News stories by Miriam Gathigah, page 9

NAIROBI, Mar 10 (IPS) - Kenyans may have elected as president a man wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, but political analysts here say that Uhuru Kenyatta's presidency will not have significant implications for the country's international standing just yet.

NAIROBI, Mar 04 (IPS) - On Monday, Mar. 4, Betty Amollo was one of the millions of Kenyans who turned out in large numbers to cast her ballot in the country's first general election since the 2007 disputed polls left almost 1,200 people dead and displaced 600,000 in the resultant inter-ethnic violence.

NAIROBI, Feb 27 (IPS) - When Kenya's only female presidential candidate, Martha Karua, dismissed electoral opinion pollsters who claimed that she stood a mere one percent chance of being elected to office, many said she did so because the results had not favoured her. 

NAIROBI, Feb 06 (IPS) - For the Samburu community in northern Kenya it was bad enough that Julius Lekupe had not sired a son - it was even worse that his eldest daughter refused to be "cut".

NAIROBI, Jan 25 (IPS) - Few women in Kenya harbour illusions of entering politics. Blatant discrimination, threats and intimidations, an uneven playing field and a largely unsympathetic public have turned electoral politics into a veritable minefield for women hoping to secure top government posts.

NAIROBI, Jan 10 (IPS) - With less than two months before Kenyans head to the polls for what is shaping up to be the most competitive and polarised general election in the country's history, many fear that this East African country of over 40 million has not seen the last of electoral violence.

NAIROBI, Dic 26 (IPS) - Despite the development boom in state-of-the-art luxury homes in Kenya, the country's upper class has fallen on hard times and can no longer afford them, according to economic experts here. Instead, Kenya's formerly wealthy have now become part of the continent's growing middle class.

NAIROBI, Nov 29 (IPS) - It all started with a fight, one that would change his life forever.

NAIROBI, Jul 17 (IPS) - For months now East Africans have been expectantly waiting for an economic revolution to begin as they anticipate the launch of a new standardised payment system that will integrate the electronic transfer of money in the region. But continued delays in the launch of the system have economists fearing that the weak financial infrastructure here is hindering its implementation.