January 2011

Kenya

NCBDA wants speed cameras installed

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 3 – The Nairobi Central Business District Association (NCBDA) says the government should invest in speed cameras on major highways to...

SIMON NDONGAJanuary 3, 2011

Kenya

St John Ambulance set for expansion

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 3 – St John Ambulance Kenya on Monday announced that it had embarked on a nationwide expansion programme that will see...

Sarah WambuiJanuary 3, 2011

Kenya

Kenyan Minister faces arrest over graft

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 3 – Attorney General Amos Wako has directed the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) to arrest and prosecute Cabinet Minister Henry Kosgey...

ROB JILLOJanuary 3, 2011

Kenya

Raila arrives in crisis hit Ivory Coast

ABIDJAN, Jan 3 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga arrived in Ivory Coast on Monday to try to end a deadly presidential crisis and persuade...

January 3, 2011

Africa

Pressure mounts on Gbagbo after deadline expires

ABIDJAN, Jan 2 – Pressure ratcheted up Sunday on Ivory Coast\’s defiant leader Laurent Gbagbo to quit even as his rival faced the threat...

January 2, 2011

World

Egyptians fear religious clashes

CAIRO, Jan 2 – Christians prayed on Sunday at a church targeted by an apparent suicide bomber who killed 21 people as Egypt pointed...

January 2, 2011

World

Stoning of Iran woman could be quashed:

TEHRAN, Jan 2 – The sentence of death by stoning handed down by an Iranian court against a mother of two could be quashed,...

January 2, 2011

World

Rousseff sworn in as first female president

BRASILIA, Jan 2 – Dilma Rousseff has taken over as Brazil\’s first female president with pledges to build on the policies of her hugely...

January 2, 2011

Kenya

10 Kenyans die in Sunday bus accident

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 2- Ten people have been killed in a grisly road accident near Limuru on the Nairobi- Nakuru highway early Sunday morning....

CATHERINE KARONGOJanuary 2, 2011

Kenya

Kenya PM leaves for Ivory Coast peace mission

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 2 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday morning left for Ivory Coast on a mission to broker peace following disputed...

PMPSJanuary 2, 2011