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/ 17 November 2003
A Hutu rebel group in Burundi has refused to join Burundi’s peace process unless it can negotiate directly with Tutsis, a spokesperson for the National Liberation Forces said on Monday. ”Those who love Burundi should call the Tutsis so that they can open up and confess the wrongs they have done against Hutus,” he said.
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/ 11 November 2003
After closing Kenya’s six public universities, the Kenyan government has announced it will only negotiate with lecturers if they call off their strike. On Monday, the six universities were closed indefinitely after the strike began. Police were posted around the universities, but students remained calm.
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/ 29 October 2003
African countries must integrate if they are to overcome poverty, facilitate development and access international markets, Eastern African leaders said at a regional summit in Nairobi on Wednesday. The leaders were taking part in a one-day meeting about the New Partnership for Africa’s Development.
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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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/ 30 September 2003
An investigation by Kenya’s judiciary has found that almost half of the country’s judges and close to a third of its magistrates are corrupt. At least 23 out of Kenya’s 53 Appeals Court and High Court judges, and 82 out of its more than 200 magistrates have been accused of taking bribes.
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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.
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/ 24 September 2003
Aids could slash African economic growth by up to half, far more than previously suggested by researchers, the World Bank said on Wednesday. Previous studies have suggested that Aids would reduce GDP growth in the worst-hit countries by one or two percentage points annually.
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/ 24 September 2003
The Kenyan government has drafted a law that would outlaw discrimination against people infected with HIV or full-blown Aids. The draft law would make it illegal for employers to deny anyone a job or promotion because they are infected with HIV. The law would also make the deliberate spreading of the virus a criminal offence.
Aids could halve economic growth
Protest disrupts Aids conference
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/ 24 September 2003
Several dozen demonstrators demanding swift access to anti-retroviral drugs for HIV-infected Africans have staged a noisy protest at Africa’s biggest Aids conference in Nairobi. They demonstrated at the stands of pharmaceutical majors GlaxoSmithKline and Bristol-Myers Squibb and the American aid agency USAid.
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/ 21 September 2003
About 8 000 doctors, researchers, policymakers and grassroots campaigners gathered in Nairobi on Sunday for a council of war on Africa’s battle against Aids, a combat characterised by a relentlessly spreading pandemic but also by some good news at last about funds and access to drugs.
Hormonal contraceptives increase the risks of women being infected with the HI virus, according to research conducted among prostitutes.
They were ”mannerless boys” for whom rape was a sport after a day on the army firing range and who perhaps never imagined their alleged deeds would come to light.
In a society where an estimated 2,1-million people out of a population of 29-million already have HIV, Kenyan school children are tackling Aids head on. They need to — they have already lost their parents to the disease.
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/ 25 December 2002
Aids is posing a serious threat to Kenya’s tourism sector because of the large number of visitors who come into the country without being screened.
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/ 19 November 2002
Uhuru Kenyatta owes a lot to his name. Less than a year after entering politics, the 42-year-old son of Kenya’s founding father will fight the presidential election next month for the party that has ruled for almost 40 years. On the campaign trail one can see the power of the name.
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/ 10 October 2002
A new rapid HIV-testing kit has been launched in Kenya. The Rapid HIV Infection Diagnosis System test provides results in 30 seconds.
A Kenyan study has found that HIV-positive men with low CD4 counts are at a higher risk of reinfection with bilharzia.
An ambitious plan to rescue east Africa from poverty by building a European Union-style trade bloc is making slow progress, mainly due to squabbles over tariff reforms.
Kenyan investigators reported on Sunday they have found the remains of at least one gas cylinder which they said was part of the bomb that blew up an Israeli-owned hotel.
Kenya has ordered all its security agencies on a high state of alert after recent bombings at the port city of Mombasa and a claim by Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network that it had carried out the attacks.
Somali warlords and intellectuals came in for mockery with the staging of a play dramatising the decade-old conflict in the Horn of Africa country.
Nearly 12 000 Somali refugees will be transferred this week to a camp in northwestern Kenya to await resettlement in the United States, UN officials said Sunday.
Kenyan police has termed as ”unfair” accusations by the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the country’s security forces are ”using” the recent attack on an Israeli tourist hotel to justify a crackdown on refugees living in the capital Nairobi.
Peace efforts in Africa suddenly seem to be making progress, with major breakthroughs toward ending fighting in Congo, Sudan and Burundi in less than week.
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