Posted to the web 19 May 2008 Walter Menya Nairobi Aids patients will be tested for TB in a six-month campaign to reduce stigma on the two diseases. Public Health and Sanitation permanent secretary James Nyikal said the campaign was also aimed at encouraging the public to go for HIV and TB tests....
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Posted to the web 7 September 2008 Philip Ngunjiri Nairobi Kenya is likely to face a maize shortage by mid next year, as the country's stock would have dwindled to less than a month's supply of grain. The country consumes...
GWERU, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Sunday his party would rather quit power-sharing talks than sign an unsatisfactory deal and challenged President Robert Mugabe to call...
The captors of two foreign journalists kidnapped in Somalia last month said Sunday they will release them in two weeks. The journalists, an Australian freelance photographer Nigel Brennan and a Canadian Amanda Lindhout,...
By Mia Farrow and Eric Reeves At 6 a.m. on the morning of Aug. 25, Kalma camp, home to 90,000 displaced Darfuris, was surrounded by Sudanese government forces. Military vehicles have now increased in number and massed...