
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 ...

Contentious quotes upend Kenya presidential vote
Kenya's top two presidential candidates held their final rallies before large and raucous crowds Saturday, a day of political attacks and denials ...

A look at factors complicating Kenya's election
Kenya's presidential election on Monday is the most important and complicated in the country's 50-year history. More than 1,000 people were killed ...

Kenya prepares for watershed elections
The toll of more than 1,000 dead after Kenya's last election makes Monday's presidential vote the most important in the country's 50-year history.

Threats of violence in Kenyan slums color election
Dozens of shack homes have been burned to the ground in recent weeks in Mathare, Nairobi's most dangerous slum. Families are moving into zones ...
32 people killed as bus rolls in Kenya's east
A police official says 32 people have died after the bus they were travelling in rolled in Kenya's eastern region. Traffic police boss Samuel Kimaru ...

Victims of Kenya's last election still in limbo
Alex Ndungu is the latest victim of the harsh mountain winds that blow through the rows of straw huts in Gwa Kungu, a village where those displaced ...

USAID chief visits Mogadishu, says US is committed
Signaling the latest step forward in rapidly strengthening U.S.-Somalia relations, the administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development ...

Kenyan chief justice reveals threats ahead of vote
In an extraordinary public statement only days before Kenya's high-tension national election, the country's chief justice on Wednesday said he has ...

Kenya holds 1st presidential debate
Three weeks before they go to the polls, millions of Kenyans watched and listened to the nation's first-ever presidential debate, with the two ...
Obama to Kenya: Reject violence during election
Wading gently into the politics of his father's homeland, United States President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Kenya to reject violence in next ...

Obama visit to Kenya? Only 1 day in Africa so far
President Barack Obama promised to visit his father's homeland — Kenya — before the end of his presidency, but of the 51 country visits Obama made the ...
MSF: More refugees to worsen state of Kenya camp
The health of thousands of Somali refugees will be threatened if they are moved from the country's urban areas into a camp near the Kenyan-Somali ...

Kenya hospital imprisons new mothers with no money
The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges what he's accused of: ...

Kenya Red Cross: 39 people killed in clashes
At least 39 people were killed when farmers raided a village of herders in southeastern Kenya early Friday in renewed fighting between two communities ...