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NAIROBI - A grenade exploded near a crowded bus stop last night as people sought rides home, killing at least one person and wounding eight. The blast was the second grenade attack of the day in Kenya's capital and came two days after the United States warned of possible terrorist attacks. The US warning had implied that the militant Somali group Al Shabab would carry out reprisal attacks in response to Kenyan troops' invasion of Somalia in mid-October. The Al Qaeda-linked group promised to unleash terrorist attacks in Nairobi in retaliation.

The Kenya wildlife Service says seven members of a church youth group visiting one of its parks have died after they were swept away in a gorge by water from flash floods. Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udoto said Monday the seven were part of a group walking in the gorge at Hells Gate National Park in Naivasha, about 50 miles (75 kilometers) northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. Udoto says 53 members from the Mukara Presbyterian Church of East Africa youth group in Nairobi were visiting the park on Sunday when the incident happened.

Hundreds of doctors in Kenya are marching through the capital to demand more drugs in hospitals, better equipment and better pay. The doctors marched in Nairobi on Wednesday, the third day of a countrywide strike that has left hundreds of patients with no primary caregiver at public facilities. One striking doctor, Dennis Miskellah, said that on his first day on the job in Kenya's biggest hospital in Nairobi he had to deliver a baby without gloves because of a lack of materials.

Hundreds of doctors in Kenya are marching through the capital to demand more drugs in hospitals, better equipment and better pay. The doctors marched in Nairobi on Wednesday, the third day of a countrywide strike that has left hundreds of patients with no primary caregiver at public facilities. One striking doctor, Dennis Miskellah, said that on his first day on the job in Kenya's biggest hospital in Nairobi he had to deliver a baby without gloves because of a lack of materials.

NAIROBI -- More than 80,000 people gathered for an annual anticapitalism conference yesterday in Kenya's capital and marched on Nairobi's largest slum to protest globalization policies they say hurt the poor. The seventh World Social Forum will be a chance to showcase "Africa and her unbroken history of struggle against foreign domination, colonialism and neocolonialism," according to a statement on the event's website, wsf2007.org. To begin the forum, thousands of protesters marched from Kenya's sprawling Kibera slum to downtown Nairobi.

NAIROBI - A Kenyan man who was believed to be the world’s oldest pupil has died at the age of 89, five years after he entered primary school so that he could learn to read the Bible, his family said yesterday. Joseph Stephen Kimani Nganga Maruge died Friday at Nairobi nursing home. He died of stomach cancer, said his granddaughter, Anne Maruge. Mr. Maruge accomplished his biggest goal, being able to read the Bible, but he remained shy of completing primary school. “In the morning he used to wake up early to read the Bible before...

NAIROBI -- Gunmen carjacked a US Embassy vehicle on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital yesterday and killed the wife of an embassy employee and his mother-in-law. Police later killed two of the carjackers. Carjackings are common around Nairobi, and Kenya's government spokesman, Alfred Mutua, said yesterday's violence was believed to be a random attack. "The thugs ordered the two women out but they hesitated," said Isaiah Osugo, a criminal investigator. "Then they were shot," he said.

NAIROBI — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the Uganda bomb attacks that killed 76 people watching the World Cup final on television, an official said yesterday. The suspect was arrested at a police checkpoint Wednesday near the Kenya-Somalia border, Northeastern Provincial Commissioner James ole Seriani said. The man said he supported Somalia’s Al Qaeda linked group, al-Shabab, despite his claim to be a member of the Ugandan army, according to investigators.

The Kenya wildlife Service says seven members of a church youth group visiting one of its parks have died after they were swept away in a gorge by water from flash floods. Kenya Wildlife Service spokesman Paul Udoto said Monday the seven were part of a group walking in the gorge at Hells Gate National Park in Naivasha, about 50 miles (75 kilometers) northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi. Udoto says 53 members from the Mukara Presbyterian Church of East Africa youth group in Nairobi were visiting the park on Sunday when the incident happened.

NAIROBI - Stone-throwing students clashed with Kenyan riot police and paramilitary officers yesterday during a protest demanding the resignation of the police commissioner over the killings of a student and two activists last week. More than 1,000 students marched peacefully through the city center, but the demonstration degenerated into violence after youths began throwing stones and looting shops. Taxi drivers threw stones back, sparking a stampede. About 100 students eventually moved onto the main campus at the University of Nairobi and showered the police and passing traffic with stones.

