Kenya

Doomsday preacher convicted of mass murder of 190 children, starvation deaths in Kenya cult case

The former taxi driver founded the Good News International Church in 2003, preaching increasingly apocalyptic sermons and urging his followers to starve themselves and their children to death.

Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers, who were members of the Good News International Church, to starve themselves to death in Shakahola forest, appears in court for his judgement at the Mombasa High Court, Kenya, October 19, 2026.
Health workers and humanitarian responders on the front lines of the Ebola response gather to receive a vaccination due to their potential exposure to the virus as part of their work with suspected cases, including contacts, as aid agencies intensify efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak involving t

Kenya confirms eighth Ebola case as regional outbreak spreads

ETHIOPIA’S GRAND Renaissance Dam undergoes construction work on the Nile River in Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia, on  September 26.  (Tiksa Negeri/File Photo/Reuters)

Ethiopia and Israel share a new year - and an opportunity to deepen their historic ties - opinion

Kenyan students at a school aided by ConnectingMath, an Israeli nonprofit working to expand acces to math education in developing countries.

Israeli non-profits, companies expand education access in remote communities worldwide


Aspiring to inspire

At the first anniversary of the Global Goals, Israel emerges as a leader in development. But there’s work to be done at home.

The Joel Omino Secondary School in Kisumu, Kenya, saw the first Israeli-backed program of Education for Sustainable Development

Kenyan-born runner going the distance for Israel at the Olympics

Lonah Chemtai gained Israeli citizenship earlier in 2016 through her coach, Dan Salpeter, after the two married in Kenya.

Lonah Chemtai will represent Israel in the women's marathon at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Picture taken July 14, 2016

Netanyahu's alliance of the African periphery

The Jerusalem Post

PM: Attempt on my life in Kenya ‘nonsense’

Anonymous source tells Kuwaiti newspaper that on Tuesday the Kenyan authorities informed the PM's security guards that the convoy must change its route.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

During historic Netanyahu visit, Kenyan president says Africa needs Israel

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta vows to work to upgrade Israel's status in the African Union.

PM Netanyahu and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta

The cost of war

The story centers on one joint US-UK military drone strike directed against Islamic militants in Kenya preparing to carry out an imminent suicide bombing.

IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot

Singing in Swahili

Gilad Millo, a former Israeli career diplomat, has become a hit in his adopted Kenya.

Gilad Millo at Kenya’s Bingwa Music Awards where he performed ‘Sema milele’

Netanyahu: Israel is coming back to Africa, and Africa is returning to Israel

“The cooperation between our countries since the time of our independence has been formidable," Kenyan president says in Jerusalem.

Kenyan President Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta meets Netanyahu

Kenyan president arrives in Israel for first visit since 1994

President’s spokesman expresses ‘appreciation’ for Israeli training of Kenyan security personnel.

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta

Netanyahu to mark Entebbe anniversary with Africa visit

This would be the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to Sub-Saharan Africa since Yitzhak Shamir visited four west African states in 1987.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife, Sara, pay respects to the premier's late brother, Yoni Netanyahu, who was killed during the Entebbe raid