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Every story tagged to Kenya in the reporting behind our ratings, newest first. State-self-reported sources are excluded from scoring; non-anglophone coverage is surfaced in translation. Every card links to its source.

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Five Kenyan security officers killed in suspected al-Shabaab attack near Somalia border

An IED ambush in Mandera County killed five officers July 28, including four of the elite Special Operations Group, when their patrol vehicle struck a suspected roadside bomb; al-Shabaab claimed the attack. The established cross-border spillover pattern: Kenya conflict held at -3 with confidence up. Separately, Ruto's July 21 'graduated from protesters to goons' crackdown rhetoric is flagged as a civil-liberties direction signal (no wire pickup).

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Over 400 Kenyans repatriated from South Africa amid crackdown

Over 400 Kenyans were repatriated from South Africa July 18 amid the anti-immigrant crackdown and xenophobic-violence fears, extending the deportation campaign's regional/diplomatic cost. Watch-item corroborating the prior pass's South Africa treatment_non_citizens move; no score moved this pass.

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Kenya's Saba Saba protests draw heavy security and arrests

On July 7 (Saba Saba) 1,000-3,000 protesters marched in Nairobi over extrajudicial killings and police brutality; authorities sealed Parliament and arrested ~10, with no new fatalities - a continuation of the year-long protest/crackdown cycle under Ruto. Kenya political_stability held at -4.

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