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Tension is running high in Kenya ahead of general and local elections on 27 December, with two separate incidents of poll-related violence on 28 October. One man was killed when youths tried to preven...
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There is disagreement in Kenya over plans by the main opposition parties to introduce a majimbo or federal system of government should they win the general elections later this year. The proponents of...
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Anti-corruption investigations go ahead.
President Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU) has refused to sign into law a bill limiting the powers of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC). Approved by parliament in mid Septemb...
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Odinga launches presidential campaign.
Raila Odinga, leader of the opposition party Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), has opened his campaign to succeed Mwai Kibaki as the fourth president of Kenya when the country goes to the polls in Dec...
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Preparations for elections can begin.
Preparations for the upcoming general and local government elections can now go ahead following a high court ruling which rejected a case brought against the electoral commission of Kenya over a Ksh 4...
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Women’s quota in Kenyan parliament.
Kenyan women have launched a campaign calling for a women
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New voter registration drive in March.
The national electoral commission has announced a new voter registration campaign in March for general elections later this year. The initiative follows an initial drive in August-September last year,...
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Voter registration underway ahead of 2007 general election.
Kenyas electoral commission has launched an effort to get over five million new voters onto its books in readiness for the next general election, which will be held some time in 2007. According to the...
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Dickson Wathika re-elected as Nairobi mayor.
Outgoing Nairobi mayor Dickson Wathika has been chosen by the city council to serve a second two-year term in an internal election marred by bottle- and furniture-throwing and fighting between council...
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Good governance meeting opens.
Members of parliament (MPs) from all over the world have gathered for the 114th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) assembly on good governance in Nairobi. The meeting the sixth to be held in Africa in t...
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Regional integration yes or no?
Over the next few months academics, church leaders and civil society representatives are to be consulted over plans to create a regional political federation with neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda. The...
