Kenya opposition calls for new vote
Kenya's opposition party called for a new presidential election to settle a dispute over the vote that has sparked days of deadly riots, and police hurled tear gas to scatter more than 1,000 protesters in the coastal city of Mombasa Friday.
Nations:Kenya Somalia Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-04
Kenyan official calls for vote probe
Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons Thursday to beat back crowds heading for a banned rally to protest Kenya's disputed presidential election, and the attorney general called for an independent body to verify the vote tally.
Nations:Uganda Kenya Somalia Tanzania Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-03
Pressure mounts with 300 killed in Kenya
International pressure mounted on Kenya's leaders Wednesday to end postelection violence that has killed more than 300 people, including dozens burned alive as they sought refuge in a church.
Nations:Kenya Uganda Tanzania People:Condoleezza Rice Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2008-01-02
Kenya death toll rises to 103
Kenyan police battled thousands of opposition supporters enraged over President Mwai Kibaki's allegedly fraudulent re-election, firing tear gas and live ammunition as the death toll from the violence rose to 103, officers and witnesses said.
Nations:Kenya Activities:2008 Kenyan Election Crisis
2007-12-31
Europeans spice up stellar finale for U.S
The finale of the world athletics championships belonged to the glittering United States track team on a Sunday night spiced up by charismatic European performances in the field.
Nations:Finland Jamaica Croatia Poland Kenya Germany Activities:2007 World Athletics Championships
2007-09-02
Grim work continues at plane crash site
Recovery teams in a dense mangrove swamp where a Kenya Airways jet crashed and killed all 114 people aboard pressed ahead with their grim, muddy job after failing in a bid Tuesday to pump water away from the wreckage.
Nations:Kenya Ivory Coast U.S. Canada Activities:2007 Kenya Air Crash
2007-05-08
Jet with 114 aboard crashes in Cameroon
A Kenya Airways jet with 114 people on board crashed early Saturday after sending out a distress signal over a remote rainforest in southern Cameroon, officials said. Nearby villagers reported hearing a loud boom.
Nations:Kenya Cameroon Ivory Coast
2007-05-05
Helicopters strafe al-Qaida in Somalia
Attack helicopters strafed suspected al-Qaida fighters in southern Somalia on Tuesday, witnesses said, following two days of airstrikes by U.S. forces -- the first U.S. offensives in the African country since 18 American soldiers were killed here in 1993.
Nations:Kenya Tanzania Ethiopia Somalia Pakistan Canada People:Ban Ki-moon Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-09
U.S. launches airstrike in Somalia
A U.S. airstrike hit targets in southern Somalia where Islamic militants were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies, Somali officials and witnesses said Tuesday. Many people were reported killed.
Nations:Ethiopia Kenya Afghanistan Somalia Tanzania Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-09
U.S. patrols Somalia for terrorist watch
U.S. Navy vessels are deployed off the coast of Somalia to make sure al-Qaida or allied jihadists don't escape the country by sea now that the once-dominant Islamist forces there are in retreat, the State Department said Wednesday.
Nations:Somalia Kenya U.S. Tanzania Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-03
Kenya on alert as battle for Somalia nears border
Kenyan soldiers and helicopters beefed up defenses at the Somali border on Wednesday after Ethiopian warplanes and ground forces attacked fleeing Islamists on the other side of the frontier.
Nations:Somalia Eritrea Ethiopia Kenya Uganda Nigeria Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2007-01-03
Fight erupts near Somalia Islamic center
Fighting erupted Sunday on the outskirts of the last remaining stronghold of Somalia's militant Islamic movement, as thousands of residents streamed from the area ahead of the feared battle with Ethiopian-backed government troops.
Nations:Somalia Kenya Ethiopia Tanzania Activities:2005 Somalia Civil War
2006-12-31
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