Kenya: Human Rights Team - Evictions Pre-Planned Jul 23, 2008
The KHRC had indicated that the military had only been sent to Nakuru and Naivasha. AllAfrica aggregates and indexes content from over , plus more than , who are responsible for their own reporting and views. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Prison Officers 'Threat to National Security' Jul 17, 2008
Committee members led by former Mwatate MP Major (Rtd) Marsden Madoka in a report obtained by the Nation observed drunken prison officers on duty in Nairobi Remand Home, Meru, Nakuru, Kisii, Kodiaga and Bungoma prisons. Rolled bhang. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Ten MPs Reject Raila Plan on Forest Jul 17, 2008
He said that while 100 people were from Narok County Council, other civic authorities falling under the Mau ecosystem including Nakuru, Kipsigis, Bomet and Buret were not represented ... Lake Nakuru, known for being home for the world-famous flamingos, was also drying drying up as the river flowing into it - River Njoro - was also drying up ... "Twelve rivers emanating from Mau go to Lake Victoria, Lake Baringo and Lake Nakuru," the minister added. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Athletics - Lagat Ghost Comes Back to Haunt Fault-Finders Jul 16, 2008
Some of the dollars he is making in the US trickle down to Kaptel, Eldoret, Nakuru, Nairobi. He will make his economic gains, and so will his country of origin. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Commission to Challenge Silence on Sexual Crimes Jul 15, 2008
"During the eviction campaigns after the election dispute, threat of rape was usually the first warning and then it was used to humiliate rival communities and to force them to leave," says Omondi whose team has documented cases in camps in Mombasa, Eldoret, Nakuru, Kakamega, Kisumu, Naivasha, Nairobi and their environs. Rape and other forms of sexual assault were used as a "weapon of ethnic and political violence" even before the elections, observes Omindi. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya safari with airfare, from $2,999 Jun 28, 2008
From Mt. Kenya, you'll venture southwest to visit majestic Nyahururu Falls before arriving at Lake Nakuru National Park. In addition to being host to a large population of pink flamingos, this region is known as a rhino sanctuary. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Kenya: Sh500b Vision 2030 Projects Revealed Jun 21, 2008
There are plans to limit the number of tourists visiting "premium parks" like Nakuru and Amboseli. Money will also be spent on improving tourist visits to less popular parks as well as to Western Kenya destinations. (allAfrica.com)
Annan's 'grand coalition' threatens to fall apart Jun 9, 2008
NAKURU, Kenya A few blackened beams are all that remain of the bridge that once linked Burnt Forest, a village 150 kilometres north of Nakuru, capital of Kenya's famed Rift Valley province, and the vast tracts of farmland around it ... It sits on the edge of Nakuru, straddling the town's Kikuyu-Kalenjin divide and bordering an empty expanse of rolling hills studded with flat-topped acacias ... Unlike those in Nakuru, most of the country's internally displaced have yielded to the pressure and... (Globe and Mail -- International)
No Reconciliation Without Release of Protesters - Raila Jun 4, 2008
These police officers who killed innocent Kenyans in Western, Nyanza, Rift Valley and the Coast looked the other way as ODM supporters were hacked to death or burnt in their homes in Naivasha, Nakuru, Nairobi and Central Province. WE IN ODM HAVE DEMANDED THE truth in the election dispute and justice for all Kenyans who were killed, attacked or affected in whatever manner by neighbours or the police, which acted as an armed wing of PNU.. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Free Youths Without Conditions, Says Raila May 30, 2008
com: Kenya: Raila - Free Youths Without Conditions (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Internal Refugees Return Home May 6, 2008
And at the Nakuru Show Ground, where an estimated 14,000 have been camping, the internally displaced people staged a protest complaining that they had been excluded from the recent visit by President Kibaki and the Prime Minister, Mr Raila Odinga. More than 1,200 people died and 350,000 were displaced in the violence that ended on February 28 with the signing of a power-sharing agreement between President Kibaki and Mr Odinga. (allAfrica.com)
