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Nairobi - Tens of thousands of refugees living in urban areas in Kenya must return to remote and overcrowded camps, the government said on Tuesday, demanding all aid be cut off outside the camps. "All asylum seekers and refugees from Somalia should report to Dadaab refugee camps, while asylum seekers from other countries should report to Kakuma refugee camp," an
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Nairobi — Raila Odinga's office has refuted a report in one of the local dailies, indicating that the Prime Minister is admitted to hospital. The People newspaper claims in its Saturday edition lead story that premier was admitted to the Nairobi Hospital on Friday evening after touring Narok County. But in a statement sent to newsrooms, his spokesman Dennis Onyango
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Nairobi - A UK-led Piracy Ransom Task Force says the shipping industry must adopt additional measure to ensure that payments aren't made to pirates after a successful attack against ships. The task force's final recommendations noted that more than $300m has been paid to Somali pirates in ransom since 2008. Successful piracy attacks off Somalia have dropped precipitously over the
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Prime Nairobi - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday urged Kenyans to register to vote for next year's presidential ballot, with less than half of eligible voters signed up, while tensions rise over concerns of renewed political violence. The latest figures from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) show that only 46% of the targeted 18 million Kenyans have
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Nairobi - Kenyan police shot dead three suspected militants linked to a separatist movement, the latest outbreak of violence in Kenya's popular tourist coastal region, police said on Monday. "Three suspects were shot dead in the confrontation, while four have been arrested," regional police chief Aggrey Adoli said of the overnight clash on Sunday in a district of Mombasa, Kenya's
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Nairobi - Two more people died of wounds sustained in an explosion near a mosque in the Kenyan capital, bringing the toll to five, police said on Saturday. "Two more people have died in hospital, the death toll is now five," Nairobi Police Chief Moses Nyakwama told AFP. -
Nairobi - A grenade thrown at worshippers leaving a mosque in a Somali neighborhood in the Kenyan capital killed three people and wounded 15 on Friday evening, the city's police chief said. The explosion was the second in the same Nairobi neighborhood in three days. Kenyan media reported that a Muslim member of parliament was among the wounded, but police
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Kenya is showing mixed reactions to the cabinet's recently approved Marriage Bill 2012. One of its most conversation-generating proposals is to legalize polygamy. At the beginning of the 20th century, polygamy was a common practice among several of Kenya's ethnic tribes. In some of them, a man was allowed to marry as many wives as he wanted under the stipulation
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Inter-ethnic clashes broke out on Monday in a Nairobi district over a bus bomb blamed on sympathisers of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents, leaving several people wounded. An AFP reporter at the scene said police used tear gas and fired into the air to contain the violence, which broke out at Eastleigh, a predominantly Somali district of Nairobi where a bomb
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Kenyan commuters in the capital Nairobi travelled Wednesday on the inaugural commercial service of a new train system aimed at easing some of the worst traffic jams in the world. Travelling on refurbished locomotives and carriages from the newly opened Syokimau station -- some 16 kilometres (ten miles) from Nairobi city centre -- passengers cut their travel time by more
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday ordered the army to be deployed to a restive northern area where gunmen massacred 42 police officers in a weekend ambush, the deadliest in the country's history. Kenya's National Security Council, chaired by Kibaki, authorised the rare deployment of the army to support police in "apprehending the bandits and recovering stolen animals and arms",
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Mombasa - A Kenyan court delayed on Tuesday the trial of a lawmaker and senior Muslim leader charged with inciting violence after offering to finance a separatist group, officials said. Sheikh Mohammed Dor was arrested last month, three days after the arrest of the leader of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC), a group that wants the coastal region of Kenya
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In Kenya, ahead of the 2013 elections, attention is turning to sources of tension that could fuel the kind of poll-related violence seen at the end of 2007 and in the first few weeks of 2008. In recent weeks, unrest in Coast province, centred on the separatist Mombassa Republican Council (MRC), has garnered most attention - most lately the beating
