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Kenya Supreme Court: Election was not perfect
Kenya's Supreme Court on Tuesday said the execution of the nation's March presidential election wasn't perfect but that petitions to overturn the ...
Kenya celebrates new president; daggers for West
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding president, ascended to the country's top office Tuesday during a jubilant celebration that began a new era ...
Carter Center dings Kenyan vote on tech failures
An American election observer group led by former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that Kenya's March 4 presidential election suffered serious ...
Uneasy calm in Kenya after court ruling on vote
Kenyan police deployed forces Sunday in the capital and the lakeside city of Kisumu to contain the continuing threat of violence after five people ...
Kenyan Supreme Court upholds election result
Kenya's Supreme Court on Saturday upheld the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's next president and the loser accepted that verdict, ending ...
Loser in Kenya election accepts court defeat
Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga says he accepts the Supreme Court's verdict that upholds the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as Kenya's next president.
Tension in Kenya ahead of court's decision on vote
Lawyers and observers have started gathering inside the courtroom in the Kenyan capital where six Supreme Court judges are expected to deliver a ...
Anxiety ahead of Supreme Court judgment in Kenya
Kenya is on edge awaiting the Supreme Court decision Saturday on whether it will uphold or invalidate the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as president, a ...
Kenya vote commission cites Bush v Gore in defense
A lawyer for Kenya's election commission cited the U.S. Supreme Court case Bush vs. Gore on Thursday during arguments before a Kenya Supreme Court ...
Kenyan court denies prime minister 2 requests
Kenya's Supreme Court has denied two requests by the legal team of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who has asked the court to order a new presidential ...
Kenya court: Partial recount in presidential vote
Kenya's Supreme Court on Monday ordered a recount of votes in some constituencies in the country's March 4 presidential election. The court heard ...
Kenya Supreme Court to top politicians: Keep quiet
The Kenya Supreme Court is warning the country's top politicians against making sensational statements about the country's disputed March 4 ...
Former Bush lawyer fighting Kenyan election case
A former lawyer for President George W. Bush now representing the Kenyan prime minister in his battle to persuade the Supreme Court to order a new ...
Lawyer: ICC should drop Kenyatta case
A defense lawyer for President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya told judges at the International Criminal Court on Monday that prosecutors should drop ...
Tear gas in Kenya as prime minister files suit
Police in Kenya lobbed tear gas Saturday on crowds supporting the prime minister as he filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to void the ...
Online war erupts in Kenya after peaceful vote
Tribal lines are being drawn over who won Kenya's presidential election. But unlike the bloody violence that scarred the country five years ago, this ...
Ex-prosecutor: Int'l court cases changed Kenya
The former International Criminal Court chief prosecutor said Thursday that cases he launched prosecuting violence after Kenya's 2007 elections were ...
Election dispute big test for Kenya's top judge
Confidence was so low in Kenya's courts after its 2007 election that people preferred to settle their disputes with machetes and bows and arrows.
Cover-up of Kenyan vote rigging, Odinga team says
Officials from the party of Kenya's prime minister said Monday they are not getting the co-operation they need from Kenya's electoral commission to ...
International court case aided Kenyan candidate
The charges Uhuru Kenyatta faces at the International Criminal Court would have crippled a U.S. or European politician. Instead, the accusations that ...
Kenyan church moves past painful election history
The Rev. Joshua Kimuyu pointed where his church floor is broken and black, a scar from an attack five years old. More than 200 young men armed with ...