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Iran summons Kenyan ambassador over two detained nationals
Mar 17, 2019 12:51Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned Kenya's ambassador to Tehran, expressing the Islamic Republic’s protest to Nairobi after the Kenyan Supreme Court overturned a decision to free two Iranian nationals jailed in the African country over terror charges.
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Strike grounds flights at Kenya’s main airport
Mar 06, 2019 08:13A strike over a labor dispute disrupted flights at Kenya's main international airport in Nairobi early on Wednesday, Kenya Airports Authority said, though the transport minister expected them to resume soon.
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4 American tourists, Kenyan pilot killed in chopper crash
Mar 04, 2019 09:58Four American tourists and a Kenyan pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed on an island in a lake in northwest Kenya, police said Monday.
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Kenya hotel attack ends after 2 days, death toll hits 15
Jan 16, 2019 09:03Fresh gunfire and an explosion were still being heard at a hotel compound in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, a full day after Somali-based al-Shabab militants launched an attack on the building, killing at least 15 people, but the standoff was later declared over.
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Gunmen in Kenya abduct Italian volunteer, shoot locals
Nov 21, 2018 14:29Armed militants in Kenya have kidnapped an Italian volunteer in a raid on a village in the southeast of the country, while shooting and wounding five residents, police say.
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About 51 dead in bus crash in western Kenya
Oct 10, 2018 09:57Fifty-one people were killed when the bus they were travelling in overturned and its entire roof was ripped off in an accident in western Kenya early Wednesday, police said.
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Shabab militants ‘kill 5 soldiers’ in Kenya's north
Aug 09, 2018 03:41Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants in Kenya have killed at least five soldiers in a roadside bomb attack in the country’s north, a senior government official says.
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Kenyans protest against high-level corruption
May 31, 2018 10:06Hundreds of protesters have marched through the streets of Nairobi against increased cases of high- level corruption.
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Dozens killed after dam bursts in Kenya's Rift Valley
May 10, 2018 14:28A dam has burst on a commercial flower farm in central Kenya after weeks of torrential rain, unleashing a “sea of water” that smashed into two villages, killing at least 47 people.
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Torrential rains cause deadly floods in Kenya, 112 dead, hundreds displaced
May 04, 2018 10:43Flooding across Kenya triggered by weeks of torrential rain has left 112 people dead and displaced hundreds of thousands of others, the Red Cross said Friday.