Spanish vessel hijacking - Urgent!

Urgent meeting held to resolve Spanish vessel hijacking Members of the governments of Spain and Somalia will have an emergency meeting to work out a solution to the hijacking of the Alakrana vessel,...

Africa seeks one voice on climate change

Africa’s Ministers for Water are in South Africa for a conference on climate change. The Second Africa Water Conference seeks to consolidate the continent’s position ahead of the conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark, in coming weeks. The one-week...

Usain Bolt Adopts Cheetah Cub: Fastest Man Meets Fastest Animal

World sprint champion Usain Bolt adopted a cheetah cub in Kenya's Nairobi National Park on Monday. The head of Kenya Wildlife Service described it as "the first time in history where the fastest animal and the...

Pupil back in school, wants lover arrested

Standard Eight pupil who had eloped with a councillor has resurfaced and is ready to sit the Kenya Certificate of Primary Examination (KCPE) scheduled for next month. The schoolgirl, who is eight months pregnant, also wants the councillor arrested and prosecuted. "I want the...

Spiderman Lizard New Pet Craze

A new exotic pet craze is sweeping the globe, after a very colorful lizard was found to resemble a very popular superhero. The Mwanza flat-headed rock agama looks a lot like Marvel superhero Spiderman, with a red...

Kenyan Mobile Phone Innovations

A couple of enterprising Kenyan engineering students are showing how mobile phones are an inventor’s dream. Their two inventions – one a way to re-charge phones while bicycling, the other an aid for catching...

Maize Crops Fail In Kenya, a sad Van Gogh.

Rains Fail Nairobi is facing three day power rationing for most of the city to enable supply to the Industry area, as we bemoaned the lack of power, the bubble of illusion often found in big cities which become...

Suaad Hagi Mohamud suing Ottawa for $2.5M

Suaad Hagi Mohamud, a Canadian citizen, was trapped in Kenya for three months and is now suing Ottawa for $2.5M.  She was refused permission to board her plane after visiting family.  Canadian officials...

Waterproof Rice Gene Discovered

Waterproof rice gene identified Rice is the staple food for more than three billion people Scientists say they have identified a gene that will allow rice plants to survive being completely submerged in water for up to two weeks. Most rice...

Crowdsourcing Mobile Phones to Make the Poor Money

The spread of mobile phones across the developing world is one of the great success stories of the past 9 years. They have become critical tools for the world's poor and are being used in many ways to earn an...

Successful Fuel-Efficient Cookers Show the Way

The pressure on the environment from cooking is being blamed for a range of problems, from deforestation to creating gases contributing to global warming. And then there is people's health: many die in the...

Charges Dropped Against Canadian Stranded in Kenya for 3 Months

Charges have been dropped against a 31-year-old Canadian woman stranded in Kenya after officials accused her of faking her identity. After 3 months being stuck in Kena, paying bail and an uproar back in Canada, Suaad Hagi Mohamud was cleared to fly back to Toronto on Friday....

Major victory for Army major questioning Obama's birthplace

An army major, an engineer and reservist, had filed suit that the military orders for his deployment to Afghanistan were illegal orders. The major, Stefan Frederick Cook, held that the president was not, in fact,...

Kenya seizes coffin-stashed ivory

What to say, why they need killing of Rhinos and elephants.A  simple answer is there is ready made market for the product.Blaming the poverty ridden war torn area for it is not will be proper...

Obama in Africa

' President Barack Obamac made his first viswit to Africa to the west African nation of Ghana which just held a fair and democratic election. Mr. Obama, the first black US president ia popular in Africa, with the...

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