A police chief says that a masked gunman believed to be a member of an al-Qaida-linked Somalia militant group stormed a hotel in a Kenyan city near the border with Somalia and opened fire with an assault rifle, killing nine people.

A senior civil servant says at least 36 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 families have been displaced in three weeks of flooding in Kenya.

Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta, has taken the oath of office as the new president of the African nation.

Heavy downpour that began late March in Kenya is wreaking havoc in some parts of the East African nation, disrupting transport and electricity supply with numerous properties becoming flooded.

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The Kenyan government said on Tuesday there was no cause for alarm following an outbreak of dengue viral disease in the East African nation's costal region in the past two days.

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday called on the public to remain calm after his coalition lodged a petition challenging the election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's fourth President.

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga formally filed his petition at the country's Supreme Court on Saturday to challenge election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's fourth president.

Anti-riot police have been deployed in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, as coalition led by Prime Minister Raila Odinga will move to the Supreme Court on Saturday to officially file an election petition challenging last week's election of Uhuru Kenyatta as the country's fourth president.

Kenya's Coalition of Reform and Democracy (CORD) which came second in the just concluded general elections on Tuesday moved to court to seek court orders to compel the electoral body and mobile service provider, Safaricom to disclose some information needed for its presidential petition.

People in Kenya are awaiting the results of the African country’s first presidential elections since the disputed 2007 vote that caused a wave of violence.

Kenya has begun its first general elections since the disputed vote in 2007 that triggered weeks of violence in which over 1,100 people were killed.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday urged Kenyans to rise up in unity and reject all perpetrators of hate and division in the country.

Political analysts in Kenya say primary voting over the last two days to select candidates for the country's national election in March was full of irregularities, disorganization and disgruntled losers who have alleged rigged polls.

One day after suffering a deadly attack, a Kenyan community retaliated with their own tribal assault on Thursday, killing 10 people and furthering a tribal feud that threatens to explode as March elections approach.

A family of eleven elephants have been killed in Kenya in what officials say was the worst such incident in the past three decades.

At least eight people have been killed in the latest tribal violence in Kenya's Tana Delta, police and local officials say.

Two Muslim clerics yesterday said they will support Inspector General of Police David Kimaiyo in the fight against drug trafficking in the country.Speaking in Mombasa on Thursday, Kimaiyo said he will use a partnership approach and action-oriented leadership to fight crime.

Activities were paralysed in Nairobi's Kiamaiko area in Huruma on Sunday, as residents held a demonstration to protest against rising insecurity.

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