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.

World news related to Kenya – overview

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Kenya: news

Britons detained by Kenya police

Monday, October 17th 2011, 22:59
related countries: Somalia

Two Britons, believed to be from Cardiff, are arrested in Kenya, near the border with Somalia.
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Somali militants threaten Kenya

Monday, October 17th 2011, 16:36
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

Somali militant group al-Shabab demands that Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia, after Nairobi launches an operation to push the hard-line group back.
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VIDEO: Kenya 'going after al-Shabab'

Monday, October 17th 2011, 11:38
related countries: Somalia

Kenyan troops and armoured vehicles have crossed into neighbouring Somalia, residents say, in pursuit of militants suspected of a spate of kidnappings.
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Kenya hunts kidnappers in Somalia

Monday, October 17th 2011, 3:17
related countries: Somalia

Kenyan troops cross into Somalia to pursue militants suspected of kidnapping, but a Somali diplomat at the UN says this could only worsen the situation.
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Abductions hit UN's aid for Kenya

Friday, October 14th 2011, 16:47

The aid operation near the Kenya-Somalia border is scaled back after the abduction of two aid workers, the UN tells the BBC.
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Kenya hunts aid workers' captors

Friday, October 14th 2011, 1:51
related countries: Spain

Police in Kenya hunt for the gunmen responsible for the kidnapping of two Spanish women aid workers seized from the world's largest refugee camp.
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VIDEO: Doctors kidnapped from refugee camp

Thursday, October 13th 2011, 21:58
related countries: Somalia, Spain

Gunmen have kidnapped two Spanish doctors working for the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) near Kenya's border with Somalia.
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Doctors snatched from famine camp

Thursday, October 13th 2011, 16:30
related countries: Somalia

Two Spanish women doctors working for a medical charity are seized from the world's largest refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border.
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Abductions threaten Kenya's tourism resurgence

Monday, October 10th 2011, 12:18
related countries: Somalia

Kenya tourism hit by kidnapping of westerners by Somali gangs
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VIDEO: Somali piracy taints Kenyan tourism

Monday, October 10th 2011, 8:02
related countries: Somalia

In recent weeks, two western women have been kidnapped from the Kenyan coast and taken to Somalia.
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Funeral for Nobel winner Maathai

Saturday, October 8th 2011, 14:25

Nobel laureate and environmentalist Wangari Maathai is laid to rest in Kenya, with the president praising her "selfless service to the nation".
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VIDEO: State funeral for Kenyan Nobel laureate

Saturday, October 8th 2011, 13:27

A state funeral is being held in Kenya for the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai, who died last month from cancer.
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VIDEO: French woman kidnapped in Kenya

Saturday, October 1st 2011, 20:34
related countries: France, Somalia

A French woman has been kidnapped by an armed gang on Kenya's northern resort island of Manda and taken to Somalia, Kenyan officials say.
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French woman kidnapped in Kenya

Saturday, October 1st 2011, 20:05
related countries: France
related places: Lamu

Suspected Somali militants kidnap a disabled French woman on the Kenyan resort island of Manda and take her to Somalia, officials say.
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Kenyatta denies violence claims

Thursday, September 29th 2011, 19:04

Kenya's deputy prime minister denies charges that he orchestrated violence after the 2007 election, in a preliminary ICC hearing.
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Kenya Nobel laureate Maathai dies

Monday, September 26th 2011, 13:15
related places: Nairobi

Kenya's Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai dies in Nairobi while undergoing cancer treatment.
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Kenyan Makau sets marathon record

Sunday, September 25th 2011, 9:52
related countries: Germany
related places: Berlin

Kenya's Patrick Makau breaks the men's marathon world record, previously held by Haile Gebrselassie, in Berlin.
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VIDEO: Kenya relocates elephants by truck

Friday, September 23rd 2011, 15:41

Kenyan authorities begin moving up to 200 elephants to a new home, after habitat loss creates conflict with local communities.
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Second man denies Briton's kidnap

Wednesday, September 21st 2011, 17:48
related countries: United Kingdom

A second man has appeared in a Kenyan court over the murder of a British tourist and abduction of his wife.
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Food aid driver abducted in Kenya

