Protests off as Kenya death toll nears 500
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The official death toll from Kenya's post-election violence rose to nearly 500 on Monday as the opposition called off nationwide protests to give mediation a chance.
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KISUMU, Kenya  - Police fired teargas and bullets in the air on Monday in the western town of Kisumu where protests erupted over the killings during the weekend of people in Kenya's Rift Valley, residents said.
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As death toll nears 1,000, more Kenyans are saying 'holy' president and his elite advisers are to blame
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Dozens of protesters set fire to a government office building Wednesday in a melee following a memorial service organized by the opposition for victims of Kenya's election violence. Workers crawled to safety from a window in the smoking building, just as former U.N. chief Kofi A...
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election soared to nearly 200.
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Police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday as President Mwai Kibaki began a second term after a disputed vote that has hurt Kenya's democratic credentials and brought a death toll rising into the dozens.
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A mob torched a Kenyan church on Tuesday, killing about 30 villagers cowering inside, as the death toll from ethnic riots triggered by President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election approached 250.
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Western diplomats have been putting pressure on the Kenyan government and opposition to bring an end to bloodletting that has killed more than 300 people in the past three days.
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Kenya's opposition said on Saturday it would resume protests next week over a disputed election, and five people were killed in politically-fuelled ethnic violence in the country's Great Rift Valley.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil that a local TV station said had killed at least 124 people.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- The opposition called Friday for three days of rallies to protest Kenya's disputed presidential election, igniting fears of more deadly violence. Police said they would not allow the demonstrations.
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Kenyans waited on edge for the result of their closest ever presidential election on Sunday, fearing more unrest after a chaotic vote count marred by widespread ethnic violence over accusations of rigging.
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Kenyan police and opposition backers clashed on Thursday in a second day of protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election in which police have already killed three.
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Kenyans pleaded on Wednesday for an end to violence that has killed 850 people and created unprecedented horror in the east African nation's darkest moment since 1963 independence.
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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga said police shot dead seven protesters in Nairobi on Thursday and more than 1,000 people had died in unrest since President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Clashes between rival tribes armed with machetes and bows and arrows on Friday marked the third, the bloodiest and what the government hopes is the last day of opposition protests over Kenya's disputed presidential election.