Kenyans turn vigilante as crime surges
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Children clustered around the charred body, its features melted into an unrecognizable black mask. The man, accused of being a thief, was the fourth person to be burned alive this month in this western Kenyan city.
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Gangs of youths armed with machetes and clubs fought running battles with police on Sunday and burned tribal rivals alive in their homes in western Kenya, pushing the death toll from a month of escalating ethnic violence to nearly 800.
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Kenyan riot police patrolled the capital on Saturday and rival tribes faced off in a southwest town, after 23 people were killed in three days of protests called by the opposition over a disputed election.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o, goes back to Kenya to give evidence against four men accused of attacking him and his wife.
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Police kill a man believed to be behind a string of murders and armed robberies in Nairobi.
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Kenyan police faced protests on Wednesday after killing 22 people in a slum that is a stronghold of the Mungiki criminal gang whom the government branded "agents of the devil" for a string of grisly slayings.
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Clashes between rival tribes in the Kenyan capital killed at least three people on Sunday in a fresh flare-up of ethnically-motivated violence after President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election last month, witnesses said.
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KENYA NAIROBI -- A wave of violence across the Kenyan capital claimed 22 people early yesterday, and police were investigating whether a shadowy gang that has threatened to launch an uprising against the government was involved. Several of the attacks had the hallmarks of the Mungiki gang, which is accused in a string of beheadings and whose founder was sentenced ...
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NAIROBI, Dec. 31 -- The death toll from violent protests rose dramatically Monday in this East African country as police clamped down on ethnically charged riots fueled by allegations of vote-rigging in the presidential election.
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Nairobi, once a favorite playground for Westerners in Africa, is spinning out of control.
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Tens of thousands of Kikuyus, the tribe of Kenyaâs president, have fled because of ethnic violence.
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A surge in violence killed at least 17 people in and around the Kenyan capital, including two people found beheaded and 14 killed in gunbattles, police said Friday.
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Kenyan opposition officials were behind attacks on the president's ethnic group, a rights group says.
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Kenya on Wednesday pledged tougher action to rein in post-election violence that threatens to spiral out of control, in the east African nation's darkest moment since independence in 1963.
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After a wave of ethnic violence, Kenya has been in the process of segregating itself.
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Kenyan police shoot to disperse crowds during a major crackdown  on followers of the banned Mungiki sect.
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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 in which more than 70 people have been killed.