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Kenyan forces struggle to contain violence

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…

Kenya’s Rift Valley burns, death toll soars

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…

Annan pushes mediation in Kenya

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…

Aristocrat accused in new Kenya slaying

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,…

Kenyan experts probe bird deaths in Rift Valley lake

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.…

Bloated animals succumb after rains in Rift Valley

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…

Caught on the thorns

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…

Kenyan flower farm workers riot after mass sacking

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…

Environmentalist slain in Kenya’s Rift Valley

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…

Robbers kill British hotelier in Kenya

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…

Hippo tramples Australian tourist in Kenya

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…