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

Hunt for Kenya mudslide victims

Sunday, August 12th 2007, 17:13

Villagers and officials search for survivors and bodies buried in mud during landslides in Kenya.
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Kenya churches fight media bill

Thursday, August 9th 2007, 15:49

Kenyan churches urge the president not to sign a media bill that requires journalists to disclose their sources.
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Fish 'fight malaria mosquitoes'

Wednesday, August 8th 2007, 23:03

A fish is being hailed by Kenyan researchers as the latest weapon in the battle to curb the spread of malaria.
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Finds test human origins theory

Wednesday, August 8th 2007, 17:05

Two hominid fossils discovered in Kenya are challenging a long-held view of human evolution.
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Kenyan women push for MPs quota

Wednesday, August 8th 2007, 10:45

A petition is launched in Kenya calling for 50 parliamentary seats to be reserved for women.
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Kenya minister's arrest illegal

Friday, August 3rd 2007, 13:05

Kenyan Health Minister Charity Ngilu is freed from police custody after a court rules that her arrest was illegal.
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Kenya minister fights with police

Wednesday, August 1st 2007, 10:18

Kenyan Health Minister Charity Ngilu clashes with police for arresting a women's rights activist.
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Aristocrat has 'case to answer'

Wednesday, July 25th 2007, 14:55
related countries: United Kingdom

A UK aristocrat accused of murdering a man poaching on his Kenyan estate has a case to answer, a court rules.
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Kenyan panic after more tremors

Wednesday, July 18th 2007, 9:09
related places: Nairobi

Some office workers refuse to enter high-rise buildings in Nairobi after a series of tremors despite reassurances.
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East Africa quake felt in Nairobi

Tuesday, July 17th 2007, 16:44
related countries: Tanzania
related places: Nairobi

A strong earthquake strikes northern Tanzania, with aftershocks felt as far away as the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
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Public smoking ban hits Nairobi

Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 10:22
related places: Nairobi

A ban on smoking in public places is being enforced in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, for the first time.
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Uganda admits border deaths

Thursday, July 5th 2007, 8:36
related countries: Uganda

Uganda's army admits killing eight herdsmen, but denies they crossed the border into Kenya.
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Kenya probes rocket deaths

Wednesday, July 4th 2007, 14:40
related countries: Uganda

Kenya investigates claims that scores of people were killed with rockets fired by the Ugandan army.
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Kenyatta returns as Kanu leader

Thursday, June 28th 2007, 14:19

The Kenya High Court reinstates Uhuru Kenyatta as the chairman of the country's oldest party, Kanu.
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Somalia food aid trucks stranded

Friday, June 22nd 2007, 15:24
related countries: Somalia

The UN appeals to Kenya to allow urgent food aid over its border to Somalia as a curfew comes into force.
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Kenya murders after sect jailing

Friday, June 22nd 2007, 12:29

At least 11 people are killed in attacks in Kenya a day after the former leader of the Mungiki sect was jailed.
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Kenya sect leader sent to prison

Thursday, June 21st 2007, 10:03

The ex-leader of Kenya's outlawed Mungiki sect is sent to prison, amid hysterical scenes from his two wives.
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Kenya police raid training camp

Tuesday, June 19th 2007, 16:23

Police raid an illegal military training camp in a thick forest in the south-east of Kenya.
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Kenya police killings condemned

Tuesday, June 12th 2007, 11:21

Amnesty International calls for an independent inquiry into reports of execution-style killings by police in Kenya.
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Arrests after Kenyan bomb blast

Tuesday, June 12th 2007, 9:12
related places: Nairobi

Police in Kenya say they have made three arrests following Monday's blast in the capital, Nairobi.
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Explosion rocks central Nairobi

Monday, June 11th 2007, 10:11
related places: Nairobi

At least one person is killed and several others are injured in an explosion in Kenya's capital, Nairobi.
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Residents flee from Kenyan slum

Saturday, June 9th 2007, 15:08

Residents of Kenya's Mathare slum continue to abandon the area after a violent police crackdown.
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First president of Somalia dies

Friday, June 8th 2007, 20:56
related countries: Somalia

Somalia's first president following independence, Aden Abdulle Osman, dies in a Kenyan hospital.
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Kenya police deny sect brutality

