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Kenya tourism suffers amid security scares, global slowdown
The beach is full of Kenyans, but few foreigners.
In Pictures: Journalists protest Egypt jailing of Jazeera colleagues
AFP- Scores of supporters of Al-Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt demonstrated on Tuesday in Kenya, the base of one of the detained reporters. “Being a journalist is not a crime,” the crowd of around a 100 shouted outside the Egyptian embassy in Nairobi, in a peaceful protest watched over by armed police. The detained journalists, …
Journalists protest Egypt jailing of Jazeera colleagues
The detained journalists, who have been locked up for more than a month, include Peter Greste, an award-winning Australian reporter who previously worked for the BBC and who lives in the Kenyan capital.
IMF plans to raise global economic growth forecast: Lagarde
The IMF chief dined with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday evening in the coastal city of Mombasa.
Egypt earns silver medal in African Nations hockey competition
South African team says it was âa tough challengeâ
Hockey team first loss in African Nations Cup
Egyptian hockey team must beat Ghana after losing to South Africa to advance to world cup finals
Simple invention brokers peace between humans and wildlife
An eleven year-old invents a device to save his familyâs cattle from lions
Whatâs behind the Nairobi and Peshawar attacks?
By Akbar Ahmed Washington, DC â The outrageous killings at the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya and the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan last month once again prompted legitimate questions about what can be done to stop terrorist violence. While many commentators instinctively pointed to an Islamic motif in the attacks, the perpetrators …
Kenya mall attack will ‘end soon’: minister
Several foreign fighters, including Somalis with dual nationalities, are members of the Shebab force.
Morsi meets with Nile Basin counterparts
President Mohamed Morsi meets with the heads of state of Sudan, South Sudan, and Kenya in Addis Ababa
Does Qandil have the right to amend the constitution?
Constitutional expert: Constitutionally, Qandil doesnât have the right to call for amending the constitution unless he is advised to do so by the president
Kenya votes in tight elections after police gunned down
Voters standing for hours in snaking lines several hundreds of metres (yards) long and several people thick crowded peacefully outside polling stations to take part in one of the most complex elections Kenya has ever held.
President of Egyptâs technology chamber: EGP 80m owed to tech companies
Ten cases have been successfully solved, with four companies still with unresolved issues
Kenya’s ICC-indicted politicians ally ahead of election
The March polls are the first since deadly post-election violence in 2007-2008
Gunmen kill three soldiers in Kenya’s northeast, says police
Kenya has suffered a wave of grenade and gun attacks, often blamed on Al Shabab sympathisers
Shebab Islamists abandon last stronghold in Somalia
almost a year after Kenya sent troops to rout them, Al-Shebab fighters retreat to the port city of Kismayo
Two Egyptians among five terrorist suspect to be extradited
Final appeal to European Court of Human Rights fails
Mass graves discovered empty in Kenya
Latest result of vicious inter-tribal warfare
Kenya attacks Al-Shabab port town of Kismayo
AMISOM disrupts delivery of recruits and logistics on Somalian coast
Ongoing violence in Mombasa, death toll of four
Death toll expected to rise if violence continues
Mulsim riots in Kenya protest against Muslim clericâs killing
Mombasa’s Muslims protesting the killing of Aboud Rogo Mohammed, amid continuous riots
Ethnic clashes in Kenya
Peace negotiations held, following Kenya’s ethnic massacre
Eight Ugandans survive army helicopter crash, two dead
Nairobi (AFP) – Eight Ugandan servicemen walked away from their helicopter after it crashed in Kenya en route to war-torn Somalia while two soldiers were confirmed dead in another crash, officials said Tuesday. Theirs were among three Russian-made Mi-24 combat helicopters that went down Sunday in a remote mountainous region of Kenya. One was found …
Bomb explodes inside of Somali refugee camp
A bomb exploded inside of the Dadaab refugee camp, injuring six people, as the African Union Mission in Somalia plans a counteroffensive against militants inside of Somalia
Iran discovers oil field but whoâs buying?
Kenya cancels oil deal with Iran after threat of sanctions for doing business with the nation
Kenyan youth demanding change
By Kennedy Kachwanya Whenever I think of the youth issues, I remember: “Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.” – Rachel Jackson. The youth are talented …