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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.

Protesters in the Kenyan city of Kisumu say police are shooting at them and using tear gas amid anger over election results in the stronghold of opposition leader Raila Odinga.

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.

Congolese war lord Bosco Ntaganda pleaded not guilty to crimes including the rape of child soldiers in a campaign of pillage and murder in north-east Congo’s Ituri province in the early-2000s.

South Sudan’s president is expected to sign a peace deal today to end a 20-month-old conflict but will list his reservations in an annex to the pact, his foreign minister said.

The son of a Kenyan government official was one of the masked gunmen who killed nearly 150 people at a university last week, the interior ministry said, as Kenyan churches hired armed guards to protect their Easter congregations.

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.

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.

Two blasts have hit Kenya’s capital, killing 10 people and injuring 70 more in the latest in a string of increasingly frequent terror attacks.

A law allowing men in Kenya to marry as many women as they want was signed into law by President Uhuru Kenyatta, despite criticism from women’s groups.

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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 troops were still searching for bodies in the wreckage of the Nairobi shopping mall today as its terrorist al-Shabab attackers tried to claim the destruction was not their fault.

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.

Kenya says it has finally defeated the al-Shabab terrorists who stormed the Nairobi shopping mall four days ago.

The fate of hostages inside a Nairobi mall besieged by al Qaida-linked terrorists is not clear, a Kenyan military spokesman said, despite earlier statements that “most” hostages had been rescued.

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.

At least 59 people were killed and 175 others wounded in a terror attack at a shopping centre in Nairobi, the Kenyan government said today.

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.

Two international flights have landed at Kenya’s main airport after a devastating fire, officials said.

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.

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

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.

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 conceded yesterday that voters rejected a new constitution that he had supported - the most serious political setback since he was elected in 2002.

Kenyans soundly rejected a constitution that critics said did too little to limit presidential powers, its chief proponent President Mwai Kibaki conceded today.

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.

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.