Full Coverage: Kenya

29.02.2008 As Kenyans celebrate the political breakthrough over power-sharing, a crisis posing a risk to 35,000 people is looming in the north and south-east over water scarcity and pressure on grazing pastures.

28.02.2008 Global warming, swelling populations, and the increasing accessibility of arms are making water scarcity a growing source of conflict in Ethiopia and Kenya.

27.02.2008 Chief mediator to Kenya's political reconciliation talks, Kofi Annan, said Monday that the talks had reached a stalemate as the rival parties could not agree on the role and powers of the proposed prime minister.
From: The Daily Nation

26.02.2008 Photographs from the 'front lines' of an international refugee agency's work in Kenya encapsulates the uncertainty and desperation of families and individuals displaced by the post-election uprisings.
From: openDemocracy

25.02.2008 Armed groups are mobilizing on all sides of Kenya's ethno-political divisions and threatening to destabilize the ongoing peace talks, which many observers say have been making notable progress.

21.02.2008 Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all highly dependent on Kenya for goods, transport links, and services -- are struggling to cope with the consequences of the east African nation's ongoing political crisis.

18.02.2008 The African Centre for Women, Information and Communications Technology (ACWICT) is a pioneer Kenyan based ICT for Development with regional outreach, whose mission is to promote women's access to and use of ICTs as tools for social, economic and political advancement.

18.02.2008 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, urges the Kenyan government to call an end to the current ban on live news broadcasts in Kenya.

According to information before IPI, the ban was imposed on 30 December 2007 in response to violence following the recent presidential elections. The reason given to justify the ban, announced by the Kenyan Ministry for Security, was that the emotions demonstrated during live broadcasts were inciting violence. The ban remains in place, and covers all live news broadcasts by radio and television alike. The government has given no clear indication of when the ban will be lifted, stating that this will occur only once the situation has ‘cooled down.’

13.02.2008 The chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights discusses the political nature of the post-election violence, insists that a calm in the flurry of post-election violence must not be mistaken for lasting peace, and asserts the country's need for a new constitution.

11.02.2008 NAIROBI, Feb 11 (IPS) - Negotiations to bring an end to the political chaos in Kenya that was sparked by disputed presidential elections entered their third week Monday in the capital of Nairobi, amidst reports that an agreement may finally be in sight.

11.02.2008 Both sides to the post-election conflict in Kenya suggested Sunday that a power-sharing arrangement will likely be unveiled this week, reports a local newspaper.
From: The Standard

11.02.2008 After raising her HIV-positive nephew, whose parents passed away due to AIDS, Bernadette Otieno founded an organization that currently supports 93 orphans so that they can live with foster families, not in orphanages.

11.02.2008 A second moving message from Father Gabriele in Kenya, a founding trustee of the OneWorld International Foundation.
* Father Gabriele's first letter

10.02.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Feb 9 (OneWorld) - Efforts to restore peace in Kenya will be doomed to failure if women are not invited to the negotiating table, civil society activists warned international mediators this week.

08.02.2008 Kenya's largest public university is the first to resume classes despite ongoing violence, with the administration, teachers, and students taking various steps to promote peace and inter-ethnic understanding.

05.02.2008 Listen to women's rights and UN delegates discuss the effect climate change has on women and discover a village in rural Kenya that is run by women and has banned gender-based violence.

02.02.2008 More than 500,000 Kenyan workers could be rendered jobless in the next few days if the violence in many parts of the country does not stop, employers have warned.
From Nation
+ What You Can Do

01.02.2008 As January comes to a close, over 800 Kenyans have been killed and at least 255,000 displaced by the violence that erupted after President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of allegedly faulty elections held in late December 2007. Here's what others are doing, and how you can help.

01.02.2008 Consumers of Internet services will have to wait much longer for faster and cheaper access that was to come through the National Fibre Optic Backbone. Industry insiders said construction of the terrestrial fibre optic cable that was commissioned last year is running behind schedule as a result of political skirmishes that followed the December 27 presidential election raising the prospect of delayed launch.