What Dreams Look Like in Kenya Apr 22, 2008
It makes Mwai Ngugi, as a 21-year-old from Nakuru, "sad and bitter," but he isn't letting it get him down ... Mwai performs in improvisational street theater productions in some of Nakuru's poorest neighborhoods ... The acting troupe is called Repacted, and is part of the Nakuru Theater Players Group. (ABC News)
Kenya: Sh1.5bn Boon for Farmers Apr 19, 2008
5bn Boon for Farmers (Page 1 of 1). Use our pull-down menus to find more stories. (allAfrica.com)
WE CAN'T GO HOME Apr 18, 2008
This area, located some 40 kms from the provincial capital of Nakuru, was hard hit by the violence that followed the presidential election of December 27 and left hundreds of people dead and tens of thousands displaced. The violence has eased since the rival sides brokered a power-sharing agreement a 42-member coalition cabinet was announced on Sunday but tensions remain high in some areas, including around Chogocho and Elburgon. (AlertNet)
Kenya: Mungiki Strike Kibaki's Home Town Apr 17, 2008
Fear of attack and burning of vehicles have paralysed public transport, especially in Nairobi and parts of Central Province, Nakuru and Eldoret. On Tuesday night, hundreds of commuters in Nairobi spent many hours in the streets and matatu or bus termini as they waited for transport home. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: New Tension As Banned Sect Unleashes Terror Apr 16, 2008
In apparently coordinated attacks on commuter vehicles, marauding gangs of the ultra-traditionalist group caught many Kenyans unawares early on Monday in Nairobi, Naivasha, Nakuru, Eldoret and other towns in central Province. At least 14 people were killed in the mayhem, about 30 vehicles burnt and other property destroyed. (allAfrica.com)
Kenyans killed in sect protests Apr 15, 2008
Clashes were also reported in the western towns of Naivasha, Nakuru and Eldoret. In all, at least 12 people were killed, according to reports from the news agency AFP and the local private radio station Kiss FM.. (BBC News)
KENYA: 14 people were killed yesterday when police clashed with members of a banned sect who went on the rampage. AFP--> Apr 15, 2008
The key road to western Kenya was blocked at the Rift Valley towns of Nakuru, Naivasha and Eldoret. More violence was reported in the central Kenyan towns of Thika and Muranga, police said. (iAfrica.com)
Fresh political tensions raise concerns in Kenya's IDP camps Apr 12, 2008
Displaced: Kenyans fill water buckets at a camp in Nakuru for people forced from their homes in ethnic clashes earlier this year ... Nakuru, Kenya - Though this camp of 16,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) in Kenya's Rift Valley remains calm, political tensions this week have heightened concerns that Kenya's tenuous peace agreement may soon falter. (Christian Science Monitor)
Uprooted Kenyans long to return home Apr 10, 2008
Displaced: Kenyans fill water buckets at a camp in Nakuru for people forced from their homes in ethnic clashes earlier this year ... Nakuru, Kenya - When the mob of young men came to his door on New Year's Eve, carrying kerosene jugs and machetes and bellowing an ominous war chant, farmer Moses Mbugua gathered his family of six and ran, just as he had after elections in 1992 and 1997. (Christian Science Monitor)
Rotary Clubs Always Pumped for World Water Day Mar 22, 2008
-- The Rotary Club of Nakuru, Kenya has launched a program to harvest rainwater at the household level, with the goal of bringing safe water to over one million people. -- Working with a local NGO in Rajasthan, the Rotary India Water Trust is developing a sustainable water supply for about one million people in 650 villages at a cost of about $8,500 per village. (PR Newswire)
Kenya:Reconciliation Dominates Easter Sermons Mar 22, 2008
In Nakuru, Bishop Peter Kairo led his congregation in a procession for over 10 kilometres across the town as they prayed in commemoration of Jesus Christ's crucifixion ... Other Christians in Nakuru held prayers in their respective churches as others took the opportunity to join friends and relatives in their rural areas ... A visit to the Nakuru National Park also revealed that a sizeable number of domestic and foreign tourists had visited to rest and enjoy the country's wildlife. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya poll violence 'was planned' Mar 18, 2008
