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5 August 2017 by AFP
Raila Odinga: Veteran Kenyan oppositionist vies again Raila Odinga, Kenya's veteran opposition leader and one-time prime minister, is taking his fourth tilt at the presidency in next week's election. The 72-year-old has been a mainstay of Kenyan politics since the 1980s but has never [...]
4 August 2017 by AFP
Kenya's Rift Valley on edge as elections loom As Kenya's presidential election looms, many in the country's Rift Valley feel a deepening dread. It was in this fertile region in western Kenya that ethno-political violence flared in 2007 and continued into the following year af [...]
4 August 2017 by AFP
Ten years on, no solace for Kenya poll violence survivors Ten years after her husband was killed in post-election violence and she was chased off her land, Peninah Wahito is still living as a squatter in Kenya's Rift Valley. Like dozens of others she is waiting to be resettled after the [...]
3 August 2017 by AFP
Devolution lights up local politics in Kenya There is a story that the governor of Machakos, in southern Kenya, loves to tell: Since he bought a fleet of ambulances for the county, baby boys are no longer named Mwanzia and girls are no longer named Nzilani. Both mean born "o [...]
2 August 2017 by AFP
Kenya may be growing but 'You can't eat GDP' The timing was perfect. Two months before Kenya's August 8 vote, President Uhuru Kenyatta inaugurated the nation's biggest infrastructure project: a railway connecting the capital Nairobi and the port of Mombasa. With pomp and cer [...]
1 August 2017 by AFP
Rights groups protest killing of Kenya election official Kenyan rights activists took to the streets Tuesday to protest the murder of a top election official, whose death stunned the nation ahead of an already tense vote on August 8. The body of Chris Msando, charged with overseeing the [...]
1 August 2017 by AFP
Dead voters and other ways to steal a Kenyan election Elections in Kenya are a fraught business, with polls beset with claims of rigging and intimidation, some subtle, some not, and this year's vote on August 8 is no different. A decade after a disputed election led to the country's [...]
1 August 2017 by AFP
Tensions rise as Kenya poll campaign enters final stretch Kenya's election campaign enters a tense final week Tuesday, with a tight race between incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta and his rival Raila Odinga leading to intensified personal attacks and rigging accusations. The longtime political foe [...]
17 July 2017 by AFP
Kenya's social media election: attack ads and data mining A strikingly toxic campaign ad was unleashed online in Kenya just weeks before national elections -- a potentially explosive move in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned. The 90-second video, shot in moody mo [...]
14 July 2017 by AFP
Politics not pasture drives violence in Kenya's heart Footsteps came first, then unfamiliar voices, the smell of cow dung and the kicking in of the front door.  Suddenly awake, John Mbogo wrapped his 11-year-old daughter Tabitha in his arms and rolled under the bed. His wife, Anne, c [...]
13 June 2017 by International Center for Transitional Justice
Kenya : Wachira Waheire meets his torturer 20 years later Wachira Waheire strode into Nairobi’s Sankara Hotel, made his way to the café attached to its lobby and scanned the room carefully. He was meeting someone he had not seen in 20 years, but as he sifted through the faces in the café [...]
9 May 2017 by Sekou Toure Otondi, University of Nairobi
High stakes in Kenya's presidential elections After the 2007 general election, Kenya experienced its worst politically triggered ethnic violence since independence. The violence was caused by a dispute between the two main presidential candidates – Raila Odinga and his opposi [...]
21 March 2017 by John Walubengo
Kenya: will technology deliver a free election ? Elections present a milestone beyond which countries either strengthen their democratic credentials or become failed states. Often states fail when there are either perceived or blatant election malpractices. This in turn can lead [...]
31 December 2016 by Leona Hollasch
How Power-Sharing Impedes Transitional Justice: Comparing Kenya and Zimbabwe In many African countries, as well as Latin American ones (e.g. Colombia) power-sharing is often seen as the peace negotiators’ instrument of choice for conflict resolution. This tendency, however, often places those responsible f [...]
12 December 2016 by Dr Thomas Obel Hansen, Lecturer of Law, Transitional Justice Institute/ Ulster University Law School, Belfast, UK.
Will Kenya withdraw from the ICC? Whereas a Kenyan withdrawal from the ICC is a real possibility, Nairobi may be tempted to instead use the threat of a withdrawal to push its agenda on the ICC.  Since Burundi announced in October that it had decided to withdraw fr [...]
22 September 2016 by AFP
Shabaab militants storm Kenya police post Islamist gunmen launched an overnight attack on a police camp in Kenya's north-east, close to the Somali border, police and militants said Thursday. "Over 50 terrorists attacked the police patrol base in two Land Cruisers but the  [...]
20 September 2016 by Human Rights Watch
ICC: Countries Should Press Kenya on Obstruction (Brussels, September 20, 2016) - International Criminal Court (ICC) member countries should address the court’s finding of obstruction by Kenya in the case against President Uhuru Kenyatta, Human Rights Watch said today. An ICC tr [...]
20 July 2016 by AFP
Kenya security accused of murder and abduction: report Security agencies are killing and abducting men in north-east Kenya who they suspect of links to Islamist extremists, a rights group said Wednesday. Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented 34 "enforced disappearances" and 11 suspected [...]
1 July 2016 by AFP
Six killed in Kenya bus ambush   Six people were killed on Friday when suspected Islamist gunmen fired on two buses in Kenya's far northeast close to the Somalia border, police said. "Police on the scene have found six persons shot dead," said police chief Jose [...]