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Washington Week Focus on Scandals and Tragedies
WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Barack Obama visits a town devastated by a killer tornado and federal investigations continue into the cause of a major bridge collapse in Washington State and a freight train collision in Missouri. Congress is not in session this week so investigations into recent scandals continue to dominate the Washington political agenda. President Obama traveled Sunday to ...
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Video Suspect in U.K. soldier killing was arrested in Kenya in 2010
Michael Adebolajo, the main suspect in the murder of a British soldier, was arrested in Kenya in 2010 on suspicions he tried to train with an Al Qaeda ...
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Nigeria fastest growing African country – Jonathan
In spite of security challenges in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday declared that Nigeria was growing faster than any country in ...
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Brazil Government Writes Off Majority Of African Debt
Dilma Rousseff in 2009 (Photo: Wikipedia) The Brazilian government has announced that it is to either write off or restructure over US$900 million worth of debt with Africa. Among the 12 countries to benefit are oil-rich Congo-Brazzaville, Zambia, and Tanzania. Experts have suggested the move is a bid to improve economic ties between Brazil and the African continent. During the last decade ...
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Fighting to save Africas rhinos
Wildlife Rangers are on the frontline of the battle to save elephants and rhinos from poaching gangs. The illegal trade in rhino horn, highlighted by Prince William earlier this year, is threatening the very existence of the creatures. NBC's Rohit Kachroo reports on the work of the round-the-clock patrols at Lewa National ...
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Khune voted star of South African season
Itumeleng Khune stole the show at the South African end-of-season football awards ceremony in Johannesburg. The 25-year-old Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper was voted Player of the Season by the 16 top-tier coaches and collected three other prizes. Khune also won the players' player and best goalkeeper awards in the Premiership plus best player in the FA Cup. Chiefs won both competitions this ...
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Aid on the block as African economies take off
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Over the decades rich nations have poured trillions of dollars into African development projects, but the global economic meltdown and Africa's booming growth are turning off that tap.In 2012 western aid to sub-Saharan Africa quite literally decimated.Rich countries making up the OECD reduced assistance to the region by ten percent, the largest drop in 16 years.Under ...
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Libya now helping the Syrians with refuge
MISRATA, - Two years ago Syrians in the relative security of their own country watched the unfolding crisis in Libya descend into a devastating civil ...
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Kenya Perpetrators of complex crimes walk free due to lack of enough evidence.
crimes in the country go scot free for lack of an elaborate witness protection program. A witness protection agency has disclosed that Culprits of crimes like terrorism, piracy, corruption, drug trafficking and money laundering have been listed as among the greatest beneficiaries of a weak witness protection system as witness cannot freely give their accounts in court. At a workshop ...
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Suspect in UK soldiers murder had Kenya arrest
LONDON //One of the main suspects in the killing of a British soldier on a London street had previously been arrested in Kenya in 2010, the country's anti-terrorism police confirmed yesterday. Michael Adebolajo was believed to have been preparing to train and fight with the Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group Al Shabab when he was arrested with five others, the head of Kenya's ...
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Kenya Rifle found near Kibakis farm
Nyeri, Kenya: Shock has gripped residents of a village near Mweiga town after a rifle and bullets were recovered at a farm opposite that of former President Kibaki's newly constructed ...
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Kenya Security lapse paralyses public transport
Hundreds of passengers are stranded in Mandera town following the withdrawal of public service vehicles from Lafey-Mandera road over increased insecurity. The commuters heading to Lafey district, many of them civil servants and traders, who had gone to the town for business transactions and bank services, were left with no means of getting back after the three minibuses plying the route pulled ...
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Kenya Opportunities at land commission to drive reforms
Three months after being gazetted, the commission is moving to entrench its authority in the sector. It has embarked on a new initiative to ensure it has the best brains from local labour market to help drive the process. Though NLC inherited personnel from the former commissioner of lands department, the law that created it mandates it to employ new staff to spearhead implementation of land ...
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Kenya GMO ban may hurt 1.6m living with HIV
Dr Joel Ochieng, a Research Fellow at the University of Nairobi's Evolutionary Genetics Centre for Biotechnology and Bioinformatics and College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences explained that the lives of 6 per cent of the Kenyan Population living ...
