The Kenyan authorities have banned a particular brand of condoms in the country after tests in Zambia showed they leak. The ‘Hot’ brand condoms, manufactured in the UK were banned after tests revealed their weakness. The government took the immediate decision because it feared stories about condoms that leak, could damage its fight against AIDS.
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A census that has generated lots of controversy ends in Kenya today. The government said the census was necessary to provide much needed data to help future development plans for the country. Some say it is a ploy to identify their ethnicities after the post-election violence of 2007 and that the head-count strategy would be [...]
The Lord’s Resistance Army, a rebel group in Uganda, is increasingly moving from its new base in the Democratic Republic of Congo into neighboring South Sudan and the Central African Republic, expanding what was already a transnational conflict. The group is led by international fugitive Joseph Kony who is perhaps best known for its tactic [...]
African Union peacekeepers clashed with Islamist rebels in Mogadishu leaving 22 dead. Rebels had launched a pre-dawn attack on an African union base. They also attacked some government troops. The fighting continued through the morning as residents took shelter in their homes as they were being pounded by mortar shells and bullets flying in the [...]
Sudan’s intelligence chief, Salah Gosh has been relieved of his post and appointed adviser to President Omar al-Bashir. Human rights group have accused Gosh of playing a significant role in abuses that took place in the western region of Darfur. Human Rights Watch had called for the ICC to investigate Gosh’s role in the government’s [...]
Five Pakistanis have been killed in an attack in Somalia’s Puntland region. Men in masks armed with weapons, entered a mosque in Galkayo and ordered six Pakistanis and one Somali outside, they said. They then opened fire, killing five men and seriously injuring two. Those targeted are said to be preachers from a religious sect. [...]
WIPO: The World Intellectual Property Organisation has handed digital recording equipments to the Maasai community of Laikipia in Kenya, to enable them to document and preserve their cultural heritage. The announcement was made by the agency following the handing over of a digital camera, sound recorder and a laptop computer to the chief and [...]
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, the U.S. Secretary of State has said investors will shun African states with weak leaders and economies riddled with corruption and crime. She was speaking at a trade meeting with sub-Saharan African countries. Clinton repeated U.S. President Barack Obama’s message in a speech in Ghana. “True economic progress in Africa, depends on responsible [...]
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 [...]
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrives in Kenya today kick starting her maiden trip to the continent which forms part of a seven-nation tour. She is expected to meet Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga as well as other government officials. But human rights groups hope Clinton will pressure Nairobi to [...]
