The latest in Kenya

Defending champ Kiplagat out of NY Marathon

2011-10-05T15:30:22Z

Defending champion Edna Kiplagat of Kenya withdrew from next month's New York Marathon on Wednesday with a left knee injury, handing Liliya Shobukhova the women's World Marathon Ma...

FIFA asks Kenya to explain deadly match stampede

2010-10-25T09:30:38Z

Seven fans were killed in the tragedy after the crowd scrambled to enter the Nyayo National stadium to watch the match between traditional rivals, AFC Leopards and Gor Mahia on Saturday night.

FIFA's demand for a report comes after Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga ordered a seven-day investigation into the stampede.

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Runnig Bare Foot is Better

2010-11-02T21:43:31Z

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Tips On Climbing Mt. Kenya

2010-09-10T09:36:13Z

Mt. Kenya which is believed to be the sacred home of the Kikuyu ancestors is the highest free standing mountain in Kenya and the second highest in Africa after Mt Kilimanjaro and also a UNESCO world heritage site. Mt Kenya which is a dormant volcano is said to have erupted many million years ago. Johann Ludwig Krapf was the first European Missionary to report a sighting of Mt Kenya back in 1849. Eric Shipton was the first person to climb the Nelion (5188m) peak which is the second highest aft...

Kenya begins mourning for victims of 2 fires

2010-04-16T17:18:50Z

Kenya began a week of mourning on Monday for the victims of two massive fires that killed more than 140 people, and the Red Cross began the long process of trying to identify some of the dead with DNA samples.

The government, meanwhile, was criticized for its response to the disaster...

Eight killed in Kenyan road accident

2010-04-16T16:41:49Z

At least eight people were killed Sunday when two passenger vans collided in eastern Kenya, police and Red Cross said.

Twenty-one others were wounded in the accident in eastern province at about 1.00pm (1000 GMT), a police commander said.

"They have all received first aid and a...

Kenya road accident kills 15, 24 injured: police

2010-04-16T13:33:06Z

Fifteen people were killed outright and 24 injured, several critically, when two minibuses collided in western Kenya, police said Tuesday.

The accident happened around 8:30 pm (1730 GMT) Monday in the town of Webuye.

"It involved two matatus which collided head on. Fifteen people were killed on the spot," western province police chief Francis Munyambu said.

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Ivory Coast

2011-01-03T19:01:48Z

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga, left, Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma, center, and Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga talk outside a hotel following a meeting with opposition leader Alassane Ouattara

Kenya Bus blast

2010-12-20T13:01:32Z

Luggage lies outside the Kampala bound bus after the bomb blast in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. Kenya's police commissioner, Mathew K. Iteere said one person had died and others were wounded after a bomb exploded at a Nairobi bus station. The explosion comes as troop contributing nations to the <...

International Court Kenya

2010-12-15T05:31:18Z

In this photo dated Nov. 2, 2005, Uhuru Kenyatta seen in Narobi, Kenya. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo has asked judges to charge six Kenyans, including Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Uhuru ...

Kenya International Court

2010-12-15T05:31:17Z

In this Jan 3 2008 photo, Kenyan politician William Ruto, during a meeting in Narobi, Kenya. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked judges to charge six Kenyans, including the country's deputy prime minister, with crimes against humanity including murder, persecution and rape committed durin...

Kenya ICC

2010-12-14T11:00:53Z

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2008 file photo, a Kenyan man sits in the cab of a destroyed truck used as a makeshift roadblock while a tyre burns on the roof, as he and others enforce the roadblock in Kisumu, Kenya. Three years after post-election attacks killed more than 1,000 people here, top Kenyan leaders are about to face justice for the first time. And many are getting nervous. (AP Photo/