| January 21, 2008 | - It emerged that the ongoing riots that followed the Kenyan presidential election, in which at least 650 people were killed, had been partially planned; leaflets calling for ethnic killings had been distributed prior to the election, and village elders had encouraged young Kalenjin men (allied with the defeated Raila Odinga) to hunt Kikuyus (allied with victor Mwai Kibaki) with bows and arrows. “We attack people, we burn their homes, and then we take their animals,” said a Kalenjin man. “The community raised the money for the gasoline.”
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New York Times
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| January 11, 2008 | - Charges of a rigged presidential election triggered violence along tribal lines in Kenya, leading to more than 700 deaths and the displacement of 250,000 Kenyans. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, who lost the election to incumbent Mwai Kibaki, said that his first cousin Barack Obama had called him twice to express his concern, “despite being in the middle of the very busy New Hampshire primary.”
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AFP.com
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Telegraph.co.uk
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| August 30, 2007 | -
Kenya's Anglican archbishop consecrated two homophobic American priests as bishops at a ceremony in Nairobi.
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NY Times
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| January 11, 2007 | - U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people. Somali officials believed the dead included Al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, reputed mastermind of the 1998 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, but U.S. officials said they were still chasing him.
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Yahoo! News
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CBS News
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| December 28, 2006 | - In Mombasa, Kenya, a young hippo named Owen and a 130-year-old tortoise named Mzee celebrated a year of friendship.
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Yahoo! News
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| September 5, 2006 | -
Kenya's Human Rights Commissioner said Kenyans “get a thrill out of seeing a white man in a powerless position.”
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New York Times
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| August 24, 2006 | - In Kenya, U.S. Senator
Barack Obama agreed to be tested for HIV.
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ABC News
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| May 13, 2006 | - In Kenya pilgrims were traveling to Mombasa to see a miraculous tuna with a Koranic verse inscribed into its scales. "God," reads the tuna, "is the greatest of all providers."
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AFP via Yahoo! News
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| May 11, 2006 | - In Kenya, Thomas Cholmondeley, a British aristocrat, was arrested for shooting and killing a man who he believed was poaching on his 100,000-acre farm.
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BBC News
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| March 2, 2006 | - The Kenyan government raided a newspaper that had been critical of government corruption, along with an affiliated TV station. "If you rattle a snake," said Internal Security Minister John Michuki, "you must be prepared to be bitten by it."
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BBC News
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| January 26, 2006 | - A starving woman in Kangundo, Kenya, placed a curse on God as she hit a cooking pot with a stick, then died in her sleep.
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Reuters via MSNBC
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| January 15, 2006 | - In Kenya, 2.5 million people were close to starvation; police raids showed that those who were supposed to be handing out food were instead selling it.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 22, 2005 | - A Kenyan man was reported to have offered twenty cows and forty goats to Bill and Hillary Clinton in exchange for their daughter, Chelsea.
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The Standard
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| April 29, 2005 | -
Kenya's parliament passed a motion calling for the castration of rapists. “The Bible,” announced the Kenyan health minister, “says that if any part of the body causes you to sin, it should be removed.”
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BBC News
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| December 26, 2004 | - A 9.0 magnitude earthquake created a tsunami that ravaged south and southeast Asia, as well as parts of Africa. The wave reached from Somalia and Kenya to Malaysia. Thousands of fatalities were reported in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, South India, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. Three-story waves washed sunbathers into the sea, carried away snorkelers, and swallowed up Hindu ritual bathers celebrating Full Moon Day. A prison in Sumatra was torn open by the tsunami, and hundreds of inmates fled. A baby was washed from her father's arms. At least 25,000 died, and millions were displaced. Entire towns were turned into rubble. Corpses hung from trees and fences, and the rotting bodies of humans and animals threatened to pollute water supplies. It was difficult to bury the dead for lack of dry ground. The earthquake was the largest since 1964, and slightly altered the rotation of the earth.
| Source 1:
New York Timesimes
Source 2:
Wikipedia
Source 3:
New York Timesimes
Source 4:
MSNBC
Source 5:
Reuters
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| July 9, 2004 | - The mayor of Nyahururu, Kenya, ordered the slaughter of 500 pigs because they were mating with stray dogs.
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Reuters
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| November 12, 2003 | -
Kenya officially recognized the Mau Maus.
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New York Times
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| December 11, 2001 | -
Angry women in Kenya were attacking bars, claiming that cheap alcohol was making their husbands impotent.
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| January 22, 2000 | - Eleven Luo children and eight Luo adults in Naivasha, Kenya, were incinerated when a mob of Kikuyus chased them into a house and burned it down. The number of revenge killings following Kenya's recent elections had reached 750, mostly by means of burning, arrows, and machetes. Local radio programs were blamed for perpetuating the violence through dehumanizing metaphors: Kalenjins call Kikuyus “mongooses”; Kikuyus call Luos “beasts of the west”; and Luos refer to the election of President Mwai Kibaki, a Kikuyu, as “the leadership of the baboons.”
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Relief Web
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