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

Deadly explosions in Kenyan capital

Tuesday, April 1st 2014, 10:14
related places: Nairobi

Six people have been killed and several more wounded in explosions in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, followed by mass arrests, officials say.
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ICC delays Kenyatta trial start

Tuesday, April 1st 2014, 9:38

The International Criminal Court postpones the start of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's trial, related to violence following polls in 2007, until October.
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Kenya restricts Somali refugees

Wednesday, March 26th 2014, 12:15
related countries: Somalia

Kenya has ordered all urban-based Somali refugees to move into designated camps because of "emergency security challenges", a minister says.
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Mother's fatal bullet hit Kenya boy

Tuesday, March 25th 2014, 17:16
related places: Mombasa, Nairobi

A boy of 18 months who had a bullet lodged in his brain during an attack on a church near Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa is flown to the capital for treatment.
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Kenya church attack: Two more die

Monday, March 24th 2014, 10:35
related places: Mombasa

Two more people die after Sunday's attack on a church near the Kenyan port of Mombasa, officials say, taking the total number of deaths to six.
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Four killed in Kenya church attack

Sunday, March 23rd 2014, 14:55
related places: Mombasa

Four people are killed and a number are injured when gunmen open fire in a church near the Kenyan city of Mombasa, officials say.
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Female Kenyan MPs blast polygamy law

Friday, March 21st 2014, 13:49

Female MPs in Kenya storm out of a late-night parliamentary session in a row over the legalisation of polygamy as a new marriage bill is passed.
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Kenya court allows ICC extradition

Thursday, March 20th 2014, 10:47

Kenya's high court rules that journalist Walter Barasa, wanted by the International Criminal Court for bribing witnesses, can be extradited to The Hague.
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VIDEO: Droughts worldwide: From US to Kenya

Thursday, March 20th 2014, 1:56
related countries: United States

Four BBC correspondents explain the lack of water in their areas.
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Kenya seizes two 'with bombs in car'

Tuesday, March 18th 2014, 2:02
related places: Mombasa

Kenyan police heighten security in the port-city of Mombasa after two men are arrested in a car allegedly on their way to place bombs.
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VIDEO: Kenyans hope for new oil wealth

Friday, March 14th 2014, 11:43

The residents of Kenya's north-western Turkana region are hoping the discovery of oil and gas will bring prosperity to the area.
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Kenyan president takes pay cut

Friday, March 7th 2014, 23:57

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta announces that he and his cabinet will take pay cuts to help reduce the government's ballooning wage bill.
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VIDEO: Drought threat looms over Kenya region

Friday, March 7th 2014, 6:23

The Turkana region in northern Kenya is facing one of the worst droughts in living memory with more than 1m people in need of food aid.
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Nairobi chaos amid taxi protest

Wednesday, March 5th 2014, 12:02
related places: Nairobi

Public transport is paralysed in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, as taxi operators embark on a protest against higher parking fees in the city.
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UK officer testifies in Kenya trial

Monday, February 17th 2014, 15:10
related countries: United Kingdom

A UK police officer gives evidence in Kenya in the trial of a British man accused of possessing explosive materials and intent to cause explosions.
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VIDEO: Battle to end 'sex for fish' trade

Monday, February 17th 2014, 6:08

Local charities in Kenya are trying to change a practice known as 'sex for fish', where poor women have no choice but to pay for fish with sex rather than money.
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Kenya's battle to end 'sex for fish' trade

Monday, February 17th 2014, 1:16
related countries: Seychelles

Kenya's battle to end an old trade on Lake Victoria
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Kenyans get condom delivery service

Friday, February 14th 2014, 16:14

A Kenyan businesswoman launches a condom delivery service to help tackle Aids, saying many people are too embarrassed to buy them.
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US denies plot to oust Kenya leaders

Friday, February 14th 2014, 10:55
related countries: United States

The US denies Kenyan claims it funded Thursday's protests in order to "topple" the government, as relations take another turn for the worse.
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Kenya arrests over banned Oscar film

Thursday, February 13th 2014, 14:39

Dozens of pirate DVD traders have been arrested in Kenya for selling banned copies of The Wolf of Wall Street, Kenya's film censors tell the BBC.
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Letter from Africa: A gift for Kenya

Wednesday, February 12th 2014, 14:08

A father's tips to his newborn daughter on surviving Kenya
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VIDEO: Elephants orphaned by wildlife poaching

Wednesday, February 12th 2014, 0:16
related places: Tsavo

Mark Lowen visits an elephant orphanage in Kenya's Tsavo national park to see the effects of wildlife poaching.
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Fingerprinting for Kenya's MPs

Tuesday, February 11th 2014, 15:03

Kenya's parliament launches a biometric fingerprint system to register MPs' attendance, but the parliamentary speaker denies it is to curb allowance fraud.
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Kenya football fan stabbed to death