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Kenya Cereals board KMC to be restructured
Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) to embark on a process of appointing agents to distribute subsidised fertilisers to farmers across the country. He said the appointment of agents would enable farmers easily access fertilisers and boost food production noting that unscrupulous businessmen were exploiting farmers by selling farm inputs expensively yet the Government had provided ...
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Kenya House set to debate Revenue Bill as supremacy fight rages
National Assembly has moved a notch higher even as Kenyans wait to know the fate of the Bill which seeks to divide revenue between national and county ...
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Kenya Hindus celebrate yoga monk
They pledged to continue building the economy of the town and the county. Speaking during the ceremony, Eldoret Hindu Temple's chairman Deepa Bhatt said as members of a minority group, they will continue supporting economic programmes. He said the Hindu community will make contributions in business projects geared towards achievement of Vision 2030. "Being a minority group, we are ...
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Kenya Sustainable job wealth creation remains bleak
economy was witnessing its worst performance since independence, and with a ballooned expenditure, high public wage bill and virtually no foreign direct investment, the Government was broke. The then new Finance minister Musalia Mudavadi led a government panel made up of Permanent Secretaries and ministers from the ministries of Information and Broadcasting, Commerce and Industry and the ...
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Opinion Africa should stop blaming the West clean up its mess
West is warranted, it is nevertheless, a wrong prescription for an ailment that has been wrongly diagnosed. A casual look at the context of such demands brings this out clearly. Recently, this agitation has revolved around the International Criminal Court (ICC). ...
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Opinion More remains to be done even as independent Africa turns 50
When Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Guinea President Ahmed Skou Tour and President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia met Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie in 1957, they had a far-reaching conversation. And while they reveled in their newfound freedom, they wished all of Africa could unshackle the chains of colonialism. They consulted widely and helped found ...
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Magazines Euthanasia a pipe dream in Africa
To appreciate that we are yet to crawl out of the woodwork compared to the so-called developed countries, ignore the 'development' parameters set out by UNDP and focus instead on euthanasia -- or assisted ...
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Kenya confirms arrest of terror suspect
One of the main suspects in the brutal murder of a soldier in London was arrested in Kenya more than two years ago for seeking terror ...
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Libyas parliament approves new interior minister to oversee the countrys fledgling police
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libyan lawmakers have approved the prime minister's pick for interior minister after his predecessor resigned. Mohammed al-Sheikh replaces Ashour Shwayel as head of Libya's fledgling police force. He was sworn in Sunday after Libya's General National Congress endorsed him. The Interior Ministry is under pressure to rein in militias, which have grown in strength. ...
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Kenya police kill wanted terrorist who plotted attacks in country had links with al-Shabab
MOMBASA, Kenya - A Kenyan police official says the country's anti-terrorism police have killed a wanted terrorist and recovered a cache of weapons in the port city of Mombasa. Police official Boniface Mwaniki said Sunday that Khalid Ahmed was trailed by police from the capital Nairobi to Mombasa where he was killed in a dawn exchange of fire at his mother's house. Mwaniki says the ...
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Rebels attack army base in Sudans top oil-producing state
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels with tanks attacked an army base in Sudan's top oil-producing state of South Kordofan on Sunday, and both sides claimed ...
Sudan Spotlight
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Sudan and the South
In January of 2011 the future of Sudan as a unified country will be decided. A referendum is due to be held in South Sudan that will decide whether the regional government of the area, which accounts for around a third of Sudan, should break away from the rest of the country and become a fully-independent nation.
South Sudan has a long history of being at odds with the rest of the country and this conflict of interests has been attributed in Western media to the fact that northern Sudan is primarily Muslim and Arab dominated, whereas South Sudan is made up of indigenous African cultures and ethnicities, this view has been reinforced by the ongoing violence in Darfur, a region of Sudan where a genocide is occurring and has led to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan being charged with war crimes by the International Court at The Hague, a charge that the government in Khartoum categorically denies. Read more
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