Nairobi - Somali insurgents have said they will take their fight to Kenya if the neighbouring nation carries out a plan to train Somali government troops.

Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minster Moses Wetangula recently offered to provide training to around 10,000 troops currently taking a hammering in Somalia's bloody Islamist insurgency.

"We will order all our holy warriors to start the jihadi war inside Kenya," the BBC quoted spokesman Sheikh Muktar Robow as saying.

Almost daily battles have blighted Somalia since Ethiopian troops invaded in 2006 to kick out the Islamist regime and put the transitional federal government back in power.

Abuja - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said that the power-sharing model used to end the post-election chaos in his own country should not be used as a blanket solution for African states.

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.