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Crisis talks for Kenya coalition

Source: BBC

Nairobi :: Kenya | 1 day ago | No category

The pair agreed to work together last year to end clashes over disputed polls which left some 1,500 people dead. Some Kenyans fear political bickering could lead to renewed violence. The BBC's Josphat Makori in Nairobi says tension has been...

Kenya witch doctor predicts Obama win

Posted by: benjiross

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 months ago | Political News

As the United States presidential election looms, it's not just polls in the US that are putting Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the lead. A witch doctor in Kogelo, western Kenya, where Obama's father grew up, on Saturday also predicted...

U.N. and African leaders meet on Congo crisis

Posted by: kalex

Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 month ago | Political News

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon met African leaders at a summit in Kenya on Friday to try and end the conflict in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo before it engulfs the whole region. Fighting between rebel leader Laurent Nkunda...

Obama victory raises hopes of Kenyan poor

Source: Financial Times

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 months ago | Political News

Sources within the Kenya Power and Lighting Company said they were under intense pressure from high up to ensure that the home of Mama Sarah – Mr Obama’s grandmother – and the surrounding area had electricity.

Calls for humanitarian corridors in Congo

Posted by: aarana

Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 month ago | No category

Leaders at a regional summit on the latest violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo called Friday for an immediate cease-fire and the creation of humanitarian corridors. In a communique released at the end of the African Union-hosted summit,...

Obama election draws cheers around the globe

Source: The Mercury News

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 months ago | Political News

Armstrong's 1969 moon landing in describing Obama's election as "one giant leap for mankind." Yet celebrations were often tempered by sobering concerns that Obama faces global challenges as momentous as the hopes his campaign inspired — wars in Iraq and...

Kenyan leader faces criticism over media law

Source: Xinhuanet.com

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 days ago | No category

Kenya's media fraternity on Saturday reacted with fury following a decision by President Mwai Kibaki to assent to a controversial media law that imposes new restrictions on media operations. The country's civil society organizations, religious leaders and legal fraternities joined...

Rebels urged to return to talks

Source: News 24

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 days ago | No category

The United Nations urged rebels in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday to return to peace talks scheduled to resume in Nairobi on January 7...The rebels, led by renegade Tutsi general Laurent Nkunda, on Friday accused...

Sleepy Kogelo village transformed overnight

Source: Daily Nation

Nairobi :: Kenya | 2 months ago | No category

The Kogelo village and the Obama family have undergone a complete metamorphosis, literally. The change was evident immediately after the man whose roots are in the village became the leader of the world’s most powerful nation, the United States of...

America is shining once more

Source: Daily Nation

Nairobi :: Kenya | about 1 month ago | Political News

On January 29, 2002, I sat in a pool of blood at the top of the stairs of my home...Bush address the nation and declare that our country was facing an “axis of evil.” I was greatly upset because Bush...