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TV puppet satire torments Kenyan elite

The XYZ Show in action in its Nairobi studio during a broadcast in May. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images A rapping president describes himself as "a real bad dude"; a prime minister and vice-president fight over lavatories; and a set of ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  21 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Uhuru Kenyatta,  Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga,  Barack Obama,  Daniel arap Moi

Kenya evicts thousands of forest squatters in attempt to save Rift valley

Some of the residents of the Mau forest in Kenya stand by the roadside. Photograph: Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenya's most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: United Nations,  Daniel arap Moi,  Raila Odinga

Western Sahara activist on hunger strike at airport

Western Sahara's most prominent human rights activist has gone on hunger strike at a Spanish airport after being expelled from her home country by Moroccan authorities. Aminatou Haidar, who is viewed by her supporters as the "Sahrawi Gandhi", was ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert F. Kennedy,  Human Rights Watch

Kenya's PM backs election violence trials at Hague court

Kenya's prime minister, Raila Odinga, said his government "will not shield or protect" senior officials if they are indicted by the international criminal court for crimes against humanity committed during last year's post-election violence. Odinga's ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki

Kenyan officials face Hague trial

Senior Kenyan government officials suspected of committing crimes against humanity during last year's election violence could be indicted in The Hague as soon as next year, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced. Luis ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: International Criminal Court,  Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga,  Kofi Annan

Kenyan leaders fail to sanction tribunal into post-election violence

The election of President Mwai Kibaki sparked widescale ethnic violence in Kenya. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP The prosecutor of the international criminal court will ask for a formal investigation to be launched into Kenya's post-election violence ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga

Kenyan politicians uneasy as international prosecutor arrives to investigate election violence

Kenyans enforce a makeshift roadblock in Kisumu in January 2008 after ethnic violence almost cleared the town of Kikuyus. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP The prosecutor of the international criminal court is due to arrive in Nairobi tomorrow for "decisive" ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ben Curtis,  Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga,  Kofi Annan

Kenya launches homosexuality survey

Kenya is to launch a nationwide survey to establish the number of gay men in the country, despite homosexuality being against the law. In a move described as a first for Africa, the National Aids/STD Control Programme (Nascop) said it would begin the ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  29 Oct 2009

We are killing in the light of God

More than five million people have died in the war that has been raging in eastern Congo. And now, yet another rebel group is at large in the country, slaughtering hundreds of civilians. It is led by Joseph Kony, a ruthless yet charismatic killer who ...

From XAN RICE, New Statesman,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Joseph Kony,  George W. Bush,  United Nations,  Yoweri Museveni,  BBC

Thomas Cholmondeley freed from jail

Thomas Cholmondeley in court in 2006. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images A member of Kenya's most famous white settler family has been freed from jail five months after being convicted of the manslaughter of a black poacher. Thomas Cholmondeley, ...

From XAN RICE, Guardian Unlimited,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Thomas Cholmondeley

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