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ENVIRONMENT: Poachers return to Zaire’s Garamba Park
For close to a decade, Garamba National Park in north-eastern Zaire had been safe from poachers. Now, thanks to the automatic weapons pouring in from strife-torn Sudan along with hungry refugees, all that is changing./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 10/ KENYA: Cargo of Leaking Toxic Waste Sails For Europe
Banned from passing through the Suez Canal by the Egyptian authorities and threatened by Somali gunmen, a ship carrying a cargo of leaking toxic waste bound for Britain has been forced to sail south for the Mozambican port of Beira.SOMALIA-POLITICS: New Group Emerges To Protect Assets Abroad
The Somali flag no longer flies at the residence of the former ambassador at Lower Kabeti Road here and the official cars are gone.ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Toxic Waste Sails For Europe
Banned from passing through the Suez Canal by the Egyptian authorities and threatened by Somali gunmen, a ship carrying a cargo of leaking toxic waste bound for Britain has been forced to sail south for the Mozambican port of Beira.RWANDA-POPULATION: WFP Sends More Food To Feed Refugees
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is set to deliver 22,940 metric tonnes of U.S. maize to feed some 2.4 million Rwandese refugees in Zaire, Burundi and Tanzania.SUDAN-POLITICS: Sound Of Rebel Movements Splintering — Again
Southern Sudan's fractious rebel movements, battling each other with even greater venom than they have the government army, have been hit by the apparent defection of key commanders to a grateful Khartoum.KENYA-NARCOTICS: Gateway To Global Trade
Kenya's Indian Ocean port of Mombasa is the economic hub of the East African region, serving landlocked Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi as well as parts of Sudan and Zaire.KENYA: Wildlife Group Wants More Protection for Elephants
The slaughter of one of the two oldest males in a herd of elephants that researchers have been studying for 24 years has led environmentalists to demand tighter security on the Kenya-Tanzania border to prevent poaching./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 9/ KENYA: Controversy Over Dumped Toxic Waste
A cargo-load of leaking toxic waste has been sitting at Kenya's port of Mombasa since December, with the authorities apparently unable to get rid off the stuff, and less than open over its composition.EAST AFRICA-POLITICS: Preparing a More Peaceful Future
Imagine Somalia without clan warfare, Sudan's Islamic fundamentalists sipping tea in Khartoum with former Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rebels and Uganda free of its insurgents.ENVIRONMENT-KENYA: Controversy Over Dumped Toxic Waste
A cargo-load of leaking toxic waste has been sitting at Kenya's port of Mombasa since December, with the authorities apparently unable to get rid off the stuff, and less than open over its composition.LITERATURE-KENYA: Journey Through Girls’ World
"The scene that met my eyes was horrifying: Tables were upside down, stools were broken, the pot of milk was in pieces with milk dripping all over. My little brother and sister were crying, huddled together in a corner. I wondered: What is the cause of these problems?SUDAN-POLITICS: Ethnic Conflict Devastates the South
The misery that for 13 years has been the norm for the people of southern Sudan has been worsening as rebel groups turn on one other with increasing ferocity when not fighting Khartoum's army.FOOD: India Learns from Kenya’s Experience
A group of Indian officials left here Thursday planning to implement what they had learnt about Kenya's approach to manufacturing supplementary foods to improve efforts to feed millions of malnourished children and mothers at home.AIDS-KENYA: New Cure Or Old Story?
Anybody claiming to have found a cure for AIDS is assured of publicity. The problem for Prof. Arthur Obel is not all of it has been positive.RWANDA-CHILDREN: Wounds that Take Long to Heal
It will be years before Rwandese children recover from trauma of the 1994 genocide in their country, and unless efforts to help them are stepped up, it could take even longer, according to the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF).ETHIOPIA-ECONOMY: Wealth and Health from Water
Royalty and foreign dignitaries turned Ambo, 125 km west of the Ethiopian capital, into a resort town, seeking its mineral water which, they were convinced, had healing powers.KENYA-RWANDA: Envoy’s Detention Could Sour Ties Even Further
The detention of a Rwandese diplomat here is likely to further cool the already chilly relations between Kenya and Rwanda.KENYA-CRIME: Independent Body to Probe Murder of British Tourist
Kenya's authorities have finally decided to launch an independent probe into the murder of British tourist Julie Ward seven years ago in a Kenyan game reserve./ENVIRONMENT BULLETIN 5/ EAST AFRICA: Anti-Drought Organisation Struggles to Keep Afloat
The armed conflicts in and around the Horn of Africa and hostility between some governments of the countries of the area have all but paralysed an institution launched a decade ago to fight drought and instability there.UGANDA-REFUGEES: Fear Keeps Exiles Away
Once described as the Pearl of Africa by Winston Churchill, Uganda has been recovering over the past few years from one and a half decades of dictatorship.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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