Kenya security shakeup after extremist killings
By TOM ODULA Islamic extremists killed 36 non-Muslim workers in northern Kenya early Tuesday, prompting the president to shake up his security team, firing his interior minister and accepting the…
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48 Kenyans dead: Witness: Gunmen spared Muslims
By TOM ODULA A member of the Kenyan security forces walks past the body of one of those who were killed by militants, in the village of Kibaoni just outside…
GAYS IN KENYA PROTEST AGAINST UGANDAN BILL
Kenyan gays and lesbians and others supporting their cause wear masks to preserve their anonymity as they stage a rare protest, against Uganda’s increasingly tough stance against homosexuality and in…
AFRICAN LEADERS IN SOUTH SUDAN FOR PEACE TALKS
By JASON STRAZIUSO and RODNEY MUHUMUZA In this photo released by the Kenyan Presidential Press Service, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, middle, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, right, and Kenyan…
3 US MILITARY AIRCRAFT HIT IN S. SUDAN, 4 WOUNDED
By JASON STRAZIUSO FILE – In this June 7, 2007 file photo, a CV-22 Osprey aircraft stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base kicks up a cloud of dust as it…
S. SUDAN GOV’T LOSES CONTROL OF PROVINCE CAPITAL
By CHARLTON DOKI and TOM ODULA Choul Laam, the chief of staff for the secretary general for the ruling Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement speaks during a press conference in Nairobi,…
SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT SAYS COUP HAS BEEN REPULSED
By CHARLTON DOKI and RODNEY MUHUMUZA President of South Sudan Salva Kiir wearing army fatigues speaks in this still taken from a televised address in Juba South Sudan Monday Dec.…
International court summit debates Africa issues
By MIKE CORDER FILE – A Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013 photo from files showing Kenya’s Deputy President William Ruto, right, awaiting the start of his trial in the courtroom of…