Kenya’s long, slow presidential election concluded on Monday, with anti-China candidate William Ruto declared the winner by 50.5 percent to 49 percent against Raila Odinga, chosen candidate of outgoing President Uhuru Kenyatta.
Early vote tallies in Kenya on Wednesday appeared to show a small lead for current Deputy President William Ruto, an outspoken critic of China’s growing influence in the country.
Kenyan presidential hopeful William Ruto promised on Wednesday that if elected, he will make all Kenyan government contracts with China public, and move aggressively to deport Chinese nationals working illegally in Kenya.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the group behind the “Panama Papers” leak of financial data five years ago, released a sequel of sorts on Sunday. Dubbed the “Pandora Papers,” the new trove of leaked confidential financial documents suggests dozens of world leaders and hundreds of public officials are stashing large sums of money in hidden bank accounts and secret investment projects.
Kenya on Thursday opened a new port in the northern city of Lamu, financed with a $3 billion investment from the China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), an enterprise owned by the Chinese government.
Jon Ossoff’s production company produced a two-part report for Al-Jazeera in 2015 that praised China’s growing power and influence in Africa.
In northeast Kenya, 32 people have gone missing from a Wuhan coronavirus quarantine facility under suspicious circumstances, Nairobi News reported on Tuesday. The disappearance comes amid a partial lockdown in Kenya to stem the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.
An employee of Kenya Airways suspended for videotaping the arrival of a passenger aircraft from China announced on Monday that he will file a lawsuit contesting his suspension.
The head of a special U.S. development program will visit Kenya this week to hold initial talks over the possibility of providing $350 million towards a major infrastructure project, local media reported on Monday.
China opened the second phase of its $5 billion railroad in Kenya, a major component of the international Belt and Road Initiative, on Thursday.
Kenya began exporting its oil to the international market this week, a move described by President Uhuru Kenyatta as a momentous event in the African nation’s history.
A spokesperson for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta denied rumors on Monday that he is missing, chastising Kenyatta’s social media followers for showing a lack of respect to the country’s leader.
President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya announced on Wednesday that a total of 14 people were killed in the terrorist attack on the Dusit hotel in Nairobi.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Friday denied reports that China is preparing to seize the strategic port of Mombasa as compensation for delinquent loan payments, denouncing reports of the impending seizure as “propaganda.”
Kenyan author and actress Kingwa Kamencu renewed presidential ambitions by launching a new political party known as the “Kenya Sex Party,” local media reported Tuesday.
Kenyan police arrested a Chinese motorcycle dealer operating in the country this week after an employee recorded the man berating his native Kenyan employees, calling them “monkey people” and referring to Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta as a “monkey.”
A court in Nairobi, Kenya, ruled against local doctors Wednesday suing the government for importing 100 doctors from Cuba to take jobs that medical professionals in the country say rightfully belong to Kenyan citizens.
Medical organizations in Kenya condemned a government plan Monday to import doctors from Cuba to address the nation’s vast shortage of medical professionals, citing that more than one thousand ready-to-work Kenyan doctors are still unemployed in the country.
Contents: Kenya’s bitter rivals, Kenyatta and Odinga, become ‘brothers’ as Tillerson arrives; The Donald Trump – Kim Jong-un meeting hinges on a decision that Kim has already made
Contents: Kenya cracks down on political opposition after mock inauguration; Fears grow of repeat of 2008 post-election violence
Contents: Severe drought in Kenya increases violence among herders, farmers and police; Tensions rise between Kenya and Tanzania over chicks and cattle
Contents: Russia’s ‘telephone terror’ forces evacuation of over 200,000 people; Kenya’s government in chaos as it faces a new election delay
Contents: Floods in South Asia kill 1,400 people in four countries; Kenya’s president Kenyatta lashes out as Supreme Court judges as ‘crooks’; Burmese Buddhist attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in Myanmar becoming full-scale genocide
Contents: Kenya’s Supreme Court issues ‘historic’ ruling, overturning presidential election; John Kerry and other election observers come under harsh criticism
Contents: Kenya’s election commission announces that Uhuru Kenyatta is reelected president; Kenya’s opposition leader Raila Odinga promises to ‘remove’ the Uhuru Kenyatta government
Contents: Torture and murder of election official raise fears of violence in Kenya; Widespread fears in Kenya of a repeat of the 2008 tribal violence
Contents: Kenya launches new China-built railway from Mombasa port to Nairobi; China accused of a policy of ‘debt trap diplomacy’ in infrastructure projects
Contents: Kenya’s herders attack well-known conservationist, stoking tribal tensions; Battle between Kenya’s farmers and herders morphs into tribal conflict
Contents: African nations furious over possible collapse of climate change agreement; The ‘science’ of climate change
Contents: Kenya protests take an increasingly dangerous turn; Malawi’s albinos ‘face extinction’ as they’re killed and sold for body parts; Colorado health insurance in crisis as Obamacare continues to collapse
Contents: Increasing violence in Kenya revives fears of tribal war; Generational history of tribal violence in Kenya; Kenya facing fierce criticism over closing the world’s largest refugee camp
Contents: Kenya’s huge ivory burning event may endanger elephants further; China makes four demands of Japan to improve relations
President Obama and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta clashed at a joint press conference in the African state during his official visit on Sunday: Obama harshly criticized Kenya’s record on issues related to homosexuality.
As Kenya gears up for President Barack Obama’s historic speech on Sunday in its capital, Nairobi, victims of the 1998 al-Qaeda bombing of the American embassy in that city are charging “neglect” on the part of both the American and Kenyan governments, and hoping their plights are addressed by the American head of state.
Kenyan leaders are warning President Obama not to bring his “gay agenda” with him when he visits his father’s homeland at the end of this month to open the sixth Global Entrepreneurship Summit.
ISIS pushes closer to Damascus through Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp; Texts of Iran nuclear deal differ in English and Farsi versions; Kenya’s president: terrorists are ‘deeply embedded’ in Kenya
Al-Shabaab kills 147 mostly Christian students in Kenya school; Bill O’Reilly’s ‘Killing Jesus’ and 1960s-style activism
