Tag: Kenya
Obama says ‘Africa on the move’ in landmark Kenya visit
US President Barack Obama declared Saturday that “Africa is on the move”, praising the spirit of entrepreneurship at a business summit in Kenya as...
Kenya demands UN removes massive Somali refugee camp
Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a...
After attack and backlash, Kenya faces battle to win over Muslims
Days after Islamists killed 148 people at Garissa university, Kenya's president held out an olive branch to Muslims and urged them to join Nairobi...
Kenya to extradite suspected drug traffickers, including Pakistani, to US
A Kenyan court ordered police Thursday to process the extradition of four suspected drug traffickers to the United States, amid concerns of east Africa’s...
Kenya recycles global e-waste
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In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This...
Kenya red cross: 7 die in new attack in the coast
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The Kenya Red Cross says seven people have been killed after gunmen attacked a bus along the Kenyan coast where previous attacks had...
Fresh attack in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region
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Unidentified gunmen raided a village near Kenya's restive coastal town of Lamu early on Friday, Kenyan officials said, the latest in a string of...
At least 49 killed by gunmen in Kenya
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At least 49 people were killed when suspected Shebab militants from Somalia stormed into a Kenyan coastal town and launched a major assault on...
Kenyan troops try to save mall hostages as battle enters third...
Kenyan troops battled into the early hours of Monday as they tried to end a bloody stand-off with Somali militants holding hostages inside a...
Gunmen kill six in Kenya ambush: police
Six people have been killed in an ambush in northeastern Kenya's border region with war-torn Somalia, police said on Wednesday following the latest in...
Mau Mau torture victims to receive compensation
Kenyans tortured by British colonial forces during the Mau Mau uprising will receive payouts totalling £20m, Foreign Secretary William Hague has announced.
He said the...
Race tightens in Kenya general elections
Kenya’s presidential race has tightened as Uhuru Kenyatta’s lead narrowed over his main rival, Prime Minister Raila Odinga, raising the prospect of a second-round...
Kenyatta leads in early Kenya vote count
Uhuru Kenyatta, Kenya's deputy prime minister, is in the lead in the country's presidential poll, taking 54 per cent of the approximately one third...
Several killed in Kenya coastal violence
At least eight people have been killed in the latest tribal violence in Kenya's Tana Delta, police and local officials say.
Wednesday's fighting took place...
Second day of Kenya protests after politician’s murder
Angry demonstrators in Kenya held protests for a second day Tuesday in the western town of Kisumu, following the killing of a local politician,...
Olympic champ Kemboi assault charges dropped
Kenya's two-time Olympic 3,000m steeplechase champion Ezekiel Kemboi walked out of court a free man on Tuesday after assault charges were dropped by his...
10 police wounded in Kenya grenade blast, 2 attackers killed
Ten Kenyan police officers were seriously wounded early Wednesday when attackers hurled a grenade at them during a house raid in a clash that...