This case has been going on for YEARS. This guy shot and killed a game warden "mistaking him for a poacher" in 2004. He was acquitted of wrongdoing in that case in a move that many in Kenya believe reflected bribery of the judiciary ( Read more... )

Before the election at the end of last year and the post-election violence that followed, Barack Obama was sort of up there with the way Michael Jordan was viewed in Chicago during the heyday of "Da Bullsss ( Read more... )

Violence has broken out in the Kibera slum in Nairobi as opposition supporters demonstrate over the breakdown of talks between Raila Odinga's ODM and still-President Mwai Kibaki.

BBC report here. No reports of casualties but the breakdown of the talks is a serious setback for peace and reconciliation in Kenya ( Read more... )

HRW which does a very solid job of reporting facts at least in my experience, has released a report on the violence in Kenya where it documents the involvement of wealthy business men in organizing and financing some of the armed mobs responsible for the violence. The report also criticizes the Kenya Police for heavy-handed lethal force responses ( Read more... )

The agreement between the Kenyan Government and ODM seems to be holding. Both sides have agreed to set up the post of prime minister and are negotiating over what the power of that post will be. Full details available from the Beeb here. And from the Daily Nation here.

OK things finally seem to be moving in Kenya.

This just in from AP: Both ODM and NPU (the government) have agreed to rewriting the Kenyan constitution which might go some way to helping in the long run IF the judiciary can be counted on to interpret the document in an impartial fashion ( Read more... )

Following a lot of hard work by Kofi Annan and other folks at the UN, it looks like the government and the opposition are finally getting down to the hard work of working out some kind of reconciliation. MyBabyMama says things are pretty much back to normal now in most parts of the country but that Western Kenya is still a bit tense.

This story ( Read more... )

Recent reports from the BBC highlight the role of the Kenyan police in engaging in deadly violence against protestors and other people ( Read more... )

good report from Ofeibea Quist-Arcton yesterday on NPR's All Things Considered. Lots of background and good interviews. She spoiled it a little in today's issue of Morning Edition but overall I'm not complaining too much ( Read more... )

Well, it looks like Mungiki is now in the mix. Reports from Western Kenya indicate that Mungiki has been forcibly recruiting men into their mobs for "Kikuyu payback" against Opposition-affiliated mobs of Luo and Kalenjin youth ( Read more... )