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

Kenya suspect in al-Shabab claim

Wednesday, October 26th 2011, 15:27
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

A Kenyan man arrested after two grenade blasts exploded in the capital, Nairobi, admits in court to being a member of a Somali militant group.
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Kenya makes terror suspect arrest

Wednesday, October 26th 2011, 8:52
related places: Nairobi

Kenyan police arrest a man suspected of being a member of a terror cell a day after two grenade attacks in the capital, Nairobi.
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France to help Kenya's incursion

Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 13:30
related countries: France, Somalia

France will give logistical support to Kenyan forces pursuing Islamist militants across the border in Somalia, a French military spokesman says.
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Second blast in Kenya's capital

Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 8:39
related places: Nairobi

A second blast hits Kenya's capital, Nairobi, killing at least one person at a bus stop, hours after a grenade attack on a bar wounded 12 people.
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Somali protest at Kenya incursion

Monday, October 24th 2011, 12:40
related countries: Somalia

Somalia's president says his transitional government is opposed to Kenya's military incursion into Somalia last week in pursuit of Islamist militants.
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Grenade attack on Kenya nightclub

Monday, October 24th 2011, 10:14
related places: Nairobi

Kenya police say a grenade attack on a nightclub in the centre of the capital, Nairobi, which injured 12 people, has no links to Somali militants.
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Horn backs Kenya's Somali attack

Saturday, October 22nd 2011, 13:34
related countries: Somalia

Governments in the Horn of Africa welcome Kenya's offensive into Somalia against al-Shabab militants.
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Kenya to target Nairobi al-Shabab

Thursday, October 20th 2011, 15:16
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

Kenya announces that it will launch a major security operation in its capital to flush out sympathisers of the Somali Islamist group, al-Shabab.
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French woman held in Somalia dies

Wednesday, October 19th 2011, 16:28
related countries: France, Somalia

A 66-year-old French woman kidnapped from Kenya by Somali gunmen has died, say French officials.
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Deported men fly back from Kenya

Wednesday, October 19th 2011, 9:19
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Cardiff

Two 18-year-old men from Cardiff are flying back to the UK after being deported following questioning by anti-terror police in Kenya.
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Somali suicide attack near talks

Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 18:01
related countries: Somalia

A suicide car bomb kills five civilians in Somalia's capital as Kenyan ministers hold talks nearby, two days after Kenyan troops enter southern Somalia.
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Kenyan terror police hold men, 18

Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 15:15
related countries: Somalia

Two 18-year-old men from Cardiff are being questioned by anti-terror police in Kenya after being arrested crossing the border into Somalia.
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Kenya troops 'advance in Somalia'

Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 13:51
related countries: Somalia

Kenyan troops with aerial support continuing their advance into Somalia, as a suspected suicide car bomb kills at least three civilians in Mogadishu.
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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, 4:41
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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