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Kenya

Public awaits cheaper flour

NAIROBI, December 1 – The government was on Monday due to announce new prices for maize and maize flour. A meeting to be chaired...

LABAN WANAMBISIDecember 1, 2008

World

Chaos reigns at Thailand s tourist airlift

U-TAPAO, November 30 – Not even the dancing girls provided by a local hotel could cheer thousands of travellers as they tried to flee...

November 30, 2008

World

Climate change gathers steam, say scientists

PARIS, November 30 – Earth’s climate appears to be changing more quickly and deeply than a benchmark UN report for policymakers predicted, top scientists...

November 30, 2008

World

World AIDS Day highlights big challenges 20 years on

PARIS, November 30 – As World AIDS Day is marked on Monday, the fight against the disease remains stymied by the dearth of adequate...

November 30, 2008

World

Bill Clinton agrees to disclose donors

WASHINGTON, November 30 – Former US president Bill Clinton has agreed to disclose the names of more than 200,000 donors to his foundation so...

November 30, 2008

World

Indian home minister resigns

NEW DELHI, November 30 – Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil resigned Sunday, saying he felt obliged to take "moral responsibility" for the brutal Islamist...

November 30, 2008

Kenya

Deal reached for Ukrainian ship release

MOGADISHU, November 30 – Somali pirates said Sunday that a deal for the release of an arms-laden Ukrainian cargo ship that they seized more...

November 30, 2008

Kenya

President Kibaki holds talks with UN boss

DOHA, November 30 – President Mwai Kibaki on Sunday called on the United Nations to take a front line role in mobilising leaders and...

CAPITAL REPORTERNovember 30, 2008

Featured

And what have YOU done for the planet lately?

PARIS, November 29 – The world’s nations gather in Poland from Monday to wrangle over a deal to slash greenhouse gases, but citizens with...

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSENovember 29, 2008

World

Hundreds killed in Nigeria clashes

LAGOS, November 29 – Hundreds were killed and thousands forced to flee their homes in the central Nigerian city of Jos when Christians and...

AGENCE FRANCE PRESSENovember 29, 2008