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Mombasa - Angry youths threw a grenade at a Kenyan police truck on Tuesday, injuring 16 officers as riots rocked the port city of Mombasa for a second day after the killing of a radical Islamist cleric. A grenade attack killed a Kenyan policeman, and wounded over a dozen others, the Red Cross said Tuesday, during a second day of
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Deadly riots broke out in Kenya's main port of Mombasa on Monday after the assassination of a radical cleric linked to Somalia's Al-Qaeda-allied Shebab militants. At least one person was hacked to death as thousands of angry protestors took to the streets after Aboud Rogo Mohammed -- who was on US and UN sanction lists for allegedly supporting the Shebab
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Kenya's vice president on Saturday urged the country to hold peaceful elections in March, after the Red Cross this week revealed that more than 200 people have died in ethnic violence since January. "There is no other alternative, the next elections must be peaceful, free and fair. I call upon all Kenyans to embrace peace as we prepare for the
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Kenyan police said they were bringing two rival communities together for a peace meeting Thursday, after at least 52 mainly women and children were hacked or burnt to death in the worst ethnic massacre for several years. "We want to bring together these warring communities," said regional deputy police chief Joseph Kitur, after the attack late Tuesday between the Pokomo
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Kenyan search teams on Thursday found the final missing bodies of seven Ugandan servicemen killed in a military helicopter crash at the weekend, the army said as it ended its rescue mission. "All the seven bodies were found within the burnt wreckage of the helicopter, and they were recovered and flown to Nairobi... We can now safely say that the
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Nairobi - Eight Ugandan servicemen walked away from their helicopter after it crashed in Kenya en route to war-torn Somalia while two soldiers were confirmed dead in another crash, officials said on Tuesday. Theirs were among three Russian-made Mi-24 combat helicopters that went down on Sunday in a remote mountainous region of Kenya. One was found on Monday, with all
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Mombasa - A Kenyan court sentenced seven Somalis to 20 years in jail for piracy on Wednesday, a boost to international efforts to drive out pirates from the waters off the Horn of Africa nation. Despite the presence of several foreign navies off the coast of Somalia, pirates have continued to seize vessels and to rake in millions of dollars
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Nairobi — Food insecurity is common in many rural parts of northern Kenya, but the country's rapidly growing urban population is increasingly also dealing with food insecurity, according to experts. "Cities and towns in Kenya, like many in Africa, are growing and so are the populations, but just a small fraction of the people who live in them have a
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Nairobi — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who arrived in Kenya on Saturday on the latest leg of her Africa tour, will use her visit here to urge local leaders to focus on ensuring a free, fair and peaceful General Election next year. Clinton, who visited neighbouring Uganda and South Sudan on Friday, headed first into a meeting with
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Nairobi - A suspected suicide bomber killed himself and wounded nine people when he detonated a grenade near a military air base in Nairobi on Friday, police said, in the latest such attack since Kenya's military foray into neighbouring Somalia. The incident occurred in a Somali-dominated area, and police said the attacker had intended to blow up a group of
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NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The acting Venezuelan envoy to Kenya was found dead at her official residence in Nairobi, and police said Friday she was murdered by strangulation. Nairobi police chief Anthony Kibuchi said that the diplomat killed has been identified as Olga Fonseca Gimenez, the charge d'affaires and acting ambassador of Venezuela in Kenya. Kenya's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Prosecution witnesses in the trial of four Kenyans set to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) are under increasing threat and intimidation, a top ICC official said Thursday. "There are indications of people who are intimidating witnesses," said Phakiso Mochochoko, head of jurisdiction at The Hague based court. "We want the government of Kenya to ensure that the people
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Nairobi - Kenya will appeal the overturning of a ban on a separatist group, the Mombasa Republic Council (MRC), who want to split the popular tourist coastal region from the country, officials said Thursday. The move follows a High Court ruling made in the port city of Mombasa on Wednesday that revoked a 2010 decision to outlaw the group, who
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A Nairobi court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of two Iranians accused of possessing explosives... A Nairobi court on Tuesday adjourned the trial of two Iranians accused of possessing explosives allegedly for use in bomb attacks in Kenya. Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour, who were arrested in June and charged with suspected links to a terror network planning bombings in
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Nairobi — The police department has reiterated that Kenya will not relent in its war against terrorism and pointed out that no amount of threats or methods employed will cow Kenyans. The assurance comes amid reports of an imminent attack from Al Shabaab militants who have warned of massive destruction in Kenya during the holy month of Ramadhan. "Despite a
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Nairobi — Kenyans have never seen anything like it. The media feeding frenzy was like none other in their history up to this point in time. And coming in the era of digital media, including the social networks, Kenya's national discourse on the Miguna Miguna attack on Prime Minister Raila Odinga was far-flung indeed, roping in the Diaspora around the
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Nairobi — The Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) has warned that it will disrupt the opening of schools in September unless the government starts negotiations on a 300 percent pay increase for teachers and fulfils a deal reached in 1997. Deputy Secretary General Savior Nyamu who spoke to journalists at the KNUT headquarters on Wednesday said that the government
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In an emergency crisis meeting held Monday July 16, the National Olympic Committee of Kenya (NOCK) thought twice about its travel deadline of July 22 for Athletes leaving for London and decided to let some athletes choose when they think best to travel. At the meeting was attended by officials from NOCK, Athletics Kenya and Ministry of Sports including athletes
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Kenyans are still reeling from the shock of the latest of an increasing spate of terror attacks on civilians across the country, mostly blamed on Somalia's Al-Shabaab. On Sunday, 1 July, 17 people were killed and over 40 wounded in attacks on two churches in the northern town of Garissa. This follows several similar attacks, including the hellish Nairobi city
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Nairobi - Three Kenyan musicians were charged on Wednesday for inciting ethnic violence through their songs, under laws set up following deadly post-poll violence four years ago. Kamande Wa Kioi, Muigai Wa Njoroge and John DeMathew, separate singers who come from Kenya's Kikuyu ethnic group, denied charges that they incited violence in lyrics that reportedly insulted people of the Luo
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Nairobi - A Kenya government official says the country is cancelling a deal to import Iranian oil hours after the US directly warned the country that it risked being penalised if it sees through the deal which would breach US and European union sanctions. The sanctions are meant to deprive funding for the Iranian government and what is believed to
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Iran of plotting attacks against Israel in Kenya after the arrest of two Iranians in possession of explosives in the African country. "Iranian terrorism knows no borders," the Israeli leader was quoted as saying in a statement from his office. The allegation comes after the US last year said Iran had plotted to
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Nairobi - Kenya will not pull troops out from Somalia until security is restored, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Monday, a day after 17 people died in the worst attack in a decade that he blamed on Somali Islamists. Speaking in the eastern Kenyan garrison town of Garissa, where masked gunmen on Sunday hurled grenades into two churches before firing
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Kenyan security forces on Saturday scoured border regions with war-torn Somalia in the hunt for armed kidnappers who seized four aid workers from Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp. The two men and two women who work with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), come from Canada, Norway, Pakistan and the Philippines. A Kenyan driver was killed and two others were
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The death toll from a grenade attack on a bar in the Kenyan city of Mombasa rose to three Monday, dealing a fresh blow to the government's efforts to secure the country and revive tourism. The latest in a string of such attacks in the east African nation was likely to be blamed on Somalia's Islamist Shebab rebels and came
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