Kenyan government
Kenyan MP who slapped female lawmaker taken into police custody
Rashid Kassim assaulted Fatima Gedi after confronting her about funds not allocated to his constituency.
President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta say Sunday’s ruling by the Constitutional Court in Kinshasa confirms Felix Tshisekedi’s election win requires all actors to respect this exercise of DRC national sovereignty.
Kenya’s 2010 constitution states that no more than two-thirds of any elected or appointed political bodies can be of the same gender, but does not set out a mechanism for attaining that goal.
Up to 50 Kenyan athletes have failed dope tests in the past six years, among them 2016 Rio Olympics marathon champion Jemima Sumgong and former Olympic and three-time world 1,500m champion Asbel Kiprop.
Dozens of senior officials and business people are being held in custody and face charges related to the theft of nearly $100 million from the youth agency.
Aid groups say the mood has deteriorated at Kakuma, close to the border with South Sudan, since Washington started getting tougher on immigration.
The Ethiopian military admits to a botched security operation targeting militants in the restive Oromia region.
Turkana is also the second-largest county by land mass in Kenya but counting on future oil production to start making progress.
Police described the school in Likoni, south of the port city of Mombasa, as a centre for indoctrinating young men and children with militant ideology.
Two female staff members were killed, and a driver and two policemen were injured, a police official who did not want to be named told Reuters.
The office of Kenyatta, who is running for a second and final five-year term in office, gave no explanation for his absence.
Electoral authorities had abruptly stopped tallying votes and announced the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki the winner.
The strike, which began in December, has provoked anger among Kenyans and put pressure on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.
Kenya secured the continued free access to EU markets after it signed the deal with the EU.
Islamic State has seized territory in Syria and Iraq, inspiring offshoot groups in the Middle East and Africa.
Some protesters have demanded that Interior Minister, Joseph Nkaissery, resigns.
Kenya is not due to hold its next presidential election until 2017, but clashes are becoming more frequent.
Police fired into the air to break up a crowd trying to march on the office of the Electoral Commission.
Kenya has set up a task force to handle the closure plan, Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said.