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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Thursday he had asked judges to allow a formal probe of Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence with a view to trying those responsible.
Two freelance journalists released in Somalia Wednesday after 15 months captivity said they were tortured and feared being sold on to hardline rebels in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation.
Filed under: News , Politics , President Obama In spite of the fact that he is just as much white as he is black, white people just don't like President Barack Obama very much. According to a recent Gallup poll, President Obama's approval rating among whites has dropped to 39 percent . His overall approval rating has dropped below 50 percent, which is a 16 percentage point decline since his high ...
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - November 24, 2009) - At two recent conferences on innovative malnutrition research organized by the Copenhagen Consensus Center, Helen Keller International's programs to reduce malnutrition were awarded first prize by government officials, NGOs, researchers and private sector representatives. On November 3, 2009 in Nairobi, Kenya, HKI's Shawn Baker, VP & Regional ...
FARMINGTON, N.M. (AP) - A New Mexico State University researcher is using tree planting to help arid, impoverished regions in the Four Corners region and Africa.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The bullet hit mother and son as they walked through Somalia's capital. She felt a sharp pain in her palm. Then she saw her 8-year-old: The bullet tore through his cheekbones, nose and mouth. Blood gushed down to his waist.
Somali officials say two foreign journalists kidnapped last year have been freed. Police spokesman Col. Abdulhai Hassan Barise says Canadian Amanda Lindhout and Australian Nigel Brennan were freed Wednesday and were with police and Somali lawmaker Botan Isse Alin in a hotel in Mogadishu. Barise and Alin declined to say if ransom was paid for their release.
From a line dancing performance of the chart-topping single “Achy Breaky Heart” to karaoke, residents and staff at the Evangelical Free Church Home found themselves revisiting memories from the not-too-distant past as they celebrated “1990s Week” last week.
Film star Nicolas Cage has visited a Kenyan prison holding suspected Somali pirates awaiting trial to highlight the problem of piracy in the Indian Ocean.
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The 2008 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership Award in the South African Water and Wastewater Services Market is presented to VWS Envig Ltd for achieving the highest market share in the water and wastewater services market.
The countdown clocks are fast approaching zero as world leaders prepare for crucial climate talks in Copenhagen.
Sub-Saharan Africa still has the world's highest number of HIV cases, accounting for 67 percent of global infections, a United Nations reports said on Tuesday.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Kenya, east Africa’s biggest economy, has extended the deadline for investors to buy its second infrastructure bond to Dec. 1, the central bank said today in a statement in Nairobi-based Daily Nation.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time next week while on his politcal visit to Italy, the Kremlin disclosed Thursday. The presidential office said Medvedev would meet the pope in the Vatican on Dec...
Berlin- Germany's top soldier and a senior defence ministry official have resigned because of an airstrike ordered by the German army on two fuel tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The exact details of what happened on the night of...
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