Kasia Anderson / TruthdigJul 27, 2015
President Obama continued his diplomatic visit to Kenya on Sunday with a speech focusing on gender issues including sexual violence, education and the forced marriage of minors. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJul 25, 2015
President Obama’s visit to Kenya is of course personal, though he has been there before both as a civilian and as a senator. But it also has a geopolitical and economic dimension. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigJun 16, 2015
Google is in talks to invest in Kenya’s enormous Lake Turkana Wind Power Project, which will cost $700 million. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMay 21, 2015
The major discovery in Africa of tools dating around 3.3 million years old has forced scientists to push back the standard dating of the dawn of culture by 700,000 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Kasia Anderson / TruthdigAug 13, 2014
Kenya is the next African nation to be put on alert by the World Health Organization, which has categorized the country as a "high-risk" site for a potential Ebola outbreak. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 14, 2014
It's not just Uganda. The Democratic Republic of the Congo could become the 38th African country to ban homosexuality. A politician in Kenya, meanwhile, is demanding enforcement of a colonial law that criminalizes gay sex. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Juan Cole / TruthdigFeb 11, 2014
A significant part of the population of Africa and Asia at present has no access to electricity, and in some countries those deprived amount to as much as 80 percent of the population. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 10, 2014
Kenyan tribal economics requires that the pleasure-giving parts of female genitalia be removed for families to exchange property or money during marriage. The Guardian speaks to one of the procedure's practitioners. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
By Kieran Cooke, Climate News NetworkDec 20, 2013
Climate change poses a serious threat to farming in East Africa, a region that depends on agriculture and whose population is growing very fast. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 27, 2013
This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: understanding the deadly siege in Nairobi, this week's big U.N. speeches through the prism of Arab public opinion, the First Amendment club for "official" journalists, and cryptography guru Bruce Schneier says Edward Snowden's work isn't done. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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