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/ 19 January 2009
Forget the Maasai Mara reserve, Mount Kenya and palm-lined Indian Ocean beaches. The hippest tourist spot in Kenya these days is ”Obamaland”.
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/ 31 January 2008
African Union heads of state were set on Thursday to begin a three-day summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, focused on the deadly crisis in Kenya and the challenges facing the body’s peacekeeping missions. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was expected to address the organisation and call for a peaceful resolution of the post-poll dispute in Kenya.
Huge numbers of Kenyan police deployed on Friday to block an opposition rally in Nairobi as Washington sent its top Africa diplomat to help resolve a post-election crisis that has claimed more then 350 lives. On Thursday, police had used water cannon and tear gas to disperse opposition supporters marching on the city centre for a "million-man" rally.
The bitter dispute over the Kenyan presidency could have long-lasting economic repercussions, observers warn, fearing that financial turmoil could quickly derail an, until now, booming economy. Considered an investor-friendly haven of relative stability on its way to becoming an ”African Tiger”, Kenya is experiencing its worst political unrest in 25 years.
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/ 17 December 2007
Kenya’s presidential race entered its final stretch on Monday, with the economy, corruption and tribalism looming large in ageing incumbent Mwai Kibaki’s bid to secure a second term. The last batch of opinion polls before the December 27 vote gave flamboyant opposition candidate Raila Odinga a slight edge on Kibaki.
Darfur’s fractious rebel groups gathered in Tanzania on Friday for talks aimed at hammering out a united front following United Nations approval of a beefed-up peacekeeping mission in the Sudanese region. Sponsored by the African Union and UN, the meeting in the town of Arusha will seek to define a common stance among the rebels.
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/ 5 November 2006
Saddam Hussein’s death sentence on Sunday drew an outpouring of vengeful glee among the ousted Iraqi despot’s former foes in the Middle East and muted discontent from Sunni radicals. Iraq’s Shi’ites, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, rejoiced when the deposed president was sentenced to death by hanging.
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/ 30 December 2005
Thousands of Egyptian riot police forcefully evacuated hundreds of Sudanese refugees early on Friday, breaking up a three-month old protest outside United Nations offices in Cairo. Several refugees were wounded when phalanxes of riot police armed with sticks and shields stormed the small square where the Sudanese had been camping at around 5am.
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/ 30 November 2005
Egypt’s month-long parliamentary elections enter their third and final phase on Thursday with Islamists continuing their impressive run and judges pressing for guarantees against state interference. The extent of the Muslim Brotherhood’s gains in the first two phases of voting took everybody by surprise.
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/ 25 November 2005
Egypt’s month-long elections are heating up as voters prepare for a new round on Sunday that could see Islamists chip away further at the ruling party’s dominance in Parliament. More than 120 seats remain to be decided in runoffs for the second phase, which kicked off on November 20 and prompted a surge in irregularities and violence that claimed the first deaths of the elections.