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FCDO travel advice for Kenya. Includes safety and security, insurance, entry requirements and legal differences.

• Updated: 4 November 2024

• Warnings and insurance

  Your travel insurance could be invalidated if you travel against advice…

• Entry requirements

  This information is for people travelling on a full ‘British citizen’…

• Safety and security

  This guide also has safety advice for regions of Kenya. Terrorism There is…

• Regional risks

  This section has safety advice for regions of Kenya. It only covers…

• Health

  Before you travel check that: your destination can provide the healthcare…

• Getting help

  The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) cannot provide…

Advice for British people living in Kenya, including information on health, education, benefits, residence requirements and more.

• Updated: 8 October 2024

Summary of the Science and Innovation landscape in Kenya

• Updated: 14 August 2024

Advice and guidance on the health needs of migrant patients from Kenya for healthcare practitioners.

• Updated: 30 July 2019

Kenyans were affected by unemployment, the high cost of living, negative ethnicity, poverty and corruption

• Updated: 1 January 2012

Statement by the UK's Ambassador for Human Rights to the UN, Eleanor Sanders, at Kenya's Universal Periodic Review at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.

• Updated: 1 May 2025

• Updated: 9 March 2022

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

• Updated: 9 April 2025

Updates, news and events from the UK government in Kenya

• Updated: 2 September 2020

Kenya is a large multi-ethnic country, with over 40 different ethnic groups and many overlapping conflicts.

• Updated: 1 January 2015