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A community portal about Kenya with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Republic of Kenya is a country in Eastern Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, Uganda... [more]
A community portal about Kenya with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The Republic of Kenya is a country in Eastern Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north, Somalia to the east, Tanzania to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan to the northwest, with the Indian Ocean running along the southeast border.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Scores of top African designers and models held a show in Nairobi National Park at the weekend to raise money for victims of Kenya's post-election violence and show a different face to their continent.
The "Fashion for Peace" event drew mainly West and East African models onto a catwalk in a marquee under the moonlight on savannah usually known for its lions and rhinos.
"Fashion for Peace will not change the world, although it does aim at changing people's negative...
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Last Updated: Tuesday, 29 January 2008, 04:17 GMT Bush addresses US economy fears President Bush uses his last regular State of the Union address to try to shore up US economic confidence...
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Youths in the Nairobi slum of Kibera, caught up in election violence, Credit:Julius Mwelu/IRINNAIROBI, Feb 27 2008 (IPS) - Political analyst Kwamchetsi Makhokha has warned that failure of talks to address Kenya's political crisis could prove explosive. The East African country is trying to resolve a disputed presidential election that has already cost more than 1,000 lives -- and displaced up to 600,000 people."It will not be machetes and arrows any more, but firearms. Intelligence reports...
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Kikuyu men shout and gesture at Luo tribe members as they are evacuated by the police. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Karel PrinslooPOLITICS-KENYA: Hopes of a Breakthrough in the Post-Election Crisis
By Kwamboka Oyaro NAIROBI, Feb 11 (IPS) - Negotiations to bring an end to the political chaos in Kenya that was sparked by disputed presidential elections entered their third week, Monday, in the capital of Nairobi, amidst reports that an agreement may finally be in sight.The talks, dubbed the ‘Kenya...
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President Bush hanging with the homeys in his natural milieu...... Not! It was refreshing to see that President Bush decided to visit the continent of Africa before the end of his term in office. To his credit, he has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world's most impoverished continent since taking office and has vowed to double that increased amount by 2010 to $9 billion. This is indeed noble of a man who has been shunned by black voters, myself included, in the...
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Prosecutors hunting the most wanted Rwandan genocide fugitive, Felicien Kabuga, are involved in an increasingly acrimonious row with the Kenyan government over the failure to confiscate his assets and assist with his arrest. Frustrated officials at ...
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The Kenyan government said Monday it will fully operationalize the Tobacco Control Bill, which prohibits smoking in public places, on Tuesday.
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East African Business Week 5 July 2008 Cedric Lumiti Nairobi The effectiveness of Kenya's coalition government came under its first major test last week as President Mwai Kibaki balanced almost non-exiting ...
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Agriculture minister William Ruto says he will soon table a bill in parliament, which will enable the tea sector to sell tea branded as Kenyan tea abroad. ...
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NAIROBI, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Kenya has joined African ...
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NAIROBI, July 7 (Reuters) - Kenyan mortgage company Housing Finance (HOUS.NR: Quote , Profile , Research , Stock Buzz ) said on Monday it had successfully raised 2.3 billion shillings ($35.24 million) in a rights issue it launched in May, which was ...
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's shilling was little changed against the dollar in quiet trade on Monday, and dealers said its outlook was mixed as the market eyed an unfolding political drama over the sale of a luxury hotel. Parliament passed a vote of ...
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Kenya's embattled Finance Minister, Amos Kimunya, caught in a hotel sale scam and censured by parliament last week, added a new dimension to the saga Sunday when he demanded that Prime Minister Raila Odinga and the attorney general step aside ...
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NAIROBI, July 6: Kenya’s 37-member athletics squad named on Saturday for next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing after the two-day national trials at the Nyayo national stadium. Marathon: Martin Lel, Robert Cheruiyot, Samuel Wanjiru. 10,000m: Moses ...
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Government was sworn in a couple of months ago, they promised Kenyans that despite the bloated size of the Cabinet, they would do the right thing to bring the country back on its feet economically and in other spheres.
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