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Ethiopian “Virgin Land’ For Sale - By Andrew Rice

According to the World Bank, as much as three-quarters of Ethiopia’s arable land is not under cultivation, and agronomists say that with substantial capital expenditure, much of it could become bountiful. Since the world food...

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Railway Revamp a Brave and Timely Move

opinion Early this month Kenya Railways Corporation took a full page advertisement defending its Railways Master Plan. However, the plan by the Railway Corporation to initially stop the line at Malaba is short-sighted and...

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Bloody Cattle Raids in Bid to Restore Stock Levels

Heckling and stone throwing marred a public rally held by MPs from the upper Eastern in Isiolo on Monday as residents booed area MP Mohammed Kuti. Dr Kuti, the minister for Livestock Development, was forced to cut short his...

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Kenya: Women Weighed Down by Culture

Garissa — Armed with a university certificate, Hubbie Hussein Al-Haji returned to her pastoralist community in Garissa, northeastern Kenya, expecting to serve as a veterinary health assistant. "When I came back to Garissa...

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Pay heed to the victims in the shadow of global warming

By Bjorn Lomborg Commentary by Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Listen to the Article - Powered by Media organizations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find “victims of global warming.” Global warming is the...

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Global warming’s misunderstood victims

BAMAKO, MALI -- Media organizations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find “victims of global warming.” In dispatches from the Pacific Islands, Bangladesh or Ethiopia, journalists warn of impending calamity.

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Ethiopia, Kenya Address Cross-Border Strife

Ethiopian and Kenyan ministers are working to address cross-border conflicts between pastoralists of Somali cluster, they disclosed in the course of the Cross Border Peace Meeting from 2-4 November, 2009 at the border town of...

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Jimmy Hezbullah Hates Anne Frank

Awesome! Didn't know there was an Arab anywhere in the world named "Jimmy". Or are we confusing this guy with our Jimma? And, didn't know that Anne Frank was a zionist conspiracy . It [the report] questioned how long Lebanon...

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Campaign Against Border Raids on the Way

Nairobi — A major peace awareness campaign aimed at ending cattle rustling and cross border raids is about to be rolled out in Kenya. Kenya's minister for Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands, Mohammed Elmi, told...

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Kenya: Replacing the Bucket Latrine

The sound of the evening bell at a local boarding high-school in Wajir, in the northeast of Kenya, did not always signal the end of the day's classes. Instead it marked the end of the evening bathroom break as "bucket toilets"...

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