October 2010

Kenya

Human rights groups back Murugi

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 5 – Local human rights campaigners on Tuesday rushed to the defence of Special Programmes Minister Esther Murugi, saying Kenyans cannot...

Sarah WambuiOctober 5, 2010

Kenya

I owe no apology, says Murugi

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 5 – Special Programmes Minister Esther Murugi who has come under sharp criticism over comments she made on homosexuality, maintains that...

CATHERINE KARONGOOctober 5, 2010

Kenya

Kenyan author favourite for Nobel prize

LONDON, Oct 5 – With the announcement of the winner of this year\’s Nobel prize for literature due later this week, Kenyan author Ngugi...

THE GUARDIANOctober 5, 2010

Kenya

KICC title had been transferred to individual

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 5 – It now turns out that the title to Kenya\’s landmark building, the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, had amazingly been...

SIMON NDONGAOctober 5, 2010

Kenya

A story of living positively with HIV

MACHAKOS, Kenya, Oct 5 – In the early 2000s being diagnosed with HIV was synonymous to a death sentence and for Mutua (not real...

Sarah WambuiOctober 5, 2010

World

Dutch anti Islam MP hate speech trial adjourned

AMSTERDAM, Oc 4 – The hate speech trial of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders was adjourned for 24 hours shortly after opening in Amsterdam...

October 4, 2010

World

UN climate chief urges Chinese flexibility

TIANJIN, Oct 4 – China should show more flexibility in global negotiations on curbing greenhouse gas emissions, the UN climate chief said Monday, although...

October 4, 2010

World

Bulgaria train crash leaves 15 injured

SOFIA, Oct 4 – A Bulgaria-Sofia international train and a local commuter train collided head-on early Monday leaving 15 passengers injured in western Bulgaria,...

October 4, 2010

World

Brazil now faces Runoff vote

BRASILIA, Oct 4 – Dilma Rousseff, the woman President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to succeed him in office, faces a runoff vote...

October 4, 2010

World

Nigerian police name blasts suspects

ABUJA, Oct 4 – Nigerian police named two men as masterminds of two deadly independence day car bombings after President Goodluck Jonathan said a...

October 4, 2010