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Kenya

  • 19 Mar 2018

    Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians

    An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.

  • 28 Oct 2017
    5 mins

    Kenyan governors call for peace

    Three days after Kenya’s re-run presidential elections, the incumbent president Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to declare victory. At least six people have died in unrest surrounding Thursday’s vote – which was boycotted by opposition leader Raila Odinga.  

  • 27 Oct 2017
    3 mins

    Fears of political unrest in Kenya amid election chaos

    Kenya’s election commission is postponing voting tomorrow in some of the country’s opposition strongholds over concerns about the safety of election staff. At least six people have died in violent clashes which broke out after most of the country went to the polls yesterday in a deeply divisive repeat election. Early figures suggest only about a third of…

  • 26 Oct 2017
    5 mins

    Kenyan presidential election re-run goes ahead

    The security was tight, the opposition absent and the turnout well down but the re-run of Kenya’s Presidential election has gone ahead. It followed the Supreme Court’s annulment of the first election in August won by President Uhuru Kenyatta because of “irregularities and illegalities”. There’ve been protests in some areas with police firing tear gas…

  • 25 Oct 2017
    4 mins

    Kenya’s opposition leader calls for a ‘resistance movement’ to refuse re-run of election

    Kenya could be heading for political chaos tonight after the Opposition leader called for a ‘resistance movement’ to refuse to vote just hours ahead of tomorrow’s re-run of the Presidential election. Earlier, its Supreme Court had said it couldn’t rule on a petition to delay the election process because not enough judges turned up. Human…

  • 8 Aug 2017
    3 mins

    Kenyans line up to vote for a new president

    Millions of Kenyans have gone to the polls today to vote for a new president, many lining up before dawn. In this closely fought general election the incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta is facing a strong challenge from another son of a political dynasty – Raila Odinga. It was a campaign dominated by issues like corruption,…

  • 22 Dec 2015

    Kenyan Muslims shield Christians in Al-Shabaab bus attack

    Muslim passengers refused to distinguish themselves from the Christians, despite the demands of militants.

  • 26 Jul 2015

    Obama issues rallying cry for gender equality in Africa

    The US President says violence against women and genital mutilation have “no place in the 21st century”.

  • 25 Jul 2015

    Obama praises Africa’s prospects during Kenya ‘homecoming’

    US President Barack Obama says Africa is “on the move” as he makes the first presidential visit to Kenya, his father’s homeland.

  • 15 Jun 2015

    UK jihadist Thomas Evans ‘killed with al-Shabaab’

    British Muslim convert Thomas Evans is reported to have died fighting for the Islamist terror group al-Shabaab in Kenya.

  • 18 May 2015

    How al-Shabaab is dividing communities in northern Kenya

    Al-Shabaab militants killed 148 non-Muslim students in the northern Kenyan town of Garissa last month. Jamal Osman finds that a growing number of Christian residents are now fleeing the community.

  • 8 Apr 2015

    Al-Shabaab: breeding fear among Kenya’s Christians

    Al-Shabaab is using the aftermath of its deadly Garissa university attack to drive a wedge between Muslims and Christians and destabilise Kenya.

  • 5 Apr 2015

    Garissa survivor: everybody was running for their lives

    A student, who survived a terror attack at Garissa University College in Kenya, describes the harrowing moment she was forced to run for her life to escape Al-Shabaab gunmen.

  • 4 Apr 2015

    Al-Shabaab threatens more Kenya attacks after college siege

    Somali Islamist militants threaten to carry out more bloody attacks on Kenya after the group’s fighters killed nearly 150 people in an assault on a Kenyan university.

  • 3 Apr 2015

    Garissa attack: al-Shabaab says Kenyans should leave

    Al-Shabaab says Garissa and Mombasa are “our land” and that Kenyans should leave, after Channel 4 News challenged the group to explain its attack on a university.

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