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Kenyas President Uhuru Kenyatta attends an evangelical pre-election prayer rally for peace in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

Kenya's election campaign enters tense final week today

The violence in east Africa's richest economy, seen as a bastion of stability, traumatised the nation and stunned...

1 Aug 2017 9:30 AM IST

Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga surge towards the stage at his final electoral campaign rally in Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

Kenya gears up to high-stakes elections

The men belong to two of the country's main ethnic groups, Kenyatta from the Kikuyu, the largest, and Odinga the Luo.

6 Aug 2017 7:46 AM IST

Armed Kenyan police to disperse protesters in the Kibera slum in Nairobi on Saturday. (Photo: AFP)

Kenya on edge over election fraud claims spark deadly protests

A senior police official told on condition of anonymity that eight bodies from Nairobi's slums had arrived at the city...

13 Aug 2017 8:47 AM IST

Protesters of Kenya opposition leader Raila Odinga demonstrate in the Mathare area of Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

11 killed in Kenya as election riots flare up

The bodies of nine young men shot dead overnight in Nairobi's Mathare slum had been brought to the city morgue, a...

13 Aug 2017 6:12 AM IST

An electoral counting officer, center, counts votes while others hold the piles of ballots counted for each candidate, at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

Kenya waits to hear final results of already disputed vote

The National Super Alliance (NASA) opposition coalition on Thursday demanded that its candidate Raila Odinga be declared...

11 Aug 2017 2:34 PM IST

An electoral counting officer, center, counts votes while others hold the piles of ballots counted for each candidate, at a polling station in Nairobi, Kenya. (Photo: AP)

Kenya opposition cries foul over poll results as Prez Kenyatta surges...

The contested election in 2013 was taken to the courts, and ended largely peacefully even though Odinga lost.

9 Aug 2017 12:39 PM IST

Kenyans line up to vote in Bissil, 120 kms. (75 miles) south of Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyans are going to the polls to vote in a general election after a tightly-fought presidential race between incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta and main opposition leader Raila Odinga. (Photo: AP)

Kenya goes to poll in presidential elections

Voters formed long lines at many polling stations waiting for the chance to cast ballots in the tightly contested race...

8 Aug 2017 10:36 AM IST

Kenyas President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Narendra Modi before their meeting at Hyderabad House in New Delhi. (Photo: G.N. Jha)

India announces $100 million line of credit to Kenya

The two countries are also expected to strengthen coordination in tackling terrorism.

12 Jan 2017 2:48 AM IST

There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab often carries out such assaults. (Photo: Representational Image)

Trump a 'brainless billionaire': Al-Shabab video mocks Trump

The new video says US voters elected 'arguably the most stupid president a country could ever have'.

24 July 2017 5:19 PM IST