NAIROBI, KENYA — He’s a preacher’s son and part-time college student who idolizes Martin Luther King Jr. and aspires to escape Kenya’s biggest slum. But when this East African nation erupted in ...

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 ...

Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethnic rivalries are a reality of life in Kenya, where President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election has triggered days of riots and ethnic killings, in which opposition supporters ...

KATATA, KENYA — Laborers living on a tiny coffee farm here in western Kenya awoke in the middle of the night last week to an odd light radiating from their huts. At first it seemed like an early ...

KISUMU, Kenya -- Thousands of machete-wielding youths hunted down members of President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe Monday in western Kenya's Rift Valley, torching homes and buses, clashing with police ...

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 ...

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 ...

KISUMU, Kenya — The 19-year-old man hefting a machete at the burning roadblock was frustrated Wednesday. He'd been looking for five days but could not find a member of the Kikuyu tribe to kill.

Kenya's recent presidential election unleashed turmoil that has so far claimed more than 500 lives and displaced thousands of people. Blame has been pinned on Kenya's ethnic divisions: The Luo tribe ...

They grew up in farming villages -- Teddy Chwanya in the rolling hills of western Kenya and Samuel Mathu amid the cattle and flower farms of the country's lush central region. Both men left home to ...

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 ...