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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta casts his ballot inside a polling station in his hometown of Gatundu in Kiambu county, Kenya August 8, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Kenya Sets Date for New Presidential Elections

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 5, 2017 | World

Nairobi- Kenya’s election commission on Monday set October 17 as the date for a new vote ordered by the Supreme Court when it canceled the results of an August poll won by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Kenyatta won the August 8 vote by 1.4 million votes. The court on...

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Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta flanked by his Deputy William Ruto addresses the nation at State House in Nairobi, Kenya September 1, 2017. (Reuters)

Kenya President Warns Judiciary after Annulment of his Electoral Victory

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 3, 2017 | World

After annulling his electoral victory last month, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta warned on Saturday that the country had a problem to “fix” with the judiciary. Kenyatta, speaking a day after the Supreme Court canceled his victory and ordered new polls within 60 days,...

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Kenyan police chase protesters in the Mathare slum in Nairobi. (AFP)

3 Killed in Kenya over Presidential Elections Result

by Thaer Abbas | Aug 12, 2017 | World

Opposition protests that erupted after the election victory of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have turned violent in the African country, with three people killed on Saturday. The latest deaths mean nine people have been killed in election-related violence since...

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Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, the presidential candidate of the National Super Alliance (NASA) coalition, address a news conference on the concluded presidential election in Nairobi, Kenya, August 9, 2017. – Reuters

Kenya Slips into Violence amid Post-Elections Riots

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 10, 2017 | World

Nairobi- Kenya slipped a little deeper into violence on Wednesday after the former prime minister Raila Odinga rebuffed the final results of the recent presidential elections. Turnout showed that renewed outgoing president Uhuru Kenyatta won for another term. Odinga...

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In this photo taken Saturday, April 4, 2015, Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) soldiers arrive at a hospital to escort the bodies of Al-Shabaab militants who attacked the Garissa University College campus on April 2, 2015 to be put on public view, in Garissa, Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Kenya says destroys two Al-Shabaab camps in Somalia

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 6, 2015 | World

Nairobi, Reuters—The Kenyan air force has destroyed two Al-Shabaab camps in Somalia, it said on Monday, in the first major military response since the extremist group massacred students at a Kenyan university last week. Al-Shabaab denied the camps were hit, saying the...