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/ 29 January 2008
Kenyan security forces struggled on Tuesday to contain escalating violence as the post-election unrest claimed its first victim among the country’s politicians. Heavily armed Kenyan army soldiers patrolled the volatile Rift Valley capital, Nakuru, on Tuesday while paramilitary police guarded the town of Naivasha, the new epicentre of tribal fighting.
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/ 28 January 2008
Protests erupted in western Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after scores died in ethnic violence, complicating mediation efforts by former United Nations boss Kofi Annan. In the normally peaceful Rift Valley town of Nakuru, a mortuary worker said on Monday that 64 corpses were lying in the morgue.
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/ 28 January 2008
Kenyans in the Rift Valley town of Naivasha were braced for fresh violence on Monday after a spate of ethnic killings. At least 19 people were killed here on Sunday in battles between members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe and Luos and Kalenjins who backed his rival Raila Odinga.
A British aristocrat who escaped murder charges in Kenya after killing a game warden on his family’s ranch last year shot another man to death on the premises on Wednesday, police said. Thomas Cholmondeley, son of the Fifth Baron Delamere and great-grandson of Kenya’s most prominent early British settler, told authorities he fired at a suspected poacher on the ranch in the central Rift Valley.
Kenyan bird experts on Tuesday began probing the cause of fowl deaths in Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley that have raised fears of a possible avian-flu outbreak, officials said. The veterinary experts arrived in Lake Naivasha, about 90km north-west of Nairobi, to take samples from dead birds that have succumbed to a mysterious disease in the past week.
Short rains have killed scores of Kenya’s famed wildlife herds in the Rift Valley region, amid a searing drought that had already decimated livestock and wild animals across the East African region. Wildlife officials in Hell’s Gate National Park in the Rift Valley province said weakened animals ate too much vegetation after recent rains in isolated areas in the country.
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/ 22 February 2006
Britons spend more than £1,5-billion a year on cut flowers, and Kenya has nearly a quarter of the market, which peaks around February 14 as millions of Britons give flowers to loved ones on Valentine’s Day. As many as 50 000 people now work in Kenya’s flower industry, and for the past few weeks they have been working flat out to meet orders.
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/ 31 January 2006
Hundreds of workers at a leading Kenyan flower farm rioted after being sacked en masse for striking in a dispute over wages and working conditions. Police fired tear gas and fought running battles on Monday with the workers, who were among more than 1 000 employees at the Oserian farm in Kenya’s central Rift Valley fired for participating in the strike.
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/ 13 January 2006
Gunmen armed with an assault rifle shot and killed a well-known elderly British environmentalist early on Friday in an apparent robbery in Kenya’s central Rift Valley, police said. Joan Wenn Root (69) the daughter of a colonial-era British settler, was shot three times in her bed at home near the town of Naivasha, about 90km northwest of Nairobi.
Armed robbers killed a British hotelier and a Kenyan truck driver in a popular tourist area in central Kenya, police said on Wednesday. One of the robbers was also shot and killed. The gang took a watchman hostage late on Tuesday at the luxury Crater Lake Lodge, 90km northeast of Nairobi, and then shot and killed owner John Gordon.
An Australian tourist has been killed by a hippopotamus at a popular resort in central Kenya, police said on Tuesday. Simon Kiragu, the regional police chief, identified the victim as 50-year-old Vicky Elizabeth Bartlett. She was with a group of 12 tourists at Lake Naivasha on Monday night when the hippo attacked, Kiragu said.