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Kenya News and Newspapers Online: Kenya News and Newspapers Online

News from and about Kenya online.

Kenya News and Newspapers Online

Africa Check
 "an independent, non-partisan organisation which assesses claims made in the public arena using journalistic skills and evidence drawn from the latest online tools, readers, public sources and experts, sorting fact from fiction and publishing the results." Covers the continent. Partners with AFP, Reporters without Borders, Open Society, etc.  https://africacheck.org/

Africa Confidential - Kenya
Subscription required. Long established London newsletter. http://www.africa-confidential.com/

AllAfrica.com - Kenya
Current news including from PANA, the Dakar based news agency created to provide an African perspective on news events. From the publishers of the well-known, former Africa News from Durham, NC. http://allafrica.com/kenya/

BBC - Kenya News
https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c40rjmqdlzzt/kenya

Business Daily (Nairobi)
"a selection of stories from the newspaper Business Daily, published .... by the Nation Media Group...... the website publishes some 20 stories a day, representing around one third of the newspaper's content." "The sub-section of stories published on the website are chosen to satisfy specialist audiences residing primarily outside the region, but with a business interest in East Africa." Includes IT news. http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/

Business Today
Business news, startups, media, advertising, wealth management. life style. https://businesstoday.co.ke/

Capital News
Politics, business, sports, lifestyle, etc. https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/

Citizen
Includes TV news, politics, business, sports, lifestyle. https://www.citizen.digital/

Citizen TV Kenya on YouTube
Current news. Includes sign language interpretation. https://www.youtube.com/c/kenyacitizentv/

CNN - Africa News
Use their Search to retrieve Reuters stories on Kenya. https://www.cnn.com/world/africa

Daily Nation (Nairobi)
Subscription required for access to some articles. Stanford users access through Searchworks. Web site for the long-established Kenya print newspaper. Published by the Nation Media Group. http://www.nation.co.ke/

Daily Post
Politics, entertainment, lifestyle, business. "your number one source for all gossip and the juiciest stories in Kenya, East Africa and across the world." https://kenyan-post.com/

East African (Nairobi)
Site for the print newspaper. Published by the Nation Media Group. http://www.theeastafrican.co.ke

The Elephant
Opinion, analysis, commentary on politics, citizen journalism, education, gender issues, sports, cartoons, Mau Mau history, being a tourist in Amsterdam, etc. Mainly on Kenya, also Ethiopia, Uganda, DR Congo, Rwanda, etc. Has video commentary. Republishes articles from other sources. Contributors include John Githongo, anti-corruption activist, Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Rafael Marques de Morais, Angola anti-corruption advocate. Has Documents such as press statements, communiques, official letters/reports, government documents such as Kenya National Bureau of Statistics – Economics Survey 2021 (428 p.) https://www.theelephant.info/

Jamhuri News 
News of the diaspora in the US. Political, business, lifestyle, immigration news. Obituaries.  http://www.jamhuri-news.com/

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
News in English and Swahili. Video news in English. "Kenya Broadcasting Corporation is a state corporation established by an Act of Parliamen...to undertake public services." http://www.kbc.co.ke/

Kenya Moja
Kenya news portal. Links to news from the Daily Nation, The Standard, Capital News, K24,The Nairobi Star,,etc. TV and radio stations, diaspora news.  Nation group owned news media.  https://www.kenyamoja.com/

Kenya News Agency
Kenya government news agency. https://www.kenyanews.go.ke/

Kenyan Wall Street
Finance, investment news. https://kenyanwallstreet.com/

Kiss TV Kenya
Video news in English. https://www.youtube.com/user/kisstvnews1?app=desktop

KTN News -  Kenya Television Network.
TV news. Founded 2015. Based in Nairobi.  https://www.youtube.com/@ktnnews_kenya

Mwakilishi 
Business news, diaspora news, real estate, obituaries, diaspora events, classifieds, etc. https://www.mwakilishi.com/

Mwanzo TV
In Kiswahili and English. TV news. https://www.youtube.com/c/MwanzoTV

News24 Kenya
Current news, sports, photos, lifestyle, etc. A Division of the Media24 Group (South Africa). https://www.news24.com/Tags/Places/kenya

NTV Nation TV
Current news. From the Nation Media Group. https://ntvkenya.co.ke/

People Daily (Nairobi)
Politics, lifestyle, sports, commerce. https://www.pd.co.ke/

Pulse Live
Political news, business, entertainment, sports, celebrities, lifestyle. https://www.pulselive.co.ke/

Reliefweb - Kenya News
See also their Kenya Country Profile, Culture and Demographics. From the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York, Geneva, Kobe. http://www.reliefweb.int/

Samrack
General news and news of the Kenya diaspora. http://www.samrack.com/

Standard (Nairobi)
Formerly the East African Standard. "The Standard Group Plc is a multi-media organization with investments in media platforms spanning newspaper print operations, television, radio broadcasting, digital and online services." It also runs the Kenya Television Network (KTN), Radio Maisha, The Nairobian (a weekly tabloid), and KTN News. http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/

Star (Nairobi)
Subscription required for access to articles. Independent newspaper. Current news, business, opinion pieces, sports, society, etc. Launched in July 2007. The Managing Editor is William Pike. http://www.the-star.co.ke/

Taifa Leo (Nairobi)
In Swahili. Daily Kenya newspaper. Subscription only access. http://taifaleo.nation.co.ke/

Tuko
Political, business, sports, entertainment news. https://www.tuko.co.ke/

Weekly Citizen
Online and print political, economic news. Established 1995. Produced by Headlink Publishers. https://weeklycitizen.co.ke/