Members of Parliament are trying to withdraw Kenya from its agreements with the International Criminal Court in an effort to spare top politicians from facing the tribunal. Last week, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the court's top prosecutor, said he was seeking crimes against humanity charges against six well-known Kenyans, including three government...
An official with Kenya's largest gay rights organization said Monday that its members were panicked following remarks on Sunday by Prime Minister Raila Odinga that homosexuals who were discovered having sex should be arrested. Nguru Karugu, a board member with the Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya, said members who were H.I.V.-positive feared they...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. stood at a lectern in Kenya's capital on Tuesday afternoon with the sun peeking out behind the clouds and a huge grin spreading across his face. It was not Nairobi's perfect climate nor the new road construction nor this city's verdant parks that impressed him. It was that Kenya's president, Mwai...