NAIROBI, March 12 (Reuters) - A man was arrested with more than 2,200 live garden ants in his luggage at Nairobi's main airport this week amid a rise in cases of smuggling of the insects in Kenya.

The suspect had packed some ants in test tubes while others were concealed in tissue paper rolls, prosecutor says.

The death toll from heavy rains and flooding in Kenya's capital Nairobi and elsewhere has nearly doubled to 42, the ...

Zhang Kequn, 27, was arrested at an airport in Nairobi, Kenya, on Tuesday, March 10 ...

At least 25 people are known to have died after heavy rain caused flooding and flight disruption in the Kenyan capital, ...

Kenya is weighing plans to extend a colonial-era rail line to its north-western oil fields to ferry crude to an Indian Ocean ...

Ants are probably not the first thing to spring to mind when it comes to things smugglers can traffic across international borders in search of a profit.

Kenya's sugar industry exemplifies how political elites extract rents through state controls, as President William Ruto's reforms test broader economic liberalisation.

Kenya plans to build a 1,200-megawatt gas-fired power plant on its east coast as it ramps up electricity output to meet growing demand.

Kenya and Rwanda are working toward a regulatory framework that could allow fintech companies to operate across both ...