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/ 27 February 2009
A Congolese family uprooted by war went to court on Friday seeking to be reunited with a Kenyan baby they say they found abandoned on the roadside.
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/ 16 February 2009
A UN official began investigations on Monday into alleged brutality by Kenyan security forces, including accusations of summary executions by police.
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/ 2 February 2009
Kenya began a week of mourning on Monday for at least 131 people who died in a petrol tanker blaze and another fire in a Nairobi supermarket.
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/ 13 January 2009
Tens of thousands of Kenyans have chosen to live in camps and rely on humanitarian aid rather than return home.
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/ 10 December 2008
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rebels and Kinshasa government officials met for a third day of talks in Nairobi on Wednesday.
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/ 9 December 2008
DRC rebels and government officials began a second day of direct talks under UN auspices in Nairobi on Tuesday, UN representatives said.
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/ 8 December 2008
Rebels opened peace negotiations with a government delegation on Monday in their first direct talks on ending the conflict in eastern DRC.
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/ 25 November 2008
Men often bribe guards and managers to get jobs, but sex is the preferred inducement for women in Kenya.
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/ 10 November 2008
With instruments made from waste material, former street children are making music — and remaking their lives. Rupi Mangat listens in.
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/ 16 October 2008
Nyokabi Baiya tries to love her neighbour, but it turns out she’s the crazy person every African market is said to have.
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/ 28 September 2008
More than 350 000 small-scale farmers in Africa and Central America will soon begin selling produce to the UN.
Olympic sensation Pamela Jelimo and footballer Dennis Oliech are two of Kenya’s hottest celebrities –so where are the T-shirts?
Kenya police have detained a pathologist hired by the state-run rights watchdog to probe claims that security forces tortured civilians.
Mary Kiio tries to make the perfect suede shoe fit her budget in a sea of temptation and a money-drought.
Somali refugees in Kenya are losing hope of ever returning to their home where rival groups are again battling for control.
Kenya on Thursday commemorated the 10th anniversary of explosions that tore through Washington’s missions in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
A shootout between police and suspected robbers killed five people on Monday in a hotel and casino parking lot in Kenya’s capital.
Kenya has rebuked the UN tribunal for Rwanda over its claims that Nairobi is sluggish in detaining Rwandan genocide fugitive Felicien Kabuga.
Africa’s electricity supply problems result from poor governance and not lack of capital, the head of a union of producers and distributors said.
East Africa’s expanding economies unveiled spending plans geared to more growth, but will probably be dampened by food and fuel price inflation.
Kenya’s prime minister openly dissented with the president on Tuesday in a row over amnesty for post-election crimes. President Mwai Kibaki’s government and Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s opposition came together in April to form a ”Grand Coalition” after violence that killed at least 1 300.
The United Nations Security Council meets the key players in the Somalia conflict on Monday to try to persuade the disparate factions to cooperate and restore order to the desperately poor and lawless Horn of Africa country. Somalia has been without a central government since the toppling of a dictator in 1991.
Most nations erect grandiose monuments to their historical triumphs. Eritrea put up a pair of sandals. The sculpted black metal shoes in Asmara’s Shida (Sandal) Square, recalling the footwear of Eritrea’s rebels, were a symbol of its remarkable 30-year independence war against its giant neighbour, Ethiopia, which ended with secession in 1991.
Kenya Airways said on Friday its 2007/08 annual profit after tax fell to 3,9-billion Kenya shillings from 4,1-billion due mainly to the impact of the East African nation’s post-election crisis. ”The events post-election had a negative impact on our revenue, especially between January to March,” said Titus Naikuni, the chief executive officer.
One of the two cargo freighters hijacked off the Somali coast this week was a German owned vessel registered in Gibraltar, a Kenyan maritime official said Friday. The MV Lehmann Timber seized on Wednesday in the Gulf of Aden, was managed by Kehdisgerland GMBH.
On a beach in Bosaso, north-east Somalia, near the tip of the Horn of Africa, dozens of Somali and Ethiopian refugees perch on rocks or squat in the sand, peering across the Gulf of Aden to the promised land. They are waiting for boats to carry them to Yemen and away from a life of miserable poverty, persecution and a war in Somalia.
Somali gunmen hijacked a Dutch-owned ship as it travelled from Kenya’s Mombasa port to Romania in the latest act of piracy off the lawless Horn of Africa nation’s coast, a maritime official said on Tuesday. The MV Amiya Scan, managed by the Dutch Reider Shipping BV, was seized on Sunday while it passed through the Gulf of Aden.
Kenya must stop forcibly returning internal refugees displaced by post-election violence that saw hundreds of thousands flee their homes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday. More than 1Â 200 people were killed and 300Â 000 left their homes after ethnic clashes hit swathes of the country following a disputed election in December.
Zimbabwe’s opposition accused the government’s military intelligence division on Monday of plotting to assassinate party leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who is due to contest an election run-off with President Robert Mugabe. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Tsvangirai postponed his return to Zimbabwe on Saturday after his party said it had discovered a plot to assassinate him.
Medical charity Médecins sans Frontières on Friday accused Kenyan police of forcing families displaced in post-election violence to return home. The group said its workers in western Kenya’s Endebess camp on Wednesday saw police move from tent to tent, threatening displaced families to make them leave.
Three African trade blocs plan to harmonise trade policies so Africa can compete more effectively on world markets. Erastus Mwencha, secretary general of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, said on Thursday his group would be meeting the East African Community and Southern African Development Community later this year.
Talks between Somalia’s interim government and the opposition in Djibouti are a waste of time and no tangible outcome can be expected, Islamist leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys said on Thursday. Speaking from Asmara, where he lives in exile, the former army colonel urged his allies attending the peace talks to walk out.