Opposition Legislator Slain In Kenya, Sparking Clashes
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NAIROBI, Jan. 29 -- Just hours after an opposition lawmaker was gunned down in his driveway here, the fury that has swept over this country since last month's disputed presidential election arrived in his middle-class neighborhood.
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Kenya's feuding parties prepared on Monday for a new showdown in parliament and on the streets despite another international push to mediate a post-election crisis that has now killed at least 612 people.
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Kenya's opposition wins a key vote in parliament as bitter clashes mar the body's first meeting since disputed polls.
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A prominent Sri Lankan opposition Tamil parliamentarian was shot dead on Tuesday, the military said, as the opposition charged that a lack of security made the government responsible for the death.
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MP killed in Rift Valley as negotiators for opposing sides in election dispute meet for the first time
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A brawl breaks out in the Nigerian parliament amid a debate over the Speaker's alleged misuse of public funds.
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A policeman shot and killed an opposition lawmaker Thursday in what authorities say was a crime of passion over a woman. But machete-wielding protesters convinced it was an assassination clashed with police, leaving at least three dead.
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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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Mobs in Kenya's opposition heartland beat up and killed at least three policemen accused of taking part in a plan to rig Thursday's elections in favor of President Mwai Kibaki, security sources said on Wednesday.
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CAIRO -- Lines of police barred opposition voters from some polling stations yesterday, and violence erupted among supporters of rival candidates, killing one person and marring the elections for Egypt's upper house of parliament. The balloting was the latest showdown between the ruling party and the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's most powerful opposition group. More than 400 Brotherhood members were arrested. ...
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Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga said police shot dead seven protesters in Nairobi on Thursday during the second day of demonstrations against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Opposition leaders on Tuesday won their first political skirmish since Kenyaâs disputed presidential election, garnering the most votes for the influential position of parliamentary speaker.
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Kenyan opposition officials were behind attacks on the president's ethnic group, a rights group says.
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A new flare-up of violence shook Kenya on Friday and fresh political recriminations dulled hopes a breakthrough meeting between the president and opposition leader could resolve a month-long crisis.
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An opposition MP is killed in Kenya, as violence continues over last month's disputed election.
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Washington's top diplomat for Africa met Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic violence that has killed more than 300 people and shattered the country's peaceful image.
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An opposition lawmaker was gunned down by a police officer in the second fatal shooting of an opposition legislator this week amid ethnic fighting.