Six Kenyan leaders were today accused of being behind organised violence following the country's 2007 election that left more than 1,000 people dead.

A Cabinet minister and an assistant minister were killed along with two other people when their small plane crashed in south-western Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki said.

President Mwai Kibaki named Raila Odinga as prime minister today, implementing a long-awaited power-sharing deal that the two rivals signed more than a month ago to resolve a protracted political crisis.

Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki has named rival Raila Odinga as prime minister, implementing a power-sharing deal.

Kenyan politicians were behind the violence that killed more than 1,000 people following the country’s disputed presidential election, a watchdog group declared today.

Kenya’s president urged MPs today to pass the laws needed to enforce the country’s new power-sharing agreement as Parliament prepared to convene for the first time since the deal was signed.

Dozens of armed attackers stormed a village in western Kenya killing at least 13 people, police said today.

Kofi Annan was set to leave Kenya today after brokering a power-sharing deal between the country’s feuding politicians to end a bloody post-election crisis.

The UN Security Council welcomed the new power-sharing agreement in Kenya and urged President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga to implement it “in full and without delay”.

Governments gave strong backing today to Kenya’s power-sharing agreement and promised support to help the country emerge from two months of ethnic violence sparked by a disputed presidential election.

Kenya’s rival politicians have reached an agreement on a coalition government after weeks of bitter negotiations, former UN chief Kofi Annan said today.

Mass protests by Kenya’s opposition were called off today under pressure from former UN chief Kofi Annan who is trying to pave the way for a permanent deal to end the country’s divisions.

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan embarked on a final push for a compromise from Kenya’s feuding president and opposition leader today.

Hopes of a solution to the deadly divisions in Kenya were dashed today when talks between the two main rivals were suspended.

Former UN chief Kofi Annan said today he has suspended talks between Kenya’s government and the opposition which were supposed to end the country’s deadly post-election crisis.

Talks to end Kenya’s post-election crisis have reached a crucial stage amid fears of renewed violence if the two sides cannot agree soon to share power, a leading diplomat said tonight.

A political deal is expected in Kenya today after the government tentatively agreed to form a prime minister’s post for the opposition, moving the East African country a step closer to ending the deadly post-election crisis.

Hopes of a political settlement to end Kenya’s violent post-election crisis rose today after reports that the two main opponents were on the verge of announcing a deal.

Kenya’s main opposition party today threatened mass protests within a week if the government fails to begin paving the way for any type of power-sharing government.

Ireland is pledging €100,000 to support the current Kofi Annan led mediation efforts in Kenya, following a request from the United Nations.

Kenya’s political rivals today agreed on an independent review of the election at the centre of their dispute.

The final push for peace in Kenya continued today at a secret location as top negotiators said the opposition had proposed sharing power with the government for two years and then holding new elections.

In a country strangled by anger and fear, it is taking armed escorts and emergency airlifts to transport Kenya’s most warm-hearted export – the rose - abroad for Valentine’s Day.

Reports of a peace deal between Kenya’s rival political factions were described as premature by former UN head Kofi Annan today.

Hopes for an end to the violence sweeping Kenya rose today when a leading opposition MP said a deal had been struck to form a joint government with President Mwai Kibaki.

America branded 10 leading Kenyan politicians “criminals” today and banned them from entering the country.

Ireland is to help fund UN-led efforts to broker peace in Kenya, it emerged today.

Talks to end weeks of post-election violence in Kenya resumed today on difficult political issues, a day after rivals agreed on humanitarian aid and a leading mediator left the team because of government opposition.

The Kenyan government has rejected South African Cyril Ramaphosa as the chief mediator in talks to end the post-election crisis, former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan said today.

Kenya’s opposing political forces resumed peace talks today, in a bid to end weeks of violence that has wracked the East African country once considered one of the most stable on the continent.

Kenya’s opposition leader today called for international peacekeepers to help restore calm in a country once considered one of the most stable on the continent, as weeks of violence linked to the disputed presidential election gathered frightening momentum.

Kenya’s opposition leader today called for the African Union to send peacekeepers to stem violence sparked by the country’s disputed presidential election.

Rival parties in Kenya said tonight they had agreed to take immediate action to end violence after a month of deadly clashes over a disputed presidential election.

A Kenyan policeman was lynched by a mob of demonstrators today in revenge for the shooting of an MP by another officer.

Kenya may need to deploy its army on the streets to quell political violence, a British minister said today.

An opposition MP has been shot dead by a policeman in Kenya’s Rift Valley today, the second to be killed this week as the country’s violent slide into chaos continues.

Africa is facing a genocide in Kenya and must make resolving the crisis a priority, the head of the African Union told the continent’s leaders today at the opening of a three-day summit.

It is up to Africa to help Kenya resolve a dispute over elections that has sparked spiralling violence, the African Union chief said as the continent’s leaders converged in Ethiopia for a summit.

Violent anti-government protests in Kenya’s Rift Valley are aimed at the ethnic cleansing of the Kikuyu tribe there, a diplomat claimed today.

Fresh waves of violence swept Kenya today in the wake of the murder of an opposition MP.

The violence and unrest sweeping Kenya is in danger of turning into a long-term problem, UN humanitarian aid chief John Holmes warned today.

Fresh riots broke out on the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi today after an opposition politician was murdered by gunmen at his home.

An opposition lawmaker has been fatally shot in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi earlier today.

EU foreign ministers today threatened to cut aid to Kenya unless its rival political factions agree to a power-sharing pact and restore stability.