Rich-lister Stephen Jennings hit the nail on the head in his call for New Zealand companies to have a closer look at Africa.

He's the Kiwi who made billions in Russia. Now Stephen Jennings believes Africa is the next land of opportunity.

He tells Kenyan president "bad things happen" when countries don't accept their citizens' right to be gay.

The world's oldest tools - made by ancestors of modern humans around 3.3 million years ago - have been found in Kenya.

For two days after the first gunshots sent her running for cover, Cynthia Charotich lay in a cupboard under piles of clothes, cramped and silent.

When al-Shabaab gunmen burst through the gates of her Kenyan university at dawn on Thursday, Cynthia Cheroitich crawled into a cupboard and hid.

"There are gunshots everywhere! Tell Mum to pray for me - I don't know if I will survive."

Most of the 147 victims of a terror attack on a Kenyan university on Thursday died execution-style as they lined up waiting for their turn to be shot.

Shortland Street star Amelia Reid-Meredith is on a stylish mission to make a big difference to the lives of struggling single mums in Kenya.

Satao, one of Kenya’s largest elephants, has died after being shot by poachers using poisoned arrows.

A Kiwi woman is helping a small Kenyan community transform some of its dying crafts into a lucrative moneymaker.

Three suspects will appear in court in Kenya today after six elephants, including four juveniles, were found shot dead in a private reserve, in one of the worst poaching incidents for several years.

A New Zealand missionary has been found guilty of importing more than nine kilograms of methamphetamine and heroin into Darwin at an Australian Supreme Court yesterday.

A New Zealand missionary on drug-trafficking charges in Australia was told at her trial in the Supreme Court there that she must have known she was carrying more than nine kilos of methamphetamine and heroin.

Norway's domestic intelligence service tried to prevent one of the suspected gunmen in the Nairobi mall attack from joining Somali militants more than three years ago, but failed to talk him out of it, the agency's chief said.

The man US Navy SEALs tried to take down in Somalia over the weekend was a Kenyan who had plotted to attack his country's parliament building and the United Nations headquarters in Nairobi, according to a Kenyan government intelligence report.

When Ohio resident Bill Haynes heard about the shooting at Westgate Mall by Islamic extremist gunmen last month, he considered cancelling his upcoming 17-day safari to Kenya and Tanzania.

Poorly paid Kenyan security forces that moved in to control an emergency are being accused of robbing the very property they were supposed to protect.

No hostages were left in the devastated Nairobi shopping centre where terrorists killed 67 people.

Kenyan authorities had intelligence pointing to an attack in Nairobi a day before the Westgate mall assault.

A police doctor scouring Nairobi's Westgate mall for bodies after a four-day siege by Islamist gunmen that killed dozens has said victims were tortured before they died, according to a Kenyan newspaper.

It was one of the most moving images of Kenya's Westgate Mall terror attack - a little girl running in terror across an empty corridor to the outstretched arm of her rescuer.

After almost a week, there is no precise death toll, no word on the fate of dozens still missing and no details on the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists who attacked Nairobi's most upscale mall.

Interpol, acting on a Kenyan request, has issued an arrest notice for Samantha Lewthwaite, the fugitive Briton whom news media have dubbed the "white widow".

Three plainclothes Kenyan police officers, lightly armed and wearing no bulletproof vests, helmets or other protective gear, worked their way to the roof of Nairobi's Westgate Mall and led a group of frightened shoppers to safety.