The violence in flashpoint areas such as Naivasha and Nakuru allegedly followed meetings with local businessmen and politicians from the president's Party of National Unity, which directed youths in their attacks. The report accuses successive Kenyan governments of failing to address a culture of impunity and insists there should be no alternative to criminal prosecution for those responsible for the violence. (BBC News -- Africa)
Kenya: Stage Set for Crucial Law And New Cabinet Mar 17, 2008
MPs Peter Mwathi (Limuru), Lee Kinyanjui (Nakuru Town), Jeremiah Kioni (Ndaragwa) and David Ngugi (Kinangop) said the Bills sought to address fundamental political issues that the country had failed to address in the past. Former Kabete MP Paul Muite said a Bill can go through the second and third reading on the same day if no one objects. (allAfrica.com)
State 'sanctioned' Kenyan clashes Mar 6, 2008
On the weekend of 25 January, the Rift Valley towns of Nakuru and then Naivasha were the focus of the some of the worst post-election violence ... He alleges that in the hours before the violence in Nakuru, police officers had orders not to stop a convoy of minibus taxis, called "matatus", packed with men when they arrived at police checkpoints. (BBC News -- Africa)
Kenya: U.S. Gives Sh1.7 Billion For Reconstruction Mar 3, 2008
Ranneberger was speaking in Nakuru when he toured and met various micro financing groups to find out how they are coping with effects of the post-election violence. He commended Kenyans for putting pressure on the two leaders to reach an agreement. (allAfrica.com)
Kenyans fear turmoil despite political pact Mar 2, 2008
Samuel Mbugwa (left), 31, a Kenyan living in a displaced persons' camp in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru, said nothing in Kenya's power sharing deal explains how he'll be compensated for the loss of his home and property ... In a sprawling fairground in Nakuru, 100 miles northwest of the capital, Nairobi, displaced families living in tents said that nothing about the power-sharing arrangement which was signed with considerable fanfare Thursday made them feel safer returning to their homes, many... (Anchorage Daily News)
Argentina commemorates somber anniversary of coup Mar 1, 2008
The Wachira family of 22 outside their tent in a displacement camp in the town of Nakuru, Kenya on Friday. Spotlight. (Yahoo News -- Argentina)
Kenya leaders thrash out reforms after power-sharing pact Feb 29, 2008
Residents of the Rift Valley town of Nakuru huddled around newsstands and discussed the pact, after political violence and tribal killings and reprisals that claimed at least 1,500 lives, particularly in Nairobi slums and the fertile west ... "We are tired of the strife and animosity and it is now time to rebuild our economy," said the 54-year-old newspaper vendor and resident of Nakuru, which is still under a dusk-to-dawn curfew following post-electoral clashes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Will the Peace Deal Stick in Kenya? Feb 29, 2008
If government MPs decide to stonewall constitutional reforms to legalize the coalition, mass violence will likely resurface in towns like Nakuru, where bows and arrows flew among swinging machetes during the height of the violence, killing dozens. Like several Kenyans, Nakuru resident Irene Wairimu had a mixed reaction to the deal. (Time.com)
The displaced with nowhere to go Feb 26, 2008
Some local residents spent millions of shillings of their own money transporting "returnees" to safety from IDP camps in Nairobi, Naivasha and Nakuru ... In fact, many 'returnees' had moved to towns such as Naivasha and Nakuru to earn money to support their families back home. (AlertNet)
PHOTOS: Rare Animals Flee Fires in Kenya Park Feb 26, 2008
February 25, 2008Rhinoceroses flee fires in 's Lake Nakuru National Park on February 23, 2008 ... Nakuru's black rhinos may have borne the brunt of the disaster. (National Geographic)
Litigation, Castigation, and Donation Feb 25, 2008