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A Kenyan court on Friday charged three more suspects with the murder of a Venezuelan acting ambassador found strangled in her Nairobi home in July. The three are accused of murdering Olga Fonseca Gimenez "on the night of July 26 and 27... joint with others not in this court," the charge sheet read. The three, Ahmed Mutivane Omido, Alex Sifuma
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The International Criminal Court said Thursday it was alarmed about reports that witnesses in Kenya's 2007-2008 post-election violence were being intimidated, and urged the government to be more forthcoming in providing information about the crisis. ICC chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda told a news conference she voiced concern in her talks with Kenyan leaders that the government was late in responding
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Nairobi — Scientists from Kenya and the United Kingdom have discovered a new potentially dangerous malaria-transmitting mosquito, which they say does not behave like other mosquitoes. The mosquito, known only as type A, was found in western Kenya and has biting patterns that the researchers say will make it harder to control than the commonly known Anopheles mosquitoes. Anopheles mosquitoes
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PRESIDENT Kibaki's confidants advised him not to meet Kofi Annan this week in Nairobi because they claim he is biased. On Thursday the former United Nations Secretary General warned that electing either Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta or Eldoret North MP William Ruto as president would complicate Kenya's foreign relations. Annan has been in Nairobi this week with former Tanzanian
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Nairobi — Mombasa Republican Council (MRC) leader Omar Mwamnuadzi was arrested at dawn on Monday in a police operation that resulted in the death of two people. Coast Provincial Police Boss Aggrey Adoli said the two were killed when they opened fire in a bid to stop the arrest of Mwamnuadzi. "My officers found over 30 people at the home
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At least three officers were wounded in twin explosions Friday evening in a predominantly Somali area of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, police sources said. "Three officers have been wounded and taken to hospital," a senior police officer at the scene of the blast told AFP. There were no immediate reports of any dead in the blasts in the Eastleigh district
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Nairobi - Demonstrators marched in the Kenyan capital on Tuesday after lawmakers voted themselves a $110 000 send-off bonus, with tax hikes expected to pay for it. The proposed lucrative pay off - at a cost to the country of $24.7m - comes after Kenya's parliament dismissed the majority of wage demands of striking public sector workers, including doctors and
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Religious leaders are joining the fight to end the slaughter of Africa's elephants and rhinos by poachers. Poachers are escalating their assault on Africa's elephants and rhinos, and conservationists warn that the animals cannot survive Asia's high-dollar demand for ivory tusks and rhino horn powder. Seeing a dire situation grow worse, the animal conservation group WWF
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Nairobi - Pathologists began exhuming a mass grave Thursday in Kenya's troubled Tana River region, where a recent string of bloody clashes between rival ethnic groups has left over 100 dead, police said. Violence between the groups erupted in mid-August, pitting the Pokomo farming community against their Orma pastoralist neighbours, leading to a series of vicious reprisal killings and attacks.
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A mass grave was discovered on Monday in Kenya's Tana River region, a police source in the area has told AFP. The police officer said there could be more people killed in the fighting between Pokomo and Orma ethnic groups than previously thought, the news agency reports. The bodies will be exhumed. Capital FM reports that fresh violence broke out
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Mombasa - A Kenyan court released on bail on Monday a radical Kenyan preacher charged with inciting deadly riots, and accused by the US of supporting Somalia's al-Qaeda linked militants. Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, also known as Makaburi, is charged with three counts of inciting violent protests in Kenya's main port city of Mombasa, after the assassination there last month of
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Kenyan gunmen shot dead 11 people in a revenge attack following a massacre last month in which 52 people were killed in the remote southeastern Tana region, Red Cross officials said Friday. "Fresh attacks in Tana River have resulted in the death of 11 people, and left 10 injured and hospitalised," Kenya Red Cross official Nelly Muluka told AFP, adding
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