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Candidate Raila Odinga speaks on stage at the launch of the party manifesto in Nairobi ahead of this year's August elections, on 6 June 2022. Picture: Simon MAINA/AFP

Kenya

Kenya candidates make final bid for votes as campaigning closes

By AFP

Deputy President William Ruto and Raila Odinga, a veteran opposition leader now backed by the ruling party, are fighting for the chance to lead the East African...

  • A man walks next to campaign posters of various candidates pasted on the walls, in Nairobi, on 2 August 2022, ahead of Kenya's August 2022 general election. Picture: Simon MAINA/AFP

    A wary Kenya gears up for tense election

    Memories of violence during previous elections loom large, and the country is grappling with a cost-of-living crisis, widening inequality and a crippling drought.

    4 days ago
  • FILE: Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta gives an address when he attended commemorations of Kenya's Madaraka (self-rule) Day at the Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi on 1 June 2022. Picture: Tony KARUMBA/AFP

    Cool head in a rough region, Kenya faces test in election

    Diplomats and foreign observers say a peaceful transfer of power remains uncertain, and that Kenya's coveted reputation as a reliable and stable partner faces a keen test as voters head to polling booths.

    6 days ago
  • FILE: Gachagua, who in court papers said the money came from his companies' business dealings, blasted the ruling and vowed to appeal. Picture: Pixabay

    Kenya running mate ordered to forfeit $1.7 mn in graft case

    The case highlights the endemic corruption in Kenya, where the anti-graft body last month raised "integrity" concerns about more than 200 candidates standing for various offices in the August 9 polls.

    10 days ago
  • Candidate Raila Odinga speaks on stage at the launch of the party manifesto in Nairobi ahead of this year's August elections, on 6 June 2022. Picture: Simon MAINA/AFP

    Kenya presidential contender Odinga says won't take part in debate

    One of Kenya's two leading presidential candidates, Raila Odinga, will not take part in an upcoming electoral debate, his campaign team said Sunday, accusing his principal rival of trying to avoid certain topics such as corruption.

    14 days ago
  • President Uhuru Kenyatta. Picture: @UKenyatta/Twitter.

    Kenya president urges deployment of regional force in DR Congo

    Weeks of violence have grown into a diplomatic standoff between the DRC and its neighbour Rwanda, who it blames for the recent resurgence of the M23 rebel militia.

    53 days ago
  • Candidate Raila Odinga speaks on stage at the launch of the party manifesto in Nairobi ahead of this year's August elections, on 6 June 2022. Picture: Simon MAINA/AFP

    Four candidates running for president in Kenya's election

    Only four candidates "met the requisite constitutional and statutory requirements" from a shortlist of 17, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) said in a statement late Monday.

    61 days ago
  • Kenyan flag. (Pixabay)

    Four killed as Kenyan police fire on protesting crowd

    Four people were killed and five others injured when Kenyan police opened fire on a crowd protesting against an increase in attacks by wildlife, a senior official said Friday.

    65 days ago
  •  In an industrial Nairobi neighbourhood, impoverished slum-dwellers scour piles of garbage to collect damaged and discarded gadgets. Picture: Pixabay.

    Kenya's e-waste recyclers looking for ways to repurpose electronic trash

    Wearing T-shirts and flip flops and earning as little as 500 Kenyan shillings ($4) a day, the unlikely warriors are at the frontlines of a battle against a rapidly-growing environmental menace.

    101 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 3 January 2008 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki reads a statement to members of the press in Nairobi. Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, who led the East African country for more than a decade, died on 22 April 2022, his successor Uhuru Kenyatta announced. He was 90. Picture: AFP

    Kenya to hold state funeral for ex-president Kibaki

    Kibaki, who died aged 90, served as the country's third president from December 2002 to April 2013, taking over from the authoritarian rule of Daniel arap Moi.

    106 days ago
  • In this file photo taken on 3 January 2008 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki reads a statement to members of the press in Nairobi. Former Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, who led the East African country for more than a decade, died on 22 April 2022, his successor Uhuru Kenyatta announced. He was 90. Picture: AFP

    Kenya's former president Mwai Kibaki dead at 90

    President Uhuru Kenyatta ordered a period of national mourning until sunset on the day Kibaki is to be buried, with all flags to be flown at half-mast.

    107 days ago
  • Kenyan flag. Picture: AFP

    Kenya's top court to rule on contested constitutional reforms

    A seven-judge bench at the Supreme Court will weigh the legality of the wide-ranging proposals following their rejection last year by the High Court and Court of Appeal, which said President Kenyatta could even be sued in a civil court for launching the process.

    130 days ago
  • Picture: SAPS.

    Kenya frees 16 held over road attack on woman

    The riders were rounded up early this month after a viral video showed men grabbing at the young woman's clothing and groping her as she screamed for help from inside the car, whose door had been forced open.

    132 days ago
  • FILE: The world had a chance to make history by mounting a coordinated global response to tackle the scourge, said UN environment chief Inger Andersen. Picture: Unsplash/Nick Fewings.

    UN urged to tackle plastic trash 'epidemic' with treaty

    Representatives from more than 100 nations are expected to agree on a broad template for a world-first treaty on plastic waste over three days of in-person and virtual deliberations.

    160 days ago
  • FILE: Employees in cleanroom suits test the procedures for the manufacturing of the messenger RNA (mRNA) for the COVID-19 vaccine at the new manufacturing site of German company BioNTech on 27 March 2021 in Marburg, central Germany. Picture: Thomas Lohnes/AFP

    SA among 6 African countries to get own mRNA jab production

    Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia were selected as the first recipients of technology from the WHO's global mRNA vaccine hub, in a push to ensure Africa can make its own jabs to fight the Covid and other diseases.

    171 days ago
  • FILE: A severe drought is threatening famine in Somalia. Young girls line up at a feeding centre in Mogadishu. Picture:  United Nations Photo.

    13 million face hunger as Horn of Africa drought worsens: UN

    Three consecutive rainy seasons have failed as the region has recorded its driest conditions since 1981, the UN's World Food Programme said.

    180 days ago
  • Malaria vaccine launched in Kenya: Kenya joins Ghana and Malawi to roll out landmark vaccine in pilot introduction. Picture: @WHO/Twitter

    World's first malaria vaccine making inroads in Western Kenya

    More than 100,000 children in malaria-endemic western Kenya have received the new vaccine against the disease, which kills 260,000 children under five every year in sub-Saharan Africa.

    185 days ago
  • Kenyan flag. Picture: AFP

    Five killed by roadside bomb in northern Kenya: police

    The attackers opened fire on the 14-seater vehicle after it ran over the explosive about eight kilometres (five miles) from Mandera town on the Kenya-Somali frontier.

    189 days ago
  • Kenyan flag. Picture: AFP

    Kenya boosts security after terror warnings

    Heavily armed police officers were patrolling the streets of Nairobi and security was boosted outside key government offices, five-star hotels, private buildings and shopping malls.

    192 days ago
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