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Fears are intensifying for the plight of the British couple captured by pirates in the Indian Ocean in October, after a new video aired yesterday showed the pair surrounded by gunmen and desperately urging the British...
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of...
NAIROBI--Tadateru Konoe, head of the Japanese Red Cross Society, was elected president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Thursday. Konoe, 70, is the first Asian to assume the...
NAIROBI, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- UNICEF on Friday welcomed the announcement by the Somali Transitional Federal Government that it intends to become a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). The UN agency said in a...
NAIROBI, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The five member states of the East African Community (EAC) on Friday signed the protocol on the establishment of a common market within the block in Arusha, Tanzania. The signing of the protocol by...
Nairobi — African countries have been urged to support the International Criminal Court to promote justice and peace. The president of the appeals division at the ICC, Prof Daniel Nsereko, on Thursday said that Kenyans should...
Nairobi — An appellate judge has expressed concern over the possibility of perpetrators of post election violence suppressing evidence by threatening witnesses. Court of Appeal judge Justice Philip Waki whose concern was also...
Kenyan Islamic faithful have been encouraged to cultivate a culture of reading in the ongoing Islamic Book-fair on Islamic topics and other religions, family, and children at Jamia Mosque Complex in Nairobi.
Nairobi — HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. The study of 421 women in the district of...
Nairobi — Centum Investment Ltd has reported a 72 per cent drop in pre-tax profit for the six months period ended September 30, 2009. One of the oldest and largest investment companies in the country, Centum's pre-tax earnings...
