Mombasa has a population close to a million, mainly Swahili and Mijikenda people. The streets are teeming with people, trucks, tuk-tuks and matatus (minibus taxis). Saturday, June 28, 2025 ...

Panic has gripped Migadini in Changamwe, Mombasa county, after four people died from a mysterious illness, causing body ...

Fort Jesus, Mombasa, bears physical witness, in its structures and subsequent transformations, also to the interchange of cultural values and influences between and among peoples of African, Arab, ...

MOMBASA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - Heavy rains pounded the streets of Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa, with some passengers evacuated from a flooded bus by holding on to a rope amid chest-high water.

The Swahili community of modern Mombasa is composed of an amalgam of the descendants of the city's early 'Shirazi' settlers and more recent immigrant Swahili groups, most of which migrated south to ...