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

Sting in the tail?

Wednesday, March 30th 2011, 7:09

Kenya's Maasai swap cows for beekeeping
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VIDEO: Kenya's Masai swap spears for a bat

Sunday, March 27th 2011, 18:47

Kenya's Masai people could help unearth new sporting stars to reverse the country's cricketing decline.
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Kenya forces 'cross into Somalia'

Thursday, March 24th 2011, 11:33
related countries: Somalia

Kenyan forces have crossed into Somali territory to fight al-Shabab militants, an official source tells the BBC, although it is denied by the police.
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VIDEO: Kenyan villagers sing in praise of water

Tuesday, March 22nd 2011, 13:15

The people of Daaba village in Kenya sing while they fetch water from deep wells as before they built the wells they had to source their water from a river 45 miles away from the village.
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Rusty Australia reach last eight

Sunday, March 13th 2011, 17:19

Holders Australia advance to the World Cup quarter-finals after an uninspiring 60-run victory over Kenya.
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Kenya 'will challenge ICC case'

Wednesday, March 9th 2011, 23:02

Kenya says it will challenge the International Criminal Court's right to try six Kenyans suspected of being behind post-poll violence in 2008.
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ICC summons Kenya poll suspects

Wednesday, March 9th 2011, 11:18

The International Criminal Court summonses six high-profile Kenyans accused of being behind the violence after the disputed 2007 elections.
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VIDEO: Kenyan builds plane in front yard

Sunday, March 6th 2011, 18:19

A Kenyan man has used the internet and some books on engineering to build his own aircraft
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Kenya-Congo gold smuggling probe

Friday, March 4th 2011, 9:16
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo

The smuggling of gold from DR Congo through Kenya is to be jointly investigated, after a major haul was discovered and a Kenyan official shot dead.
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Kenya 'bling' MP seeks new rules

Wednesday, March 2nd 2011, 16:05

A Kenyan lawmaker thrown out of parliament for wearing ear studs and sunglasses says he will fight to change the dress rules so he can "represent the youth".
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Kenya parliament ejects MP for earrings

Wednesday, March 2nd 2011, 4:27

A Kenyan lawmaker has been kicked out of parliament for wearing ear studs adorned with precious stones.
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Malinga hat-trick hammers Kenya

Tuesday, March 1st 2011, 14:34
related countries: Sri Lanka

Pace bowler Lasith Malinga claims six wickets - including a hat-trick - as Sri Lanka ease to a comfortable nine-wicket victory over Kenya in Group A.
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Afridi stars in Pakistan victory

Wednesday, February 23rd 2011, 15:56
related countries: Pakistan

Captain Shahid Afridi takes five wickets as Pakistan complete a resounding 205 run-win World Cup win over Kenya in Hambantota.
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Bennett helps NZ demolish Kenya

Sunday, February 20th 2011, 8:09
related countries: New Zealand

Paceman Hamish Bennett takes 4-16 as New Zealand thrash Kenya by 10 wickets in their opening World Cup group game.
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Kenya welcome for freed sailors

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 12:06
related countries: North Korea, Somalia

Sailors aboard a South Korean fishing trawler hijacked in October are welcomed home in Kenya after their release last week by Somali pirates.
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Kenya probes massacre of Somalis

Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 9:22

The 1984 killing of thousands of ethnic Somalis in Kenya is to be investigated, Prime Minister Raila Odinga says.
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No food no school

Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 13:11

Drought means Kenyan children abandon their lessons
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Africa backs ICC Kenya case delay

Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 9:50

The African Union endorses Kenya's request to delay the ICC trial of those accused of organising post-election violence.
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Two times six

Thursday, January 27th 2011, 0:40

Kenyan woman brings up six 'cursed' sets of twins alone
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Police accused over shooting in Kenya

Friday, January 21st 2011, 20:20

Human rights groups have condemned the apparent execution of suspected robbers by the police in Kenya.
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Nairobi shooting: Police accused

Thursday, January 20th 2011, 18:57

Kenyan authorities suspend three policemen after a newspaper published a picture of an officer apparently shooting a man dead.
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Odinga in fresh Ivory Coast talks

Monday, January 17th 2011, 8:31

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga travels to Ivory Coast for a new round of mediation talks to resolve the stalemate over election results.
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Olympic hopeful heads 'home'

Thursday, January 13th 2011, 9:26
related countries: United Kingdom

Daniela Relph returns to Kenya with Britain's 16-year-old swimming star, Achieng Ajulu-Bushell, to see where her Olympic dream began.
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Kenya minister quits over graft

