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Kenya:Nkaissery denies police are linked to suspects’ deaths

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...

US urges Kenyans to avoid violence during repeat poll

The United States Wednesday expressed deep concern about the political crisis in Kenya and urged parties to resolve their differences over a disputed August 8 presidential election without resorting to violence. Kenyans are due to vote Thursday in a repeat of August's presidential vote, which...

Kenya, Somalia spat goes to Hague court

Kenya could forfeit three of its 20 oil blocks in the Indian Ocean to Somalia if it loses a maritime territorial dispute brought against it. Tomorrow, Kenya begins an epic fight at the international justice city of The Hague, Netherlands, to fight claims of grabbing...

US Ambassador urges for peaceful Kenya elections

  By JEMIMAH MUENI NAIROBI, Kenya July 29 – US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec has urged the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to ensure next month’s general election is credible. He was speaking when he joined the Shining Hope for Communities, a Non Governmental Organization...

Kenya changing for its future

The election period in East Africa started in February last year with elections in Somalia, then continued with Rwanda, which have been clear from the very beginning, and ended in 2017 with an appraisal and an agonizing selection process in Kenya. Kenya's has been more...

Kenya and Turkey to sign a bilateral trade agreement

By:CGTN A Turkish diplomat in Kenya has revealed that both countries are set to sign a double taxation avoidance agreement by the end of this year. Turkey’s ambassador to Kenya, Ahmet Cemil Miroglu said the two countries are keen to improve investment and trade opportunities. “The officials...

Kenya’s khat producers eager to resume exports to Somalia

A file picture, taken on July 16, 2013 shows a man holding khat in Nairobi. /AFP PHOTO
By: AFP As the afternoon sun starts to dip over central Kenya, the town of Maua buzzes with activity as the khat harvest arrives. For decades, over half a million people in this region have lived by the rhythms of khat, a mildly narcotic native shrub...

Ethio-Kenya Electricity Highway Project Nearing Completion

Ethio-Kenya Electricity Highway Project Nearing Completion
The Ethio-Kenya Electricity Highway Project is expected to be ready for testing and commissioning at the end of this Ethiopian year, according to Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP). Upon completion, the project will promote power, trade, and regional integration, and contribute to the Eastern Africa Power...

Kenya prepares to postpone repeat presidential vote

by John Aglionby Polling data company says October 17 election date is ‘way too risky’ Kenya’s electoral commission is set to postpone the repeat presidential election after the company providing the electronic voter list and results transmission system said it would not be ready by October...

Somali refugees laud Kenya’s court ruling quashing camp closure

GARISSA, Kenya, Feb. 10 (Xinhua) -- Somali refugees on Friday welcomed Kenya's court ruling, which declared the closure of the Dadaab refugee camps illegal. The refugees who fled violence in Somalia to Dadaab refugee camps celebrated after Thursday's court ruling which blocked the planned closure...