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Kenya aristocrat claims murder trial cover-up

The scion of Kenya's most famous white settler family yesterday denied murdering a poacher and said that he covered up for his rally driver friend who had also fired his weapon at the crime scene. Thomas Cholmondeley, heir to...

Kenya's finance minister 'steps aside' in dispute over hotel sale

ft.com     1 hr ago   4 related          

By Barney Jopson in Nairobi Kenya's embattled finance minister yesterday said he would "step aside" to allow an independent inquiry into the controversial sale of a luxury hotel that has -fractured the coalition government. The...

Travel With a Purpose: Volunteer Abroad Organization Expands Program Services Throughout Africa

A Broader View Volunteers, a leading volunteer abroad provider has expanded services within Africa including locations in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and South Africa, as well as Uganda, Ghana, Tanzania and Cameroon. Projects focus...

Net crusaders shine torch in murky places

smh.com.au     8 hrs ago   8 related          

AN AUSTRALIAN living in East Africa has brought new meaning to the phrase "keeping the bastards honest". In the past year-and-a-half, Julian Assange and his band of online dissidents have helped swing the Kenyan presidential...

Who decided to call Obama black? - 'Mixed race' isn't seen as identity

Sen. Barack Obama is the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. So why is he "black"? He is, to be accurate, biracial, equally black and white. Mr. Obama could choose to identify himself in a way similar...

UN Opens First Zero Emission Community Power Centre in Rural Part of the Country

allafrica.com     8 hrs ago   2 related          

The first power-generating centre using environmentally friendly hydro and solar power has been inaugurated in a Kenyan village 150 kilometres north east of Nairobi by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization...

UNESCO Adds 27 New Sites to World Heritage List

chosun.com     57 mins ago   39 related          

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO has added 27 sites to its World Heritage List. A UNESCO committee meeting in Quebec City, Canada announced the addition of 19 cultural sites from...

Images: A day after Kabul was rocked

rediff.com     8 hrs ago   47 related          

A day after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing 41 people, including four Indians, a war-ravaged Afghanistan is looking for peace and trying to get on its feet. The Indian mission in...

Kenya: Farmers Want Middlemen Kicked Out

allafrica.com     7 hrs ago   1 related          

Posted to the web 8 July 2008 George Omondi And Simon Siele Fresh produce industry regulator, Horticultural Crops Development Authority (HCDA), is proposing contract farming as a way to contain middlemen who have wreaked havoc...

Tea exports rise 5.4% on Kenyan shortfall

livemint.com     11 hrs ago   10 related          

Mumbai: India’s tea exports in the first five months of 2008 were up 5.4% on rising demand from Pakistan and Egypt and on lower production in Kenya, a senior official with the Tea Board said on Tuesday.Total exports during...

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