Kenya's recent presidential election unleashed turmoil that has so far claimed more than 500 lives and displaced thousands of people. Blame has been pinned on Kenya's ethnic divisions: The Luo tribe ...
In Africa’s biggest slum, lines are being drawn. Morris Otieno, a trader and businessman, won’t say if he is one of the Luo tribesmen in the township of Kibera, on the southwest edge of Nairobi, who ...
In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their ...
NAIROBI, KENYA — He’s a preacher’s son and part-time college student who idolizes Martin Luther King Jr. and aspires to escape Kenya’s biggest slum. But when this East African nation erupted in ...
KISUMU, Kenya — Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya’s Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police, ...
Kenya's coalition government is out of synch. Ethnic violence last year following a disputed presidential election ended with the two candidates settling into a power-sharing agreement. Now, one side ...
Co-directed by Andrew H. Brown, the Sundance-bound doc is about Wangondu's family's history, but also "democracy, oligarchs, ...
Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethnic rivalries are a reality of life in Kenya, where President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has triggered days of riots and ethnic killings, in which opposition supporters ...
KATATA, KENYA — Laborers living on a tiny coffee farm here in western Kenya awoke in the middle of the night last week to an odd light radiating from their huts. At first it seemed like an early ...
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - An arms race is on between two of Kenya's largest ethnic communities ahead of the 2012 presidential election after the last disputed vote triggered weeks of tribal ...