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RCB Film Club is screening the drama Subira, Kenya's nomination for the Oscars in 2018, at the RCB Forum, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, on Saturday at 4pm.

Bangkok Post

British Airways passengers targeted in baggage scam using Twitter

Exclusive: One passenger whose bag had gone astray en route from London to New York JFK was told to wire money to an individual in Kenya

The Independent UK

Kenyan group sues UK government over what it calls colonial-era land theft

A group of Kenyans filed a case against the British government at the European Court of Human Rights on Tuesday over what it said was colonial-era land theft, torture and mistreatment.

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Uhuru Kenyatta and Kenya's media: a bitter-sweet affair that didn't end happily

President Uhuru Kenyatta’s regime came into power in 2013. It was the first to implement most of the provisions of Kenya’s 2010 constitution. The media were eager to see how the government, led by Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto, would adhere to article 34 of the constitution, which deals…

The Conversation

Kenya: Raila Odinga challenges presidential election result in Supreme Court

Raila Odinga last week called the election results a ‘travesty’

The Independent UK

Kenya's first female chief justice to preside over election petition

In a country once known for political interference in the judiciary, Kenya's Chief Justice Martha Koome is no pushover: she built her career defending dissidents, and this year her court torpedoed constitutional changes proposed by the president who appointed her.

Reuters

Kenya presidential vote loser files Supreme Court challenge

The legal team for Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga says it has filed a petition at the Supreme Court challenging his election loss last week

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Defeated Odinga files challenge against Kenya election result

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga has filed an electronic copy of his challenge against the results of this month's election and will file a physical copy later on Monday, a lawyer for Odinga's political alliance told NTV Kenya.

Radio France Internationale

Kenya's Odinga challenges election result 'criminality' in court

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga on Monday challenged Kenya's presidential election results in the Supreme Court and alleged the tally had involved "criminality", sharpening a political contest gripping East Africa's powerhouse.

Reuters

WFP Warns 22 Million Face Starvation in Horn of Africa

The number of people at risk of starvation in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa has increased to 22 million, the UN’s World Food Program (WFP) said Friday. Years of insufficient rainfall across Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia have caused the worst drought in 40 years and conditions akin to famine in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

F1 | Lewis Hamilton says he is 'fully transformed' by Africa trip

Lewis Hamilton documented across social media his Africa trip to Namibia, Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania, noting that they were “some of the best days of my entire life”

The Hindu

US congressional delegation in Kenya amid election crisis

A U.S. congressional delegation has arrived in Kenya to meet with the new president-elect and the opposition figure likely to file a court challenge to his election loss in the latest electoral crisis for East Africa’s most stable democracy

The Independent UK

How politics has subverted conservation efforts to protect Kenya’s Mau Forest

The Mau Forest Complex is the largest montane tropical forest in East Africa. This is an ecosystem with rich biodiversity and characterised by high rainfall.

The Conversation

Kenya's president-elect will 'engage' in any court challenge

Kenyan president-elect William Ruto says that if there’s a court challenge to the election results, “we will engage in those” as the country awaits a likely petition from losing candidate Raila Odinga

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Kenya's Ruto says expectations are huge, no time to waste

President-elect William Ruto said the expectation of Kenyans were huge and there was no time to waste, after a meeting attended by elected officials from his alliance on Wednesday.

Al Jazeera

William the 5th: How Ruto went from streets to Kenyan presidency

In Ruto’s first presidential bid, history and hustle helped him outwit the sitting president and a political veteran.

France 24

Kenya presidential election: Raila Odinga rejects announcement of William Ruto's victory

In tonight’s edition: On what's likely to be his last shot at the top job, Kenya's former opposition leader Raila Odinga legally challenges tight presidential election results that hand victory to his rival, William Ruto. Also, a decade after South African police shot dead 34 miners in the Marikana massacre,…

The Conversation

What William Ruto's presidency would mean for Kenya's economy

William Ruto has been declared the winner of Kenya’s 2022 presidential election. The close results have been queried, raising the risk of a prolonged political transition. But, if cleared, Ruto is set to inherit an economy that’s not in great shape. For example, unemployment is running high, a fact that…

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Al Jazeera

Defeated Odinga says Kenyan election result ‘null and void’

Veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga says he will pursue legal and constitutional options to contest results.

Reuters

Explainer-The legal procedure for contesting Kenyan election results

The chairman of Kenya's election commission declared Deputy President William Ruto president-elect on Monday after a closely fought contest against opposition leader Raila Odinga.

Radio France Internationale

Kenya presidential hopeful Odinga vows court challenge after polls defeat

Five-time Kenya presidential candidate and veteran politician Raila Odinga on Tuesday told his supporters he would fight his defeat at the ballot box in court, a day after the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) announced William Ruto as the winner.

Tribune News Service

Kenya’s losing presidential contestant rejects election result

Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who lost the Aug. 9 presidential elections by a tiny margin, rejected the outcome of the vote and vowed to take constitutional steps to challenge it.

Reuters

Kenya's Odinga rejects election results, will launch legal challenge

Kenya's losing presidential candidate Raila Odinga said on Tuesday his coalition totally rejects the election results that saw Deputy President William Ruto win the presidential vote, and vowed to pursue legal means to challenge the decision.

Reuters

Kenya election commissioners restate disavowal of presidential result

The deputy chairperson of the Kenya election commission and other commissioners said on Tuesday they stood by their decision a day earlier to disown the result of the Aug. 9 presidential election.

Daily Mirror

Mass brawl breaks out after election as tortured body found amid protests across Kenya

Son of a goat herder William Ruto defeated his opponent Raila Odinga in a closely fought presidential race - which sparked anarchy in the streets of Kenya as Odinga's supporters set tyres ablaze and fought running battles with tear-gas-firing riot cops

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