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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Thursday refused to sign a bill that would have limited the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to only investigating crimes committed after 2003. The amendment, deleting portions of the 2003...

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has refused to sign a bill that would give courts the authority to force journalists to disclose confidential sources. The Media Bill 2007 also establishes an independent council to adjudicate complaints...

Lawyers in Kenya are now ranked as the ninth most corrupt group in the country, according to the Kenya Bribery Index 2007, a report released Tuesday by Transparency International (TI) . The annual Kenya Bribery Index ...

More than 300 Kenyan journalists marched in the capital city of Nairobi Wednesday, voicing their opposition to a provision in a proposed law that would give courts the authority to force journalists to disclose confidential sources. The provision, part...

Kenya's National Assembly has unanimously approved a sex-crimes law after a month of heated debate over several controversial provisions, most of which were dropped in order to pass the bill . Legislators dropped provisions criminalizing marital rape and...

Four former senior Kenyan government officials and a top businessman are to be charged with corruption for their roles in a $1 billion scam known as the Goldenberg affair . The graft charges will be the...

Leading Friday's international brief, Kenyan police have conducted a night-time raid on the Standard Group, Kenya's second largest journalistic company, during which they confiscated television and radio broadcast equipment and destroyed several printing presses while allegedly searching for evidence...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, a British official has revealed that the UN Security Council will be presented with a resolution in the next two weeks that will seek to impose mandatory sanctions against up to ten government...

Leading Friday's international brief, South Korea has announced plans to create a national database containing the genetic profiles of individuals convicted of criminal sexual offenses and a national registry accessible by the public that would list names and addresses...

Kenyan police have placed a travel ban on more than 20 officials as investigations continue into government corruption. Police told some 20 officials allegedly linked to the Goldenberg affair , a multi-million gold and diamond scam, not to...