 2021
FILE - In this Monday, Aug. 18, 2014 file photo, a worker sweeps the floor next to bundles of flattened plastic bottles ready to be recycled, at the East African Compliant Recycling facility in Mac...

Oil companies accused of wanting to dump plastics in Africa

September 1, 2020
President Donald Trump welcomes Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump administration to open free-trade talks with Kenya

February 6, 2020
People outside a funeral home in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020, after the death of former Kenya President Daniel arap Moi, aged 95. The former schoolteacher who became Kenya’s longest-serving president and presided over years of repression and economic turmoil fuelled by runaway corruption, has died. Moi's death was announced by President Uhuru Kenyatta in a statement Tuesday.(AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi is dead at age 95

February 4, 2020

Death toll in Nairobi attack climbs to 21, plus 5 attackers

January 17, 2019
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May, center left, and Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta, center, look on as a military band parades at State House in Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018. The British prime minister is on a three-country Africa visit with a large business delegation as Britain seeks to boost economic ties ahead of a bumpy exit from the European Union in March. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Britain’s May in Kenya to boost economic ties amid Brexit

August 30, 2018
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