Monday, February 10th 2014, 12:09

Police in Kenya are hunting a murder suspect after a Kenyan Liverpool fan was stabbed to death following his team's match with Arsenal on Saturday.
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In pictures: Kenya's traditional brewers

Monday, February 10th 2014, 1:03

Photos of Kenya's traditional moonshine and beer brewers
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Kenyan police deny rebel kidnapping

Thursday, February 6th 2014, 13:49
related countries: Ethiopia

Two Kenyan police officers plead not guilty to kidnapping two Ethiopian rebels who are alleged to have been handed over to Ethiopia's government.
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Kenya apology over single women slur

Wednesday, February 5th 2014, 12:54

Kenyan county governor William Kabogo apologises for suggesting that unmarried women are not effective leaders.
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Mass terror charges after Kenya riot

Monday, February 3rd 2014, 16:28
related places: Mombasa

More than 100 people appear in court in Kenya's port of Mombasa on charges of membership of Somalia's al-Shabab Islamist group, police say.
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'Pocket optician' trialled in schools

Monday, February 3rd 2014, 1:16

A "pocket optician" made from a modified smartphone is to be used by teachers in Kenya as part of a trial to catch pupils' eye problems.
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Kenya detains diplomat from Somalia

Friday, January 31st 2014, 17:50
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

A Somali diplomat detained in Kenya is being denied immunity amid a security crackdown in Nairobi, Somalia's ambassador to Kenya tells the BBC.
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Kenyan BBC journalist dies aged 39

Tuesday, January 28th 2014, 15:39
related places: Nairobi

Kenya-based BBC broadcast journalist Anne Waithera has died, aged 39, in a Nairobi hospital after a two-year battle against cancer.
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Record Kenya fine for ivory smuggler

Tuesday, January 28th 2014, 10:18
related countries: China

A Chinese ivory smuggler is ordered to pay a record fine or spend seven years in jail, under tough new Kenyan anti-poaching laws.
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Hague delays Kenyatta trial start

Thursday, January 23rd 2014, 16:26

The International Criminal Court postpones the February start of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's trial following prosecutor's call for three-month delay.
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Kenya athletes threaten boycott

Thursday, January 23rd 2014, 13:23

Some of Kenya's top athletes threaten to stop representing their nation at international competitions like the Olympics over new tax laws.
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Kenyan author comes out as gay

Tuesday, January 21st 2014, 11:07

Leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina comes out to say he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile Africans to do so.
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Kenya's Westgate siege trial starts

Wednesday, January 15th 2014, 13:36
related places: Nairobi

The trial of four men charged over the deadly Westgate shopping centre siege in Kenya starts in the capital, Nairobi.
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Disputes rage over Nairobi police killings

Monday, January 13th 2014, 2:17
related places: Nairobi

Disputes rage over police killings in Nairobi
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'Corpse' wakes up in Kenyan mortuary

Friday, January 10th 2014, 13:00

Kenyan authorities launch an investigation into how a man declared dead in a hospital woke up alive in its mortuary the next day.
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Kenya planes 'kill Somali militants'

Friday, January 10th 2014, 9:05
related countries: Somalia

Kenya's military says it has carried out an air strike on an Islamist camp in Somalia, killing 30 militants, including al-Shabab commanders.
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Injuries in Kenya grenade attack

Thursday, January 2nd 2014, 12:43
related places: Mombasa

At least 10 people have been injured in a grenade attack at the Kenyan tourist resort of Diani, south of the port city of Mombasa, say police.
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S Sudan government agrees to truce

Friday, December 27th 2013, 22:12
related places: Nairobi

The government of South Sudan agrees to an immediate ceasefire but the rebel leader tells the BBC conditions for a truce are not in place.
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South Sudan neighbours reject 'coup'

Friday, December 27th 2013, 13:23

East Africa's leaders say they would not accept a violent overthrow of the government in South Sudan, where hundreds are believed to have died.
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VIDEO: Kenyans flee South Sudan's violence

Thursday, December 26th 2013, 16:20
related countries: Ethiopia

As the leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia meet in South Sudan for talks on ending days of violence, the BBC's Anne Soy reports on the evacuation from South Sudan, of Kenyan nationals.
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Crisis talks held in South Sudan

Thursday, December 26th 2013, 15:32
related countries: Ethiopia

The leaders of Kenya and Ethiopia hold talks with South Sudan's president in a bid to halt violence the UN says has killed more than a thousand people.
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Kenya train crashes in Nairobi slum

Sunday, December 22nd 2013, 20:58
related places: Kibera, Nairobi

A freight train crashes into homes in huge Nairobi slum of Kibera, injuring at least 10 people.
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Kenyatta trial may be adjourned

Thursday, December 19th 2013, 18:48

The International Criminal Court prosecutor requests an adjournment in the trial of Kenya's President Kenyatta after the loss of two key witnesses.
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'Draconian' Kenyan media bill signed

Tuesday, December 17th 2013, 18:07

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta signs into law a media bill which journalist groups have condemned as "draconian" and an attack on democracy.
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