Sudan's embassy in Kenya says it is dismayed over a ruling from Kenya's high court that authorities must arrest Sudan President Omar al-Bashir if he visits Kenya again. The embassy said Tuesday that the ruling seriously damaged relations between the two countries. Sudan said Kenya should abide by a ruling by African Union member countries not to cooperate with the International Criminal Court and arrest al-Bashir if he visits other African countries. Al-Bashir visited Kenya last year but was not arrested.

NAIROBI - A grenade exploded near a crowded bus stop last night as people sought rides home, killing at least one person and wounding eight. The blast was the second grenade attack of the day in Kenya's capital and came two days after the United States warned of possible terrorist attacks. The US warning had implied that the militant Somali group Al Shabab would carry out reprisal attacks in response to Kenyan troops' invasion of Somalia in mid-October. The Al Qaeda-linked group promised to unleash terrorist attacks in Nairobi in retaliation.

A police official says a suspected grenade blast at a Nairobi pub has wounded 13 people. The attack came two days after the United States warned of an imminent threat of a terror attack in the Kenyan capital. Last week Somalia's most dangerous militant group, al-Shabab, warned of reprisal attacks inside Kenya for a Kenyan military incursion into Somalia. But the early Monday blast did not appear to be such an attack. A police official who could not be named said 13 people were wounded but no one was killed.

NAIROBI - Every day around 11 a.m. a small group gathers by a watering hole in Nairobi National Park. Soon “oohs’’ and “aahs’’ are heard. Baby elephants come into view as their keepers lead them into a pen. All under a year old, the calves are immediately fed from a large plastic jug of baby formula. After gulping down their favorite beverage, they are free to swim, wrestle, kick a soccer ball, and, of course, be photographed. Not long ago, travelers heading to Kenya would spend one night in Nairobi after their international flight and make their way the next morning to safari in the Masai...

NAIROBI — A British couple kidnapped off their private yacht by Somali pirates more than a year ago were set free yesterday, ending one of the most drawn-out and dramatic hostage sieges since the rash of piracy began off the coast of East Africa. Paul and Rachel Chandler looked relaxed and smiled through a small ceremony held in the Somali town of Adado after their morning release. They arrived in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi by nightfall, landing at the military wing of the main international airport.

NAIROBI — Seven fans died in a stampede yesterday while trying to enter a stadium where a soccer match between two of Kenya’s most popular teams was being played, the Kenya Red Cross said. Six people died when they were run over by the crowd outside Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, and one died after being taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, said Red Cross spokesman Titus Mungo’u. He said at least four people were injured, but that number could be higher since several ambulance services were called to the scene.

NAIROBI - At least seven people were killed when police fired on about 100 Muslim youths in the Kenyan capital who yesterday protested the arrest of a radical Jamaican-born Muslim cleric whose teachings influenced one of the 2005 London transport system bombers. Farouk Machanje of the Muslim Human Rights Forum, which organized the protest in Nairobi, said five people were killed. An official with an ambulance service said a young man, who had been shot in the head, died as they took him to the main government hospital.

NAIROBI , Kenya -- An explosion in the Kenyan capital's packed business district yesterday killed two people and injured more than 30, sending hundreds of rush-hour commuters ducking for cover from shrapnel. The cause of the blast outside the Ambassadeur Hotel was not immediately clear, but Police Commissioner Mohamed Hussein Ali said it was "something that somebody was carrying. " In response to questions about whether the explosion was a suicide attack, he said: "That type of speculation is not factual at all. " Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe said...

NAIROBI — Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the Uganda bomb attacks that killed 76 people watching the World Cup final on television, an official said yesterday. The suspect was arrested at a police checkpoint Wednesday near the Kenya-Somalia border, Northeastern Provincial Commissioner James ole Seriani said. The man said he supported Somalia’s Al Qaeda linked group, al-Shabab, despite his claim to be a member of the Ugandan army, according to investigators.

NAIROBI — After three young men and a boy told police in June that an Italian priest had been sexually molesting them for years at a shelter for poor children, the most senior Roman Catholic cleric in Kenya announced that the church would investigate thoroughly. Ten months later, nothing has been investigated by the church, its lawyer says, and the Vatican has not been notified. The accused priest, the Rev. Renato Kizito Sesana, continues to run the facility and other shelters on the outskirts of Nairobi.