Kenya

Kenyan police fire tear gas during protest against US Ebola quarantine facility

Two people were killed in protests last week in Nanyuki, and the US continues its activities defying Kenyan court orders.

Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.
Demonstrators gather near a barricade they created during a protest against a U.S.-backed Ebola quarantine plan on the establishment of a 50-bed facility at a Kenyan air force base that was intended to host Americans exposed to Ebola, in Nanyuki town, in Laikipia County, Kenya June 1, 2026.

Two people killed in Kenya protest against US Ebola quarantine site plan, organizer, sources say

Traders scavenge clothes from debris burnt down by the fire at Toi market, a second hand clothing market, in Nairobi March 16, 2026. According to a police report, the fire was caused by an electricity fault that razed about 250 stalls of second hand clothes.

At least 15 students killed in overnight dormitory blaze in Kenyan girls' school

 Keith and Aviva Siegel  speak at The Jerusalem Post's Annual Conference in New York, US, May 19, 2025

Former hostages Aviva and Keith Siegel visit Kenyan refugee camp


It's not personal, it's the UN

A media storm typically ensues when anti-Israel resolutions are passed at the UN, but according to a delegation of UN ambassadors who visited Israel, there's more to the story.

UN Ambassador Danny Danon poses with a delegation of his counterparts during their tour of Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Thursday.

New honorary consul plans to boost trade relations with Kenya

Shlomo Grofman, who was recently appointed honorary consul of Kenya in Israel, hopes for annual trade volume between the countries to jump from $100 million today to $500m. in three years.

Shlomo Grofman receiving the title “honorary consul of Kenya in Jerusalem,” at a diplomatic ceremony held in the Foreign Ministry

Kenya deports Iranian nationals over Israeli embassy terror plot

The two were caught earlier in December planning to execute a terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Nairobi.

An anti-riot policeman blocks Muslim protesters from marching to the Israeli embassy during a demonstration in Nairobi.

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’