Irish Embassy in Kenya

We were delighted to support Northern Voice Trust with copies of ‘A Blooming Great Day’ - a children’s book by Irish author Úna Wood. Northern Voice Trust promotes literary advocacy for children in Northern Kenya.

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Important Notice: As Embassy of Ireland, Kenya continues to strive to offer efficient and responsive visa services, we are glad to announce our new partnership with VFS Global. This partnership will come into effect from Thursday 21 May.

This new arrangement is in line with the Embassy’s mission to streamline the visa application process, increasing efficiencies and ensuring that quality visa applications can be lodged and decided in the shortest possible timeframe. With this new arrangement, it is intended that applicants will be able to get appointments for lodging their documents more quickly, and avail of a more tailored service.

From this date, Kenyan and Kenyan Resident visa applicants will submit their supporting documents at the VFS submission centre in Nairobi. Visa appointments at the Embassy premises will no longer be offered. Applicants are invited to consult our website for more information.

These changes will not affect visa applications from applicants resident in Somalia, Sudan or Eritrea. For more information on how to submit a visa application from Somalia, Sudan or Eritrea, please consult our website.

Thousands of people gathered in Dublin yesterday to celebrate Africa Day. Ireland celebrates Africa Day each year to mark its growing links with countries across Africa.

From trade and development to culture and people, Ireland is committed to strengthening its relationships across Africa.

Over 50 Africa Day events take place across Ireland each year.

More info: AfricaDay.ie

We were honoured to welcome Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and Founding member of The Elders, whose leadership and advocacy continue to inspire action on climate justice and human rights globally.

We had the pleasure of hosting The Elders delegation with Kenyan Youth for an enlightening intergenerational dialogue on climate and nature, conflict, multilateralism, human rights and gender, technology and AI. The discussions highlighted the importance of youth leadership in shaping a more just, peaceful, and sustainable future.

Founded by Nelson Mandela in 2007, The Elders continue to champion peace, justice, human rights, and a sustainable planet through global collaboration and courageous leadership.

Earlier today, H.E. Ambassador Caitríona Ingoldsby met with Prof. Shaukat Abdulrazak, Principal Secretary for the State Department for Science, Research and Innovation, alongside the leadership of Young Scientists Kenya (YSK). The discussions focused on YSK’s impactful work in championing STEM across Kenya’s secondary schools and explored upcoming initiatives aimed at inspiring the next generation of innovators.

15 April 2026 marked three long years since the outbreak of the war in Sudan. The conflict has triggered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with unimaginable and indescribable cruelty inflicted on civilians.
The scale of the crisis is devastating - an estimated 400,000 + people have died, 12 million + have been displaced and over half of Sudan’s 33 million people are starving. We need to ensure that Sudan doesn’t fade from the international media agenda.
Many Sudanese journalists continue to document the conflict under extremely difficult circumstances, often reporting in exile or through remote networks. As a mark of our support for their efforts to keep the stories from Sudan alive, the Embassy was glad to co-host a special event - “Sudan Three Years On: Voices From a Forgotten War” - in collaboration with the International Press Association of East Africa and Ayin Network, an organisation which supports Sudanese journalists in exile.
This event brought together over ninety people from Sudanese civil society, members of the International Press Association, international NGOS and diplomatic missions.
Beginning with a screening of “The Quiet Heroes of Sudan”, a documentary produced by Ayin Network which highlights the work and lives of frontline Sudanese humanitarian workers who run local Emergency Response Rooms, it set the tone for the evening on the importance of ensuring international attention on what is happening in Sudan, highlighting the resilience of Sudanese communities and the real faces behind the facts and figures reported in the news.
During the subsequent panel discussion, the panellists highlighted the importance of reporting the agency of Sudanese civilians, in tandem with reporting the terrible suffering, and the critical need to invest in a diversity of sources to ensure that different perspectives are heard, including those of women and girls who are bearing the brunt of the brutality of Sudan’s warring parties.
They also spoke to the threats they face. “If you walk into a market with a gun, no one blinks. But a camera? You are arrested.” Reportedly, over 400 journalists have been killed or are missing in Sudan.
Despite there being a multiplicity of global crises, there is room for Sudan in the news cycle too. Global citizens need to speak about Sudan, and raise their voices for Sudanese people. We all need to keep eyes on Sudan.
The Embassy is proud to partner with شبكة عاين - Ayin network to support their vital work and we hope that our event helped to shine a light on the conflict in Sudan.