News: Kenya

We have started to collect the most important news related to Kenya in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Kenya: news

Hospitals in Kenya hit by strike

Thursday, September 13th 2012, 16:50

Thousands of doctors in Kenya embark on an indefinite strike joining teachers and lecturers whose strike this month has paralysed the education section.
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Kenyan MP charged over violence

Wednesday, September 12th 2012, 17:27

Kenya's Assistant Livestock Minister, MP Dhadho Godhana, is charged with inciting ethnic clashes that have killed more than 100 people in the Tana River area.
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Kenya curfew after ethnic clashes

Tuesday, September 11th 2012, 10:55

Violence continues in Kenya's Tana River area despite a dusk-to-dawn curfew after the deaths of 112 people in weeks of clashes.
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Kenya ethnic clashes kill 30

Monday, September 10th 2012, 13:55

At least 30 people are killed in renewed ethnic clashes in south-east Kenya, with children and policemen among the dead.
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Deadly 'revenge attacks' in Kenya

Friday, September 7th 2012, 18:16

Twelve people are killed in an overnight raid on a village in a part of south-eastern Kenya where 52 people were recently killed, officials say.
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Mt Kenya to get electric fence

Friday, September 7th 2012, 10:05

Kenya's government is to inaugurate a project that will encircle much of the country's highest peak with an electric fence to stop wild animals straying.
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Kenya's navy shells Somali city

Tuesday, September 4th 2012, 13:10
related countries: Somalia

The Kenyan navy shells areas in Kismayo, the main Somali city controlled by al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, ahead of an imminent attack, a military spokesman tells the BBC.
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Cleric charged over Mombasa riots

Monday, September 3rd 2012, 16:24
related places: Mombasa

A radical Kenyan Muslim cleric is charged with inciting the violent protests that hit the second city, Mombasa, last week.
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Kenya schools hit by pay strike

Monday, September 3rd 2012, 12:39

Tens of thousands of teachers in Kenya launch a strike to demand higher pay, affecting classes in many schools.
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Grenade attack on Kenya police

Thursday, August 30th 2012, 9:51
related places: Mombasa

Four Kenyan policemen are seriously injured in Mombasa in a grenade attack near a church, following two days of riots sparked by the killing of a radical Muslim cleric.
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Mombasa violence death toll rises

Wednesday, August 29th 2012, 11:17
related places: Mombasa

The death toll from violent protests in Kenya's second city, Mombasa, over the killing of a radical Muslim cleric rises to four, police say.
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Grenade kills Kenyan policeman

Tuesday, August 28th 2012, 17:01
related places: Mombasa

A grenade is thrown at police in the Kenyan city of Mombasa, killing one officer and wounding 16 others, the Red Cross says.
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VIDEO: Riots in Kenya after killing of cleric

Tuesday, August 28th 2012, 3:24
related countries: Somalia
related places: Mombasa

Riots have broken out in the Kenyan city of Mombasa after the killing of a controversial Islamic cleric, accused of financing militant Somali group Al Shabaab
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Islamist cleric killed in Mombasa

Monday, August 27th 2012, 14:36
related countries: Somalia
related places: Mombasa

A Kenyan radical Islamist cleric accused of supporting Somalia's al-Shabab militants is killed in a drive-by shooting in Mombasa, sparking violent protests.
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Kenya sackings over school fire

Friday, August 24th 2012, 15:35
related places: Kisumu

Kenya's education minister sacks two top education officers after eight girls died in a dormitory fire at a private junior school near Kisumu.
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Dozens killed in Kenya clashes

Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 23:56

At least 52 people are killed in ethnic clashes in south-eastern Kenya, in the worst single incident since post-election violence four years ago.
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Four killed in Masai Mara crash

Wednesday, August 22nd 2012, 15:13

Two Kenyan pilots and two German tourists are killed in a plane crash in Kenya's Masai Mara national park.
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IBM to open research lab in Kenya

Tuesday, August 14th 2012, 16:05
related places: Nairobi

IBM and the Kenyan government are to open a tech research hub in Nairobi to try to solve traffic congestion and other local issues.
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Ugandan helicopter wrecks found

