Karen Calabria

Eyeing his cellphone with a mixture of suspicion and amazement, Paul Kangethe reads and rereads the SMS he has just received. ”I’ve never seen anything like this before,”…

Anti-globalisation activists marched on Saturday through Africa’s largest slum, calling for an end to conflict and a new war on poverty at the start of a major protest against…

<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/291293/aidsday06.gif" align=left>Awareness campaigns have succeeded in reducing Kenya’s HIV/Aids prevalence rate to 6% in 2006 from…

Environmentalists on Wednesday hailed Democratic victories in United States congressional elections as a possible harbinger of change in the global-warming policies of the…

Rising sea levels and ocean temperatures, floods and other calamities linked to global warming threaten hundreds of natural and manmade cultural sites around the world, the…

Mohammed Abdi Guhad sits idly in the shade of a makeshift wooden kiosk, explaining his plan to return to Somalia and fight for the country’s powerful Islamist movement. "I would…

Known as the "Lunatic Express" for its exorbitant construction cost and the perilous dangers of disease and tribal and wildlife attacks its original builders faced in the late…

Eager for a dose of winter, Kenyans are stepping out of blazing equatorial heat into the chill of East Africa’s first ice rink for halting forays into sports normally associated…

Kenyans voted peacefully on Monday in a constitutional referendum amid fears of violence after a bitterly contested campaign for the first major change to the country’s charter…