Kenya police kill "terror couple"
Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police ...

Kenyan protesters release pigs over parliament pay
Nearly three dozen piglets were released and animal blood spilled Tuesday at an entrance to Kenya's parliament as civil society activists protested ...
Correction: Somalia-Famine Deaths story
In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported ...

Kenyan court sentences 2 Iranians to life in jail
A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison. Ahmad Abolfathi ...
Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot
Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of ...

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 ...

Next for Kenya, a president on trial in The Hague
Kenya's powerbrokers and voters carried out a mostly violence-free election five years after tribal clashes ripped apart the country. The next big ...

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 ...
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 ...
Tanzania police: 2 dead after building collapse
A Tanzanian police official says two people have died after a building under construction collapsed in the country's largest city and economic center.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Kenya vote winner gets 50.07 pct; loser challenges
Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's founding father, was named the winner of the country's presidential election on Saturday with 50.07 percent of the ...

Kenya final vote total: Kenyatta has 50.03 pct
Kenya's election commission posted complete results early Saturday showing that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta prevailed in the country's ...

Kenya: Results sent for manual tally in capital
Kenya's election commission accepted responsibility on Wednesday for the failure of an electronic vote counting system that has left the country in ...

Kenya: Runoff seems likely after ballot decision
A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential vote raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was a decision involving hundreds of ...

Long wait in Kenya vote; 19 dead in Mombasa
Kenya's presidential election drew millions of eager voters who endured long lines to cast ballots Monday, but the vote was marred by violence that ...

Violent start in Kenyan election; police killed
Five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in election-related violence, Kenyans on Monday began casting votes in a nationwide election seen ...