![]() | NAIROBI, 12 January 2011- United Nations officials said that its Millennium Villages Projects (MVP) have helped to drastically reduce month-to-child HIV transmissions across Africa. Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, UNAIDS Executive Director Michel Sidibe said that one... |
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![]() | NAIROBI, 2 July 2009- The European Union on Wednesday urged Kenyan leaders to speed up implementation of the political reforms to avert a return to violence as was witnessed during the 2007 polls. Speaking in Nairobi, Swedish Ambassador to Kenya Anna Brandt said the 27-member... |
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![]() | Nairobi 22 June 2009-The US has asked the Kenyan government to investigate cl aims by parliamentarians of threats to their lives and act immediately to end extrajudicial killings in the East African nation, accused of widespread rights violations this month.The US embassy in Nairobi reacted sharply... |
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![]() | Washington 22 May 2009-The President and President Kikwete met this afternoon and had a valuable discussion on a range of issues. President Obama expressed his appreciation for the close bilateral relationship the United States shares with Tanzania. President Kikwete and the President... |
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![]() | Geneva — 31 March 2009-I am glad to welcome you to Geneva and to this lessons learned meeting on the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process. A very warm Karibu sana [big welcome] to all.Almost all of us in this room were, one way or another, part of the efforts to resolve... |
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![]() | NAIROBI, 3 January 2009 - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has approved a new media law, the government said on Friday, despite local and international pressure to reject the legislation critics say undermines democracy.Washington has expressed deep reservations about the law, saying it gives the east... |
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![]() | NAIROBI 13 December 2008 – Police arrested 55 civil society activists and journalists Friday during a protest against a controversial new media bill on the sidelines of Kenya's 45th anniversary celebrations.The police broke up a small, peaceful demonstration in the centre of Nairobi that... |
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![]() | NAIROBI 2 December 2008 - Kenya's anti-corruption commission launched suits on Monday against a minister, a deputy minister and five former parliamentarians for taking illegal allowances worth a total of 20 million shillings.The move by the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission will cheer campaigners... |
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![]() | Nairobi, 31 October, 2008 -- Sixteen years after Kenya’s return to multi-party democracy in 1992, the country appears to be losing the war on corruption.A new report by by the pan-African think-tank based in Nairobi and Nairobi, the Africa Policy Institute (API), examines why the... |
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![]() | NAIROBI, 18 October-Twenty six foreign missions have welcomed the recommendations of a committee which probed last year's post-election violence in Kenya and called for its implementation. The foreign missions joined government representatives and lawyers associations in... |
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![]() | NAIROBI, 15 October 2008 - Levels of malnutrition are rising in parts of northern Kenya while food insecurity is expected to further deteriorate to high and extreme levels in the region, officials warned. "The nutrition situation is critical," Francis Kidaki, the Turkana Central... |
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![]() | Harare 14 October 2008-MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has got a deal as good as - if not better than - his Kenyan confidante Prime Minister Raila Odinga following the gazetting of Cabinet ministry allocations last week, an analysis of the political settlements in the two countries... |
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![]() | WASHINGTON 12 October 2008 — Kenya's finance minister hit out at rich countries at the source of the financial crisis on Saturday, reflecting anger about the consequences on the economies of developing nations."Who will compensate the innocent countries who are going to ... suffer... |
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![]() | Glasgow 11 October 2008-They are some of Scotland's toughest soldiers - sent to Kenya to take part in a gruelling seven-week exercise to prepare them for front-line action in Afghanistan.But the Black Watch, 3rd battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, are also finding time to help raise funds to... |
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![]() | LAGOS 10 October 2008 — Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Thursday blasted African leaders' fear of criticising each other saying it was stifling the continent's progress towards democracy."The African Union has fallen short, failing to condemn brutal regimes and sham... |
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