Kenya

NAIROBI, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- The UN refugee agency said it has repatriated some 38,159 Somali refugees in Kenya since the return exercise began in December 2014. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in its bi-weekly update received in Nairobi on Thursday...

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...

By: Reuters  Preliminary results from Kenya's presidential election showed a tight race between the two main candidates vying to replace President Uhuru Kenyatta, with citizens praying an announcement of a winner would not unleash violence as in...

Horndiplomat-The son of Kenya's first vice president is running for the presidency for the fourth - and most likely – last time. Al Jazeera takes a look back at the career of the Raila Odinga. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Adow reports from Mombasa, Kenya. SOURCE:ALJAZEERA

The heat is being turned on the Leader of Majority in the National Assembly, Mr Aden Duale, in the wake of a sound clip circulating on social media where a voice is calling for the barring of a neighbouring Bantu community from registering as...

Kenya’s opposition coalition, National Super Alliance, is hoping to boost its numbers in the national parliament and county governments through election petitions, which affiliate parties have filed in its strongholds. According to the coalition, petitions challenging the results of 58 electoral positions have been identified...

By:The Star Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Presidential candidate Raila Odinga has promised to re-open closed Kenya-Somalia boarder if elected on August 9. Raila said that the border will be opened to enable business flow between the two countries. “We shall put in place all that is...

Somali terror group Al-Shabaab has denied claims that it stole a biometric voter registration (BVR) kit during Thursday’s attack on a police camp in Mandera County. In a statement through its radio and on its website Sunday, the terrorists termed Kenya’s claims as propaganda. “The Mujahideen...

At least 145 out of 1148 candidates registered for this year’s Kenya Certificate of Secondary School (KCSE) in Dadaab refugee camp missed the examinations due to the ongoing repatriation. Some schools, according to Windle Trust Kenya, an organisation that manages secondary and Tertiary education in...

The new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed will arrive in the country on Sunday for a two-day State visit to bolster already strong relations between Kenya and Ethiopia, State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu has announced. This will be Mr Ahmed's first visit to Kenya since his elevation...