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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.
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NAIROBI, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Kenyan men and women are continuing to have unprotected sex with multiple partners - despite numerous national media campaigns to sensitise the public to the dangers of sex without a condom and multiple partners.
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor asked judges Thursday for permission to investigate Kenya's postelection violence that left more than 1,000 people dead.
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.
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...
Taipei - Taiwan and China might open representative offices in each other's capitals to promote cultural exchanges, an official said Thursday. Chang Yu-yue, vice minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, said broad consensus on the issue was reac...
Jeddah - Seventy-seven people were killed in flash floods as the annual hajj pilgrimage began in the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Saudi government reported Thursday. The civil defence authority for the holy Muslim city of Mecca said that Wedne...
Madrid - Spain's parliament Thursday approved controversial draft legislation easing women's access to abortion. The law, which was approved by a vote of 183-162, can still undergo modifications before being tabled for final approval. ...
Nokia Siemens to modernize, manage Zain's mobile networks in East Africa
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Rea Vipingo Plantations Ltd. , a Kenyan sisal producer and spinner, may grow earnings by 12.5 percent this year as demand for and prices of the commodity recover, Sterling Investment Bank said.
Two freelance journalists held hostage in Somalia for 15 months arrived safely in neighboring Kenya on Thursday.
Berlin- NATO must work harder in Afghanistan now if it wants to pull out sooner, the defence alliance's secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said in Berlin on Thursday. Paying his first official visit to the German capital in his new role, the D...
Mogadishu - A Canadian journalist and Australian photographer freed after 15 months of captivity in Somalia arrived in Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya, on Thursday. Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout and Australian photographer Nigel Bren...
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...
Vienna - International pressure mounted on Iran Thursday at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna at which six world powers sought a vote on a resolution censuring Tehran for secretly building a new nuclear site. As the...
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