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/ 6 November 2002
The World Food Programme made a renewed plea to the over-stretched aid community this week for funds to feed up to 14-million people facing starvation in the Horn of Africa. It was the agency’s fourth appeal this month setting the plight of the Horn against that of Southern Africa.
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/ 28 October 2002
Kenya’s fractured opposition united this week behind a single candidate for December’s presidential elections to try to prise President Daniel arap Moi’s party from power. Mwai Kibaki, a close runner-up in the past two polls, is backed by the new National Rainbow Coalition.
The bodies of 75 people killed in ethnic clashes in the eastern Congolese city of Bunia during the past week were found in mass graves, a United Nations military observer said on Sunday.
Stopping Africa’s deserts from creeping further into fertile land is the aim of a -million project launched on Monday by the United Nations.
All humanitarian flights from northern Kenya to strife-torn southern Sudan were grounded on Friday after Khartoum imposed a flight ban in the region following escalating fighting between government troops and rebels.
Mutinous soldiers have strengthened their hold on the northern half of Ivory Coast by taking control of a third city, local media reported on Saturday.
FLOODS and mudslides caused by torrential rains in Kenya have killed 46 people and injured eight others in the past two weeks.
The US Agency for International Development has granted Kenya ,2-million to promote economic growth and democracy, following agreements signed here on Monday.
The Zimbabwean army was expected to begin its final withdrawal of troops from Congo on Friday as US President George Bush prepared to meet in New York with key leaders involved in Congo’s four-year-long war.
LARGE development projects like dams and reservoirs around Africa’s mountain areas could trigger earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides, a leading South African geologist said on Tuesday.
Kenya, without donor aid, will enter into heavy domestic borrowing to bridge a four-percent budget deficit.
Kenya’s opposition parties, for years crippled by self-inflicted divisions, have promised tens of thousands of chanting supporters they will join forces to break the ruling party’s 39-year hold on power.
Sudan’s SPLM/A rebels on Saturday claimed seven children have been injured in a bombing attack by government planes.
The new head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Supachai Panitchpakdi, on Friday admitted that the powerful global body was partly to blame for some of the world’s social ills.
At least 30 people have been killed and over 50 wounded in two days of fighting in Mogadishu, with thousands displaced.
Hundreds of lawyers across Kenya staged a one-day strike on Wednesday to protest an alleged attempt by judges to interfere with the country’s constitutional review process.
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi for the first time in his 24 years in power on Thursday skipped marking the day he assumed power in the east African country.
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.
The bulk of Kenya’s opposition parties on Tuesday named Mwai Kibaki, a 71-year-old former vice president, as their candidate in a crucial presidential poll expected in December.
An uneasy calm is returning to the Somali capital, Mogadishu, two days after one of the bloodiest battles for years was fought there.
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.
Scores of people were injured and property destroyed on Friday when hundreds of Kenyans stormed a refugee camp in northeast Kenya to protest at job discrimination.
Money, usually too tight to mention in the dusty central Kenyan town of Nanyuki, flowed freely this week as cattle herders finally came into British compensation for half a century of deaths and
injuries on local live-fire ranges.
Veterans of the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion against British colonial rule in Kenya said on Sunday that they plan to seek compensation for atrocities committed by British soldiers.
The era when Kenya’s staple maize-meal, popularly known as Ugali, reigned supreme in menus here is coming to an end, as cheap foreign culinary delights send locals on spending sprees.
Kenyan game rangers tracked down and shot dead a lion shortly after it mauled to death a game warden at a national park.
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.
Government forces and rebels clashed on Tuesday in southern Sudan’s Western Upper Nile Region, soon after leaders of both sides held landmark peace talks.
A controversial Kenyan opposition lawmaker was jailed for six months on Friday for publishing an ”alarming” statement on ethnic violence in Kenya in 1997.
Kenyan authorities have cancelled a pay hike they awarded to teachers five years ago after 240 000 teachers began a strike early this week to demand the government honour the salary agreement, officials said on Wednesday.
Kenyan police said on Friday they have detained another man suspected to be part of a terrorist group which tried to shoot down an Israeli jetliner with more than 260 passengers on board.
The Eritrean government is holding 14 journalists in custody, at least one of them in solitary confinement, says the Committee to Protect Journalists.