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Members of the Tia Rwabe Zi peace initiative in Kenya - Credit-Miriam Gathigah-IPS

As Kenyans head to the polls slum dwellers say “No” to blood money...

January 29, 2013 no comments

NAIROBI, Miriam Gathigah (IPS) - With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country’s history,...

Raila Odinga’s presidential ambitions go down the drain

November 29, 2012 27 comments

Despite the apparent support from Barack Obama, Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, has suffered a massive political blow to his aspirations of becoming his country’s next president, as...

11 college graduates are massacred in Nigeria

April 24, 2011 no comments

11 college students who recently graduated and were helping run polling stations as part of the country’s national youth service corps have been killed in postelection violence in northern Nige...

Uhuru and Ruto say Kenyans should no more spill blood or destroy prope...

April 11, 2011 no comments

NAIROBI, April 11, 2011 (AFP) – The suspected masterminds of Kenya’s deadly 2007-2008 unrest returned from the world criminal court Monday to a huge welcome, vowing the country would neve...

Luis Moreno-Ocampo - Probe into possible atrocities in Libya

Six suspects to be named in ICC probe into post-elections violence in ...

December 14, 2010 no comments

ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is about to name six suspects that were behind the post-elections violence that rocked Kenya in 2008. There is heightened tension amongst the different politic...

PEV Perpetrators to Face Justice in Kenya

May 8, 2010 no comments

Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has arrived in Kenya to start investigations into the country’s post-election violence. After the country’s disputed...

Post Elections Perpetrators in Kenya May Face ICC Trial

October 9, 2009 no comments

Former United Nations Chief, Kofi Annan believes there is every need for the perpetrators of the 2007 post election violence in Kenya to face justice at the International Criminal Court. The former U...