Tuesday, August 14th 2012, 15:56
related countries: Uganda

The wreckage of two Ugandan helicopters which went missing on Sunday is found along with two bodies and eight survivors, Kenyan officials say.
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Ugandan helicopters go missing

Monday, August 13th 2012, 22:10
related countries: Uganda

A search is under way in Kenya for two Ugandan military helicopters missing with 10 crew members on board, Uganda's army spokesman says.
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Kenyan MPs get new $3,000 seats

Tuesday, August 7th 2012, 15:28

Kenya's newly refurbished parliament - dogged by criticism over the cost of chairs for MPs - is opened by President Mwai Kibaki.
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Kenya charges Venezuelan diplomat

Monday, August 6th 2012, 18:12
related countries: Venezuela
related places: Nairobi

Kenya charges the first secretary of the Venezuelan embassy in Nairobi with the murder of the acting ambassador.
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Top Kenyan judge faces the sack

Monday, August 6th 2012, 14:30

A tribunal recommends that Kenya's deputy chief justice be sacked after she was accused of threatening to shoot a security guard.
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Kemboi secures steeplechase gold

Sunday, August 5th 2012, 21:18
related countries: United Kingdom

Ezekiel Kemboi secures Kenya's first gold medal of London 2012 after winning the men's 3,000m steeplechase final.
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Dibaba wins Olympic 10,000m title

Friday, August 3rd 2012, 21:11
related countries: Ethiopia

Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba defends her 10,000m title with a dominant display as Britain's Jo Pavey and Julia Bleasdale smash their personal bests.
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'One dead' in Nairobi explosion

Friday, August 3rd 2012, 17:27
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

One person dies and several are wounded in an explosion in a mainly Somali district of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Kenya probes diplomat's murder

Sunday, July 29th 2012, 19:13
related countries: Venezuela

Six people are in police custody in the Kenya in connection with the murder last week of Venezuelan diplomat Olga Fonseca.
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Thousands flee Ethiopia clashes

Saturday, July 28th 2012, 12:29
related countries: Ethiopia

Deadly clashes between two communities in southern Ethiopia cause 20,000 people to flee across the border into Kenya, the Red Cross says.
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Kenya secessionist group unbanned

Thursday, July 26th 2012, 10:20
related places: Mombasa

A Kenyan court lifts a ban on a group demanding an independent state around the coastal city of Mombasa - a popular tourist destination.
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Hyena attack boy flown to Nairobi

Friday, July 20th 2012, 17:24
related places: Nairobi

A 10-year-old Kenyan boy who was mauled by hyenas in an attack which left two members of his family dead is flown to Nairobi for treatment.
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UK accepts Mau Mau abuse in court

Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 19:10
related countries: United Kingdom

The British government accepts that colonial forces in Kenya tortured and abused detainees during the Mau Mau rebellion, the High Court hears.
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VIDEO: Thai Customs seize half a ton of ivory

Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 12:50
related countries: Thailand

Thai Customs officers discovered half a ton of ivory, disguised as 'African handcrafts', being smuggled in from Kenya.
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African start-ups make location pay its way

Tuesday, July 17th 2012, 3:13
related countries: Uganda

The Kenyan and Ugandan firms that are making location pay
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AUDIO: 'Tortured' by the British in Kenya

Monday, July 16th 2012, 9:39
related countries: United Kingdom

A Kenyan woman, Naomi, describes the horrors she experienced at the hands of the British colonialists during the 1950s Mau Mau uprising.
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Galloping to success in a Kenyan riding school

Friday, July 13th 2012, 1:10

Making money from a Kenyan riding school
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Aid agencies make Kenya appeal

Thursday, July 12th 2012, 12:40
related countries: Somalia

Aid agencies operating in a refugee camp near Kenya's Somali border warn they are facing a funding shortfall, putting tens of thousands at risk.
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Kenyan workers seized in Somalia

Thursday, July 12th 2012, 12:10
related countries: Somalia, Sweden

Three Kenyans working for a Swedish relief agency are kidnapped in north-central Somalia by gunmen suspected of being linked to pirates.
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