Stability in Kenya hinges on a just, equitable distribution of resources, and a commitment to progress human development for the marginalised
Kenya has a long history of policing with excessive force, often resulting in unnecessary deaths. Recently at least six people died from police violence during the first 10 days of a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Moina Spooner, from The Conversation Africa, asked Douglas Kivoi, an expert on police reform and policy, to shed light on the situation. […]
Leaders are doing little to calm tensions in the midst of Kenya’s worst political crisis in a decade
Polling stations were shuttered and intimidation kept voters away in the Kenyan opposition stronghold
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/ 16 February 2009
A UN official began investigations on Monday into alleged brutality by Kenyan security forces, including accusations of summary executions by police.
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/ 16 January 2008
Kenyan police battled hundreds of opposition protesters on Wednesday, killing two, as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki’s disputed re-election, witnesses said. In the western opposition stronghold of Kisumu and the coastal city of Mombasa youths began gathering in the morning, some burning tyres.
Police raids, arson and tribal attacks over the last 24 hours have claimed more than 100 lives in Kenya, police and officials said on Tuesday, bringing the toll for five days of post-election bloodshed to 299. ”At least 30 have burned to death inside a church in the Kiamba area,” a police commander said.
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/ 31 December 2007
An eruption of fresh violence triggered by Kenya’s disputed presidential ballot left more than 100 dead on Monday, after defeated opposition candidate Raila Odinga rejected Mwai Kibaki’s re-election. Further clashes were feared as Odinga planned to hold his own alternative inauguration at a mass rally later on Monday.
With a huge amount of detergent, a young man washes a bus on the shores of Lake Victoria while a woman nearby cleans dishes seemingly oblivious to the chemical contamination. It’s an ordinary day here in Western Kenya where Africa’s largest lake is under siege, its life-sustaining waters and fish increasingly polluted by sewage, industrial waste and chemicals.