Kenya

  President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday evening admitted that he will concede if he loses fairly. During a TV live chat, the Head of State also asked his opponents to do the same so as to maintain peace in the country. “I’m the man who abides by...

A total of 150,000 police officers were on Friday deployed to voting centres ahead of the General Election on Tuesday. They were drawn from the regular unit, the Administration Police and the General Service Unit. UNBIASED The last batch of officers will arrive at their destinations by...

The Ogaden of Wajir South on Monday appointed a 24-member Council Of Elders drawn from the four sub-clans of Ogaden, Makabul, Mohamed Zubeir, Bah Geri and Geri. The team is tasked with endorsing candidates for the governor, woman representative and Wajir Township MCA seats within...

Opposition protesters plan to pour into the streets in mass action starting January 4 to protest what they call Jubilee's "legal coup". Yesterday Jubilee lawmakers passed amendments that Cord says weaken electoral laws and enable rigging and election theft. Cord leaders Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka...

The national government has promised a raft of measures to help the ailing miraa sector. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Willy Bett told miraa farmers that the Government has petitioned the UN for the interpretation of a convention on drug trade that European nations had used...

By: VOA NEWS WAJIR, KENYA — Kenya has announced plans to re-open its Mandera border crossing with Somalia as part of efforts to improve border security and crack down on smuggled goods. Kenya says...

  A US Congress investigative committee has demanded it be provided with key documents related to the proposed Sh43 billion sale to Kenya of armed border-patrol aircraft intended for use against Al-Shabaab in Somalia. The US Air Force, which arranged the deal, was ordered by the...

By GEORGE OMONDI omondi@ke.nationmedia.com Kenya is eying a free visa pact with Somalia as part of a diplomatic offshoot of the recent miraa export row with the Horn of Africa nation. At the moment, Kenyans and Somalis have to pay Sh5,000 ($50) to obtain visas that...

A spot check by the Nation Sunday showed students from various schools buying books and uniform from shops in Nairobi. Most of the schools are expected to reopen Monday and others Tuesday. This comes amid a looming strike by teachers, which parents are opposed to. Members of...

Allegations linking police to systematic extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of suspects a biased, palpable misrepresentation of facts and lack objectivity, the government has said. In the first response to increasing cases of executions of suspects in the hands of police, Interior CS Joseph Nkaissery...