20120613
AFP
The trials of two potential presidential candidates in Kenyan elections must run at the same time to avoid the appearance of favoritism, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor said Tuesday.

20120613
AFP
Poor, drought-prone and populated by pastoralists, northern Kenya was largely overlooked for decades. But new-found oil and Africa's largest wind farm could be set to change all that.

20120612
AFP
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Monday vowed a thorough inquiry into the helicopter crash that killed George Saitoti, who was seen as a leading contender to take over from him in polls next year.

20120612
AFP
The trial of two top Kenyans, including a presidential hopeful, over 2007 post-election unrest could begin in March in The Hague, despite fresh polls being scheduled the same month, prosecutors and lawyers said Monday.

20120612
AFP
Kenya on Monday began three days of official mourning for Internal Security Minister George Saitoti who was killed in a helicopter crash together with his assistant minister and four others.

20120611
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people when the police helicopter they were traveling in crashed in a forest near Kenya's capital, officials said.

20120611
AFP
Kenya's internal security minister George Saitoti, a key figure in his country's fight against Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab insurgents in neighbouring Somalia, was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday.

20120606
AFP
Kenya's main airport in Nairobi will reopen as soon as possible after an aircraft veered off the runway, causing no casualties but forcing flights to divert, officials said Wednesday.

20120530
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An official says FBI agents are assisting Kenyan officials in the investigation into a large explosion in downtown Nairobi.

20120530
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A fertilizer bomb could have caused the blast that ripped through a building full of small shops, an official told The Associated Press on Tuesday as the FBI joined the investigation.

20120530
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — TV news images are showing smoke pouring out of a building in downtown Nairobi after saying an explosion reportedly rattled the business district.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi, injuring at least 33 people, including a woman who blamed the blast on a "bearded man" who left behind a bag shortly before the detonation.

20120529
AFP
Dozens of people were wounded Monday when what police think was a home-made bomb ripped through shops in central Nairobi, in what Prime Minister Raila Odinga branded a "terrorist" attack.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 28 people, officials said.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An apparent explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding an unknown number of people.

20120529
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — TV news images are showing smoke pouring out of a building in downtown Nairobi after saying an explosion reportedly rattled the business district.

20120528
AFP
Two separate grenade attacks wounded at least eight people in northeastern Kenya, the latest in a series of blasts in the restive region bordering war-torn Somalia, police said Sunday.

20120526
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Human rights officials accused the Kenyan police Friday of eliminating suspected terrorists after armed men dragged a terror suspect out of a car. He was the third terror suspect to be abducted since April.

20120526
AP
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Rights officials are accusing the Kenyan government of running an official campaign to eliminate suspected terrorists following the disappearance of a terror suspect this week — the third disappearance this year.