Kenya

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...

President Uhuru Kenyatta has publicly claimed external powers are seeking to influence the 2017 Presidential poll results even as he pledged to concede if he is defeated in the epic race. The Head of State at the same time gave his strongest hint yet that...

UN says sending the registered refugee back to home country where he faces risk of abuse breaches international law. Kenya has deported a South Sudanese rebel spokesman - a registered refugee - back to his war-torn country where he could face detention and abuse at...

  President Uhuru Kenyatta has thanked Kenyans for conducting peaceful campaigns and urged them to remain united and peaceful after the August 8 polls. Speaking on Sunday when he attended separate church services at Deliverance Church Umoja and Jesus Winner Ministry at Roysambu in Nairobi, President...

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta is re-contesting early August's election after the original vote was invalidated by the country's Supreme Court His main — and long-term — political rival, Raila Odinga, is boycotting the race Despite short-term political uncertainty, analysts CNBC spoke to seem...

Kenya's high court declares government order to close world's biggest refugee camp "null and void". Kenya's high court has said it would be unconstitutional to close the world's biggest refugee camp, which houses more than 200,000 people who have fled war in neighbouring Somalia. In a...

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) -- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says Kenya has complied with international safety standards and can have direct flights to the U.S. after waiting for more than a decade.The FAA in a statement Thursday said Kenya has received a category 1...

By:Amanda Fisher Nairobi, Kenya - In a darkened hall deep inside a slum in Kenya's capital Nairobi, the air is filled with the scent of sweat, Olympic dreams and the thwack of flesh connecting with flesh. Kenya is known for its running talent, yet among the...

Five decades ago, the famous theoretician Frantz Fanon, while commenting on the political upheavals in post-colonial Africa, likened the continent to a revolver. In Fanon’s analogy, the Congo was a trigger. In this configuration, the Horn of Africa is the revolving cylinder or chamber. As...

  Kenya reaffirmed on Thursday its plan to close the world's largest refugee camp by November, rejecting allegations by Human Rights Watch (HRW) that it is harassing and intimidating Somali refugees to return home when it is not safe to do so. The rights group said...