For a people that embraced the commercial use of mobile telephones just five years ago, Kenyans have become quite innovative in making the gadgets work for them.

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The nightly attacks by two man-eating lions terrified railway workers and brought construction to a halt in one of east Africa's most notorious onslaughts more than a hundred years ago. But the death toll, scientists now say, wasn't as high as previously thought.

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GRACE GICHUHI sobs quietly as she considers her future. ''They use a knife. Just a knife, no medicine,'' she says. ''They circumcise you and maybe you die or you survive.''

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Kenya has banned a brand of condoms weeks after Zambia did the same after tests concluded that they leak.

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Kenya's lion population could disappear altogether in the next 20 years because of climate change, habitat destruction, disease and conflict with humans, the country's wildlife authority said on Monday.

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A Kenyan man who entered the record books as the world's oldest primary school student has died at the age of 90.

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A renowned British gem expert has been hacked to death with machetes by a gang of illegal miners who ambushed him in Kenya.

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More than 4,000 prisoners on death row in Kenya will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, President Mwai Kibaki has announced.

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Villagers, many straight from their farms, and armed with machetes, sticks and axes, are shouting and crowding round in a big group in Kenya's fertile Kisii district.

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A blind teacher who won the right to be registered in South Australia has been given a reprieve from deportation.

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An Kenyan-born academic specialising in disabilities is having trouble staying in Australia - and he says it is due to his blindness.

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A Kenyan man is seeking damages for anguish sustained during a week-long sex ban called by women's groups in a bid to force political leaders to put their rivalry aside to work for the common good.

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On a lazy afternoon in the Masai Mara, southern Kenya, three lion cubs are roused from their siesta. Spotting something in the grass, the inquisitive trio move in for a closer look.

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At least 24 people have been stoned or hacked to death in central Kenya during overnight fighting between vigilante groups and an outlawed criminal sect.

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A prominent human rights activist has been shot dead as he drove his car in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

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Five elderly people suspected of practising witchcraft have been burnt to death in western Kenya, police said.

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Two Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya in November and then held in neighbouring Somalia have been freed. Gunmen snatched Maria Teresa Olivero, 67, and Caterina Giraudo, 60, from the northern Kenyan district of Mandera and took them across the border.

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More than 50 people died in Kenya when an oil spill from a crashed truck caught fire as hundreds of people crowded round it, authorities said.

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Kenya is to declare a national emergency because of a drought affecting the East African country.

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In his 14th floor corner office overlooking the city, James Mwangi sits at the very top of Kenyan society. He got there by understanding the needs of those at the bottom.

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A controversial pastor who claimed he could give infertile couples "miracle babies" is a step closer to extradition on child abduction charges.

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Mothers in Kenya have marked Barack Obama's historic win in the US presidential elections by naming their newborns after him and his wife. More than half of the babies born in a Kisumu Hospital on the day after the election were named either Barack or Michelle Obama.

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Elephants in Kenya are sending text messages to warn wildlife rangers that they are heading for the crops of neighbouring villages. The elephants have a mobile phone SIM card inserted into their collars that automatically sends a text message if they stray too near farms.

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The American author of a bestselling critical biography of Barack Obama containing the false allegation he was raised a Muslim has been detained in Kenya.

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Maasai herdsmen in Kenya have turned to an age-old contraceptive device, the "olor", to protect their precious goat herds from an ongoing drought. The olor is made from cowhide or a square piece of plastic, and is tied around the belly of the male goat.

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