Please enable JavaScript to read this content. A married Samburu woman Photo: Wilberforce Okwiri A long time ago, around a century ago, there was a tribe travelling ...

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In the first glimmers of the Kenyan morning light, Bilinda Straight wakes to a familiar scene: a home that another woman has built out of local wood, wild sisal and cow hides. Somewhere nearby, she ...

CORCORAN, Minn. — Friends, family and even strangers are coming together to honor the memory of an Orono High School senior killed in a car crash Sunday night. As of Thursday evening, a fundraiser ...

Madonna is the third international star to visit the country in a span of three months. Kenya can rightfully brag about being a prime destination toured by the cream of the entertainment industry, ...

Paris gives a shy smile and pretends to mouth the words. He doesn't speak English – or even Kenya's other, more commonly used official language of Swahili. Until a few weeks ago he had never set foot ...

After initiation rites – including circumcision – the boys leave their families to take charge of the herds, driving them high into the... Kenya's Samburu boys share a sacred bond. Why one teen broke ...