Once again, the voters have chosen leaders tainted by scandal, though there is a small reason for hope
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/ 5 September 2008
Maasai warrior Lempuris Lalasho went to Kenya’s tourist haven Mombasa to find a white woman to marry, but he ended up working as a hairdresser.
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/ 20 January 2008
Kenya’s opposition party, determined to bring down the government of President Mwai Kibaki, has called for another day of ”peaceful rallies” across Kenya in defiance of a ban and despite the deaths of more than 20 people in this week’s demonstrations.
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,” Kangethe says of the alert that instructs him to report to the nearest cellphone shop to retrieve money his brother-in-law sent him just moments ago. Kangethe is one of more than 65 000 registered users of M-Pesa, a mobile money-transfer system.
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/ 25 January 2007
Commonwealth secretary general Don McKinnon on Wednesday voiced disappointment at Zimbabwe’s worsening political crisis and hoped the Southern African nation would eventually rejoin the bloc. ”We are very sad about the situation in Zimbabwe, we hope they will uphold standards of human rights and they will come back and join the Commonwealth,” he said.