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/ 13 February 2006
The United Nations and the European Commission are seeking -million to meet the needs of 30-million vulnerable people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Monday. The DRC’s 2006 humanitarian action plan has been launched in Belgium.
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/ 13 February 2006
Mary Kimani has searched for love at weddings and even funerals. Finally, tired of waiting for love in the conservative East African nation of Kenya, she broke with tradition and joined Kenya’s first dating website, hoping to meet someone who will send her chocolate and roses on Valentine’s Day.
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/ 10 February 2006
A hot-air balloon carrying safari-goers over Kenya’s famed wildlife-rich Maasai Mara National Reserve crashed on Friday, killing the British pilot and a female Belgian tourist, officials said. The 11 other passengers in the balloon — eight Canadians and three Belgians — were injured in the crash, according to police.
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/ 10 February 2006
The gut-wrenching stench of rotting flesh hangs in the air in this remote northeastern Kenyan village where the putrefying carcasses of cattle are a testament to a searing drought that threatens millions with starvation across east Africa.
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/ 8 February 2006
Kenyan police have arrested the owner of an unfinished Nairobi building whose collapse last month is thought to have killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100, officials said on Wednesday. Nganga Kihonge faces manslaughter charges in connection with the January 23 collapse.
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/ 7 February 2006
At least 12 people have died in the past two weeks from an outbreak of meningitis in drought-stricken northern Kenya, officials said on Tuesday, warning of an epidemic of the fatal disease. Kenya’s health ministry reported 57 cases of meningitis, 12 of them fatal, since late January.
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/ 7 February 2006
”Why didn’t you prevent this?” is a question Kenyans may start asking legislators soon, concerning a report about the government’s purchase of luxury vehicles in 2003 and 2004. Entitled Living Large: Counting the Cost of Official Extravagance in Kenya, the 23-page document was issued last week by the local chapter of Transparency International.
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/ 6 February 2006
Thousands of Kenyans turned up with food donations for a weekend benefit concert in aid of millions threatened by a searing drought that has ravaged vast swathes of East Africa. The entry fee was the equivalent of a dollar or a packet of maize meal flour and the audience was mostly composed of youths who danced energetically.
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/ 3 February 2006
As revelations about a multimillion-dollar scam involving the Anglo Leasing and Finance company riveted public attention in Kenya , a report about investigations into the country’s biggest corruption scandal to date was gathering dust in an office at State House.
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/ 2 February 2006
Tanzanian authorities on Thursday began rationing electricity because of water shortages at hydroelectric plants caused by a drought that has placed millions at risk of famine across East Africa. Minister of Energy and Minerals Ibrahim Msabaha said power will be cut during the day from 8am to about 5pm local time.
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/ 31 January 2006
Officials in drought-stricken Kenya reacted with outrage on Tuesday to a plan by a New Zealand woman to send dog food to feed starving children threatened by famine in the East African nation. Kenyan officials vehemently rejected the donation and said they would put measures in place to prevent any similar assistance.
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/ 31 January 2006
Hundreds of workers at a leading Kenyan flower farm rioted after being sacked en masse for striking in a dispute over wages and working conditions. Police fired tear gas and fought running battles on Monday with the workers, who were among more than 1 000 employees at the Oserian farm in Kenya’s central Rift Valley fired for participating in the strike.
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/ 31 January 2006
The World Bank has delayed the release of about -million in loans to Kenya over corruption concerns amid new graft allegations that have rocked the East African nation, officials said on Tuesday. The money was earmarked for education, banking reform, budget support and HIV/Aids programmes.
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/ 27 January 2006
As the chances of finding more survivors in the building that collapsed earlier this week in Nairobi moved from slim to remote, poor oversight and corruption were being blamed for the disaster. Concrete used for the collapsed building, still under construction at the time that it went down, had apparently not been allowed to set properly.
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/ 26 January 2006
Rescuers suspended work at the site of a collapsed building in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, on Thursday as officials conceded there was virtually no chance of finding any more survivors and an Israeli military team that had been leading the effort prepared to leave.
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/ 25 January 2006
An Israeli rescue team pulled three more bodies from a collapsed building in Nairobi, Kenya, early on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 17, as an officer said tests indicated anyone still trapped under the rubble is either dead or unconscious. Radar, acoustic tests and specially trained dogs indicated there is no sound or movement beneath the ruined building.
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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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/ 24 January 2006
A team of United States soldiers on Tuesday joined frantic efforts to rescue survivors from the ruins of a building in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where police said at least eight people were killed and some trapped in the rubble could still be heard nearly 18 hours after it collapsed.
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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
A building collapsed in central Nairobi on Monday while more than 280 workers were inside, leaving at least eight people dead, witnesses and construction workers said. More than 50 seriously injured people were rushed to hospitals, medics said. At the weekend, two buildings collapsed in Nigeria, killing at least 15 people.
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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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/ 19 January 2006
A battle for livestock between Ethiopian and Kenyan nomads has left 38 people dead in drought-stricken northern Kenya, official and aid workers said on Thursday. Dongiro warriors crossed into Kenya last Friday and attacked Turkana herdsmen in order to steal their animals, said the district commissioner for Turkana.
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/ 17 January 2006
Aid agencies warned on Tuesday that they do not have money to feed millions of Kenyans suffering from food shortages. The warning came a day after Information and Communications Minister Mutahi Kagwe announced that the number of Kenyans at risk from the food crisis has increased to 3,5-million from 2,5-million.
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/ 16 January 2006
Scores of river-dwelling hippos are dying in Kenya’s famed Maasai Mara National Reserve due to a searing drought that threatens the country’s renowned wildlife and has put millions of people across East Africa at risk of famine, officials and witnesses said on Monday.
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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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/ 13 January 2006
Kenyan authorities on Friday ordered police to be ruthless with an outlawed cult blamed for murders and violent robberies and held by officials to be attempting to win legitimacy by transforming itself into a political party. "Despite the sect having been banned, there are obvious indications that it is still alive," said National Security Minister John Michuki.
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/ 13 January 2006
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday of an impending "humanitarian catastrophe" in the Horn of Africa where millions of people in four countries are facing severe food and water shortages and potential famine.
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/ 13 January 2006
Gunmen armed with an assault rifle shot and killed a well-known elderly British environmentalist early on Friday in an apparent robbery in Kenya’s central Rift Valley, police said. Joan Wenn Root (69) the daughter of a colonial-era British settler, was shot three times in her bed at home near the town of Naivasha, about 90km northwest of Nairobi.
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/ 12 January 2006
Eritrea on Thursday said it doubted the ”legality and political relevance” of a United States diplomatic mission being sent by Washington to ease simmering border tensions between it and Ethiopia. In recent months, tensions have soared along the border with the United Nations reporting troop movements on both sides.
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/ 12 January 2006
An alleged ex-convict known only as ”Maranda” may have been responsible for the rape of five-year-old Peris Akoth at the beginning of this year, in Kenya. Then again, he may not. However, the case has already become a rallying point for anti-rape campaigners who claim that abuses such as these would be less likely to occur if Kenya had adequate legislation on the books.
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/ 11 January 2006
A searing drought that has put millions of people across East Africa at risk of famine is threatening Kenya’s famed wildlife herds as they stray from protected areas to forage for scarce food and water. Officials said elephants had killed at least two people in the past two weeks around Tsavo, which is home to the largest number of the animals.
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/ 10 January 2006
Kenya on Tuesday lamented its absence from the list of the world’s poorest nations whose debts were cancelled last year by the Group of Eight (G8) rich industrialised countries, saying it was being punished for good financial performance.