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Kenya Nation News API

Get the live top nation headlines from Kenya with our JSON API.

Get API key for the Kenya Nation News API

API Demonstration

This example demonstrates the HTTP request to make and the JSON response you will receive when you use the news api to get the top headlines from Kenya.

GET
https://gnews.io/api/v4/top-headlines?country=ke&category=nation&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 19758,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "893f130c755128933ae44cc05dc54e10",
            "title": "Man Allegedly Sets House Ablaze After Domestic Fight, 3 Dead",
            "description": "Preliminary investigations indicate that the fire stemmed from a domestic dispute between a man and his wife inside their single-room house. - Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today | Capitalfm.co.ke",
            "content": "NAIROBI, Kenya Mar 17 – Three people, including two children, have died following a tragic house fire in Huruma, Starehe Sub-County, Nairobi, in the early hours of Tuesday.\nThe incident, which occurred at around 12:03 a.m. in Mbuthia area, was report... [1476 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2026/03/man-allegedly-sets-house-ablaze-after-domestic-fight-3-dead/",
            "image": "https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/files/2025/08/Crime-Scene-Tape.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T04:41:15Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "442bde074b64c13d03603f3ee79c4baa",
                "name": "Capitalfm.co.ke",
                "url": "https://www.capitalfm.co.ke"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "097be8c7a8175a2294c6c1f939c3c01e",
            "title": "How Nairobi Hospital board fights triggered Sh2.2bn loss",
            "description": "The hospital is owned and operated by the Kenya Hospital Association (KHA), a membership-based non-profit organisation. KHA closed 2024 with 3,211 members compared with 2,515 in 2023.",
            "content": "The Nairobi Hospital sank into a Sh2.21 billion loss for the financial year ending December 2024, weighed down by prolonged boardroom wrangles that led to payouts for bungled projects, unfair dismissal claims, legal fees and the write-off of abandone... [6904 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/companies/how-nairobi-hospital-board-fights-triggered-sh2-2bn-loss-5393366",
            "image": "https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/resource/image/5393370/landscape_ratio3x2/1200/800/27fb97b70f6ed3552f7cedeb5110131f/IT/case.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-16T19:45:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "7a843c18c60a003c8d9bc7cb63431b03",
                "name": "Business Daily",
                "url": "https://www.businessdailyafrica.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "faf9092773087d16fec908afa8a4b850",
            "title": "Four dead, four rescued after building collapsed in Shauri Moyo",
            "description": "In a press statement dated Monday, March 16, 2026, the ministry said the building collapsed after an attempted demolition earlier in the day.",
            "content": "In a press statement dated Monday, March 16, 2026, the ministry said search and rescue operations were underway after the structure, located in Kamukunji Sub-County, gave way earlier in the day.\nThe ministry said the building was among those earmarke... [1093 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.citizen.digital/article/two-rescued-as-search-and-rescue-continues-in-shauri-moyo-building-collapse-n379141",
            "image": "https://assets.citizen.digital/166359/conversions/653700189_1358090013018347_6365192552404871486_n-og_image.webp",
            "publishedAt": "2026-03-16T19:08:06Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "85355a23543545fd42b6538613ed1142",
                "name": "Citizen Digital",
                "url": "https://www.citizen.digital"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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