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Kenyan chief foils robbery via Twitter

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Faith Karimi - Feb. 18 (News Report) - A Kenyan chief in a town far from the bustling capital foiled a predawn robbery recently using Twitter, highlighting the far-reaching effects of social media in areas that don't have access to the Internet.

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Famine in Somalia is over, says UN

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Feb. 03 - Exceptional harvest and food deliveries have improved conditions, but millions of people are still at risk An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia, although conditions remain fragile and could worsen, the United Nations have said. The UN declared famine in two parts of southern Somalia last July and extended the famine warning in September to six out of eight regions in the country. The UN said initially 750,000 Somalis faced imminent starvation and lowered this to 250,000 by November. Six months after famine was declared, 4 million Somalis were in need of aid and the UN said the number now stood at 2.34m. "The gains are fragile and will be reversed without continued support," said Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia. "There are 1.7 million people in southern Somalia still in crisis. Millions of people still need food, clean water, shelter and other assistance to survive and the situation is expected ...

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Planet Likely to Become Increasingly Hostile to Agriculture

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Scientific American - By Douglas Fischer - Dec. 07 (News Report) - YTo get a glimpse of the future, look to East Africa today. The Horn of Africa is in the midst of its worst drought in 60 years: Crop failures have left up to 10 million at risk of famine; social order has broken down in Somalia, with thousands of refugees streaming into Kenya; British Aid alone is feeding 2.4 million people across the region. That's a taste of what's to come, say scientists mapping the impact of a warming planet on agriculture and civilization.

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Sewing Her Way Out of Poverty

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:28:10 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 14 (Opinion) -

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Somalia denies CIA detention base

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 09 (News Report) - The centre is alleged to be under the presidential palace in Mogadishu Somalia has dismissed reports that the US runs an underground detention centre where the CIA helps interrogate terror suspects in the capital

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Somalia crisis one of 'largest in decades'

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - Jul. 16 (News Report) - East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a US official said, pledging "significant" aid. The US already pledged $5m on Friday to help Somali refugees on top of a previously budgeted $63m. Reuben Brigety, the de

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Warning: extreme weather ahead

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By John Vidal - Jun. 14 (News Report) - Tornados, wildfires, droughts and floods were once seen as freak conditions. But the environmental disasters now striking the world are shocking signs of 'global weirding' Drought zones have been declared across much of England and Wales, yet Scotland has just registered its wettest-ever May. The warmest British spring in 100 years followed one of the coldest UK winters in 300 years. June in London has been colder than March. February was warm enough to strip on Snowdon, but last Saturday it snowed there. Welcome to the climate rollercoaster, or what is being coined the "new normal" of weather. What was, until quite recently, predictable, temperate, mild and equable British weather, guaranteed to be warmish and wettish, ensuring green lawns in August, now sees the seasons reversed and temperature and rainfall records broken almost every year. When Kent receives as much rain (4mm) in May as Timbuktu, Manchester has more sunshine than Marbella, and soils in southern England are drier than ...

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PolitiFact's guide to Obama's birth certificate

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Bill Adair - Apr. 27 (Fact Check) - Nothing we've published in the four-year history of PolitiFact has generated as much interest as our coverage of President Barack Obama's birth certificate. New allegations from Donald Trump (new from Trump, at least; most of them have been explored by PolitiFact and other fact-checkers) have prompted fresh interest in the subject, so we thought we'd provide a handy guide to our coverage.

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Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya"

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Media Matters - By Eric Hananoki - Mar. 01 (News Analysis) - During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if "we deserve to know more about this man." Huckabee responded, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough."

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How Southern Sudan's 'ticking time bomb' was defused

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Alan Boswell - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - If it were held properly, the Sudanese government in the north faced the certain loss of not just a third of its land but also 80 percent of its oil. If the vote were blocked, or even delayed, conflict probably would erupt.

