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Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week.
Since last year’s post-election violence, Kenyans have waited to hear who masterminded the carnage.
Kenya seized more than 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of illegal ivory and black rhinoceros horn — some of it still bloody — on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife officials said.
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya ’s price-weighted All-Share Index rose for the first time in three days, advancing 0.1 percent to 56.56 points at 10:50 a.m. in Nairobi today.
Kenya seized 16 elephant tusks and two horns from black rhinos — some of them still bloody — on a cargo plane headed to Asia on Tuesday, wildlife officials said.
July 14 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya ’s price-weighted All-Share Index fell 1.3 percent to 56.78 points at the close of trading today in the capital, Nairobi.
HARDING TWP. -- The Harding Township School is raising funds to build a well for a school in Africa.
Like the Somali-American from Minnesota who was killed this weekend, Tawakal Ahmed was recruited through mosques in Kenya to fight for Islamic militants in Mogadishu.
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya ’s price-weighted All-Share Index fell for the second day, declining 1.7 percent to 55.81 points at 11:32 a.m. today in Nairobi.
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd., the East African nation’s only refining company, has requested offers for Murban crude oil for delivery in September.
Wikipedia just can't seem to make up its mind about where President Barack Obama was born. The free, online encyclopedia this afternoon displayed at least two countries the commander in chief may have been born in – the United States and Kenya.
Another country in Africa is desperately looking for a way to pull it's tourist-based economy out of a disastrous slump. The east African nation of Kenya hopes the international popularity of President Barack Obama will be part of the solution.
Late last week Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno Ocampo, received an envelope containing the names of a dozen top suspects of crimes against humanity in Kenya. The alleged crimes against humanity occurred following the disputed 2008 Kenyan presidential election and the list is rumored to implicate some of Kenya’s most [...]
July 15 (Bloomberg) -- Somalia plans to recruit as many as 6,000 soldiers and 10,000 police officers, a more than five-fold increase, to help counter an Islamist insurgency, Nicolas Bwakira, head of the Africa Union Mission in Somalia, or AMISOM, said.
July 11 (Bloomberg) -- The International Criminal Court’s Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo will next week open a sealed envelope containing the names of alleged leaders of Kenya’s post-election violence that killed 1,500 people last year.
Liberia watches as its former leader stands trial for war crimes in The Hague. by Tristan McConnell, GlobalPost NAIROBI, Kenya As rebel soldiers advanced on Liberias steamy capital Monrovia in 2003 warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor fled. Just as his escape into exile marked the end of 14 years of plunder and murder so his arrest in 2006 for crimes committed in neighboring Sierra Leone ...
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