At first glance, the round black pellets could easily be mistaken for animal dung. But these hardy little balls contain acacia seeds that are helping regrow Kenya's depleted forests. In a tranche of razed forest bordering the Masai Mara wildlife reserve, a team of rangers scatter generous handfuls of "seedballs" around the bald clearing to give nature a fighting chance to regenerate.

Mohammad Ismat from Mombasa, Kenya, is a dancer, acrobat and Yoga teacher. This young man has been able to do all of that despite having a visual impairment that he developed after getting cancer.

Many children in Africa dream of making a career as a football player in Europe. Having realized that dream, Kenyan international Johanna Omolo setup a foundation to help kids back home with life on and off the pitch.

This young Kenyan entrepreneur isn't sitting on a fortune. But that hasn't stopped her from starting her own business. Nowadays, she is successfully selling Hijabs.

While Kenya is having some success fighting desert locust swarms, farmers in the north and center of the country face huge losses from ongoing waves of locust swarms.

Kenyan farmers are overwhelmed by a swarm of desert locusts as the east African country battles its second wave of the pest since the start of the year.

British troops in Kenya enter lockdown as soldiers test positive for COVID-19

A third endangered Rothschild's giraffe has been rescued from Longicharo Island on Kenya's Lake Baringo. As water levels rise around the lake, the land continues to shrink, threatening the survival of trapped animals. Six remaining giraffes will be moved in the coming months.

As another wave of locusts looms over East Africa, farmers are struggling to come to grips with the destruction of yet another harvest.

Schools reopen in Kenya after a nine-month disruption caused by the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. Hand sanitisation stations are in place and staff check the temperature of students before they are allowed into school. Many parents are happy to see their children back in school as it gives them more freedom to work, though they also have concerns about the potential for the virus to spread among students.

In Kenya, abortion is strictly prohibited except in cases of rape or medical emergency. Women and girls risk their lives with back-alley abortionists. DW's Mariel Müller met a young woman who survived an unsafe abortion and the man who carried it out.

Many people have already been displaced, and others look on as water from lakes that were once kilometers away, meets them at their doors. What is creating this dramatic shift in the landscape and weather? DW's Edith Kimani reports.