Will Kenyan elections spark violence?
With rumours of vote-rigging marring Kenya’s elections, will the close-run result lead to a repeat of violence seen the last time, asks Lindsey Hilsum.
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Al-Shabaab, the militant group which has claimed responsibility for the Nairobi shopping mall attack, tells Channel 4 News “if Kenyans don’t leave our land, we will wage a real war.”
East Africa’s largest airport is forced to close after a major fire that destroyed the airport’s arrivals hall. James Ole Lenku, Kenya’s cabinet secretary for the interior, says the cause is unknown.
Foreign Secretary William Hague announces a £19.9m total payout to 5,228 victims of the colonial administration during the 1950s Mau Mau emergency in Kenya.
One of the Woolwich murder suspects, Michael Adebolajo, was arrested in Kenya in 2010, the Foreign Office confirms, as the Home Secretary warns “potentially” thousands are at risk of radicalisation.
Kenya’s defeated presidential contender files a legal challenge to his election loss in a major test of the country’s democratic system after a disputed vote triggered deadly tribal clashes.
With rumours of vote-rigging marring Kenya’s elections, will the close-run result lead to a repeat of violence seen the last time, asks Lindsey Hilsum.
Raila Odinga, the second place candidate in Kenya’s presidential election, has vowed to challenge the result in the courts over alleged voting irregularities.
Following a massive turnout, votes are still being counted in the Kenyan election and, with the outcome still uncertain, the mood is tense.
Votes are being counted in Kenya’s elections – after polling stations were kept open late to cope with long queues.
Westerners should not class Africans by their tribe as this shows colonial thinking – but this is exactly how many of them class themselves, writes Lindsey Hilsum.
Voters in Kenya go to the polls to elect a new leader amid fears of a repeat of the ethnic violence that scarred the 2007 vote. Jamal Osman reports from the city of Mombasa, on the country’s coast.
As Kenya readies itself to go to the polls, watch our Google Hangout with Jamal Osman and guests as they look ahead to the Kenyan elections.
A grenade attack on a Nairobi church has left one child dead and three injured, in what is thought to be retaliation for Kenya’s role in fighting the Somali militant al-Shabab group.
Olympic champion and 800m world record holder David Rudisha tells Channel 4 News reporter Paraic O’Brien that an Irish priest who trained him is “more than a father”.
The British government accepts for the first time at the high court that three elderly Kenyans were tortured under the colonial administration half a century ago.