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2013 Kenyan Presidential Election Update 5: With 226 constituencies: Kenyatta 4,867,683; Odinga 4,335,488

13: 12 With 226 constituencies reporting: Kenyatta 4,867,683; Odinga 4,335,488. Rejected votes 94.020. 13:10 Kenyatta 4,849,194; Odinga 4,323,153. 225/291 constituencies have filed returns. 13:00 Amani coalition presidential candidate Musalia Mudavadi (right) addressed a press conference in Nairobi where he conceded … read more »

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Kenya: When a Criminal Leads a Country

The modern effort to build a global system of international justice based on universal human rights is usually dated to the Nuremberg trials, after the Second World War, and the ratification of the Geneva Conventions. In the decades since then, … read more »

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6 candidates to participate in Kenyan presidential debates

Preparations are in the final stages for Kenya’s first televised presidential debate next week, with six candidates participating, Kenya’s Daily Nation reported Wednesday (February 6th). Candidates Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, … read more »

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Towards a balanced and civil discourse on matters Somali

By Abdinasir Amin I have been thinking about this particular article for a while and must admit that I’ve struggled with it not because it is difficult to write but because of the difficulty and the sensitivity of the subject … read more »

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Children wounded in latest Kenya church attack

A number of children have been hurt in a grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, police and media say. The attacker targeted the Sunday school section of the church on Juja Road. The Daily Nation newspaper … read more »

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Kenya: land and communal clashes increase as country gears up for elections

By Keith Somerville In the last six weeks there have been a number of violent clashes in areas of Kenya where the existing political, social and religious structures are contested or fail to meet the subsistence or security needs of … read more »

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It might be more useful to engage with secessionists

Rasna Warah For more than a century, Kenya’s coastal people have been repeatedly alienated from their land and marginalised from public services, particularly education. Now they want to break away from the rest of the country. I did not know … read more »

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Zambian president, Michael Sata, orders indiscriminate deportation of Nigerians, including Winners’ Chapel Pastor, Bank Manager, etc

Nigerians in Zambia are being subjected to unpleasant treatment allegedly on the direct orders of the newly-inaugurated President Michael Sata. Already, many Nigerians with genuine papers living and doing legitimate business in the southern African country have been deported for … read more »

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Kenyan court suspends S.Africa mining company project

The Kenyan High court ordered South African company, Cortec Mining to stop prospecting for minerals at Mrima Hill near the southern port city of Mombasa, the Daily Nation reported on Thursday. A High Court judge granted the temporary injunction after … read more »

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Kenyan Muslim leaders call for death penalty for gays

Muslim leaders in Kenya have called on the government to introduce the death penalty for homosexuals and to boycott their businesses, media reports said Monday.   “Death is the only punishment prescribed by Islam for such people as done in … read more »

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Kenyan Party Seeks Rejection of Request for ICC Case Deferral, Nation Says

The Orange Democratic Movement, one of the two political parties in Kenya’s ruling coalition, asked the United Nations Security Council to reject the state’s request for the postponement of cases facing six Kenyans at the International Criminal Court, the Daily … read more »

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Image of Kenyan Police Killing in day light

A seemingly routine traffic stop on a Nairobi highway took a horrific turn when undercover officers executed three cooperative suspects. Kenyan authorities are investigating three officers after the nation’s largest newspaper published damning photos of the incident. The photos, captured … read more »

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Kenyan police suspended after suspects executed

NAIROBI — Kenyan authorities suspended three policemen on Thursday after being implicated in apparent extra-judicial killings by photographs and witness testimony published in a national newspaper. The Daily Nation published front-page pictures of one execution, which it said had been … read more »

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Kenya gripped in suspense ahead of naming of polls violence suspects

Kenyan police have been put on high alert to counteract possible demonstrations on Wednesday when the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is expected to name six suspects accused of masterminding the violence that beset the country after 2007’s … read more »

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