Friday, June 8th 2007, 16:53

Police in the Kenyan capital defend their operations against the Mungiki sect and confirm three more deaths.
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Kenya police shoot sect suspects

Thursday, June 7th 2007, 14:15

Kenyan police say they have shot and killed 12 more people during a crackdown on the banned Mungiki sect.
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Disturbance after Kenyan killings

Wednesday, June 6th 2007, 15:09

Kenyan police fire tear gas at protesters a day after 21 deaths in a police shoot-out with suspected sect members.
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Deadly shoot-out with Kenyan sect

Tuesday, June 5th 2007, 11:32

Kenyan police kill 21 suspected members of a banned sect in a Nairobi gun battle, a spokesman says.
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Kenya president warns on killings

Friday, June 1st 2007, 18:44

Kenya's president angrily attacks those responsible for a spate of murders blamed on the banned Mungiki sect.
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Kenyan judge frees sect leader

Thursday, May 24th 2007, 10:14

A leader of a banned Kenyan sect is freed by a judge, days after gruesome killings were blamed on the group.
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Beheadings spark Kenyan sect hunt

Tuesday, May 22nd 2007, 17:08

Kenyan police hunt for followers of the outlawed Mungiki religious sect after six headless corpses are found.
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Seven dead in Kenya gunfight

Saturday, May 19th 2007, 13:39

Three park rangers and four suspected poachers are killed in a gunfight in a Kenyan wildlife area.
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Airliner black box found in Cameroon

Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 1:30
related countries: Cameroon

Rescuers in Cameroon find the data recorder from the Kenyan plane which crashed killing all 114 passengers.
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Cameroon air crash site located

Sunday, May 6th 2007, 20:24
related countries: Cameroon

The wreckage of a Kenya Airways jet that went missing on Saturday has been found, officials confirm.
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Search for Kenyan plane resumes

Sunday, May 6th 2007, 9:16
related countries: Cameroon

Rescuers in Cameroon resume searching for a Kenyan airliner thought to have crashed with 114 people aboard.
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Kenya plane 'crashes in Cameroon'

Saturday, May 5th 2007, 17:12
related countries: Cameroon
related places: Nairobi

A Kenya Airways plane is reported to have crashed in southern Cameroon with 114 people on board.
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Kenya gets US anti-terror funds

Friday, May 4th 2007, 10:02
related countries: United States

The US announces new funding to Kenyan security forces to counter "terrorist activities" in the region.
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Kenya police free UK journalist

Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 3:57
related countries: United Kingdom

A UK journalist and his producer are released without charge after being arrested by police in Kenya.
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Kenyan ads move 'attack on press'

Wednesday, April 18th 2007, 16:17

Kenya's government halts ads in an independent daily, after a report linking a minister with an assassination plot.
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Starring role for street children

Saturday, April 7th 2007, 11:08

Sandra Jones visits Kenya to meet former street children given a new start in life with roles in a film co-written by Sandra herself.
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Fleeing Somali refugees stranded

Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 17:29
related countries: Somalia

Somali refugees fleeing fighting are stranded near the Kenyan border as talks take place to resolve the crisis.
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Kenya attacks suspect sent to US

Monday, March 26th 2007, 21:33
related countries: United States

A man accused of helping carry out twin terror attacks in Kenya in 2002 is sent to Guantanamo Bay.
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Cricket: Kiwis go through

Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 21:33
related countries: New Zealand

New Zealand book their place in the Super 8 phase after comfortably beating Kenya by 148 runs in St Lucia.
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Cheetah bites BBC presenter

Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 14:03

A rabid cheetah attacked BBC wildlife presenter Simon King while he was filming in Kenya, it emerges.
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Kenya burns illegal weapons haul

Thursday, March 15th 2007, 17:09

Kenya's authorities set fire to 8,000 guns recovered during operations to stem the flow of illegal weapons.
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Terror alert for Kenya athletics

Tuesday, March 6th 2007, 16:27
related countries: United States

World cross country championships in Kenya could be the target of a terror attack, the US warns.
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Kenya's 'most wanted' shot dead

Tuesday, February 20th 2007, 11:09
related places: Nairobi

Police kill a man believed to be behind a string of murders and armed robberies in Nairobi.
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Uncircumcised pupils sent home

Monday, February 12th 2007, 18:14

A Kenyan secondary school sends home 20 boys because they were not circumcised, in case they are bullied.
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