Tuesday, January 4th 2011, 17:18

A Kenyan minister accused of being behind post-election violence resigns over corruption allegations.
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Olympic runner on assault charges

Thursday, December 30th 2010, 16:42

Olympic Marathon champion Samuel Wanjiru is charged with threatening to kill his wife by a court in Kenya.
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'Last chance' for Ivorian leader

Tuesday, December 28th 2010, 17:41

West African leaders have met Laurent Gbagbo in Ivory Coast in an attempt to end the crisis following the disputed presidential election.
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Kenyans bond through yoga

Tuesday, December 28th 2010, 7:14

A group of instructors is using yoga to counter tribalism and encourage peace-building in Kenya.
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The Kenyan town that creates champions

Monday, December 27th 2010, 17:11

The village of Iten in the Kenyan Rift Valley has got a proud track record of creating world long distance champions.
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Kenya MPs vote to pull out of ICC

Thursday, December 23rd 2010, 10:11

MPs in Kenya vote to pull out of the treaty that created the International Criminal Court a week after six Kenyans blamed for post-poll violence were named.
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Kenya blast 'caused by grenade'

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 16:11
related countries: Tanzania
related places: Nairobi

A blast at a bus station in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, was caused by a Tanzanian who dropped a grenade, the country's chief of police says.
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Deadly bus station blast in Kenya

Tuesday, December 21st 2010, 9:49
related places: Nairobi

At least three people are killed by a bomb explosion on a bus taking travellers from Kenya's capital, Nairobi, to Uganda for Christmas, police say, following warnings of attacks by Somali militants.
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ICC names Kenya violence suspects

Wednesday, December 15th 2010, 18:34

The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has named six high-profile Kenyans he accuses of being behind the violence that followed the disputed 2007 elections.
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ICC names Kenya violence suspects

Wednesday, December 15th 2010, 17:57

The International Criminal Court accuses six high-profile Kenyans of being behind the violence that led to 1,200 deaths following disputed 2007 elections.
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Scratch codes aid malaria fight

Tuesday, December 14th 2010, 10:38
related countries: Ghana

Text messages and scratch codes on pill bottles and packets are helping to spot fake medicines in Kenya and Ghana.
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Shopping or piracy?

Friday, December 10th 2010, 8:13
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

What lies behind the success of Nairobi's 'Little Mogadishu'?
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Ouko 'died in Kenya State House'

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 16:59

One of Kenya's most high-profile murders - of Foreign Minister Robert Ouko - was carried out in one of then President Moi's official residences, MPs are told.
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Struggle to end corruption in Kenya

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 16:30

The Kenyan government has said it could be losing nearly one-third of the national budget to corruption. Finance ministry officials told a parliamentary committee the losses could be nearly $4bn (£2.5bn)
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US 'aware of' S Sudan arms deal

Thursday, December 9th 2010, 12:19
related countries: United States
related places: Washington

Washington has known about secret Kenyan arms shipments to Southern Sudan for years, the latest US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal.
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Somalia embassy 'sold illegally'

Tuesday, December 7th 2010, 17:20
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

A Kenyan court rules that Somalia's embassy in Nairobi was illegally sold in 1994 and should be restored to the transitional government.
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Kenya crackdown in Somali suburb

Monday, December 6th 2010, 16:18
related countries: Somalia
related places: Nairobi

Kenya police arrest about 400 people in an apparent crackdown on illegal immigration in a predominantly Somali area of Nairobi.
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Kenya admits cost of corruption

Friday, December 3rd 2010, 17:10

The Kenyan government admits it could be losing nearly one-third of the national budget to corruption.
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Living with HIV: Kenyan orphan

Wednesday, December 1st 2010, 13:04

As World Aids Day is marked around the globe, one orphaned woman in Kenya describes how she discovered she was HIV-positive.
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Kenya 'gay crackdown' criticised

Monday, November 29th 2010, 14:43

A gay rights activist criticises Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga for saying homosexual people will be arrested.
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Kenya's mobile wallet revolution

Monday, November 22nd 2010, 7:24

Can the developed world learn from Kenya's experience with the mobile wallet?
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Prince William to marry next year

Tuesday, November 16th 2010, 17:17

Prince William is to marry long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton next year after the couple became engaged in Kenya, Clarence House says.
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UK couple's 'risky' route to freedom

Sunday, November 14th 2010, 18:34
related countries: Somalia, United Kingdom

A British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for more than a year have arrived in Kenya following their release on Sunday.
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Kenyan policeman in gun rampage

Sunday, November 7th 2010, 8:45

A police officer goes on a shooting rampage in bars in a Kenyan town, leaving at least 10 people dead, officials say.
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