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Kenyan officials backed by armed police are forcing thousands of Kenyans displaced by postelection violence to leave a refugee camp, a resident and an international aid worker said Wednesday.
Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing about 240 pounds of ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday.
A leading human rights group on Tuesday accused Ethiopian troops in Somalia of killing civilians and committing atrocities, including slitting people’s throats, gouging out eyes and gang-raping women.
A government spokesman says two Kenyan High Court judges have been sacked after an investigation found they received bribes to influence their verdicts.
Gunmen killed one of the leaders of a feared Kenyan gang Monday, throwing scheduled peace talks between the group and the government into disarray, the dead man’s deputy and an official said.
As Kenya’s politicians toured the country’s battle-scarred west, walking among the uprooted multitudes, their message was clear: You will be able to go home soon. We, your leaders, will help you.
The spoils of a career as a pirate off Somalia’s high seas were simply too good for Abdi Muse to pass up. He bought two Land Cruisers and a new home, then married two women in one passionate week.
Explosions and gunfire erupted in the capital of the East African nation of Burundi late Thursday, witnesses reported from Bujumbura. It was not immediately clear who was responsible or whether there were any casualties.
Kenya’s opposition leader has been sworn in as the new prime minister as part of a power-sharing deal that ended weeks of violence following the country’s disputed elections.
Fears of retaliation from an outlawed Kenyan gang kept thousands of buses off streets and snarled transportation for commuters Tuesday, a day after street clashes between police and the gang killed at least 13 people, officials said.
Kenya is in troubled waters again with the collapse of the Kofi Annan-brokered political truce between the government and the opposition. Despite the best efforts of Mr.Annan, the former UN secretary-general, it seems President Mwai Kibaki and his...
With Kenya’s post-election violence still underway, it is a saddening reality that families are being broken due to several abductions, burning of houses and other human rights violations. It seems Kenya remains in a desperate situation and its...
Kenya seems to have been saved from the brink of civil war. The two main parties PNU and ODM have decided to merge. Kibaki will remain president and Raila Odinga will sit on the newly created prime ministerial chair. In short the two main parties (or...
Once considered to be the most politically secure society, the aftermath of a blamable election in Kenya has done more harm than just a fight between two ethnic groups; it has ignited the long hidden ethnic tensions, resulting in violence that...
Kenya has given the sporting world some of its best distance runners. The Kenyan marathon runners, the overwhelming majority of them, come from impoverished families. In due course of their success as massive wealth comes pouring in their kitty as is...
It does not seem that the violence in Kenya will end some time soon. People in the streets are attacked and lynched to death. According to the International Crisis Group, armed groups on both the opposition and government sides are mobilizing for...
Perceived as East Africa’s most prosperous country and a role model for violent African neighbours, Kenya is in a state of shock and fear as ethnic and tribal violence rages throughout the country after last month’s disputed and controversial...
After Kibaki refused to okay a proposal by AU chief Kufuor which had been given the green signal by Odinga, the western nations have stepped up efforts to bring peace to strife-torn Kenya.
The reasons are not difficult to fathom. The country has...
The worst that had been expected by Kenya watchers has happened. Many commentators had said that the country was slowly maturing into a real democracy. They were proved to have been too hasty! The mess that occurred during the presidential elections...
Kenya is heading for a change. President Mwai Kibaki is on the verge of defeat to a former political ally and leader of the Orange Democratic Movement(ODM), Raila Odinga. Early election results suggest that Mr.Odinga is leading President Kibaki by a...
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A man sit outside his tent in an internal displacement camp, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 in Nakuru in Kenya’s Rift Valley. The government is starting to help return home the first wave of people this week, four months after they were driven away in violence...
