MARAUDING gangs and criminals are attacking Somali famine refugees more frequently as they flee across the border to Kenyan camps, but Kenyan police say they do not have enough manpower to stop them.

Kenyans have been gathering at the site of the 1998 US embassy bombing in central Nairobi to remember those killed in the al-Qaida attack.

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.

KENYA’S president signed a new constitution into law yesterday that institutes a US-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the most significant political event since Kenya’s independence nearly a half century ago.

Kenya's president signed a new constitution into law today that institutes a US-style system of checks and balances and has been hailed as the most significant political event since Kenya's independence nearly a half century ago.

Kenya’s prime minister said that he wants former UN chief Kofi Annan to intervene in a dispute with the president that is threatening a power-sharing agreement that helped end post-election bloodshed two years ago.

Kenyan radio shows interrupted their programming and bus conductors shouted the news from the windows: President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize.

Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said.

Barack Obama’s Kenyan family erupted in cheers today, singing “We are going to the White House!” as their relative became the first African-American to be elected US president.

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.

Thousands of people living in a makeshift camp in Kenya were today told that Ireland and the international community would do all in its power to help them return to their farms and homes.

KENYA’S President Mwai Kibaki named political rival Raila Odinga as head of a power-sharing cabinet on Sunday, ending weeks of impasse that threatened to undermine economic recovery after a deadly post-election crisis.

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.

Officials say Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga have reached deal on a coalition Cabinet.

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”.

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.

A POLITICAL deal to end Kenya’s post-election crisis is expected today, with the two sides having largely agreed on a government structure, including a prime minister’s post, officials said yesterday.

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.

The UN’s humanitarian chief John Holmes said today that up to 600,000 people have been forced from their homes in Kenya during weeks of violence that has killed 1,000 people.

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.

DAVID MORAA was born at 8am on Friday, weighing nearly eight pounds, to a happy mother and some 9,000 neighbours in a field.

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.

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

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.

Ethnic bloodbath leaves thousands stranded, Juno McEnroe reports from the Rift Valley, Kenya.

THE top US envoy to Africa called the violence in Kenya “ethnic cleansing” and said yesterday Washington was reviewing its hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to the country.

KENYA’S $200 million (€135.5m) flower industry is under threat with armed gangs targeting growers as running street battles continue.

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

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

Rapes and beheadings are only the beginnings of the horror from the squalor of the slums, writes Juno McEnroe in Kenya.

Ethnic clashes convulsed western Kenya today as gangs fought with crude weapons and set homes ablaze, pushing the death toll from a month of violence over the country’s flawed presidential election to nearly 800.

Kenya’s president and his main opposition leader finally met today for the first time since their dispute over elections sparked nationwide violence that has left hundreds dead.

A remembrance service for the hundreds of Kenyans who have died in post-election violence ended in chaos as fighting broke out between mourners and police today.

Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan was due to hold talks today to mediate in the deadly dispute over Kenya’s presidential election, and the opposition said it was willing to reconsider plans for protest rallies this week.

Police fired tear gas to break up pro-government demonstrations in Kenya today in advance of the arrival of former UN chief Kofi Annan on a peacemaking mission.