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.