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

VIDEO: Britons injured in Mombasa coach crash

Saturday, March 2nd 2013, 15:06
related places: Mombasa

A number of Britons have been hurt after the coach they were travelling in crashed in Kenya, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has said.
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Kenya poll: Your expectations

Saturday, March 2nd 2013, 1:49

Kenyans confident no repeat of election violence
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Kenya leader urges peaceful poll

Friday, March 1st 2013, 20:03

President Mwai Kibaki calls on Kenyans to vote peacefully in Monday's general election, and for losers to accept defeat.
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Kenya rape victim fears repeat of 2007 ordeal

Friday, March 1st 2013, 1:19

Raped Kenyan woman is leaving home on polling day
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VIDEO: Women campaign for Kenyan vote

Thursday, February 28th 2013, 17:11

Kenyans will go to the polls next week to elect a new president and members of parliament.
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Peace concert for Kenya election

Thursday, February 28th 2013, 16:05

A concert is held in the Kenyan capital with musicians calling for a peaceful election a day after a report revealed campaign attacks, hate speech and cases of ethnic intimidation.
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The struggle for land on Kenya’s coast

Thursday, February 28th 2013, 1:40

Why Kenyans' homes are demolished in a battle for land
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Kenya elections: Maps and graphics

Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 18:14

What is behind Kenya's fractured political landscape?
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Kenya bus crash 'kills at least 35'

Wednesday, February 27th 2013, 10:28

A bus crash in eastern Kenya kills at least 35 passengers, including voters going to their rural homes to vote in Monday's tightly contested election.
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Kenya cracks down on hate speech

Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 17:24

Kenya tries to ease ethnic tensions before key vote
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VIDEO: Kenya set to vote for new president

Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 16:00

With just days until voters in Kenya go to the polls, a close finish is predicted as the two main candidates battle it out to be named president.
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VIDEO: Photoactivist seeking change in Kenya

Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 0:20

As a photographer for one of Kenya's national daily newspapers, Boniface Mwangi captured extraordinary images of the violence Kenyans unleashed on each other, following the disputed presidential elections in 2007.
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VIDEO: Kenya: fears of electoral violence

Monday, February 25th 2013, 18:56
related places: Kisumu

The city of Kisumu, in the west of Kenya, was one of the worst affected by the bloodshed following the disputed 2007 elections. Many people there are still afraid, the BBC's Anne Mawathe reports.
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VIDEO: Police hunt donkey meat gangs

Monday, February 25th 2013, 9:21

Kenya people are facing a crisis as fears grow that donkey meat is being passed off as beef.
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Kenya 'hate leaflets' discovered

Friday, February 22nd 2013, 15:01

Kenyan police find leaflets inciting violence being distributed in some areas, less than two weeks ahead of general elections.
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Deadly shooting at Kenya mosque

Thursday, February 21st 2013, 11:19
related countries: Somalia

Seven people have been shot dead in an attack on a mosque in north-eastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, officials say.
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Kenya's chief justice 'threatened'

Wednesday, February 20th 2013, 16:49

Kenya's chief justice says he was threatened in a "poison-pen letter" about presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta's participation in March's poll.
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VIDEO: Dining out on 'reject' food

Wednesday, February 20th 2013, 16:13

Approximately 500 diplomats, United Nations officials and environment ministers have been treated to an official dinner, where the food used was Kenyan produce that would have been thrown away for not meeting supermarket appearance standards
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VIDEO: 'I'm closing for the Kenya election'

Tuesday, February 19th 2013, 1:22
related places: Nairobi

Nairobi hairdresser Agnes Warengi on why she is planning to shift stock out of the premises ahead of the election on 4 March.
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Ruling leaves Kenyatta free to run

Friday, February 15th 2013, 16:29

Kenya's deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta - accused of crimes against humanity - can stand in next month's election, after a court declined to bar him.
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Doping in Kenya rife - Kiptanui

Friday, February 15th 2013, 15:07

Moses Kiptanui, one of most successful runners in Kenyan history, claims doping is rife among athletes from the African nation.
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Kenyans in first presidential debate

Monday, February 11th 2013, 21:35

Kenya holds its first presidential debate - between all eight candidates running for office in next month's tightly contested election.
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Kenya ICC witnesses 'disappear'

Friday, February 8th 2013, 16:43

Why some doubt that Kenya has learned poll violence lessons
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Avoid violence, Obama urges Kenya

Tuesday, February 5th 2013, 14:36
related countries: United States

The US President Barack Obama urges the people of Kenya, where his father was born, to avoid violence and intimidation in next month's elections.
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Al-Shabab Twitter account stopped

