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/ 12 December 2003
Rights groups in Kenya have criticised the government’s decision to introduce an anti-terror law to tackle terrorism. The groups say the proposed Bill has been imposed on Kenya by the United States government as a result of two terror attacks witnessed by the country in the past five years.
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/ 10 December 2003
Sudan’s fledgling civil society organisations are demanding the setting up of a truth and reconciliation commission (TRC) as soon as the final peace agreement between the government and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army is signed. The agreement seeks to bring to an end Africa’s longest-running conflict.
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/ 26 November 2003
Brigit Namwalo has nothing to celebrate. ”I have become [my husband’s] punching bag and several times he has knifed me,” she says. Her remarks come in the midst of an international campaign, 16 Days of Activism on Violence against Women, which is being observed in more than 100 countries, including South Africa.
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/ 23 November 2003
After years of being labelled as highly corrupt, Kenya has put a number of measures in place to curb graft. The government is hoping that this will attract foreign investors back to the East African country. "Kenya is now open for business," President Mwai Kibaki said this week.
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/ 19 November 2003
Kenya finds itself in a quagmire as it struggles to contain the HIV/Aids pandemic ravaging the country. According to the National Aids and Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Programme, about 270 000 people urgently require ARV treatment. But, at most, only 11 000 Kenyans are receiving the drugs.
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/ 11 November 2003
The Anglican Church of Kenya has barred all its 28 dioceses from having any involvement with Gene Robinson, the new bishop of New Hampshire in the United States — and the first openly gay clergyman.
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/ 7 November 2003
The prospect of a future plagued by water shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa is coming under the spotlight this week, in Nairobi. About 200 scientists and decision makers are meeting in the Kenyan capital under the auspices of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research to discuss the matter.
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/ 20 October 2003
Rights organisations are demanding that Kenya’s draft constitution be adopted to allow inmates to vote in 2007. Like in most African countries, Kenyan prisoners do not vote. If Kenya allows its prisoners to vote, it will be the second African country — after South Africa — to do so.
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/ 25 September 2003
”We want drugs! You talk as we die,” were some of the angry comments from Aids activists who protested on Wednesday against failure by their governments to give them anti-retroviral drugs. Some rolled on the ground as others shouted and marched through the international conference on Aids in Africa.