Moyiga Nduru

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.

POPULATION-SUDAN: Emergency Food Arrives in Strife-torn South

By Moyiga Nduru

The long-awaited emergency food for thousands of displaced people has arrived in southern Sudan's strife-torn Bahr el Ghazal region, United Nations officials in the Kenyan capital say.

NARCOTICS-KENYA: Police Step Up War on Drugs

By Moyiga Nduru

Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa is the economic hub of the East African region, handling not only legitimate trade, but also a large flow of narcotics into the region and beyond.

MEDIA: Ethiopia Relaxes Entry Visa Rules For Foreign Journalists

By Moyiga Nduru

Ethiopia, bowing to international pressure, has withdrawn its controversial visa guidelines introduced to restrict foreign journalists wishing to visit and cover the Horn of Africa nation.

RELIGION-KENYA: Church And State On A Collision Course

By Moyiga Nduru

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.

ENVIRONMENT: Trying to Pre-empt Water Wars

By Moyiga Nduru

Fresh water, a potential source of conflict in many regions, is expected to be high on the agenda of environmental ministers from around the world at a Mar. 2-4 meeting here.

HUMAN RIGHTS-TANZANIA: Beefed-up Police Presence In Refugee Camps

By Moyiga Nduru

The number of Tanzanian police in refugee camps in the west of their country, which host mainly Burundians, is to be beefed up, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

KENYA-POPULATION: WFP Needs More Funds To Get Food to Refugees

By Moyiga Nduru

Some 125,000 refugees in camps in Dadaab, near Kenya's border with Somalia, face an acute shortage of food simply because there isn't enough money available for airlifting supplies to them, according to a U.N. official here.

RELIGION-KENYA: New Gospel Group Fights Drug Menace

By Moyiga Nduru

A new group of gospel singers, whose music has taken Kenya by storm, is on a crusade against drug abuse, illicit sex and the consumption of alcohol among the youth of this country.

MEDIA-ETHIOPIA: Begins to Shut the Door on Foreign Journalists

By Moyiga Nduru

Foreign journalists based in Kenya Friday sent a letter of protest to the Ethiopian government against new guidelines which, they say, will make it harder for them to cover the country.

HUMAN RIGHTS-UGANDA: Rebels Step Up Child Abductions

By Moyiga Nduru

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group seeking to topple the government of President Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, has been abducting more and more children in the north of the country, according to various sources.

HUMAN RIGHTS-UGANDA: Rebels Step Up Child Abductions

By Moyiga Nduru

The Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel group seeking to topple the government of President Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, has been abducting more and more children in the north of the country, according to various sources.

HUMAN RIGHTS: Sudanese at Risk Following Ban on Relief Flights

By Moyiga Nduru

More than 100,000 people are at risk in southern Sudan following a ban imposed by the Sudanese government on relief flights to the area where they have sought refuge from recent fighting, according to humanitarian agencies.

HEALTH-AFRICA: Gains Reported Against Deadly Fever

By Moyiga Nduru

A visibly happy Mohamed Abdi said he gave praise to Allah when he heard that the deadly Rift Valley Fever was now less prevalent in his home area in Kenya's North-Eastern Province.

MUSIC-KENYA: New Gospel Group Fights Drug Menace

By Moyiga Nduru

A new group of gospel singers, whose music has taken Kenya by storm, is on a crusade against drug abuse, illicit sex and the consumption of alcohol among the youth of this country.

POLITICS-KENYA: Partial Curfew Draws a Variety of Reactions

By Moyiga Nduru

As Kenya's government and opposition traded accusations over unrest in the country's Rift Valley Province, even the imposition of a curfew in the provincial capital -- ostensibly to help end the violence -- has been used as ammunition by the two sides.