https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A young Italian woman who was kidnapped in late 2018 from an orphanage in Kenya, is free and returned to Italy on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20200511/silvia-romano-italian-kidnapped-in-kenya-returns-home Mon, 11 May 2020 10:40:19 +0200 silvia-romano-italian-kidnapped-in-kenya-returns-home Police in Kenya say they're optimistic about tracking down kidnapped volunteer Silvia Romano. https://www.thelocal.it/20181123/20-people-held-in-kenya-over-italian-aid-worker-kidnapping Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:02:30 +0100 20-people-held-in-kenya-over-italian-aid-worker-kidnapping An armed gang abducted an Italian volunteer from a village in south-east Kenya, shooting and wounding five residents in the raid, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20181121/italian-woman-kidnapped-in-kenya Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:22:24 +0100 italian-woman-kidnapped-in-kenya An Italian tourist was trampled to death by an elephant in a Kenyan national park while trying to get a good picture, police said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160919/italian-trampled-to-death-on-holiday-while-photographing-elephant Mon, 19 Sep 2016 11:52:44 +0200 italian-trampled-to-death-on-holiday-while-photographing-elephant Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of an Italian doctor in Kenya. https://www.thelocal.it/20151130/three-arrested-over-italian-doctors-murder Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:14:11 +0100 three-arrested-over-italian-doctors-murder An Italian doctor working for a children's NGO was killed and three Italians injured in an armed robbery on the house they were staying in close to Kenya's Indian Ocean beach resorts, the foreign ministry said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151129/italian-doctor-murdered-in-kenya-armed-robbery Sun, 29 Nov 2015 13:20:19 +0100 italian-doctor-murdered-in-kenya-armed-robbery Pope Francis heads to Africa this week for the riskiest trip of his papacy, defying danger with an open-topped popemobile and visits to a slum, refugee camp and mosque despite security fears following jihadist attacks. https://www.thelocal.it/20151122/pope-risks-jihadis Sun, 22 Nov 2015 10:06:20 +0100 pope-risks-jihadis An investigation is underway after a 40-year-old Italian tour operator was found dead in Kenya. https://www.thelocal.it/20150706/italian-tour-operator-found-dead-in-kenya Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:53:56 +0200 italian-tour-operator-found-dead-in-kenya Tens of thousands of Catholics prayed in the Kenyan town of Nyeri on Saturday at a beatification ceremony of an Italian nun, the first person to undergo the key step toward sainthood in the east African country. https://www.thelocal.it/20150523/kenyan-catholics-celebrate-beatification-of-italian-nun Sat, 23 May 2015 14:34:03 +0200 kenyan-catholics-celebrate-beatification-of-italian-nun Hundreds of prostitutes have flocked to a Kenyan town ahead of the beatification ceremony of an Italian nun, a key step towards sainthood, a report said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150514/kenyan-town-savours-saintly-sex-surge-report Thu, 14 May 2015 13:01:55 +0200 kenyan-town-savours-saintly-sex-surge-report The Pope led Catholics in prayer for persecuted Christians around the world at a Good Friday service in Rome, a day after 148 students and security officers were massacred by Shebab Islamists in Kenya. https://www.thelocal.it/20150404/good-friday-focus-on-persecuted-christians Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:15:03 +0200 good-friday-focus-on-persecuted-christians A Kenyan Roman Catholic priest and four others were sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Nairobi for murdering an elderly Italian bishop almost a decade ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20141106/death-sentence-for-killers-of-italian-bishop-kenya Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:04:00 +0100 death-sentence-for-killers-of-italian-bishop-kenya Ten Italians have escaped from a Nairobi shopping mall siege where Somali militants killed at least 68 people, an embassy spokeswoman told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20130923/italians-hide-in-stairwell-to-escape-kenya-siege Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:29:00 +0200 italians-hide-in-stairwell-to-escape-kenya-siege