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Healthcare repeal would harm women around the world | Michael Williams

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Michael Williams - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Around the world, people are fascinated by the political tussle between Democrats and Republicans over attempts to repeal the landmark US healthcare bill passed last year. Few people realise, however, that if the new Republican-dominated House of Represe

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Mobile banking: a new way of doing business in Haiti

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:08:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Ezra Fieser - Dec. 27 - Belinda Jean, 31, runs a small mobile phone-recharging business out of her tent in Port-au-Prince, Feb. 22, 2010. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) SAINT-MARC, Haiti — Adeline Alexandre does a steady business selling Haitian staples at Fifi Boutique, a l

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Texas State Rep. Introduces 'Birther' Bill

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Nick Wing - Nov. 18 (News Report) - Texas State Representative Leo Berman (R) furthered his campaign against President Obama Tuesday, a man that he has before characterized as "God's punishment on us,"...

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Fixes: Clean Water at No Cost? Just Add Carbon Credits

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By TINA ROSENBERG - Nov. 16 (News Report) - The villages of Africa and South Asia are littered with the ghosts of water projects past. …Water systems need to function all day, every day, forever. Now there’s a new way to save water projects from an early death: make clean water a for-profit business, charging people an unusual price: zero.

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Dadaab Journal: Somalia’s Wars Swell a Refugee Camp in Kenya

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Josh Kron - Nov. 12 (News Report) - The refugee population in Dadaab, Kenya, has grown to nearly 300,000, virtually all Somali, making it the largest refugee complex in the world.

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Alice Walker and the caricatured view of Africa

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 14:05:58 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Sep. 15 - In what she called a conversation (which was actually the 11th annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture), Prof. Alice Walker spoke about her experiences of and in Africa. It wasn’t in that usual “Africa is a beautiful country” kind of way, but it exemplified

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While Gingrich Says Obama Acts "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial," What Does a Real Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Think? A Conversation with Novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Ngugi wa Thiong’o - Sep. 13 (Interview) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is coming under fire from many Democrats for saying one needs to turn to "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior" in order to understand President Obama. We turn to a recent interview with a real Kenyan anti-colonialist: Ngugi wa Thiong'o, a world-renowned novelist, playwright and literary critic, and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. [includes rush transcript]

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Want Kenya to be land-locked? Just do away with kadhi courts

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

nation.co.ke - By Macharia Gaitho - Apr. 20 (Opinion) - It’s just as well that victory for the No campaign would not lead to the removal of the kadhi’s courts from our constitution. For if that happened, Kenya would become a landlocked country. We would say goodbye to the famous beaches and hotels that generate an entire tourist economy.

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Kenya farmers hit by flight ban

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 19 (News Report) - Thousands of farm workers in Kenya have been temporarily laid off because of the volcanic ash over Europe that has grounded flights. The BBC's Will Ross in Kenya says they have been sent home as harvesting of flowers and vegetables has had to stop.

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Obama expands U.S. military ops in Africa

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:12:21 -0700

United Press International - Apr. 06 - NAIROBI, Kenya, April 6 (UPI) -- Amid a surge in big oil strikes in Africa and the threat of growing al-Qaida penetration in the north and east, President Barack Obama is expanding U.S. military involvement across the continent. This has given weight

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Don't give up

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:21:45 -0700

BBC News - By Lord Chris Smith - Mar. 16 (Opinion) - VIEWPOINT Climate-related controversies and the outcome of the Copenhagen summit widely regarded as a failure have left a sense of hopelessness in climate policy, says Lord Chris Smith. In this week's Green Room, he stresses the soundness of the

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Ushahidi - Africa’s Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Anand Giridharadas - Mar. 14 (Special Report) - A small Kenyan-born Web site called Ushahidi is bringing crowdsourcing to disaster relief and other humanitarian causes.

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Climate change one factor in malaria spread

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Reuters - Mar. 04 (Research) - ScienceDaily (Mar. 3, 2010) Climate change is one reason malaria is on the rise in some parts of the world, new research finds, but other factors such as migration and land-use changes are likely also at play. The research, published in The Quarterly

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Kenya: During severe drought, a role model emerges

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By John Liebhardt - Jan. 14 (Opinion) - People, crops and animals throughout Kenya are suffering from a prolonged drought. One young woman's thoughts are to the future and how to better build her community.

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Kenya: Waiting for El Nino

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Samuel Maina - Oct. 09 (Special Report) - Kenyans are waiting for the El Nino rains anticipated between now and December 2009 with mixed feelings. Inasmuch as the El Nino is itself a natural disaster that in it's ‘moderate' form is expected to displace at least 100,000 people and leave 750,000 in need of humanitarian aid according to IRIN, most Kenyans actually want [...]

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