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/ 24 January 2006
A team of United States soldiers on Tuesday joined frantic efforts to rescue survivors from the ruins of a building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where police said at least eight people were killed and some trapped in the rubble could still be heard nearly 18 hours after it collapsed.
The death toll from hunger and related illness in drought-hit northeastern Kenya has risen to at least 40 as more malnourished children perish, hospital and aid officials said on Wednesday, amid new appeals for urgent help to avert a major famine in the region.
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/ 29 December 2005
Somalia’s transitional president on Thursday appealed for -million in urgent aid for about two million southern Somalis facing severe food and water shortages amid an increasing threat of famine across large swaths of the drought-stricken Horn of Africa.
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/ 29 November 2005
Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai on Tuesday urged Kenya’s bickering political leaders to show restraint in a crisis of authority that has raised fears of unrest in East Africa’s most stable nation. She urged Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and the opposition to cool tensions that erupted after last week’s rejection of a new Constitution.
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/ 28 November 2005
Kenya’s opposition vowed on Monday to defy a government ban on demonstrations and keep up demands for President Mwai Kibaki to call new elections after last week’s rejection of a new Constitution he backed. Leaders of the Orange Democratic Movement said the ban is illegal.
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/ 26 November 2005
Stung by the rejection of a new Constitution he backed, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has moved to restore flagging confidence in his leadership with a pair of tough political moves, analysts said on Friday. Kibaki sacked his entire Cabinet and then suspended next week’s planned reopening of Parliament.
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/ 24 November 2005
Kenya’s opposition on Thursday demanded that embattled President Mwai Kibaki dissolve Parliament and call snap elections after he fired his Cabinet in response to the embarrassing rejection this week of a new Constitution he backed. At the same time, debate raged over the firings, with some saying the step was illegal.
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/ 22 November 2005
Kenyan voters appear to have rejected a proposed new Constitution in a landmark referendum after a vitriolic campaign that deeply split the East African country, an election official said on Tuesday. In a major blow to President Mwai Kibaki, the official said near-complete results showed the ”no”-vote with an insurmountable lead.
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/ 26 October 2005
Kenya on Wednesday lashed out at a senior European Union envoy who warned that the country would lose millions of euros in EU aid if President Mwai Kibaki does not sign a tough new anti-corruption law by year’s end. The Kenyan foreign minister accused the new EU ambassador to Kenya of ”rude and undiplomatic” behaviour.
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/ 29 September 2005
The Kenyan Wildlife Service on Wednesday suspended the relocation of elephants from an overcrowded coastal reserve to a more spacious park in order to monitor their resettlement and avoid bad weather, officials said. The operation began in August to move 400 animals from Shimba Hills National Reserve to Tsavo East National Park.