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Heavy security in Nairobi for Obama visit

Politics 20 Jul, 2015

Threat of anti-gay protest during Obama trip Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been secured by American security agents ahead of the visit by US president Barack Obama on 23 July....

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US travel warning ahead of Obama visit to Nairobi

Politics 15 Jul, 2015

Obama travels to Nairobi and Addis Ababa The US has warned its citizens in Kenya of the potential for terrorist attacks during the upcoming visit of US president Barack Obama which starts on 23 Ju...

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Kenya takes measures against Somalis

Politics 20 Apr, 2015

Dadaab refugee camp risks closure Kenya’s plans to close Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya would breach international law and would put the lives of 350,000 Somalis at risk, accord...

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Witness in Kenyan ICC case murdered

Politics 11 Jan, 2015

Murder fuels accusations of state complicity A potential defence witness in the International Criminal Court (ICC) case against Kenya's deputy president William Ruto has been murdered ahead of the...

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Kenyatta sworn in as Kenyan president

Politics 08 Apr, 2013

Kenya new president Uhuru Kenyatta was inaugurated at a swearing-in ceremony at Nairobi's Moi International Sports Centre on the morning of Tuesday 9 April. Leaders from across Africa, as well as d...

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Supreme court upholds Kenyatta’s victory

Politics 01 Apr, 2013

Five people were killed in clashes in Nairobi and the lakeside town of Kisumu on the night of 30 March after the supreme court upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's election as president in the 4 March polls. Th...

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Odinga to challenge presidential result

Politics 10 Mar, 2013

Following the declaration of Uhuru Kenyatta on 9 March as Kenya's president-elect, his closest rival Raila Odinga is preparing a supreme court challenge against Kenyatta's election. His appeal is expe...

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Uhuru Kenyatta proclaimed Kenya’s new president

Politics 09 Mar, 2013

Uhuru Kenyatta has been declared Kenya's new president having won 50.7 per cent of the vote. He has won the presidency by a margin of 8,419 votes. His rival Raila Odinga has not yet accepted defeat...

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Kenya’s presidential election tightens

Politics 07 Mar, 2013

Kenya's presidential race tightened on 8 March as the gap narrowed between deputy prime minister Kenyatta, who had enjoyed an early lead, and his main rival prime minister Raila Odinga. According t...

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Kenyatta takes early lead in Kenyan elections

Politics 05 Mar, 2013

On 6 March presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta from the Jubilee alliance remains in the lead, two days after Kenyans went to the polls in the nation's first presidential and parliamentary elections...

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Kenya prepares for elections

Politics 28 Feb, 2013

Voters in Kenya go to the polls on Monday 4 March in the country's first presidential and parliamentary elections since 2007. In the lead-up to the 2013 elections the eight presidential candidates hav...

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Tensions ahead of Kenyan elections

Politics 21 Feb, 2013

Tensions are rising in Kenya in the run-up to the presidential and parliamentary elections on 4 March. The election campaign took a sinister turn on 20 February after the country's chief justice Willy...

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Kenya prepares for elections

Politics 08 Jan, 2013

The campaign for Kenya’s presidential and parliamentary elections began in earnest after MPs passed a raft of important bills including a mini-budget on 8 January, the last day of the tenth parl...

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Malawi to re-open embassy in Nairobi

Politics 26 Nov, 2012

Malawi is to re-open its embassy in Nairobi following its closure ten years ago. The move is part of an initiative by Malawi's newly-elected leader Joyce Banda to strengthen diplomatic relations be...

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Kenya begins biometric voter registration

Politics 21 Nov, 2012

A nationwide biometric registration programme got underway in Kenya on 19 November, ahead of the general elections on 4 March 2013. The month-long programme, which ends on 19 December, will replace...

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Ethnic violence ahead of Kenyan elections

Politics 27 Aug, 2012

The Kenyan government is to conduct a nationwide operation to disarm all communities with illegally-held weapons following the killing of 52 people in the Tana River district in Kenya's southeast, abo...

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Kenya scraps biometric voter registration

Politics 05 Aug, 2012

Kenya's electoral commission has abandoned plans to introduce biometric voter registration after the tendering process became tainted by alleged vested interests. The scrapping of an electronic reg...

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Kenya mourns death of George Saitoti

Politics 10 Jun, 2012

Kenya has declared three days of mourning after the country's internal security minister George Saitoti died in a helicopter crash in the Ngong hills outside Nairobi on 11 June. Five other people l...

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Kenya’s High Court clarifies timings for next elections

Politics 24 Jan, 2012

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Kenya bombs Al-Shabab targets in Somalia

Politics 30 Oct, 2011

Medecins Sans Frontieres, the international medical and humanitarian organisation, says that Kenyan planes have struck a camp for displaced people in Somalia close to the border with Kenya, killing at...

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