Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has urged his supporters to skip work on Monday to protest against what he claims were rigged elections that gave victory to President Uhuru Kenyatta.

In an escalation of Kenya's deadly election violence, police have fired live ammunition at rioters and used tear gas on vehicles carrying opposition officials.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has won a second term, the country's election commission said.

The Kenyan election commission's database was unsuccessfully targeted by a hacking attempt, a top electoral official has said.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has claimed hackers infiltrated the database of the country's election commission and manipulated the results in what he called an "attack on our democracy".

A runaway tanker carrying volatile gas has slammed into other vehicles and burst into flames on a major road in Kenya, killing at least 39 people and injuring 10, officials said today.

Kenya's president has set fire to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than one ton of rhino horn in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species.

The Kenyan air force claims to have destroyed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, in the first major military response since the Islamist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week.

The son of a Kenyan government official has been identified as one of the gunmen who took part in an Islamic extremist attack on a university that killed 148 people.

Kenya’s president has ordered an audit of all buildings in the capital Nairobi after an eight-storey residential building collapsed, killing at least two people in the city’s second deadly collapse in a month caused by bad construction, officials said.

The chairman of the African Union has said the body will not allow a sitting head of state to be prosecuted by an international tribunal.

Kenyan authorities prepared for the gruesome task of recovering dozens more victims than initially feared after the president declared an end to the four-day siege of a Nairobi shopping mall by al Qaida-linked terrorists.

Kenyan police said a “major” assault by security forces has begun to end the two-day hostage crisis at a Nairobi mall, in which 68 people have died.

Kenyan security forces remain locked in a stand-off with terrorists in a Nairobi shopping centre nearly 24 hours after the gang opened fire in the building, killing at least 39 people.

Uhuru Kenyatta has been sworn in as the Kenya’s fourth president in a stadium filled with tens of thousands of supporters and a dozen African leaders.

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta appears to have won the presidential election in the first round with the slimmest of majorities, as Kenya’s electoral commission prepared today to announce the final results of the nation’s presidential election.

Kenya was hit by a series of terrorist attacks today as millions waited in long queues to vote in the presidential election.

Multiple attacks against security forces in Kenya have killed at least 12 people as queues built up to vote in the country’s first general election for five years.

Kenyans began casting votes today in a nationwide election seen as the country’s most important – and complicated – in its 50-year history, five years after more than 1,000 people were killed in poll-related violence.

Four leading Kenyans have been ordered to stand trial at the International Criminal Court accused of planning the deadly wave of violence that followed the country's 2007 presidential election.

A decision by the International Criminal Court is due today on whether six influential Kenyans - including two presidential contenders - accused of helping to orchestrate violence that killed more than 1,000 people following disputed elections in 2007 will face prosecution.

A six-year-old girl has been killed in a drive-by shooting when someone fired up to 18 rounds from a rifle through the home where she was sleeping.

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

VETERAN politician Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance won a landslide victory in Kenyan elections, breaking the ruling party’s 39-year grip on power, results showed yesterday.

Uhuru Kenyatta – outgoing President Daniel arap Moi’s handpicked successor - conceded defeat today to veteran opposition leader Mwai Kibaki in historic Kenyan elections.

Veteran politician Mwai Kibaki and his opposition alliance have won a landslide victory in Kenyan elections, breaking the ruling party’s 39-year grip on power, according to figures from an independent body monitoring the election.

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.

On a day many thought they would never see, Kenyans headed to the polls today to determine who will succeed President Daniel arap Moi – the leader of the East African nation for the past 24 years and one of Africa’s few remaining “big men”.

Kenya’s main opposition alliance holds a clear lead in the run-up to December 27 general election in which it hopes to break the ruling party’s 39-year grip on power.

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi today sacked his longtime deputy and ally George Saitoti in a growing dispute over who will succeed the despot when his term runs out in January.