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/ 10 January 2009
Victor Matioli’s organic pumpkins are plump, his coriander aromatic and his spinach "very soft, sweet and tasty".
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/ 24 November 2008
Thanks to some spectacular ocean catches, a former fishing outpost is now a booming mini-town, write Xan Rice and Abdiqani Hassan.
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/ 18 October 2008
The most celebrated woman in Kenya is not a politician, nor a pop star. She is a humble 18-year-old with a devastating sprint.
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/ 28 September 2008
More than 350 000 small-scale farmers in Africa and Central America will soon begin selling produce to the UN.
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/ 2 September 2008
The spouses of Kenya’s vice-president and prime minister will be paid R44 800 a month for showcasing the "nation’s family values.
Rwandan prosecution team is considering asking the UN to take action against Kenya.
Zimbabwe’s neighbours closed ranks against Robert Mugabe on Thursday as violence against opposition supporters intensified and spread to new areas.
There are many ways of measuring Omar Bongo’s rule. You could count the monuments: the Omar Bongo Triumphal Boulevard, the Senate Palace Omar Bongo and the university, football stadium, gymnasium and military hospital that all bear his name.
Grace Githuthwa heard the attackers before she saw them. They were singing war songs, running from two sides towards the church compound where she and 200 others were sheltering from outbursts of ethnic violence. She grabbed her four children and ran inside the Kenya Assemblies of God Pentecostal church.
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/ 17 September 2007
Daniel Hailu promised to marry his girlfriend after the millennium. And now she eagerly awaits the arrival of her wedding ring. "She is so relieved that 1999 is nearly over," said Hailu, a 29-year-old television salesperson. Hailu is not living in a time warp, but rather in Ethiopia where, thanks to a quirk of history, the country’s calendar lags more than seven years behind the Western version.