I am also giving away 100% of any bonuses I get from Penguin USA to Pastor Jackson Mwangis Hope in Nakuru, Kenya ... I am also giving away 100% of any bonuses I get from Penguin USA to Pastor Jackson Mwangis Hope in Nakuru, Kenya. (Townhall.com)
Kenyan Wildlife Park Bush Fire Rages For Second Day Feb 25, 2008
NAKURU, Kenya - Using branches to beat back flames, Kenyan rangers and residents struggled for a second day on Saturday to control bush fires that have engulfed a third of one of the nation's best-known wildlife parks. At least 100 local citizens joined wildlife officials to help put out the fire, which was accidentally started in a nearby village and has already destroyed large patches of the 188 square km Lake Nakuru National Park ... Lake Nakuru park, normally teeming with US, European and... (Planet Ark, United States)
Explosion on bus injures at least 14 Feb 24, 2008
KENYA Rangers struggle to stop bush fires NAKURU - Using branches to beat back flames, Kenyan rangers and residents struggled for a second day yesterday to control bush fires that have swept a third of one of the nation's best-known wildlife parks. The fire has destroyed large patches of the Lake Nakuru National Park. (Boston Globe)
Kenyan politicians meet with supporters to firm up power-sharing deal Feb 24, 2008
In Nakuru, scene of some of the worst violence, a fire burned more than 1,000 acres (405 hectares) around a national park. No one was hurt and park wardens said much of it was contained by midday Saturday. (International Herald Tribune)
Kenya: Think Tank Warns of New Violence Feb 23, 2008
And when a second wave of violence broke out in late January, Mungiki organised "the systematic, brutal killings of women and children so as to expel Luo and Kalenjin from Kikuyu-dominated areas" in the Rift Valley towns of Naivasha and Nakuru, according to ICG.. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
Doyle: AFA keeps watch on events in Kenya Feb 22, 2008
Many Esabalu residents are unable to get to their jobs in the urban centers of Kisumu, Nakuru and Nairobi and families are subsisting on one meal a day. To aid those living in the strife-torn area are asked to make contributions to the following Web sites: The Kenyan Red Cross at www. (Amesbury News, MA)
UMCOR Hotline for February 19, 2008 Feb 20, 2008
A general view shows the shore of Lake Nakuru inside the National Park with the same name on the Rift Valley in Nakuru, west of Nairobi, February 16, 2008. There are. (AlertNet)
Kenyan National Park Longs For Tourists Feb 20, 2008
NAKURU - There are about 1. 5 million pink flamingos at Lake Nakuru National Park but hardly anyone to admire them majestically walking along the shoreline during Kenya's high tourism season. (Planet Ark, United States)
Annan: Kenya rivals closer to agreement Feb 17, 2008
"We have nowhere to go," Pastor John Njoroge Khiara, 38, said at a police station near the Rift Valley town of Nakuru, the site of some of the worst ethnic violence ... (Additional reporting by Bryson Hull and Jack Kimball in Nairobi, and Michael Georgy in Nakuru) (For special coverage from Reuters on Kenya's crisis see: http://africa. (AlertNet)
ADRA Continues Care for Violence-displaced Families in Kenya Feb 15, 2008
In coordination with its partners, ADRA Kenya is set to launch a three-month intervention in the Rift Valley to assist more than 24,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) sheltering in temporary camps in Navaisha, Kipkelion, and Nakuru ... Medical teams mobilized by ADRA are providing treatment in dozens of affected communities, including Naivasha and Nakuru in the Rift Valley, and are working with the Ministry of Health to treat displaced persons sheltering at the Moi Stadium in Kisumu in... (AlertNet)
Signs in Kenya of a land redrawn by ethnicity Feb 15, 2008
He used to live in an ethnically mixed town called Nakuru but was recently evicted by a gang from another ethnic group that burned everything he owned. "We came here with nothing, like cabbages thrown in the back of a truck," Ojiambo said. (International Herald Tribune)
Kenya: Many Displaced are on the Move Again, Says UN Feb 13, 2008
