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KENYA / NAIROBI (9News Nigeria)— Leaders of Kenya’s northeastern counties met this week and vowed to fight against al-Shabab, the Somalia-based militant group that has terrorized Read more
A YouTube video showing the chilling confession of a Kenyan politician who sought “witchcraft” and “black magic” to achieve his political aims has attracted over Read more
Kenya’s former 400m hurdles world champion, Nicholas Bett, has died after a car crash Wednesday. Local police commander Patrick Wambani reported that Bett, aged 28, Read more
A Kenyan court has sentenced a 24-year-old beauty queen to death for murdering her boyfriend by stabbing him 25 times. Ruth Kamande, who won a Read more
At exactly 9.27am yesterday, the oldest inmate at Kodiaga Prison was all smiles as he walked to freedom. When he stepped out, clutching his walking Read more
Banker at CFC Stanbic Bank, Nyali Branch in Kenya was beaten to death by five security guards for allegedly urinating at Nyali Centre’s parking lot. Read more
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in for a second and final five-year term, a month after winning a bitterly disputed election rerun marked Read more
Governor of Nyeri, Wahome Gakuru died in a ghastly motor accident in in Kabati on the Thika-Kenol highway. The governor and his driver were rushed Read more
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga yesterday rejected outright the result of last week’s “sham” election that handed President Uhuru Kenyatta a landslide win, saying it Read more
Kawangware, Kenya – At least one person has been killed and several businesses burned down following clashes between opposition protesters and pro-government supporters in the Read more
Kenyan opposition supporters skirmished with police and threw up burning barricades in pockets of the country yesterday, seeking to derail President Uhuru Kenyatta’s likely re-election Read more
Kenyans are filing out today to cast their ballots in the re-run presidential election, following the Supreme court annulment of the first vote conducted on Read more
BREAKING!! Supreme Court invalidates election in which President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared winner; orders new election in 60 days. Details coming..
A ban on plastic carrier bags has come into force in Kenya, which means that from Monday anyone found selling, manufacturing or carrying them could Read more
Kenya’s newly elected legislators, who can earn as much as $10,000 a month in salary and perks, will oppose cuts by the wage-setting body that Read more
The bodies of a Caucasian couple thought to be between 60 and 70 years old were found dumped by a rural road in Kenya’s coastal Read more
As disputes raged over the presidential results from Kenya’s election last week, a little-noticed democratic revolution blossomed in the layer of government directly underneath. Kenyans Read more
Kenya’s opposition will challenge President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election victory at the Supreme Court, opposition leader Raila Odinga has announced. Odinga, who lost to Kenyatta in Read more
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has finally made his decision on his country’s disputed polls: he would challenge the result in the country’s Supreme court. Read more
A six-month-old girl has died in Kenya, her doctor told Reuters on Tuesday, after her parents said she was teargassed and clubbed by police in Read more
Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga vowed Sunday not to back down over an election he claims was stolen from him and urged his supporters to Read more
The United Nations has urged Kenya’s defeated opposition to calm its supporters after claims of election rigging sparked violent protests that officials say left 11 Read more
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s opposition accused the security forces on Saturday of killing more than 100 people, including children, in a crackdown on post-election unrest. Read more
NAIROBI/KISUMU, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan police killed at least 11 people in a crackdown on protests as anger at the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta Read more
After keeping the world waiting for hours, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission finally declared President Uhuru Kenyatta winner of the country’s disputed election. He Read more
Kenya’s electoral commission chairman has admitted its database was a target of an unsuccessful hacking attempt, but it has failed to convince the opposition, which Read more
The head of the Kenya election commission assured Kenyans on Wednesday that “all is well”, countering claims by opposition leader Raila Odinga of “massive” vote Read more
With 85 per cent of ballots counted in the Kenya presidential election held Tuesday, incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta has widened his lead over his main challenger,Raila Read more
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta took an early lead in Tuesday’s national elections, preliminary results published by the electoral commission showed. Kenyatta had 55 percent of Read more
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police arrested an American election data expert working with opposition leader Raila Odinga’s National Super Alliance (NASA) ahead of Aug. 8 Read more
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