Kenya News
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Top lawyers and investigators from the International Criminal Court have made a fresh visit to the 2007-08 post-election violence hot spots in Eldoret, Naivasha and Nakuru. The team is carrying out further investigations into the cases against four Kenyans faced with trial at the Hague. The team led by a lawyer from West Africa has interrogated more than 100 witnesses
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Four Kenyan soldiers were wounded Monday when a landmine exploded beneath their vehicle in the northeastern Mandera region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said. "Officers have been injured, we have sent a team to investigate," regional police chief Leo Nyongesa said. "Four officers have been injured, the tanker passed over a landmine," said a police official who was not authorised to
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Attackers fired shots and detonated four grenades outside a nightclub in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa after they were denied entry, killing a security guard and wounding five people, including one of the assailants, police officials said Wednesday. The attack was the second explosion on Tuesday blamed on Kenyan recruits of an al-Qaida-linked militant group in
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A woman has died after a grenade attack in Mombasa, police told AFP on Wednesday - a day after armed men attacked a restaurant in the Kenyan port city. The BBC, which reported that the venue was a popular club for foreigners and Kenyans, said five people were injured when the attackers, who had been denied entry into the club,
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A woman has died a day after armed men opened fire and threw explosives into a restaurant in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, police said Wednesday. "We lost one of the victims, a lady who was a security guard at the club, she died in hospital," regional police chief Aggrey Adoli told AFP. Three others wounded in the attack
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Nairobi - Sub-Saharan African nations will not be able to sustain their accelerated economic growth unless they eliminate hunger, the UN said in a report on Tuesday. Many sub-Saharan economies are growing fast but the growth rates have not translated into significant hunger reduction, said UNDP Administrator Helen Clark. Sub-Saharan Africa's growth, this year expected to be more than 5%,
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Nairobi - Kenya has appointed a team of eight judges to help the courts prepare to handle election disputes and try to improve the credibility of the legal system before next year's presidential election. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga said on Thursday the deadly ethnic violence that followed a 2007 election might have been avoided if Kenya had better legal system
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Sabatia — The political rivalry between Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Musalia Mudavadi was dragged out in the open in Sabatia on Saturday after their supporters clashed in the public forcing anti-riot police to intervene. Trouble started after Ikolomani MP Bonny Khalwale told Odinga to his face that he should stop a plot to kick-out Mudavadi from Parliament.
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Thousands of people living with HIV and Aids in East Africa were given new hope on 25 April 2012, when a high court judge in Nairobi ruled that Kenya’s anti-counterfeit law was unconstitutional in its interpretation of generic HIV drugs as illegal counterfeits. A generic drug is an identical copy of a branded or listed medicine – one that is
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga has initiated talks to have Eldoret North MP William Ruto return to ODM following the exit of Musalia Mudavadi. However Ruto apparently gave the overtures a cool reception. Despite being Deputy ODM party leader, Ruto was in open conflict with Raila from 2009 until finally being dismissed last year as Higher Education minister. He initially organised
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Nairobi - Kenyan security forces have abused ethnic Somalis in the country's northeastern region in retaliation for attacks by suspected Somali Islamist rebels, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Since Kenya sent forces into southern Somalia in October to fight the al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab rebels, attacks have rocked the border towns of Garissa, Mandera and Wajir as well as the vast
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Yatta — In the remote east Kenyan village of Makutano, Jane Mutinda Maingi is feeding maize to her Friesian dairy cow, bought just a week ago with proceeds from selling produce grown on her one-hectare plot. Despite frequent droughts in the semi-arid Yatta region, the 60-year-old mother of six has healthy maize crops on her farm, as well as vegetables
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Nairobi - Newly released documents show that Osama bin Laden didn't want the Somali militant group al-Shabaab to publicly announce a merger with al-Qaeda so as not to bring extra attention from "enemies." Despite that view, the two militant groups announced a merger in February. Bin Laden said in a letter to al-Shabaab leader Mukhtar Abu Zubeyr that the world
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Nairobi — The trial of the four Kenyans facing charges for crimes against humanity has gone a notch higher after the International Criminal Court (ICC) Trial Chamber V elected justice Kuniko Ozaki to preside over the cases. According to the announcement published on the ICC website, Justice Ozaki will lead Christine Van den Wyngaert and Chile Eboe-Osuji at the trial
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Nairobi — One person was killed and fifteen others wounded after a grenade was hurled inside a church in Nairobi's Ngara area on Sunday morning. Police said the incident occurred at about 9 am shortly after the Sunday service kicked off at the God's House of Miracles International Church. Witnesses interviewed told Capital FM News they heard a loud blast
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Nairobi — A threatened tree used for curing prostate disorders could be saved from extinction through domestication, according to scientists who examined the trees in different regions of Kenya. Prunus africana is a highland forest tree found in some African countries, mostly Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the Zambezi basin divide. Extracts from its bark have been used
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Nairobi - The United Nations will open a new refugee camp in northern Kenya to shelter a possible influx of Sudanese and South Sudanese fleeing escalating conflict between their two countries. Kenya has received more than 100 000 Sudanese refugees since 2007 despite the official end of a civil war in 2005 in the country straddling one of Africa's most
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Nairobi — Malaria is in the bull's eye of a global campaign. The target is zero malaria deaths by 2015. The challenge is how to get there -- and stay there. Nearly 2,000 children die every day from malaria, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). For much of the past decade, malaria has killed as many as a million
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President Mwai Kibaki has reiterated his pledge for a peaceful handover of power after the next General Election. While addressing Parliament on Tuesday afternoon, he said the next president should be a visionary leader with the capacity to pursue development and sustain Vision 2030 whose foundation had been laid. "I also assure Kenyans of a smooth transition to the new
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, whose disputed re-election five years ago sparked bloody ethnic violence, vowed Tuesday to ensure an orderly handover of power when he steps down next year. The first general elections since the deadly post-poll violence is due to be held on March 4, 2013, a poll in which Kibaki will not stand. "I assure Kenyans of a
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A stone thrown by a rioter killed one protester in Kenya's coastal city of Mombasa on Tuesday after police blocked members of an outlawed group from entering a court house. Riot police fired teargas to stop more than 100 members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) from reaching the court to hear a case in which they are challenging the
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The lead United Nations agency dealing with the global AIDS response commended today the High Court of Kenya for a ruling on an anti-counterfeit law that will safeguard access to affordable generic medicines. "A vast majority of people in Kenya rely on quality generic drugs for their daily survival. Through this important ruling, the High Court of Kenya has upheld
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Nairobi - Kenyan rangers shot dead five suspected elephant poachers in a night-time fire fight in the north of the country, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Saturday. "Five suspected poachers were last night shot and one escaped during a fierce exchange of fire with Kenya Wildlife Service rangers at Chepareria in West Pokot County," it said. Two rangers
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First Lady Lucy Kibaki yesterday ended months of silence to warn politicians against dragging State House into their campaigns. Without making direct reference, the First Lady, who has been out of the limelight for a long time, said some politicians use State House to score political points. She told politicians to respect the dignity of State House and desist linking
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President Mwai Kibaki has called on East African Community (EAC) members to jointly find ways of diplomatically addressing the unfolding events on the Sudan and South Sudan border because the two nations must not return to war so soon after a peaceful separation. President Kibaki at the same time called on the presidents of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir
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