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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Polling stations opened up to Kenyans on Monday for a tense presidential election that will test whether the east African nation can repair its damaged reputation after the tribal blood-letting that followed a 2007 poll. This year’s front-runners are Prime Minister Raila Odinga, 68, who lost in the 2007 race, and Deputy [...]
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Odinga alleges unfairness before Kenyan election
Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2013
KAREN, Kenya (Reuters) – One of Kenya’s top two presidential rivals accused the electoral commission on Saturday of disadvantaging him by “design or omission” in Monday’s vote, a poll intended to reassert the rule of law after savage post-election tribal fighting in 2007. Prime Minister Raila Odinga, locked in a tight race against Uhuru Kenyatta, [...]
Cash, sexism and violence keep women out of Kenyan politics
Posted by admin on February 21st, 2013
NAIROBI, Feb 20 (TrustLaw) – Violence, a deeply chauvinistic society and a lack of cash are locking women out of elected office in Kenya, east Africa's leading economy but a laggard when it comes to female representation. The country's new constitution guarantees women a third of seats in parliament, but two and a half years [...]
Fifty-six arrested for raid on Kenyan coastal village
Posted by admin on December 22nd, 2012
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Fifty-six people have been arrested on suspicion of killing 30 villagers, including women and children, on the coast of Kenya, police said on Saturday. Friday's violent clash fuelled international concern over security in the east African state ahead of elections next year. Raiders, settled farmers from the Pokomo ethnic group, attacked [...]
Mombasa separatists attempt major gun theft, Kenyan police say
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2012
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – Sixty men armed with machetes, clubs and bows and arrows tried and failed to steal guns from a police station in Mombasa, in the biggest attack planned by separatists seeking independence for Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastal strip, police said on Monday. Police intercepted the men on their way to the station. [...]
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No Comments »Son of slain Kenyan cleric denies grenade plot charge
Posted by admin on November 23rd, 2012
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – A son of the slain Muslim cleric whose killing touched off days of riots in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa has denied court charges he plotted to blow up two police stations at the coastal tourist haven. Khubeib Aboud Rogo and four others were accused of planning to use grenades [...]
Rioters attack ethnic Somalis in Kenyan capital
Posted by admin on November 19th, 2012
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenyan police fired tear gas to disperse rioters who attacked ethnic Somalis in the Nairobi district known as “Little Mogadishu” on Monday, hurling rocks and smashing windows after a weekend bomb attack there killed nine people. The violence coincided with the start of voter registration for a general election in March, adding [...]
Rioters attack ethnic Somalis in Kenyan capital
Posted by admin on November 19th, 2012
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas to disperse Kenyans who threw stones and broke into the homes and shops of ethnic Somalis in Nairobi’s Somali-dominated Eastleigh neighborhood on Monday to protest against a bomb attack in the district on Sunday. Many Kenyans blamed Somalis for the blast. Police said on Monday that at least [...]
Cattle raiders kill at least 12 Kenyan policemen
Posted by admin on November 11th, 2012
ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) – At least 12 Kenyan police officers were killed when cattle rustlers ambushed them in the remote northern county of Samburu, police said on Sunday. Local television stations put the death toll at 30. Officials had initially put the death toll in Saturday’s clash at four. They said raiders from the ethnic [...]
UK court allows Kenyan claim over 1950s torture to proceed
Posted by admin on October 5th, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) – A British court ruled on Friday that three elderly Kenyans who were tortured under British rule in the 1950s could pursue their claim for damages from London, a judgment likely to encourage other claims from victims of colonial-era brutality. Britain, which had tried for three years to block their legal action, said [...]
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