Kenya Politics News

Somalia's Islamist Al-Shabab militia group has taken control of the southern town of Afmadow, 620km south of the capital Mogadishu, causing hundreds of families to flee in fear of violence. November. “They [Al-Shabab] are in control.” Most of the fighting...

Kipkosgei, who bagged sh5m for the 42km race, was closely followed by fellow Kenyans, Naibei Ruto and Thomas Ngelei, who got sh2.6m and sh1.8m respectively. Kenya�s Jane Nyambura won the women�s 42km race on a day that saw a record...

The court's chief prosecutor, Mr Luis Moreno-Ocampo, announced the decision on Thursday after a Harambee House meeting with top Kenyan leaders, among them President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Mr Moreno-Ocampo will go before the judges to seek their...

The government is fully committed to discharge its primary responsibility in accordance with the Rome Statue to establish a local judicial mechanism to deal with perpetrators of the post election violence," said President Kibaki at the end of a closed...

As the wave of optimism bubbled across Kenya following the resounding win by the unified opposition over independence party Kanu in the 2002 General Election, eradication of corruption topped the new government’s agenda. The former opposition leaders, who were now...

This is exactly the type of stuff that convinced me to watch Loose Change 20 times on Youtube. Yeah, I really did. Can YOU explain WTC or the Pentagon!?!? "Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over...

Kenya's Attorney General Amos Wako has signalled his intention to sue the United States for defamation. Mr Wako said that he had "received notification that my visa has been revoked for blocking reforms," more than a week after the US...

Last week, I was honoured to host Mr Kofi Annan, the former United Nations Secretary General, in Buffalo at the State University of New York. I was keen to read Mr Annan’s thinking on Kenya given the failure of the...