News from Kenya

May 9, 2008

17:27
THE Kenya School of Monetary Studies in Ruaraka, Nairobi, yesterday hosted the country's high and mighty.
14:11
A Zimbabwean aid worker with the World Food Programme was shot and killed by gunman in Kenya on Wednesday evening.
13:05
Algeria has pledged to assist Kenya resettle villagers displaced by communal violence that followed disputed elections at the end of last year, the presidency announced Friday.
12:54
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - The World Food Program says one of its workers has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen this week in northwestern Kenya. The U.N. group says Silence Chirara is the first of its aid workers to be killed in the town of Lokichoggio.
11:17
The World Food Program says one of its workers has been shot and killed by unidentified gunmen this week in northwestern Kenya.
09:10
One year after Kenya Airways Boeing 737- 800 crashed at Mbanga Pongo in the outskirt of Douala, uncertainty and controversies continue to ensue as to the cause of the crash, and the payment of compensation to families of the victims.
07:24
Unidentified gunmen killed a senior United Nations aid worker in remote northwestern Kenya, the U.N. World Food Programme said on Friday.
06:17
The World Food Programme on Friday condemned the killing of an agency official working in northern Kenya, from where he cordinated relief operation for troubled southern Sudan.
04:10
Kenya's power-sharing cabinet meets for the first time for former rivals to learn how to work as a team.
04:10
Kenya's power-sharing cabinet meets for the first time for former rivals to learn how to work as a team.
04:04
Kenya has launched a witness-protection programme in an attempt to fight surging crime.
03:27
Out of 18 million children, Kenya has a total of 2.4 million orphans, a Government survey has revealed.
01:41
THE body of renowned playwright and social commentator Ngugi wa Mirii was flown to Kenya yesterday for burial in his home town of Limuru next Wednesday.

May 8, 2008

20:51
EL RAM, Kenya (Reuters) - It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-coloured soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.
20:36
It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-colored soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.
19:40
NAIROBI: Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola on Thursday announced it would invest 50 million US dollars in its five franchises in Kenya, where post-election violence adversely affected the firm.
19:15
Source: Reuters By Hereward Holland EL RAM, Kenya, May 9 (Reuters) - It is tempting to romanticise the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust- ...
19:05
It is tempting to romanticize the lifestyle of nomads in Kenya's northeast -- a land peppered with vast termite mounds which burst from rust-colored soil like fingers pointing to the cloudless sky.
19:00
Coca-Cola products are displayed in a cooler at a convenience store in April 2008 in San Francisco, California. Soft drinks giant Coca-Cola on Thursday announced it would invest 50 million dollars in its five franchises in Kenya, where post-election violence adversely affected the firm.
18:46
Army worms have destroyed swathes of farmland in central Kenya, threatening food security in the east African nation, an official said Thursday.