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.

A government-funded human rights group has accused a former Kenyan cabinet minister of trying to derail upcoming International Criminal Court trials.

Two explosions ripped through a park in Kenya’s capital during a packed political rally, killing five people and wounding 75.

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.

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.

Kenya’s parliament met for the first time today since mass violence swept the country, and the scenes inside echoed the divisions outside.

Kenya’s deadlocked political leaders were today urged to work together to end the tribal violence sweeping the country.

Riot police in Kenya fired tear gas and water cannons today to beat back surging crowds of rock-throwing opposition protesters who took to the streets for a cancelled rally.

Critics of a proposed constitution that was rejected by voters today pressed the president to dissolve Kenya’s parliament and call fresh elections to resolve a political crisis triggered by the government failure to get the charter passed.