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Kenya World News API

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

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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=world&apikey=API_KEY
{
    "totalArticles": 5564,
    "articles": [
        {
            "id": "2a24935198093c6a42c8114d42556132",
            "title": "Yoweri Museveni and Bobi Wine battle for the votes of a young electorate",
            "description": "Thursday's election highlights a demographic issue common to many African countries.",
            "content": "Most of Uganda's population is under 17 - will they give an 81-year-old another term?\n19 minutes ago\nSammy AwamiBBC Africa, Kampala\nWhether decked in the bright yellow of the ruling party or donning the revolutionary red of the main opposition, young... [10613 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77k8pym06zo",
            "image": "https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/2d4f/live/0f4e66c0-ef94-11f0-b5f7-49f0357294ff.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-13T00:22:34Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "f331a5ed3965fb59761dfcecfc7e7a34",
                "name": "BBC",
                "url": "https://www.bbc.com"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "b3189a9a33d3c5bb38eba45422c775ec",
            "title": "Iranian mourners heard chanting 'death to Khamenei' at funeral as hundreds killed in protests",
            "description": "The rule of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at stake - with demonstrators angry at crippling price rises",
            "content": "Protests that began in Tehran over the collapse of the Iranian currency on 28 December, before spreading to towns and cities nationwide, have led to more than 500 deaths, says a US-based observer group.\nThe rule of Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Al... [6494 chars]",
            "url": "https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/world/2026-01-12-iranian-mourners-chant-death-to-khamenei-at-funeral",
            "image": "https://cdn.radioafrica.digital/image/2026/01/f564c3b4-e366-4e30-90f0-0f030fd231d0.jpg?1768254336527",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-12T15:54:00Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "78abb827b28c7c0ddfc220acd88d7776",
                "name": "the-star.co.ke",
                "url": "https://www.the-star.co.ke"
            }
        },
        {
            "id": "91c927f57a26e404e8a77a0f57b8ee88",
            "title": "How the Global South tried to steer the recent UN Environment Assembly",
            "description": "Despite pushback, Global South delegates achieved consensus on a number of issues and an increased budget for the UN Environment Programme",
            "content": "The agreements reached at last month’s UN Environment Assembly represent a “victory”, delegates from Africa and Latin America told Dialogue Earth.\nThe negotiations had to weather the efforts of some countries to water down language of certain resolut... [7898 chars]",
            "url": "https://dialogue.earth/en/climate/how-the-global-south-tried-to-steer-the-recent-un-environment-assembly/",
            "image": "https://dialogue.earth/content/uploads/2026/01/20251212_Abdullah-Bin-Ali-Al-Amri_UN-Environment-Assembly_ENB-IISD_Anastasia-Rodopoulou-2.jpg",
            "publishedAt": "2026-01-12T15:08:35Z",
            "lang": "en",
            "source": {
                "id": "2a9aef747880875288236cf97790def8",
                "name": "Dialogue Earth",
                "url": "https://dialogue.earth"
            }
        }
    ]
}

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