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Kenya Red Cross personnel and relatives try to comfort a woman reacting near a burned-out dormitory, following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya Friday, Sep. 6, 2024. (AP Photo)

21 children are now known to have died in Kenya school fire

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Kenya Red Cross personnel and relatives try to comfort a woman reacting near a burned-out dormitory, following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya Friday, Sep. 6, 2024. (AP Photo)

Kenyan officials remove bodies as they try to confirm the death toll from a school dormitory fire

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Part of a dormitory is seen following a fire at the Hillside Endarasha Primary in Nyeri, Kenya Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. A fire in a school dormitory in Kenya has killed several students and seriously burned others. (AP Photo)

A fire in a school in Kenya kills 17 students and seriously burns 13 others

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Kenyan President William Ruto gives an address at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Kenyan President William Ruto said he won't sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes a day after protesters stormed parliament and several people were shot dead. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi)

Kenya president retains 6 former Cabinet ministers in first batch of appointments

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

FILE - The new Inspector General of the Police of Kenya, Japheth Koome Nchebere, speaks in Nairobi, Sunday, March 26, 2023. Kenya’s police boss resigned Friday, July 12, 2024 after weeks of deadly protests over proposed take hikes in which at least 39 people have died. (AP Photo, file)

Kenya police boss resigns in latest fallout from deadly protests

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

FILE - Senior Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif poses for a photograph prior to recording an episode of his talk show at a studio in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Dec. 15, 2016. A Kenyan court on Monday, July 8, 2024, ruled that the 2022 shooting death of the Pakistani journalist by police in Nairobi was unlawful and unconstitutional, a lawyer and his family said. (AP Photo, File)

A Kenyan court says 2022 shooting death of a Pakistani journalist by police in Nairobi was unlawful

By Munir Ahmed and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Edith Wanjiku shows a photo of his son 19-year-old Ibrahim Kamau at her home in the Majengo low-income neighborhood in Nairobi, Kenya Friday, June 28, 2024. Kamau was shot during a protest on Tuesday against the government proposed tax bill. Protesters stormed parliament on Tuesday and drew police fire in chaos that left several people dead. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

A mother’s pain as the first victim of Kenya’s deadly protests is buried

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A man reads about yesterday's protest in a newspaper in downtown Nairobi, Kenya Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Thousands of protesters stormed and burned a section of Kenya's parliament Tuesday to protest tax proposals. Police responded with gunfire and several protesters were killed. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Amid heavy police presence, Kenya starts clearing debris after protests in which at least 6 died

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

People stand on a bridge, as they watch houses in riparian land being demolished in the Mukuru area of Nairobi, Tuesday, May. 7, 2024. The government ordered the demolition of structures and buildings, illegally constructed along riparian areas. Kenya, along with other parts of East Africa, has been overwhelmed by flooding. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Kenya declares public holiday to mourn flood victims

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

People stand on a bridge, as they watch houses in riparian land being demolished in the Mukuru area of Nairobi, Tuesday, May. 7, 2024. The government ordered the demolition of structures and buildings, illegally constructed along riparian areas. Kenya, along with other parts of East Africa, has been overwhelmed by flooding. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Anguish as Kenya’s government demolishes houses in flood-prone areas and offers $75 in aid

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

People try to clear the area after a dam burst, in Kamuchiri Village Mai Mahiu, Nakuru County, Kenya, Monday, April 29, 2024. Police in Kenya say at least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in the country's west. (AP Photo)

At least 45 people die in western Kenya after a dam collapses following heavy rains

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Schoolchildren stranded on a damaged River Zingiziwa bridge in Dar Esalaam, Tanzania Thursday, April 25, 2024. Flooding in Tanzania caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others, the prime minister said Thursday. (AP Photo)

Flooding in Tanzania has killed 155 people as heavy rains continue in Eastern Africa

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Kenyans line up to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday, April 6, 2021. Thousands of doctors have stayed away from hospitals since last Thursday, March 12, 2024 over poor pay and working conditions, despite a court order calling for talks between the doctors and the Health Ministry. Health Minister Susan Nakhumicha told local television station KTN that she had instructed two top referral hospitals to recruit doctors to replace those taking part in the national strike. An Associated Press journalist confirmed on Thursday morning that emergency services at the Kenyatta national referral hospital in the capital, Nairobi, had resumed. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Kenyan doctors stop providing emergency services at public hospitals as strike enters second week

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A Jacaranda tree in bloom in Nairobi, Kenya, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Every year in early October, clusters of purple haze dot Nairobi's tree line as the city's jacaranda trees come into bloom. (AP Photo/Sayyid Abdul Azim)

Kenya declares a surprise public holiday for a national campaign to plant 15 billion trees

By Emmanuel Igunza - Associated Press

Britain's King Charles III, center, walks with Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Mombasa Alphonce Mwaro Baya, right, during his visit at Mombasa Memorial Cathedral in Mombasa, Kenya, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. King Charles met with religious leaders Friday to promote peace and security in Kenya during the last day of his four-day trip. first state visit to a Commonwealth country as monarch. (Luis Tato/Pool Photo via AP)

King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

Britain's King Charles III, center, Queen Camilla and Kenyan President William Ruto, right, arrive for the State Banquet at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023. (Luis Tato/Pool via AP)

King Charles III visits war cemetery in Kenya after voicing ‘deepest regret’ for colonial violence

By Evelyne Musambi and Emmanuel Igunza - Associated Press

Britain's King Charles III and Queen Camilla view part of the Royal Collection relating to the Royal family's connection to Kenya, during a reception for the Kenyan diaspora in the UK at Buckingham Palace, central London, Oct. 24, 2023. King Charles III wants to look to the future when his four-day state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday Oct. 31, 2023. But first he will have to confront the past. (Aaron Chown/Pool via AP, file)

King Charles III seeks to look ahead in a visit to Kenya. But he’ll have history to contend with

By Danica Kirka and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

African heads of state gather for a group photograph at the 35th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 5, 2022. The G20 group of the world's leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of the continent of more than 1.3 billion people as its countries seek a more important role on the global stage. (AP Photo, File)

The African Union is joining the G20, a powerful acknowledgement of a continent of 1 billion people

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Bernard Mwololo feeds chickens at the Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. Benard has lived most of his life at the orphanage after his parents died of AIDS, he's now an HIV activist and believes he is only alive because of the anti-retroviral drugs that PEPFAR supplies. A U.S. foreign aid program that officials say has saved 25 million lives in Africa and elsewhere is being threatened by some Republicans who fear program funding might go to organizations that promote abortion. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

Republican opposition to abortion threatens global HIV/AIDS program that has saved 25 million lives

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People walk on a road swept by flooding waters in Chikwawa, Malawi, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Mozambique, Madagascar and Malawi are counting the deaths and damage by tropical storm Ana and more than a week of heavy rains across southern Africa. Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa's 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what's to come. That can be deadly, with damage running in the billions of dollars. The first Africa Climate Summit opens this week in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to agriculture, is the lack of data collection that drives decisions as basic as when to plant and when to flee. (AP Photo, File)

The first Africa Climate Summit opens as hard-hit continent of 1.3B demands more say and financing

By Cara Anna and Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press