The death toll from more than five days of violence in Kenya rose above 300 today as the government denied the country was in crisis.

A mob torched a church sheltering hundreds of people fleeing post-election violence in Kenya today, killing up to 50 people, including many children, as four days of rioting and ethnic clashes marked one of the darkest times in the country’s history.

Thousands of people angry about the slow return of results waved machetes and looted shops in Kenya today as President Mwai Kibaki closed the gap on the opposition in the closest presidential election in the country’s history.

Kenya’s opposition declared victory today in the presidential election on the basis of partial results as tensions over the vote erupted into violence in Nairobi and opposition strongholds.

A millionaire opposition leader who cast himself as a champion of the poor appears poised to win the closest presidential election in Kenya’s history, according to preliminary and unofficial media tallies.

An Irish missionary was arrested for protesting at a land rights demonstration in Kenya, it emerged tonight.

FORMER Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi accepted bribes, a company chief at the centre of the East African nation’s biggest financial scandal told an inquiry yesterday.

An investigation by Kenya’s judiciary has found that almost half of the country’s judges and close to a third of its magistrates are corrupt.

THE greatest barrier to development of chronically poor countries in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world is the quality of their political leadership.

Kenya's new president has taken the oath of office in front of hundreds of thousands of his supporters.

Veteran politician Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance appeared to be headed for a landslide victory in historic elections in Kenya, breaking the ruling party’s 39-year grip on power, according to partial results.