Nairobi- Kenya has protested to the United States and the European Union after diplomats were accused of pressuring the head of Kenya's electoral commission to resign.

The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) has faced strong criticism from an independent commission probing the causes of the chaos and violence that followed last December's disputed presidential elections.

Nairobi - Tensions are rising at the sprawling Dadaab refugee camp complex in North-West Kenya as a massive influx of Somali refugees fleeing a brutal insurgency across the border stretches the facilities to breaking point, a UN official said Thursday.

The complex, made up of three separate camps stretching over 50 square kilometres, now hosts 215,000 refugees - the vast majority of them Somali. It was set up 16 years ago to hold only 90,000.

Local residents, who have long been unhappy with the impact of the camp on the community, are losing patience with the seemingly endless stream of refugees.

They have been staging demonstrations and have handed over an official letter of protest to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).

Nairobi (Kenya) Sept. 20 : The African media environment has received a shot in the arm with the launch of A24 Media’s online content delivery site, which is designed to bring the African voice to a global audience hungry for an authentic perspective on African issues.

“A vision that started three long years ago is finally coming to reality. A24 Media will change the face of journalism in Africa and will truly give us Africans control over our stories,” said Salim Amin, the chairman of A24 Media at Thursday’s glittering launch event in Nairobi. Over 100 top media executives and journalists attended the event.

Nairobi - Thousands of wildebeest huddle together in Kenya's Masai Mara national reserve, their gazes flicking nervously between the lush grasslands on the opposite bank of the Mara River and the crocodile-infested waters separating them from their meal.

Eventually the unlucky wildebeest at the front takes the plunge and the rest follow en-masse, churning up the muddy water and lashing out at snapping crocodile jaws with powerful hind legs.

From the number of four-by-fours packed with tourists cheering on the wildebeest - or the crocodiles - you would not think that Kenya's tourism industry was still in a slump. But appearances can deceive.

Nairobi - An independent commission led by South African judge Johann Kriegler on Wednesday handed over its final report on the 2007 Kenyan elections that ended in bloodshed after allegations of vote rigging.

President Mwai Kibaki received the report and promised to act on its findings.

More than 1,500 people died in clashes between rival tribes affiliated to the political parties and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes during the violence, which came after opposition leader Raila Odinga accused Kibaki's party of rigging the presidential elections.

Nairobi/Kigali - Rwandans were set to vote Monday in the second parliamentary elections since the genocide that tore the country apart in 1994.

A coalition led by Paul Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR) is expected to romp to victory once more in a complicated election that will be monitored by a team of European Union election observers.

Rwanda has taken great strides since the 1994 massacre, when the Hutu militia and military massacred 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the space of a few months.