At least 21 people have died and 30 others are missing after a landslide on Saturday in Kenya’s western Rift Valley region, where heavy rains have battered the area for days during the country’s ongoing short rains season.

Witnesses said that they heard a loud bang, and upon arriving at the scene, they found unrecognizable human remains.

Officials in Kenya say 12 people are feared dead after a small plane crashed in the coastal region of Kwale while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve.

NAIROBI (Reuters) -At least 13 people were killed in western Kenya's Rift Valley in a landslide early on Saturday morning following heavy rains, the police said. Nineteen people have been rescued and an unknown number are still missing, Elgeyo-Marakwet County police commander Peter Mulinge told Reuters.

A landslide in western Kenya's Rift Valley has claimed 26 lives, with 25 people still missing after heavy rain. The government, deploying military planes and disaster specialists, is conducting a search and rescue operation.

President William Ruto has jetted off to Qatar, in a diplomatic mission aimed at bolstering Kenya's economic ties with the Gulf nation and sealing investment deals.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the geothermal-powered green fertilizer facility to be built by Kaishan in Naivasha, Kenya.

Kenya's anti-doping agency ADAK will move onto WADA's watch list in an easing of the non-compliant status announced last month, the world's body's director general Olivier Niggli said on Thursday.

Kenya advanced its push for clean industrialization on Monday with the groundbreaking of a landmark green fertilizer plant developed in partnership with China.

Kenya has finally responded, albeit vaguely, to questions raised by the United Nations (UN) rapporteurs on rights violations in the country — more than two months later.