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It has been an eventful week to Kenya as Kofi Annan jetted back to the country to monitor its progress on reforms.
Most of his meetings with the Principals (Raila and...
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Nuclear warfare is a constant threat to life on earth but climate change is no less serious, says a summit of the world’s Nobel Laureates who, along with Prince...
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I have only been writing about events and the history of Zimbabwe for just short of four years. And in that time I have sustained many attacks by radical readers who...
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As Zimbabwe lurches deeper into crisis this week, with an apparent stalemate in the tentative negotiations between the government and the opposition, the man who...
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Kenya’s Police boss has defended the police force against accusations that it used excessive force during the recent post-election violence that hit the country early...
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Former UN head Kofi Annan has called for a “green revolution” to solve the food crisis threatening Africa.
“A genuinely African green revolution...
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THE situation in Kenya is fast degenerating into chaos, following the collapse of talks between president Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga over a...
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Britain yesterday said that the Kenyan army is now “by far the best option” to stop a sectarian bloodbath as peace talks in Nairobi between the government...
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Hardliners in Kenya are girding for fresh hostilities, a policy panel warned on Thursday, urging the world to impose targeted sanctions to save the east African nation...
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President Kibaki on Tuesday for the first time signalled the kind of agreement he is proposing to help resolve the political crisis which has engulfed the country since...
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When Joyce Mandela’s mobile phone beeped to signal she had a text message, the 27-year old Kenyan expected a note from a friend. Instead, she found a message of...
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Kenya’s feuding parties on Monday to hurry up with a pact to end a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people...
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Kenya’s political rivals have agreed on the need for an independent review of the disputed election, but the difficult question of sharing power has yet to be...
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Former UN chief Kofi Annan (R) speaks informally with members of the Kenyan Parliament in Nairobi February 12. Kenya’s rival parties have agreed to change the...
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The United Nations has often failed to live up to its responsibility to promote human rights be it the ongoing killing of civilians in Darfur or the threat of a...
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The Gleneagles Hotel was the plush backdrop for the 31st summit of the world’s industrialized democracies in 2005. Mr. Tony Blair had set the priority of...
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NDTV reports that India has nominated UN Under-Secretary General Shashi Tharoor for the post of the UN secretary general. The final decision on Kofi Annan’s...
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