Mwai Kibaki

The former president’s stranglehold on the press made it very difficult for journalists to do their jobs

The connected world demands new responses to graft, says a Kenyan activist

As we remember the days in which apartheid was finally toppled, we must ask how we will, in 28 years’ time, remember South Africa as it is now

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki will retire after polls, leaving a legacy of impressive economic growth partly overshadowed by corruption in government.

Ethiopia will hold a state funeral on Sptember 2 for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Monday after 21 years in power.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told Kenya’s leaders that the East African nation has a chance to become a model for other African nations.

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.

Uhuru Kenyatta has resigned as Kenya’s finance minister after the International Criminal Court ruled he should stand trial for post-election violence.

Kenya is nervously awaiting an ICC ruling on whether to try six officials, including two presidential contenders, over deadly 2007-2008 poll unrest.

A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court says Kenya’s 2007 post-poll violence was not spontaneous but carefully planned by two ex-ministers.

Kenya’s elite would subvert any local tribunal that attempted to try post-election violence suspects, says the country’s ‘Iron Lady’, Martha Karua.

The belief that countries need strong dictators runs deep, but Kenya, Namibia and South Sudan point the way to a freer future.

Kenya’s industrialisation minister said he has resigned his post over a car imports scandal.

Prominent Kenyans named by the ICC as masterminds of the 2007-2008 post-election violence proclaimed their innocence on Wednesday.