Nairobi - Kenyan police have set up a 24-hour guard outside the home of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Friday.

Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogelo and attempted to steal a solar panel from her roof.

Local police chief Johnston Ipara told the Daily Nation that two tents had been set up outside Sarah Obama's home until a permanent police station was built nearby.

Nairobi- Kenyan police are stepping up security in the village of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's grandmother after thieves targeted her home, reports said Thursday.

Obama's grandmother Sarah, 86, said burglars broke in through her kitchen door in the western Kenyan village of Kogello and attempted to steal a solar panel from her roof.

"I don't understand the motive of the thieves, since nothing was stolen from the kitchen," Sarah Obama told The Daily Nation.

Nairobi - Kenya was Monday basking in the warm afterglow of its most successful Olympics ever with 14 medals, including five gold.

Samuel Wanjiru's Sunday victory in the marathon - Kenya's first ever Olympic gold in the discipline - topped off the display, leaving Kenya 15th in the overall medals table, three places ahead of rival and closest African nation Ethiopia.

Kenya was particularly proud of its female athletes, with Pamela Jelimo and Nancy Jebet Langat bringing home the first Olympic golds for Kenyan women in the 800m and
1,500m respectively.

Technology-enabled security services provider Micro Technologies (India) Ltd has expanded its business in Kenyan market to provide a highly advanced security solution products across the country.

The company will provide a wide range of its security and life support solutions for vehicles, premises and mobile phones in the Kenyan market, which would prove to be helpful in theft incidents.

Kenya has a high crime rate particularly in capital Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu and coastal beach resorts with car-thefts, mobile-thefts and property related crimes.

Nairobi  - A German national resident in Kenya is being held in connection with an attempt to illegally export live animals to Japan, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said Thursday.

The KWS said the unnamed German was arrested at midnight on a reptile farm in Eastern Kenya where he works as the director.

The man was arrested after KWS officials intercepted a consigment at Moi International Airport, Mombasa, late on Wednesday.

Nairobi - Kenya's former anti-corruption chief John Githongo returned home to speak at a public forum Wednesday three years after fleeing the East African nation amid fears for his life.

Githongo said he received threats after his investigation found that state contracts worth over one billion dollars were being awarded to fake companies in an affair that became known as the Anglo Leasing scandal.

Several senior government members resigned as a consequence of the investigation.