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Stubborn inflation tests faith of Hugo Chavez's supporters

Venezuela looks sure to return to growth in 2010 after probable economic contraction this year, but will struggle to tame inflation as looming elections are likely to influence government policy. President Hugo Chavez had reassured Venezuela's 28 ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Globe and Mail,  15 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Hugo Chávez,  OPEC,  Teodoro Petkoff

U.S. chides Kenya for inaction on post-poll chaos

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States scolded Kenya on Tuesday for its failure to create a local court to deal with the perpetrators of post-election chaos last year that was the worst violence since independence from Britain in 1963. In a strong ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  4 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki

ICC given names of Kenya election crisis suspects

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's post-election crisis mediator Kofi Annan said on Thursday he had handed a sealed envelope with the names of top suspects for the violence to the International Criminal Court's prosecutor. The move heightens pressure on Kenya' ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  9 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Kofi Annan,  Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki

Popular Zersenay is Eritrea's Beckham

ASMARA (Reuters) - Eritrea's long-distance runner Zersenay Tadese was such an innocent at his maiden international competition that he missed the starting pistol. "I thought it would be like home, when the flag goes down. I didn't know I had to start ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  26 May 2009
Related Topics: David Beckham

Somali pirates take Dutch boat, chase U.S. supply ship

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Pirates seized a Dutch cargo vessel on Thursday, a regional maritime group said, in the latest hijack by gangs proliferating off Somalia despite the presence of patrolling foreign warships. "The crew are said to be safe. We are ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  7 May 2009
Related Topics: International Maritime Bureau

Somali pirates seize Dutch boat, chase U.S. ship

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Somali pirates seized a small Dutch vessel on Thursday, a regional maritime group said, marking the latest hijacking by gangs proliferating in the region despite the presence of patrolling foreign warships. "The crew are said to be ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  7 May 2009
Related Topics: International Maritime Bureau

Killing of rights activists shocks Kenya

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The murder of two Kenyan campaigners against illegal police killings aroused protests on Friday and heaped pressure on a divided coalition government. Foreign and domestic condemnation of the killings, which occurred hours after a ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  6 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki,  United Nations

Kenya mourns, frets over 131 dead in disasters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya began a week of mourning on Monday for at least 131 people who died in a petrol tanker blaze and another fire in a Nairobi supermarket that have brought a torrent of criticism of poor disaster preparedness. Flags flew at ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  2 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga

Obama's Kenyan half-brother detained over drugs

NAIROBI - A Kenyan half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he was briefly arrested at his home in a slum on suspicion of drugs' possession. "I think it was a misunderstanding. I do not do drugs," George Hussein Obama, 27, told ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Vancouver Sun,  1 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Twitter Inc,  Morningstar, Inc.,  Kristen Stewart

Thirty-nine missing, 1 dead from Nairobi blaze

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Thirty-nine people are missing and one is confirmed dead after a fire destroyed a supermarket in Nairobi two days ago, the Kenya Red Cross said on Friday. "One man died from injuries when he jumped from the second floor of the ...

From ANDREW CAWTHORNE, Boston Globe,  30 Jan 2009

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