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Hacker broadcasts porn clip during Zim election seminar

This might be portentous as activists and opposition parties raise concerns about whether next year’s elections will be free and fair

President Uhuru Kenyatta

Media freedom in Kenya: Analogies are being drawn with Moi’s repressive era

Until 1992 government-owned media outlets had a monopoly on radio broadcasting, and journalists critical of the former president were harassed.

Supporters of Kenya’s opposition party cheered on leader Raila Odinga at his ‘inauguration’.

Kenya inaugurates another crisis

Two men claim the title, so will the real Kenyan president please stand up?

Kenya’s Communication Authority shut down NTV

Rights groups decry Kenya’s television shutdown

"Kenya is on a very slippery trajectory in regard to human rights, and president Kenyatta urgently needs to reverse this trend."

Fired up: Demonstrators in Kenya called for the removal of electoral commission officials

Kenya vote chief silent on rebel areas as uncertainty lingers

​Kenya’s election board remained silent Sunday over plans to reschedule a vote in opposition areas, where a boycott sparked violent protests

Kenyan police approach protesters opposing voting in Thursday’s election — a vote that the opposition has shunned in light of the electoral commission’s alleged unreliability.

Kenya’s tough choice: To vote or not to vote?

Many Kenyans opted to boycott the election rerun for reasons other than party politics

Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Kisumu boycotted the Kenyan elections, though they didn’t have much choice

Polling stations were shuttered and intimidation kept voters away in the Kenyan opposition stronghold

Last week

Court said nay, observers said yea: Did they jump the gun?

Five thousand observers have failed to see manipulation in the Kenyan elections.

Early rise: Kenyan voters stand in line from the early hours of August 8 2017 for the general elections

From good to bad, and the implications of Kenya on international observation

The perception that the elections in Kenya were largely free and fair was crushed with the Supreme Court ruling yesterday.

Kenyans placed their vote on August 8

Kenya’s addiction to scandal-prone leaders

Once again, the voters have chosen leaders tainted by scandal, though there is a small reason for hope

Kenyan presidential candidate Raila Odinga

Kenya’s Odinga defies pressure to concede defeat

Opposition leader calls for national strike on Tuesday

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.

Editorial: Don’t break the system for just one victory

Our myopic opposition parties are steering us into dangerous waters, and their efforts are too often being cheered on

Nomvula Mokonyane said the cabinet was concerned that appeals were now being made by minority rights groups to other countries for protection against expropriation without compensation.

Three August votes highlight three very different democracies

Three different countries with three different democracies are headed to elections in August. Simon Allison attempts to summarise them.

Nomvula Mokonyane said the cabinet was concerned that appeals were now being made by minority rights groups to other countries for protection against expropriation without compensation.

Kenyan poll haunted by the ghosts of voters passed

"It is the transparency of the voters’ register that will determine whether the elections will be free and fair"

Burning issue: Opposition supporters set up a barricade in Kibera

Kenya’s pre-election jitters

The country has not forgotten the bloody aftermath of 2007-2008 and is on edge

Kenyan leaders appear at the Hague over 2007 bloodbath

Three Kenyans appearing at the International Criminal Court deny they played a part in the 2007 post-election unrest in which 1200 people were killed.

Tens of thousands of Kenyans still afraid to go home

Tens of thousands of Kenyans have chosen to live in camps and rely on humanitarian aid rather than return home.

The quiet despair of a dying nation

Binyavanga Wainaina: To win an election, our political classes released the beast. This beast is exactly as bestial as something out of Revelations.

C’mon everybody let’s do a Kibaki

This whole year a new virus has been spreading to countries where elections are taking place. It is called "Doing a Kibaki".

Four months on and far from stable

About 600 000 people fled their homes to escape the ethnic violence that erupted after Kenya’s disputed election results were made public.