Two international flights have landed at Kenya’s main airport after a devastating fire, officials said.

A Boeing 787 operated by Ethiopian Airlines flew from Ethiopia to Kenya’s capital today, the first commercial flight since air safety authorities grounded the Dreamliners after incidents with smouldering batteries on two different planes in January.

Kenya’s main airport had to shut down after an Egyptian airliner veered off the runway, an official said.

THE American author of a bestselling book attacking Barack Obama as unfit for the presidency was being deported from Kenya yesterday, a criminal investigations official said.

Two Chinese women were being questioned at Nairobi’s international airport after being found with 36 pieces of ivory, Kenya’s wildlife service said today.