Friday, January 25th 2013, 14:43
related countries: Somalia

The Twitter account of Somali militant group al-Shabab is suspended, after it was used to threaten to kill Kenyan hostages.
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Sergeant 'stranded' in Kenya-UK row

Thursday, January 24th 2013, 13:27
related countries: United Kingdom

Britain's relations with Kenya are under strain over an incident in which a Kenyan civilian was shot and killed during a military training exercise.
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Kenya tech city building begins

Wednesday, January 23rd 2013, 14:05

Kenya's president launches a $14.5bn (£9.1bn) project to build a new city intended as an IT business hub, dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah".
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Deadly shooting in eastern Kenya

Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 20:21
related places: Garissa

At least five people have been killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a restaurant in the town of Garissa in eastern Kenya, police say.
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Kenya seizes illegal ivory haul

Wednesday, January 16th 2013, 13:47
related countries: Indonesia
related places: Mombasa

Officials in the Kenyan port of Mombasa seize more than 600 ivory pieces worth an estimated $1m (£700,000), destined for Indonesia.
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VIDEO: African elephant extinction fears

Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 19:13

The Kenyan government has warned that an increase in poaching is edging the African elephant closer to extinction.
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UK special PC shot dead in Kenya

Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 15:49
related countries: United Kingdom

A British man killed in Kenya on Saturday was a special constable with the Metropolitan Police, the force says.
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Kenya's digital TV switch halted

Friday, January 11th 2013, 11:14

Kenya's high court orders that the date for the switch-off of the analogue television signal be delayed, preferably until after March's election.
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Kenyan MPs in repeat bonus vote

Thursday, January 10th 2013, 18:13

MPs in Kenya vote themselves a $107,000 retirement bonus, in the hope of avoiding a presidential veto which killed a previous attempt.
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Deadly 'revenge' raid in Kenya

Thursday, January 10th 2013, 7:54

At least 10 people have been killed in a dawn raid in south-eastern Kenya in what officials say is a revenge attack.
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VIDEO: Poaching fears rise in Kenya

Wednesday, January 9th 2013, 14:12

Kenya's Wildlife Service is hunting poachers who killed a family of 11 elephants.
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Kenya elephant family slaughtered

Tuesday, January 8th 2013, 10:18

Kenya's Wildlife Service says it is pursuing a 10-strong gang of ivory poachers suspected of killing an entire family of 11 elephants.
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Kenya 'fake police' suspensions

Tuesday, January 8th 2013, 10:00

Three top Kenyan policemen are suspended over the case of a man who allegedly pretended to be an assistant police commissioner for five years.
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VIDEO: Somali refugees begin to return home

Saturday, January 5th 2013, 13:48
related countries: Somalia

Somali refugees living in Kenya have begun to return home.
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Kenya 'fake police chief' charged

Friday, January 4th 2013, 9:58

A Kenyan man is charged after allegedly pretending to be an assistant commissioner of police for five years - during which time he reportedly sacked and recruited police officers.
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VIDEO: Scores die in Kenya 'revenge attack'

Friday, December 21st 2012, 18:51

At least 39 people have been killed in fresh clashes between rival communities in the Tana River district of Kenya's Coast province, police say.
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Dozens killed in Kenya clashes

Friday, December 21st 2012, 15:36

At least 39 people have been killed in fresh clashes between rival communities in southern Kenya, police say, stoking fears of election violence.
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Kenya restricts Somali refugees

Tuesday, December 18th 2012, 17:01
related countries: Somalia

Thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya are ordered to leave urban areas and return to remote, overcrowded camps, following a spate of grenade attacks.
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Nairobi hit by grenade attack

Sunday, December 16th 2012, 21:03
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

At least one person has been injured after grenades were thrown in a predominantly Somali district of the Kenya capital Nairobi.
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Blast hits Nairobi's Somali area

Saturday, December 8th 2012, 8:59
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

The death toll in Friday's blast near a mosque in a predominantly Somali area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi rises to five, police say.
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Deadly blast in Kenyan capital

Thursday, December 6th 2012, 9:19
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

One person is killed and eight others are wounded when a roadside bomb explodes in a mainly Somali district of Kenya's capital Nairobi, police say.
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Indicted Kenyans confirm alliance

Monday, December 3rd 2012, 10:57

Two former bitter political rivals in Kenya facing trial at the ICC, Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto, confirm their alliance for next year's election.
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Mau Mau massacre papers revealed

Friday, November 30th 2012, 3:01

The fullest account yet of a massacre which took place during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s has emerged in Foreign Office documents.
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