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SOMALIA: UN Expresses Concern Over Renewed Fighting
The United Nations has expressed concern over renewed fighting in Somalia, saying this will affect relief work and impede progress towards national reconciliation.HUMAN RIGHTS-AFRICA: Renewed Debate on Child Labour
The condemnation to death of a 13-year-old boy soldier by a Congolese military tribunal has helped to focus attention on the issue of child labour in Africa.POPULATION-EAST AFRICA: Somali Refugees Return Home
More than 700 Somali refugees are expected to return home this week, after spending seven years in exile in neighbouring Kenya.ENVIRONMENT: UNEP Seeks To Reduce Trade In Hazardous Chemicals
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is stepping up a campaign to regulate the growing international trade in hazardous chemicals.RIGHTS-AFRICA: Media Highlight Plight Of the Disabled
Africa's disabled people generally hit the news only when there is something sensational to write or say about them, but now plans are under way to bring them into the limelight on a more sustained basis.HUMAN RIGHTS-AFRICA: Media Highlight Plight Of the Disabled
Africa's disabled people generally hit the news only when there is something sensational to write or say about them, but now plans are under way to bring them into the limelight on a more sustained basis.BURUNDI: UN Airlifts Food For Thousands Of Malnourished Children
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) this week started an airlift of life-saving food for 37,000 malnourished children in nutritional centres throughout Burundi.MEDIA: Kenya Puts A Spanner in Plans For Regional TV and Radio
In a surprise move, the Kenyan government cancelled a radio and television licence issued to the East Africa Television Network (EATN), just two days after the network had announced plans to go on air later this year.HUMAN RIGHTS-KENYA: Asians Appeal For Government Protection.
Representatives of Kenya's Asian minority have appealed to President Daniel arap Moi to protect them from a wave of blackmail and extortion which, they say, also involves a gang of police from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).MEDIA-EAST AFRICA: Regional TV and Radio Venture Planned
By the second half of this year, more than 80 million listeners and viewers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania will be the target audience for the first regional venture in radio and television broadcasts.KENYA: Reduced Food Supply Spawns Fears for Refugees’ Health
A 50-percent reduction in food rations for thousands of refugees in Kenya could lead to a deterioration in their health, a U.N. food agency has warned here.HEALTH-SOMALIA: Deadly Fever on the Run //repeat//
An epidemic which claimed dozens of lives in Somalia in the past four months has ended, according to a top United Nations official here.HEALTH-SOMALIA: Deadly Fever on the Run
An epidemic which claimed dozens of lives in Somalia in the past four months has ended, according to a top United Nations official here.HEALTH-SOMALIA: Deadly Fever on the Run
An epidemic of Rift Valley Fever that claimed dozens of lives in Somalia during the past four months was now over, according to a top United Nations official here.MEDIA-AFRICA: Clinton’s Tour Generates Controversy //rpt//
Reports that African journalists had been barred from covering U.S. President Bill Clinton's tour of five African nations later this month have caused a furore here but, according to a top U.S. official here, the claims are unfounded.SUDAN: Government Military Planes Bomb Hospital, Killing Eleven
A Sudanese military plane has bombed a hospital in the rebel-held southern town of Yei, killing 11 people and wounding over 50, according to an aid agency official here.LABOUR-KENYA: Government Fires Striking Bank Workers
The Kenyan government's decision to fire some 15,100 bank employees who have staged a strike, has only made the workers more defiant, and union leaders are now threatening to get other workers to join their cause.//REPEATING// KENYA: U.S. Military Joins WFP Effort To Airdrop Food
United States military planes have joined efforts coordinated by the World Food Programme (WFP) to airdrop food to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by heavy rains and floods in Kenya.KENYA: U.S. Military Joins WFP Effort To Airdrop Food
United States military planes have joined efforts coordinated by the World Food Programme (WFP) to airdrop food to hundreds of thousands of people cut off by heavy rains and floods in Kenya.RELIGION-KENYA: Church And State On A Collision Course
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has accused the church in Kenya of trying to topple his government in a manner similar to the 1986 revolution in the Philippines.RELIGION-KENYA: Church And State On A Collision Course
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has accused the church in Kenya of trying to topple his government in a manner similar to the 1986 revolution in the Philippines.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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