Kenyan Man Offers 40 goats and 20 cows For Clinton’s Daughter
A Kenyan man has asked for the hand of Chelsea Clinton by offering livestock in return for her hand in marriage Chelsea’s mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says it will be up to her daughter Chelsea to accept the offer or not. The Kenyan man’s offer of 40 goats and 20 cows was first [...]
Hillary Clinton To Hold Talks With Somali President
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to hold talks with Somali President Sheikh Sharif. Clinton becomes the highest U.S. official to meet the Somali leader. The meeting signals Washington’s determination to bolster support for the Somali transitional government, which has been fighting hard-line Islamic insurgents. The insurgents have refused to recognize the government [...]
Hillary Clinton Arrives In Kenya
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Kenya marking the first stop of a seven-nation tour in Africa. The Secretary of State will impress upon the Kenyans the U.S concern about the country in the wake of corruption scandals and the disputed 2007 elections that led to violence which left over 1.000 people [...]
No More Death-Row Inmates In Kenya’s Prisons
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki has announced that more than 4,000 prisoners on death row will have their sentences commted to life imprisonment. Kenya has not carried out death sentences for more than a decade now. More than 4,000 people have been on death row in the country’s overcrowded, underfunded prisons. President Kibaki said the law [...]
Kibaki Says ‘No’ To ICC
President Mwai Kibaki announced that the Kenyan government will use the judiciary to deal with perpetrators of the 2008 post election violence. The announcement has been described as an affront calculated to shield cabinet ministers who are alleged to be behind the violence. President Kibaki announced Thursday after a long cabinet meeting that the judiciary [...]
Kenya: Ministers Meet To Discuss Election Violence Court
The Kenyan cabinet met on Thursday in a third attempt to find consensus on forming a local tribunal to deal with the masterminds of last year’s post-election violence and thus avoid an international trial. The International Criminal Court (ICC) is ready to step in if Kenya’s coalition government does not create its own court to [...]
Broadband Internet Access Will Boost African Economies
Increasing high-speed Internet access and affordability in African countries could boost their economies, according to a report by the World Bank. For every 10 percentage-points of increase in high speed Internet connection, the authors found that economic growth rises 1.3 percentage points. “In this report there’s a lot of evidence that where you have broadband, [...]
Bicycles To Charge Mobile Phones In Kenya!
Two students in Kenya, are hoping to market a device that allows bicycle riders to charge their mobile phones. Jeremiah Murimi, 24, and Pascal Katana, 22, said they wanted their dynamo-powered “smart charger” to help people without electricity in rural areas.”We both come from villages and we know the problems,” Mr Murimi said. People have [...]
Food Crisis Hits Kenya’s Slums
A crisis that is almost entirely hidden from view is ravaging Nairobi’s Kibera slum. A window into the lives of Kibera’s schoolchildren reveals how the food crisis in Africa’s largest slum is threatening an impoverished generation’s future. On the edge of Nairobi sits the sprawling tin-shack Kibera slum, which with its roughly one million inhabitants [...]
High Speed Internet Comes To East Africa!
The undersea fibre optic cable to bring high-speed internet access to East Africa has gone live. The fibre-optic cable, operated by African-owned firm Seacom, connects South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Mozambique to Europe and Asia.The firm says the cable will help to boost the prospects of the region’s industry and commerce. The cable – [...]
