* MPs in spotlight over implementing new law * Political horse-trading may delay constitution * Delays could see Kenya lose political good will By James Macharia NAIROBI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Kenya's ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Kenya's proposed new constitution appeared to be losing ground in early returns today in a referendum officials said went relatively smoothly, despite minor clashes in Nairobi's ...

‘The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian character. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or ...

Kenya has adopted a constitution that models itself after the U.S. Constitution. Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki signed a new constitution into law Friday that institutes a U.S.-style system of checks ...

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya’s president heralded the passage of a new constitution Thursday as a “national renewal” after results showed that close to 70 percent of the country had backed the document ...

Fifteen years ago, then-Agriculture Minister William Ruto emerged as a leading voice in the campaign against Kenya’s proposed 2010 constitution. In an April 2010 interview with The Standard, Ruto ...

Imagine a political drama with more twists than a Netflix thriller. That’s exactly what’s unfolding in East Africa’s most dynamic democracy. Remember that famous 2018 handshake between President Uhuru ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan judges on Monday ordered a government agency to register a human rights group representing the country’s gay people. The Kenyan constitution recognizes and protects the ...

NAIROBI: The fifth year of implementation of the COK 2010 comes to an end in a few weeks. With this will come the dissolution of the CIC, which had been mandated with overseeing the implementation of ...