Kenyan opposition accuses police of killing seven
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Kenya's opposition accused police of killing seven people on Thursday during a second day of clashes with demonstrators protesting against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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At least seven people die after police in eastern India fire at farmers protesting at industrial plans.
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Police are behind dozens of deaths in Kenya's post-election turmoil, opening fire on both looters and opposition protesters under an unofficial "shoot to kill" policy, a leading human rights group said Sunday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's main opposition party said Friday it plans three days of mass rallies next week to protest President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, which has sparked waves of deadly violence across the East African nation.
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President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's backers on Wednesday of responsibility for an explosion of tribal violence over a disputed election that has killed more than 300 Kenyans.
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Police cracked down fiercely on a second day of protests across Kenya on Thursday, firing bullets at opposition supporters and tear gas at a hospital. At least five people were killed.
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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 police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil thought to have killed more than 100 people.
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Ethnically driven violence intensified in Kenya on Sunday, and police officials said at least 19 people, including 11 children, were burned to death in a house by a mob.
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Kenyan police faced protests on Wednesday after killing 22 people in a slum believed to be a stronghold of the Mungiki gang, branded "agents of the devil" by a government minister.
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Kenyan police tore through a Nairobi slum yesterday, shooting dead at least 11 people in the third day of a crackdown on a stronghold of the Mungiki criminal gang blamed for a wave of beheadings, witnesses said.
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KANO, Nigeria  - Five policemen working for Nigeria's anti-drug enforcement agency were among seven people killed by a mob that mistook them for armed robbers in a remote northern village, a senior official said Friday.
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Clashes broke out in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday, hours after the killing of a lawmaker that was condemned by the leader of the opposition.
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KISUMU, Kenya  - Kenyan police fought hundreds of protesters in trouble spots across the country on Wednesday, killing three, as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Kenyan police kill 21 people in a gun battle with suspected members of a banned sect in the capital, a spokesman says.
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At least seven policemen are killed in an ambush by suspected Islamists in Algeria, security officials say.
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Kenyan police shoot and kill what they say were 12 criminals - including three members of an outlawed sect.