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

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.

Fresh riots broke out on the streets of Kenya's capital Nairobi today after an opposition politician was murdered by gunmen at his home.

AS DUSK settled hordes of villagers wielding wooden planks, rocks and metal wire lined the road into town.

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.

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.

People were burned and hacked to death today in ethnic clashes in Kenya’s western Naivasha town, the latest flashpoint of violence over President Mwai Kibaki’s re-election.

A descendant of Kenya’s first white settlers, whose freewheeling ways inspired the book “White Mischief”, has been charged with murder for the second time in 13 months in a case that has exposed deep resentment about British colonialism in East Africa.

Police arrested the grandson of one of Kenya’s first white settlers today for shooting and killing an alleged poacher, the second time in little more than a year the rancher has killed someone on his property.

A Roman Catholic bishop was shot to death near his church in northern Kenya last night, the Vatican Embassy in Nairobi said.

International flower farmers threatened to leave Kenya today, hours after another armed attack on a European manager carrying cash to pay plantation workers.

Two Kenyans were charged today with violent robbery and possession of stolen property in connection with the murder of a British farmer.

Police have arrested two men suspected of murdering a British farmer in central Kenya and retrieved a pistol believed to have been used in the attack.

A British farmer was killed and one of his guards severely injured when a gang raided his farm in central Kenya.

Sudanese government and rebel officials have begun negotiating a ceasefire as part of a comprehensive agreement to end a 21-year war in Africa’s largest nation, the chief mediator said.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell said today that the Sudanese government and rebels fighting a 20-year civil have committed themselves to reaching a comprehensive peace deal by the end of December.

An inquest into the death of an American Roman Catholic priest in Kenya was launched today.