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that 47 tons of food have been distributed to 19 displaced settlements in the Kipelion and Nakuru districts, the first such delivery in the South Rift Valley. Some 1,000 people have lost their lives and more than 310,000 others displaced since the December 2007 elections in which President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner over opposition leader Raila Odinga. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Crisis Highlights Cluster Complications Feb 13, 2008
Visiting camps in Nakuru and Molo in Rift Valley Province, the region worst affected by the violence, the UN's Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes highlighted the education cluster as one that had been slow to get off the ground. "I think emergency education is absolutely crucial because that gives the children at least some semblance of normality. It's never the first thing you focus on but it needs to come in fast behind and I think that's what's now beginning to... (allAfrica.com)
Tribal fighting frightens Kenya's 'mixed' couples Feb 13, 2008
Once they dropped in on a Kikuyu neighbor upstairs and the conversation turned to a recent spate of attacks on Luos in the western town of Nakuru ... It was his parents, who live in a village near Nakuru, who were wary. (Anchorage Daily News)
After the violenceWhat is the situation around Kenya now clashes have eased? Feb 13, 2008
Business in most towns, such as Nakuru and Eldoret have reopened. Banks, shops, hotels and petty traders are operating without fear. (BBC News -- Africa)
Couple flees Kenya's meltdown Feb 11, 2008
" First of all ... we are safe and that's most important right now. It's 7:30 and we just got to our tended camp in Nakuru and my whole body is shaking. The last hour has been intense. Cara Scarola, Dec. 30. On Dec. 27, while Kenyans went to the polls to vote in the presidential election, Scarola and Hansen stayed home, playing pinochle with Hansen's parents, Ray and Teresa, who had come from California. Winter is summer in Kenya, and the four planned to hire a guide and take a six-day Kenyan... (The Palm Beach Post)
Kenya:UN Envoy Visits Rift Valley Feb 10, 2008
Mr Holmes also paid a courtesy call on Rift Valley Provincial Commissioner, Mr Hassan Noor Hassan, before he visited internally displaced people's camps in Nakuru and Molo ... Mr Holmes, who was accompanied by Kenya Red Cross Society's Nakuru branch chairman Pascal Mbeche, expressed satisfaction with the humanitarian assistance advanced to the victims by the government, the Red Cross and other agencies ... Mr Hassan said that the government had planned to lift the partial curfew imposed on... (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: Raila, ODM Wants Quick Resolution Feb 10, 2008
He will also visit all refugee camps in the Rift Valley, Molo, Nakuru and Naivasha. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
Britons defy "misleading" media, wed in Kenya Feb 10, 2008
A group of children look inside a U.N. vehicle outside of a camp for displaced people in Nakuru February 9, 2008. Kenya's feuding parties look on the verge of striking a. (AlertNet)
UN envoy heads to Kenya hotspots Feb 9, 2008
Mr Holmes will visit Molo and Nakuru, towns in Kenya's Rift Valley which have seen some of the worst fighting following December's disputed election result. The envoy told reporters he had come to see for himself the extent of the displacement that has been triggered by inter-ethnic fighting, and was lending support to mediation efforts being spearheaded by Mr Annan. (BBC News)
U.S. applies pressure in effort to restore peace in Kenya Feb 8, 2008
A woman of the Luo ethnic group loads her goods onto the back of a truck at an Internally Displaced Peoples camp in Nakuru. (Joao Silva for The New York Times). (International Herald Tribune)
Sun, sea and miles of empty beach Feb 8, 2008
The exceptions were the lakeside towns of Naivasha and Nakuru, which erupted into violence last week, but local travel agents say it is now safe to travel there. All are desperate to stress that throughout the crisis not a single foreign holidaymaker has been harmed. (Guardian Unlimited)
Kenya: UN Security Council Calls for Compromise Feb 7, 2008
Also, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported that there are more than 7,000 displaced people at the Nakuru camp in the Rift Valley, while there are some 12,000 IDPs residing in more than two dozen camps in Nairobi. Share this on. (allAfrica.com)
Kenya crisis Feb 7, 2008
