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Deadly floods in Kenya’s capital Nairobi continue to engulf sections of the city’s streets and homes, including in the Mathare slum district, one of the areas most affected. The death toll from the floods has risen to 13, local authorities say, after three bodies were found in the Mathare river that crosses the slum of the same name. IMAGES
Kenyan officials attend a military honours ceremony for General Francis Omondi Ogolla, the defence forces chief killed in a helicopter crash. Ogolla was killed when his helicopter went down shortly after takeoff in a remote forested area of northwestern Kenya. IMAGES
Kenyan authorities began releasing the bodies of victims of a doomsday starvation cult, almost a year since the discovery of mass graves in a grisly case that shocked the world. One distraught family received four bodies that were loaded into a hearse from a morgue in the Indian Ocean town of Malindi. IMAGES
The United States plays down Kenya's announcement it was putting on hold a police mission to Haiti, saying a transition deal will bring a new government as sought by Nairobi. "I would be concerned of course about any delay, but we don't think that there will need to be a delay," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
Hundreds of people follow a procession in Kenya's Eldoret town as funeral ceremonies get uderway for marathon prodigy Kelvin Kiptum, who died earlier this month when his car crashed into a tree. IMAGES
Starvation cult leader Paul Nthenge Mackenzie and his suspected accomplices arrive in court to file a plea after a Kenyan court charged them with murder over the deaths of more than 400 followers. Mackenzie is alleged to have incited his acolytes to starve to death in order to "meet Jesus" in a case that provoked horror across the world. IMAGES
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