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

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

Rival tribes wielding machetes, clubs and rocks clashed in Kenya’s resort town of Naivasha today, as the death toll from a month of ethnic violence topped the 800 mark.

Aid agency Goal is back on the ground in Kenya with workers distributing vital supplies to thousands of families left in dire need, it emerged today.

KENYA’S feuding leaders shook hands and smiled yesterday after a landmark first meeting brought about by former UN chief Kofi Annan, a month after disputed presidential polls.

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.

Kenya’s opposition party was today accused of organising some of the worst violence in the wave of killings that have swept the county.

At least three people have been hacked to death with machetes in a Nairobi slum in renewed ethnic fighting over Kenya’s disputed election, residents said.

Kenya's opposition party called for another day of "peaceful rallies" across Kenya in defiance of a ban and despite 20 deaths in this week's demonstrations.

Machete-wielding youths clashed with police firing guns and tear gas in Nairobi today on the second day of anti-government protests.

UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband today issued a fresh call for political compromise to end the violence in Kenya as the Foreign Office continued to warn against non-essential travel.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga today rejected an offer to form a unity government to end an electoral dispute that has caused ethnic violence.

Kenya will face a health emergency within days if the wave of political violence in the east African state is not halted, a UK-based charity warned today.

Kenya’s president is ready to form “a government of national unity” to help resolve disputed elections that caused deadly riots, a government statement said today.

The leading US diplomat for Africa is in Kenya today to encourage a peaceful resolution after a disputed presidential election sparked days of deadly riots.

THE startling events in Kenya and the assassination of Benazir Bhutto stand in stark contrast to the opening skirmishes of the US presidential election.

Calls for a re-run of the Kenyan election whose result sparked days of deadly rioting were effectively dismissed by president Mwai Kibaki tonight.

As many as 8,040 young Kenyans have been executed or tortured to death since 2002 during a five-year police crackdown on an outlawed sect, according to a report by a group of Kenyan lawyers.