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More than 50,000 people have fled clashes between two ethnic groups in north-western Democratic Republic of Congo in recent weeks, the UN says.
Many of those fleeing are reported to be unaccompanied children, and some people have drowned trying cross..
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I am just appalled by the current political mood that the country is witnessing, did anyone else get shocked yesterday with what happened during the so called fund...
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It is regrettable and unfortunate if such a...
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THE five leaders of the East African Community (EAC) have signed a landmark agreement for a common market which allows free movement of people, goods, labour and...
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The Benz is to be replaced with Volkswagen Passats, which not only cost about two-thirds, the price of a new Benz in Kenya, but are also cheaper to run and maintain....
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Those wishing to marry partners of the same sex still have to seek countries where such marriages are allowed, before they can tie the knot.
Same sex marriages will...
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For years, one of the defining images of the African political élite has been the silhouette of a figure sitting behind tinted glass or drawn curtains in the backseat...
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Read the Draft constitution that has just been released in Kenya.
The draft, which many Kenyans have been waiting for has finally been released to the public, from...
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Perhaps not many people would quickly reckon this name – Felicien Kabuga, but he is one man who has remained elusive for years with Kenya remaining as his possible...
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The proposed draft constitution scheduled for publishing this week is promising to radically alter governance in Kenya. Its’ no doubt that Kenyans are looking forward...
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I am just sited here thinking will Kenya ever be a democratic country, free of impunity, corruption, and many other vices name them, I am sure the list is...
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Hagadera Refugee Camp, Kenya–For months, 18-year-old Ahmed Abdullahi had dodged the mortar shells that whizz daily through Mogadishu, the war-ravaged capital of...
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Looking around East Africa, indeed Africa, you can see the diplomatic space has become quite black.
A few weeks ago, Nairobi was turned upside down with the MTV Africa...
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I find this rather disturbing though I would not be quick to make any tangible comment and this to me is the stuff nightmares are made of.
I read this story in one of...
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Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time refusal to acknowledge the...
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As Kenya awaits the big visit by ICC prosecutor Moreno Ocampo, the internally displaced persons have lined up their petitions among which they want Ocampo to spearhead...
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Kenya’s attorney general said Wednesday he is seeking legal advice about whether he can sue the U.S. government for revoking his travel visa.
Attorney General...
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I have been very much around, just...
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Activists mostly based in the US argue that a genocide is still being carried out against non-Arab tribes scattered across the area’s arid wastes.
But General...
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Hooded men in uniforms without insignias on Wednesday shot and killed 12 members of the Awa indigenous group, including five children, on a reserve in a region plagued...
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One young man attended secret meetings in Minneapolis. Another got a phone call, urging him to leave Minnesota and go to Somalia to fight. Terrorist training videos...
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At least five foreigners, thought to be Pakistanis, have been killed in a dawn attack in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region, witnesses say.
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The European Union envoys on Thursday warned Kenya that their countries will help the International Criminal Court to deal with election violence suspects.
They said...
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