The young democracy and regional economic powerhouse plays a key role in regional security and political order.
Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) announced on Monday that it would hold the administrators of WhatsApp groups responsible for any hate speech
Four officials have pleaded not guilty in anti-corruption court over a $15-million tender for equipment that was meant to prevent vote fraud.
Protesters have released pigs at Parliament’s gates and poured blood on the pavement to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike.
Kenya’s presidential elections in March were marred by problems but they were acceptable overall, the country’s supreme court has said.
Kenya’s supreme court has ordered a recount of votes in some constituencies in the country’s March 4 presidential election.
Kenya has long prided itself on free media, but when the country went to the polls reporters and broadcasters went into a sort of self-imposed purdah.
The ICC will not drop the crimes against humanity charges against Kenyan president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta, the court’s chief prosecutor has said.
Kenyan police lobbed tear gas on crowds supporting the prime minister as he filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to void election results.
There have been worrying claims that Kenya’s celebrated election results do not add up.
Outgoing Prime Minister Raila Odinga, defeated in Kenya’s presidential polls by Uhuru Kenyatta, is preparing his Supreme Court appeal alleging fraud.
Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga will file a legal challenge if opponent Uhuru Kenyatta is declared president-elect, his adviser says.
Although political shenanigans have been ruled out, a disputed election result pleases no one.
Kenya’s election has plunged into further disarray after Prime Minister Raila Odinga alleged vote-rigging and demanded that the count be halted.
Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces an international trial for crimes against humanity, held a steady lead as votes were tallied from Kenya’s poll.
Kenya’s presidential hopeful Uhuru Kenyatta has opened an early lead as the country counts ballots.
Two police officers in Kenya have been hacked to death by unidentified attackers before polling stations opened, says a government official.
One of Kenya’s top two presidential rivals has accused the electoral commission of disadvantaging him by "design or omission" in Monday’s vote.
In 2008 cellphones were used in Kenya to incite election violence, now they will help to thwart it.
Kenya’s eight presidential candidates were challenged on tough issues like land reform and corruption in the final round of debates ahead of the poll.
Five years since bloody post-poll violence, Kenya is readying again for elections overshadowed by fresh fears of conflict.
Three musicians from Kenya have been charged for inciting ethnic violence through songs, under laws set up following deadly violence four years ago.
Kenya’s electoral commission has announced on Saturday that the country’s next presidential elections will be on March 4 2013.
Two presidential hopefuls will be out of the race, stirring up the old ethnic divisions that plague the country.
The ICC has named six suspects, including two top politicians, alleged to have masterminded the deadly 2007/08 post-election violence in Kenya.
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A human rights group in Kenya said a former government minister may be trying to derail the ICC’s investigation into Kenya’s post-election violence.
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) approval for an investigation of political unrest in Kenya won widespread praise on Thursday.
The ICC said on Wednesday it has given the green light for a probe by its prosecutor of deadly violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 elections.
Police killings during the post-election violence in January 2008 and a counter-insurgency campaign have been criticised by human rights groups.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s party won three parliamentary seats on Thursday after by-elections that went peacefully.