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Twelve players of the Eritrean national football squad have gone missing in Kenya, the Council of East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) general secretary Nicholas Musonye told AFP on Monday.
Kenyan police are searching for 12 members of the Eritrean national soccer team who failed to return home after competing in a regional tournament in Nairobi, a spokesman said Monday.
Twelve Eritrea national team players defected during a tournament in Kenya last week. Nicholas Musonye, the secretary general of the Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations, said the players failed to board a plane with the rest of the 25-man squad on Saturday to return home from the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup.
(AP) — NAIROBI, Kenya - A senior African football official said Tuesday that 12 Eritrea national team players defected during a tournament in Kenya last week.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday praised Kenya's government for acting on reforms necessary to avoid a repeat of the bloodshed that followed the disputed 2007 president poll.
Mauritius’ SEMDEX Index fell for a second day, declining 0.7 percent to 1,644.67. Kenya’s All-Share Index added 0.4 percent to 56.71, while Namibia’s FTSE/Namibia Overall Index rose 1.1 percent to 766.69.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange replaced Centum Investments Ltd. with Cooperative Bank of Kenya Ltd. in its NSE 20 Share index, the bourse said in an e-mailed statement today.
A woman told a federal judge that she was following orders from coconspirators in her native Kenya when she helped dupe West Virginia's auditor out of nearly $1 million.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- An obesity epidemic has reached the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers in Kenya found.
Kenya has lifted a night-time curfew imposed on a western region more than two years ago when a local militia rebelled against a government land resettlement scheme.
An Irish priest who was brutally slain in Kenya was being mourned in Chicago where he has five brothers and sisters and had raised money for his missions.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- The Nigerian Stock Exchange’s All- Share Index snapped five days of losses, rising 0.6 percent to 20,737.31 in the first hour of trade.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya’s All-Share Index snapped four days of gains, falling 31, or 0.6 percent, to 56.54 in Nairobi. Mauritius’ SEMDEX Index fell 0.6 percent to 1,655.59, while the FTSE/Namibia Overall Index added 0.9 percent to 761.88, a second consecutive advance.
Defending champion Patrick Ivuti of Kenya broke away early and won today's Honolulu Marathon going away while Russia's Svetlana Zakharova did the same to win the women's race.
Annual profit is expected to grow at a slower rate than the first half, which was compared with a low base after post- election violence in Kenyan in the first two months of 2008 hit the economy, Stull said in an interview in Athi River, south of the capital, Nairobi, today.
Hamilton College’s Peter Kosgei this spring was named the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for the second straight year. Kosgei is a senior from Kapsabet, Kenya, who is recognized as one of the top runners in Division III and has won numerous championships.
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