Charles Mugo inherited the plot and made his living growing watermelon, tomatoes and other vegetables, and selling what the family did not eat at a stall alongside the main road north from Nakuru ... Now living in a corner of a large Red Cross tent in a stadium in the town of Nakuru, he says the best hope of rebuilding his life is to return to what he calls his "ancestral lands", a place he has never seen ... They include many of the others who have sought refuge in Nakuru's stadium, including... (Guardian Unlimited)
Hillary Clinton sheds a tear, again, on eve of crucial election Feb 5, 2008
kaima, nakuru, kenya. So he's got a good production sound - does that really qualify him to comment on matters such as this. (Times Online)
Kenya: 1000 and counting Feb 5, 2008
In Nakuru, district commissioner Wilfred Wanyangah said the number of displaced people had increased from 14 000 to 26 000 over the past three weeks as villagers flee tense rural areas. "This crisis has overwhelmed us and we were not prepared for it," he told reporters in the northwestern town. (iAfrica.com)
Kenya: Agony in Camps as MPs Appeal for Peace Feb 4, 2008
In Nakuru and its environs alone, at least 100,000 displaced people are scattered in camps. And in the city, more than 500 displaced people from Juja in Thika District were admitted to Jamhuri Park showground where hundreds of families are camping. (allAfrica.com)
Kikuyu flee Rift Valley Feb 4, 2008
But Magure and other Kikuyu from the town who are now refugees in a stadium in Nakuru, the area's major town 26 miles to the south, said the election dispute was a pretext and that the assault on them was a planned move driven by long-standing enmity from the Kalenjin that amounts to ethnic cleansing ... This was something organised," said Magure.It is a claim made by many Kikuyu who have fled towns and villages in the Rift Valley and who are now crammed into Nakuru. They reeled off their former... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Kenya: Thousands Risk Losing Jobs If Violence Continues Feb 2, 2008
Ms Mugo says, the latest violence in Naivasha and Nakuru added to the number of possible layoffs especially from the horticultural sector. "We are receiving more figures and I can confirm they are coming in big numbers. Companies based in Naivasha alone have given us a figure of 100,000. Most of them are not operating to the optimum especially those in the flower sector. This has affected other related sub-sectors including those that supply the flower sector," explained Mrs Mugo. (allAfrica.com)
Ethnic unrest creeps from Rift towards Kenya capital Feb 1, 2008
Just outside Nderi, dozens of youths burned branches and piled rocks to try to block the main road from Nairobi to the Rift Valley towns of Nakuru and Naivasha, which have seen the worst of the violence in recent days. Police moved up and down the road breaking the barricades and dispersing angry youths, occasionally firing into the air. (AlertNet)
US diplomat likens violence in Kenya to 'ethnic cleansing' Jan 31, 2008
In recent days, thousands of Kikuyus have begun exacting revenge, attacking and dislodging several thousand people from Odinga's Luo tribe and other ethnic groups presumed to have backed him in the western towns of Nakuru and Naivasha. On Tuesday, a high-ranking Kenyan diplomat described the violence as well organized, saying it was "an open secret" that scores of young, unemployed Kikuyu men were recruited from several Nairobi slums, paid, and bused to the two towns to launch attacks with... (Boston Globe)
Kenya: Talks Could Determine Country's Future Jan 31, 2008
On Tuesday, military helicopters swooped on marauding gangs in Naivasha, which witnessed perhaps the worst flare after Nakuru at the weekend. The shoot-to-kill order outlined the categories of law-breakers the police will target. (allAfrica.com)
* Kenyan cops told to shoot to kill Jan 31, 2008
The military has so far played a backseat role in response to the violence, clearing barricades on the main road linking the capital to western Kenya and assisting in enforcing a curfew in the western town of Nakuru. Soldiers armed with assault rifles and whips patrolled the tense streets of Naivasha yesterday, some 80km northwest of Nairobi, where three died the previous day. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
