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/ 25 September 2009
The United States has sent warning letters to 15 prominent Kenyans it says are blocking reform in East Africa’s biggest economy.
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/ 8 September 2009
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki sacked his police chief on Tuesday and sent him to run the post office.
The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 17,5% in a year to 3,76-million, an authoritative study showed on Tuesday.
DRC guerrillas and government negotiators must agree a ceasefire before a planned heads of state summit this month, a mediator said on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2008
Somali pirates have hijacked a Yemen cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, a regional maritime official said on Tuesday.
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/ 5 November 2008
Kenyans in Obama’s homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the US president.
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/ 19 September 2008
Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels on Friday demanded that the United Nations Security Council secure an aid corridor to their homeland.
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/ 2 September 2008
Somali pirates are demanding a ransom of ,2-million to free two Malaysian tankers and a Japanese-managed bulk carrier, a maritime official says.
Rapidly spreading lawlessness as Somalia collapses in the worst fighting for two nearly decades is fuelling a wave of piracy.
An explosion of piracy this month off Somalia is funding an insurgency onshore as the hijackers funnel ransom payments to Islamist rebels.