Kenya's reconciliation commission has said the president, security forces and judiciary should publicly apologise for past abuses going back 50 years, its final report seen Wednesday said. Set up after bloody post-election violence in 2007-08, Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) handed over its weighty four-volume report -- containing tens of thousands of testimonies gathered over four years detailing rights abuses the abuse of rights in the country -- to President Uhuru Kenyatta late Tuesday.

Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto pledged his country's continued cooperation with the International Criminal Court on Tuesday where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta face crimes against humanity trials, but maintained he was a "victim of a conspiracy of lies". "The new (Kenyan) administration, popularly elected in free and fair elections, will continue to cooperate with the court," Ruto told the tribunal based in The Hague, where he and another co-accused Joshua arap Sang, appeared at a hearing to discuss progress ahead of their trial.

Kenya has written to the UN Security Council seeking to scrap the international crimes against humanity trials for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Vice President William Ruto, according to a letter seen Thursday. Kenyatta, 51, voted into power in March elections, is to go on trial in July at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague for crimes against humanity relating to post-election violence in 2007-08. Ruto, 46, faces three counts of crimes against humanity for his role in deadly violence.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces charges of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court, is expected to visit London at Britain's invitation next week for a conference on Somalia. It will be his first trip to a Western capital since his election in March. Britain and other countries said before his victory it would only have "essential contacts" with him if he won because of the court case.