A primary school headteacher who was the only survivor of the Kenya bus massacre has said he was saved because his would-be killers became confused as he lay waiting to be murdered.

London and Dublin-listed Tullow Oil said talks to resolve "limited industrial action" at sites in north Kenya had been successfully concluded and the staff affected were returning to work.

Tullow Oil has made its fifth consecutive oil discovery since beginning drilling operations in Kenya last year.

RIGHT now, millions of people are suffering from disasters around the world: The civil war in Syria, earthquakes in Pakistan, flooding in Sudan, landslides in Mexico, cyclones in China, and hunger in the Sahel region of Africa.

Amur leopards, a fig-loving bat, and critically endangered monkeys are among the top 10 mammals avoiding extinction with the help of zoos.

Anyone bemoaning their lot in life might benefit from watching a TV show about highly successful English farmer Richard Gibson’s travels in northern Kenya.

Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago.

Somali pirates have kidnapped a French woman from an exclusive resort island in northern Kenya, near the Somali border, according to an official.

Ireland will provide a further €500,000 in aid to drought-stricken communities in Northern Kenya.

MIHAG GEDI FARAH is seven-months-old and weighs as little as a newborn with the weathered skin of an old man.

Mary Robinson is travelling to Northern Kenya today to highlight the plight of up to 12 million people in East Africa who are facing a hunger crisis.

JAMES BOND veteran actor Roger Moore, a global goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, is in Ireland to mark the first birthday of a fundraising initiative he helped launch between the children’s charity and retail fuel supplier Topaz.

Kidnappers released three foreign aid workers today who had been held in Somalia for more than two months, an Islamic militia commander said.

A Kenyan military plane crashed today in northern Kenya, killing 14 people.

A Kenyan military plane carrying four members of parliament and a provincial commissioner crashed in northern Kenya today.

A Roman Catholic bishop was shot to death near his church in northern Kenya last night, the Vatican Embassy in Nairobi said.

At least 61 people were killed during an attack by Ethiopian bandits on a remote village in northern Kenya.

Police have opened fire on protesters outside a UN refugee camp in northern Kenya, killing three people.

Irish President, Mary McAleese, is on route to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, on the final leg of her ten-day diplomatic tour of Uganda and Kenya.

The Irish President, Mary McAleese, says that the developed world must do more to rid Africa of the scourge of AIDS in Africa.