Portal:Kenya/In the news
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- May 22: 19 Kenyans arrested for 'witch' killings
- May 22: Mob kills 'witches' in Kenya
- May 21: Pedestrian, three others killed in helicopter crash in British Columbia
- April 12: Over 60 dead in Kenya cholera outbreak, state issues alert
- April 2: Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia
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February 1: An armed mob kills a policeman in Western Kenya. BBC
February 1: Opposing parties in Kenya agree to a framework for talks to end the violence in the country following the disputed presidential election. Reuters
February 1: United Nations agencies express concern over increasing numbers of sexual attacks against women and children in Kenyan displacement camps. Reuters
January 31: Kenyan opposition politician David Kimutai Too is shot dead by a policeman in disputed circumstances. BBC
January 27: At least 70 die in new wave of violence in Kenya's Rift Valley Province. Telegraph
January 27: US President George W. Bush decides not to visit Kenya in his planned February trip to Africa. Daily Nation
January 26: Residents in the Kenyan town of Nakuru make up most of the new arrivals in the town's refugee camp. AllAfrica.com
January 26: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has decried "gross and systematic human rights abuses" in Kenya. Telegraph
January 25: UNICEF warns of abuses against children during the violence in Kenya. AllAfrica.com
January 22: The Kenyan opposition have accused the government of crimes against humanity. BBC
January 22: Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrives in Kenya and urges cooperation between the government and the ODM. AllAfrica.com
January 20: At least three people have been killed in Nairobi in ethnically motivated violence. Reuters
January 20: The European Union's Development Commissioner appeals for calm from both sides of Kenya's disputed presidential election. BBC
January 20: Kenyan athlete John Kelai has won the Mumbai Marathon. IBN
January 20: A British man has been shot dead in his Kenyan home by burglars. BBC
January 19: Five people have died in an attack on a Rift Valley refugee camp in apparent ethnoc violence linked to protests following the disputed presidential election. BBC
January 19: Two German men and one Dutch woman suspected of terrorism have been released by Kenyan police. Reuters
January 19: The European Union's Development Commissioner Louis Michel is visiting Kenya to assess the situation following the disputed presidential election. Reuters
January 18: At least eight people have been killed in protests over the disputed presidential election. Reuters
November 8: The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights give more evidence to back up their accusations against the Kenyan police. Daily Nation
November 6: The Kenyan police have been accused by a human rights group of killing hundreds of Mungiki suspects. BBC
November 2: A human rights organisation accuses Kenyan politicians of "behaving badly" in the run up to presidential and parliamentary elections. Reuters
October 31: A new population of De Brazza's Monkeys has been discovered in the Great Rift Valley where they have never been seen before. Reuters UK
October 31: UK-based pastor Gilbert Deya faces extradition to Kenya on kidnap charges. BBC
August 15: The Orange Democratic Movement, Kenya's leading opposition political party, splits into two factions headed by Kalonzo Musyoka and Raila Odinga. (BBC)
August 8: Two fossils found in Kenya challenge existing views of human evolution by showing that Homo erectus and Homo habilis lived side by side in eastern Africa for half a million years. (New York Times)