Wednesday, September 21st 2011, 13:51
related countries: Somalia

A Kenyan driver for an organisation providing famine aid is kidnapped in a refugee camp near the Somali border, prompting his employer to scale back its aid effort.
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'Miracle' pastor to be extradited

Wednesday, September 21st 2011, 0:43
related countries: United Kingdom

A preacher who claimed he could make infertile women pregnant is to be sent to his homeland of Kenya from the UK to face child abduction charges.
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Kenyan denies UK tourist kidnap

Monday, September 19th 2011, 14:42
related countries: United Kingdom

A Kenyan man appears in court and pleads not guilty to two charges following the murder of a British tourist and the abduction of his wife.
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British woman 'held by Islamists'

Friday, September 16th 2011, 8:57
related countries: Somalia, United Kingdom

Somalia's government says it believes a British tourist kidnapped in Kenya is being held by Islamist insurgents in Somalia.
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Kenya denies blame for slum fire

Tuesday, September 13th 2011, 16:16
related places: Nairobi

After the deadly Nairobi fire, a Kenyan minister denies that the government should have evicted slum-dwellers despite warnings of the dangers.
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Soldiers help Briton kidnap hunt

Tuesday, September 13th 2011, 8:38
related countries: Somalia, United Kingdom

Extra police and soldiers are sent to the area in Kenya where a British holidaymaker was shot and killed and his wife kidnapped.
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Kenya pipeline fire kills dozens

Monday, September 12th 2011, 19:04
related places: Nairobi

At least 75 people are killed in a petrol pipeline blast and fire in Kenya's capital Nairobi, the Red Cross says, as flames tear through a nearby shanty town.
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Nairobi anger high after deadly pipeline fire

Monday, September 12th 2011, 19:03

Slum residents' fury after deadly pipeline inferno
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VIDEO: PM on 'shocking' Kenya fire

Monday, September 12th 2011, 14:56
related places: Lunga-Lunga, Nairobi

Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has described the scene after a petrol pipeline explosion and fire in Kenya's capital as "shocking".
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VIDEO: UK man killed, wife abducted in Kenya

Monday, September 12th 2011, 12:50
related countries: United Kingdom

A search has been launched to find a British tourist who has been kidnapped while on holiday in Kenya.
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Uganda 'rendition': Suspects free

Monday, September 12th 2011, 11:24
related countries: Uganda

Kenyan human rights activist Al-Amin Kimathi is one of five suspects in the 2010 Kampala World Cup bombing freed by a Ugandan court.
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Hunt in Kenya for kidnapped widow

Monday, September 12th 2011, 11:00
related countries: United Kingdom

Police in Kenya launch a hunt for armed "bandits" who killed a British man and kidnapped his wife in an attack at a luxury resort village.
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VIDEO: Briton shot at Kenya beach resort

Sunday, September 11th 2011, 21:38
related countries: United Kingdom

A British man has been killed and his wife kidnapped from an exclusive beach resort in northern Kenya.
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Briton shot dead in Kenya resort

Sunday, September 11th 2011, 18:26

A British man is killed and his wife kidnapped from a luxury Kenyan resort near the Somali border, police say.
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Exciting stone tool find in Kenya

Thursday, September 1st 2011, 20:39
related countries: Switzerland

Acheulian hand-axes, sometimes dubbed the "Swiss army knives" of the Stone Age, were being used in Africa much earlier than previously thought.
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ICC rejects Kenya violence appeal

Tuesday, August 30th 2011, 16:52

The International Criminal Court rejects an appeal by Kenya's government to stop it putting on trial six people accused of links to 2008 violence.
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Kenyan suspect loses UK court bid

Friday, August 26th 2011, 16:18
related countries: United Kingdom, United States

The High Court refuses to intervene in the case of a Kenyan man who says he faces a terrorism trial because he did not help US and UK security services.
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ICC accused Kenya minister sacked

Wednesday, August 24th 2011, 16:32

Kenya's Higher Education Minister William Ruto, accused by the ICC of leading the 2007-8 post election violence, is sacked.
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