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Activists outraged by Kenyan biofuel plans on fragile wetland

NAIROBI (AFP) - Outraged conservationists Monday protested Kenyan plans to grow biofuel crops on a coastal wetland, warning that they will ruin the environment home to 350 species, including endangered ones. Britain's Royal Society for the Protection ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, EcoEarth News,  24 Jun 2008
Related Topics: Royal Society

Kenyan cops arrest scores in crackdown on criminal gang

Kenyan police on Wednesday arrested scores of members of a criminal sect whose clashes with authorities this week caused 19 deaths, officials said, as the government vowed to deal ruthlessly with the gang. Hundreds of riot police descended on Nairobi's ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  16 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki

More deaths in fresh Kenya gang violence

Four more people died during a second day of nationwide rioting in Kenya on Tuesday, bringing the overall toll to 19, in a crisis that presented the new coalition Cabinet with its first major challenge. Police said they had killed three members of the ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  16 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki

Kenyan PM urges unity in power-sharing govt

Newly appointed Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday urged the new government, comprising former rivals, to work together to enhance reconciliation in the deeply divided nation. "The process of reconciliation has begun and the Cabinet must speak ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  15 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Moses Wetangula,  Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki,  United Nations,  European Union

Kenyan leaders under pressure to resume talks

Kenyan leaders were on Wednesday under pressure to resume talks on forming a coalition government in a bid to end a devastating political crisis, a day after hundreds demonstrated to demand a new Cabinet. The much-delayed unveiling of a national-unity ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  9 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga,  United Nations,  Kofi Annan,  Condoleezza Rice

Kenya delays new Cabinet announcement

The announcement of Kenya's new coalition Cabinet has been delayed indefinitely over disagreements on its composition, both sides said on Saturday. "The widely expected announcement tomorrow [Sunday] of a new Cabinet that all Kenyans were so keenly ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  6 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Mwai Kibaki,  Raila Odinga

Kenyans say jumbo Cabinet a colossal waste

Kenyan papers and political watchdogs on Friday criticised the size of a coalition Cabinet announced a day earlier, saying 40 ministers were a colossal waste of money in a country with widespread misery. Newspapers said the cost was unreasonable for ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  4 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki

Kenya parties break deadlock over coalition Cabinet

Kenya's feuding political factions on Thursday announced the deadlock over a coalition government had been broken and that the new line-up would be announced on Sunday. The breakthrough came after a meeting between President Mwai Kibaki and prime ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  3 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Raila Odinga,  Kofi Annan,  Mwai Kibaki,  United Nations

Somalia too dangerous for aid work, say agencies

Top international aid agencies warned on Wednesday that war-scarred Somalia has become too dangerous for its workers to help more than one million civilians living rough, as fresh fighting erupted. Four Somali soldiers and two civilians were killed when ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Siad Barre

Deaths mount in Kenya over cattle theft

Seventeen people were killed in Kenya's Rift Valley region over the past 36 hours, where cattle theft has fanned tribal animosity, bringing the toll to 25 in three days, police said on Thursday. Cattle raiders killed 12 villagers and police retaliated, ...

From BOGONKO BOSIRE, Mail & Guardian Online,  20 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Raila Odinga,  Mwai Kibaki,  United Nations

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