WHO’S RUNNING? Who knows? Opposition leader Raila Odinga, whose legal challenge claiming vote-rigging led to this new election, has said he won’t take part on Thursday because electoral reforms have not been made. Now he vows to turn his political coalition into a “resistance movement.” But the electoral commission has said Odinga will be on … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Angry protesters marched in Kenya’s capital on Friday against plans to build an elevated railway line over the country’s oldest national park, saying the project will threaten wildlife that includes lions, leopards and giraffes. The Chinese project would cross six kilometers of Nairobi National Park. Dozens of conservationists and others carried … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A leading Kenyan university should have sought authorization from the “highest security office in the country” for a practice exercise to test terrorism preparedness that led to a stampede in which one person died, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Police are discouraging institutions from carrying out drills on their own, said … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan police Tuesday tear-gassed a peaceful demonstration in support of government action against corruption in East Africa’s largest economy. About 200 demonstrators held a peaceful march to the Supreme Court and Parliament buildings where they delivered petitions asking those institutions to do more to tackle corruption in Kenya, demonstration organizer Boniface … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to Kenya said Monday that much more needs to be done to curb endemic corruption in the East African country as he launched a major U.S. aid initiative to provide life-saving drugs. While media reports exposing corruption are good for raising public awareness of the problem, actual steps … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Nine security chiefs in the eastern town of Garissa have been suspended during a probe to determine if they failed to stop an extremist attack earlier this month in which 148 people died, Kenya’s interior minister has said. A thorough investigation is needed to determine if the individual officers are … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Some relatives of students who were mercilessly gunned down by Islamic militants said Wednesday they would pray for forgiveness for the killers, responding to a Catholic archbishop who visited a morgue where victims’ bodies are being kept. Cardinal John Njue, the archbishop of Nairobi, prayed with some of the families … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya launched airstrikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people, a military spokesman said Monday. Some relatives of those who died in the attack on the college gathered at a funeral home in Nairobi to view their loved ones. They … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — He was a soccer player with a fighting spirit, a talented keyboard player with “golden fingers” who was intent on succeeding in life, his guardian said. But Bryson Mwakuleghwa, a 21-year-old student at Garissa University College in Kenya, never had the chance to make his dreams happen. Mwakuleghwa was among … Continue reading
GARISSA, Kenya (AP) — The Islamic extremists who slaughtered 147 people at a college in northeast Kenya as they shouted “God is great” appeared to have planned extensively, even targeting a site where Christians had gone to pray, survivors said Friday. In Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, family members went to a morgue where some bodies … Continue reading
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia’s al-Shabab Islamic extremists claimed responsibility Wednesday for an attack that killed four people in Kenya’s volatile northern region, bringing to 12 the number of those killed by the militants since Friday. Kenyan officials said that four people were shot dead in a shop and their bodies burned in Wajir … Continue reading
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