Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been honoured by Harvard University.
Scientists have discovered the underground remnants of an ancient lake in Sudan’s arid Darfur region, offering hope of tapping a precious resource and easing water scarcity, which experts say is the root of much of the unrest in the region.
Three top members of a United States-backed alliance of warlords have fled their last remaining stronghold in southern Somalia, apparently to discourage an attack on the town by an increasingly powerful Islamic militia, two Somali officials said on Wednesday.
Genet Kidane has been separated from her farm by a field of landmines since her nation’s 1998-to-2000 war with Ethiopia. Efforts to remove mines stopped after Ethiopia refused to accept a 2002 ruling on where the boundary should fall. And then there is military service, which keeps thousands of Eritreans ready to fight.
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/ 19 February 2006
A searing drought has killed dozens of wild animals in Kenya and neighbouring Tanzania, and has partially disrupted the annual migration of wildebeest and zebras between the two East African nations, conservation officials said. Maasai warriors and others are driving tens of thousands of cattle inside Kenya’s wildlife sanctuaries.
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/ 25 January 2006
The Kenyan government said the owner and contractor of a building that collapsed, killing at least 14 people, were rushing construction workers to put up new floors even before concrete on the lower level had set properly. Police Commissioner Major General Mohammed Hussein Ali said detectives have opened a criminal investigation into the collapse.
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/ 23 January 2006
A five-storey building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday with more than 280 construction workers inside, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than 70, witnesses and officials said. Dozens of rescuers dug into the rubble in downtown Nairobi with their bare hands while the injured were loaded into any available car to be taken to hospitals.
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/ 23 January 2006
Elephants, buffaloes and other wild animals drink water from one side of a swamp, while Maasai warriors watch hundreds of cattle graze on another side as the tropical sun sears the parched land of the wildlife sanctuary. Wildlife officials recently bent stringent conservation regulations to allow cattle into this national park to help the Maasai save precious livestock from a punishing drought.
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/ 13 January 2006
Women and children in arid north-eastern Kenya are begging along roadsides for water and food from motorists, the United Nations’s World Food Programme said on Friday as it appealed to donors to help about five million people affected by drought across East Africa.
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/ 19 December 2005
Uganda’s detained opposition leader was expected to appear before a military tribunal and a civilian court on Monday for the start of two trials on charges that could result in a death sentence. But Kizza Besigye’s lawyers said they would not join him at the military court because Uganda’s High Court has ordered it to suspend the proceeding.