Kenya Police Chief: Protesters Shot
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The police chief in this opposition stronghold said she ordered her officers to fire on a rioting crowd, saying she was forced to because police were overwhelmed during protests over disputed elections
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Sudanese police killed up to 20 people and injured 40 on Saturday when they opened fire on a crowd of easterners demonstrating in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan, a local political leader said.
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Scuffles and heckling broke out at Kenya's election results centre on Sunday, forcing police to escort the nation's poll chief to safety moments after he began reading vote tallies in a cliff-hanger vote.
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Kenyan police used batons and tear gas to break up protests on Wednesday as the opposition defied a ban on rallies against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election.
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Shots ricocheted around Nairobi streets and smoke billowed over slums as Kenyan police battled thousands of anti-government protesters trying to march to a banned rally on Thursday.
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A Kenyan policeman filmed shooting at two protesters taunting him is to be charged with their murder.
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Kenyan police used teargas on Wednesday to disperse youths in the coastal city of Mombasa who were heeding a call for nationwide protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed re-election, witness said.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil believed to have killed more than 100 people.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil in which more than 70 people have been killed.
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Police fired tear gas Tuesday to disperse dozens of supporters of President Mwai Kibaki, hours before former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was due in Kenya to mediate the deadly dispute over Kibaki's re-election
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The police chief in this opposition stronghold said she ordered her officers to fire on a rioting crowd, saying she was forced to because police were overwhelmed during protests over disputed elections.
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Police cracked down fiercely on a second day of protests across Kenya on Thursday, firing bullets at opposition supporters and tear gas at a hospital. At least five people were killed.
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Kenyan police fired teargas to disperse stone-throwing youths at a funeral on Wednesday held by the opposition for slum residents killed in a crackdown on protests against President Mwai Kibaki's disputed election.
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Kenyan police battled protesters in blazing slums on Monday after disputed elections returned President Mwai Kibaki to power and triggered turmoil that a local TV station said had killed at least 124 people.
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Kenyan police faced protests on Wednesday after killing 22 people in a slum believed to be a stronghold of the Mungiki gang, branded "agents of the devil" by a government minister.
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Kenya's government should order police to stop using lethal force against protesters, a U.S.-based rights group said on Sunday as the nation braced for three days of opposition rallies over disputed December 27 polls.
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Clashes broke out in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Tuesday, hours after the killing of a lawmaker that was condemned by the leader of the opposition.