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Kenya's new president sworn in amid divisions
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The swearing-in ceremony Tuesday for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, already one of the country's richest and most powerful men, involved pomp, a 21-gun salute, an old Bible and controversy. A dozen heads of state attended as Kenyatta...
Tags: Blackmail and Extortion, Kenya, Elections, Politics, International Criminal Court
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Kenya Supreme Court upholds presidential election result
NAIROBI, Kenya — The second-place finisher in Kenya's recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled that the March 4 election was free and...Tags: Africa, Politics, Voting, Wars and Interventions, Political Corruption
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Court confirms election of Kenyatta as Kenya's president
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The second-place finisher in Kenya’s recent presidential election accepted a unanimous Supreme Court ruling Saturday that his chief rival, Uhuru Kenyatta, was the rightful winner. The court ruled the election was free...
Tags: War Crimes, Kenya, Elections, Politics, International Criminal Court
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Living on the bay and loving it
Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air...
Tags: Building Material, Architecture, Fiction, Baltimore County, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Kenyan presidential loser Raila Odinga contests result
NAIROBI, Kenya -- In a setback for Kenya’s efforts to cement its democracy, presidential contender Raila Odinga on Saturday refused to concede defeat in a close election he said was fraught with fraud and irregularities. But he called for calm and...
Tags: Democracy, Kenya, Elections, Politics, International Criminal Court
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Tension in Kenya as election result delayed again
NAIROBI, Kenya -- As tensions mounted over repeated failures to issue results in Kenya’s tightly fought presidential contest, the election commission Friday said there would be a further delay but promised the announcement later in the evening....
Tags: Voting, War Crimes, Electronics, Kenya, Elections
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Kenyans vote in first presidential election since 2007
FrameworkKenya on Monday held its first presidential election since the 2007 vote which ushered in months of tribal violence that killed more than 1,000 people and displaced 600,000 from their homes.... -
Scandal spreads over death of Venezuelan envoy in Kenya
World NowThe slaying of Venezuela's newly arrived ambassador in Nairobi has led to the arrest of another senior envoy and unleashed a torrent of scandalous allegations about sexual harassment, embassy power plays and retaliation against whistle-blowers. Since... -
Venezuelan diplomat charged with murdering ambassador to Kenya
World NowVenezuela's first secretary at its embassy in Kenya was charged with murdering the newly arrived ambassador as allegations surfaced that officials at the scandal-plagued post in Nairobi may have been trafficking drugs under cover of diplomatic immunity,... -
Victims of 1998 Africa bombing still seeking compensation
Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations, Lobbying, Africa, Murder, Allen West
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Northern Michigan residents reach out to children in Kenya
The bright blue-clad children danced gaily around the flag pole. Seventeen of us from all parts of the United States had just arrived at the Kisima Academy, 10 miles north of Kitale in western Kenya. We were there to deliver 32 50-pound suitcases of...
Tags: Alternative Energy, Kenya, Trips and Vacations, Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway
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Man charged with importing heroin from Kenya in picture frame
Tribune reporterA Chicago man has been charged with trying to take possession of heroin concealed in a picture frame he had had shipped from Kenya to the downtown hotel where he worked, court documents show. Taiwo Obayemi, 34, of the 5100 block of South Blackstone...Tags: Prisons, Chicago Hotels, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Kenya, Heroin
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