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Oct 3 2009
Three foreign workers with the French aid group Action Against Hunger (ACF) were freed Saturday after being held in Somalia since July, a humanitarian agency source said. The three, whose nationalities were not known, were expected to fly to Nairobi...
Sep 24 2009
Kenya, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations, is being targeted by Western paedophiles who are exploiting the country’s poverty and lax law enforcement to abuse children, an investigation has discovered. Undercover reporters for Channel...
Sep 1 2009
The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. Millions of impoverished Ethiopians face the threat of...
Jul 15 2009
In a radio advertisement at the centre of a controversy in Kenya, a distraught teenage girl asks for help after having unprotected sex. “What shall I do? I’m still in college. What happens to my future, my friends, my family, my...
Jul 8 2009
Africa’s first female president was propelled to power on a tide of democratic passion from voters eager to turn the page on the years of civil carnage. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was hailed as the woman whose level head and calm, almost grandmotherly,...
Mar 14 2008
Kenya, Crucial Files Lost in ECK Drama: Mystery surrounds the disappearance of three files containing vital information on the December 27 General Election. The files went missing on Monday when a group of activists stormed into an Electoral Commission...