International Business News - Kenya http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Kenyan armed forces are preventing aid workers from helping homeless, hungry families caught between a brutal militia and an army crackdown, an aid agency said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/kenyan-forces-block-aid-work-in-restive-west.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:19:40 EDT Three Chinese citizens were arrested Wednesday at Nairobi's international airport carrying dozens of pieces of ivory, including chopsticks, bracelets and carved figurines. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080716/3-chinese-carrying-ivory-held-in-kenya.htm Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:27:33 EDT Suspected robbers battled police in a shootout outside a Holiday Inn that left five people dead Monday, including two casino employees caught in the crossfire, authorities and witnesses said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/5-killed-in-shootout-outside-holiday-inn-in-kenya.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:55:01 EDT Police and witnesses say a shootout outside a Holiday Inn in Kenya's capital has killed five people. Charles Owino, deputy spokesman for the Kenyan police, says two of those killed were hotel employees who were caught in the crossfire. But a witness, John Wanyonyi, says the two worked at a casino next door. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080714/police-5-shot-dead-outside-nairobi-hotel.htm Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:29:44 EDT Kenyan police killed nearly half the people who died in postelection violence earlier this year, a human rights organization told an investigatory committee Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/kenyan-police-blamed-for-postelection-deaths.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:18:44 EDT Police say Kenyan robbers armed with clubs and machetes have attacked a missionary couple from Canada and the United States. Local police chief Josephat Ndungu says John Bergen and his wife, Eloise, suffered deep slashes on their heads and faces in an attack overnight in the restive Mt. Elgon region of western Kenya. He says they are in a hospital in critical condition. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080710/kenyan-robbers-attack-us-canadian-missionaries.htm Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:33:27 EDT Kenya's finance minister stepped down Tuesday after a week of protests and a no-confidence vote in parliament over his handling of the sale of a government-owned hotel. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080708/kenyas-finance-minister-steps-down.htm Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:16:09 EDT Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/78789-kenya-children-in-crossfire.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/ap-impact-kenyan-children-abducted-tortured.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080625/ap-impact-kenyan-children-abducted-tortured.htm Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:26:41 EDT Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, they told of being tortured by the Kenyan army because they were suspected of aiding rebels. They told of being beaten and made to shake hands with corpses. They told of being forced to crawl through barbed wire tunnels and of genitals squeezed by pliers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/78680-kenya-children-in-crossfire.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/ap-impact-kenyan-children-abducted-tortured.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080624/ap-impact-kenyan-children-abducted-tortured.htm Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:08:39 EDT A Kenyan Cabinet minister and an assistant minister were killed with two other people Tuesday when their small plane crashed in southwestern Kenya, President Mwai Kibaki said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080610/official-plane-with-officials-crashes-in-kenya.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:58:01 EDT For the past year, Kennedy Agai has stopped sending money home to his mother. He has walked instead of spending 50 cents on the bus. He has skipped meals whenever he could bear it, all so he could buy shares in East Africa's biggest initial public offering. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080609/kenyan-mobile-phone-companys-ipo-get-warm-debut.htm Mon, 09 Jun 2008 13:22:15 EDT Kenya's prime minister said Thursday the country had rebounded from postelection violence that left more than 1,200 people dead, seeking to restore the image of what was once one of Africa's most stable countries. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080605/kenya-prime-minister-says-country-on-the-rebound.htm Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:58:34 EDT Hoisting plastic cups of "Obama" beer and gathering around television sets, Kenyans celebrated Wednesday as Barack Obama laid claim to the U.S. Democratic presidential nomination. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/63113-obama-profile.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/kenyans-hopes-are-high-after-obama-seals-nomination.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080604/kenyans-hopes-are-high-after-obama-seals-nomination.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:24:18 EDT Sitting underneath the bright murals at a clinic, 22-year-old Elijah Ochanda gestures at his shorts and explains: "When they remove this thing, it makes you safer." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080524/male-circumcision-gains-ground-as-anti-aids-weapon.htm Sat, 24 May 2008 12:52:01 EDT About 100,000 people displaced by postelection violence in Kenya have returned home this month despite threats of attacks, an official said Friday. No serious incidents were reported and security personnel are in place, Internal Security Minister George Saitoti told journalists. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080523/100-000-displaced-kenyans-return-home.htm Fri, 23 May 2008 15:22:40 EDT Kenya's government revised its economic growth rate downward Thursday because of the impact of post-election violence earlier this year and rising fuel and food prices worldwide, the planning minister said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080522/kenya-revises-economic-growth-rate-downward.htm Thu, 22 May 2008 13:34:37 EDT Sam Maina's corn plants should be as tall as his hoe, well over the head of his 3-year-old son. But Maina delayed planting when Kenya was gripped by political violence and now world food prices are shooting up faster than his knee-high green shoots. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080519/kenya-farmers-dont-see-profit-in-high-food-prices.htm Mon, 19 May 2008 14:02:21 EDT Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing about 240 pounds of ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/kenya-charges-2-chinese-citizens-over-ivory-haul.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:35:29 EDT Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing about 240 pounds of ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/kenya-charges-2-chinese-citizens-over-ivory-haul.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:35:29 EDT Police charged a Chinese man and woman with illegally possessing 110 kilograms (242.5 pounds) ivory and trying to fly it out of Kenya, an officer said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080515/kenya-charges-2-chinese-over-ivory-haul.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:07:22 EDT