Kenya

Golf’s Ladies European Tour (LET) will end its 2019 season in Kenya after agreeing a deal to stage a new tournament in the East African country.

Online betting firm SportPesa has quit its Kenyan operations because of a change in Kenyan betting tax

The World Rally Championship has announced that Japan, Kenya and New Zealand will return to its calendar in 2020, replacing events in Australia, Corsica and Spain

Kenya’s Safari Rally has moved a step closer to returning to the World Rally Championship calendar after being confirmed as a candidate event for the motorsport series in 2019.

Kenyan Sports Minister Hassan Wario has said the East African nation will bid to host the International Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF) 2023 World Championships.

LaLiga, the organising body for the top two divisions of Spanish football, has partnered with the Kenyan Premier League (KPL) in a move designed to develop the professional game in the east African country.

The National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) will continue to operate after the country’s government accepted a court ruling overturning an order to disband the organisation.

Kenya’s team leader at the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been charged with stealing $256,000 (€288,000) from government and sports authorities.

Michael Rotich, manager of the Kenyan athletics team at the 2016 summer Olympic Games, has been provisionally suspended by the Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), while a sprinting coach at the centre of another doping incident has protested his innocence after returning home.

The Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) has ordered a sprinting coach to return home from the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample to drug testers, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova have both reportedly failed doping tests.

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has said it will investigate fresh allegations concerning doping in the Kenyan athletics system.

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) have said they are cooperating to investigate allegations that athletes have been provided with prohibited substances while training in Kenya, while the Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has rejected appeals lodged against suspensions by three senior Kenyan athletics officials.

Federico Rosa, an Italian agent who represents top track and field athletes, has been detained by Kenyan police on suspicion of facilitating doping.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has today (Tuesday) ruled that any competitor from Russia or Kenya that intends to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro will need to be individually assessed against doping and declared eligible by their sport’s international federation (IF).

The World Anti-Doping Agency has made the surprise move of declaring Kenya non-compliant with the Wada Code and has provided an update on the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) plan to establish an Independent Testing Authority.

Kenya appears set to avoid sanctions from the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) after its parliament finally passed a law criminalising doping.