In Africa’s biggest slum, lines are being drawn. Morris Otieno, a trader and businessman, won’t say if he is one of the Luo tribesmen in the township of Kibera, on the southwest edge of Nairobi, who ...
In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash gourds, clapping their ...
A lot has been said about Kikuyu women. In fact, of the women from the 42 ethnic communities, no other tribe gets as much flak as them. They have been accused of all manner of things; they not only ...
Kenya's coalition government is out of synch. Ethnic violence last year following a disputed presidential election ended with the two candidates settling into a power-sharing agreement. Now, one side ...
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sixteen-year-old Dan Mugambi stands guard at a bridge in his Nairobi slum, one skinny hand on his machete, ashes caught in his hair. Behind him, hundreds of angry young men -- armed ...
GONDI, Kenya (Reuters) - Groups of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe are fleeing burning homes and reprisal attacks to take refuge in fields and mosques from ethnic clashes following his ...
The young man brandishing a machete at the burning roadblock was frustrated. He had been looking for five days, but he could not find a member of the Kikuyu tribe to kill. Members of Kenya's biggest ...
To Kenya now, where a second opposition politician was shot death today. His party claims it was a political murder. The police say the lawmaker was killed in a quarrel over a woman. Either way, this ...
ELDORET, Kenya (Reuters) - An arms race is on between two of Kenya's largest ethnic communities ahead of the 2012 presidential election after the last disputed vote triggered weeks of tribal ...