Horn of Africa

In Fight Against AIDS, Kenya Confronts Gay Taboo

Kenya is to conduct a survey of gays in an attempt to control the spread of HIV. Confronted by growing evidence that sex between men is a significant driver of new HIV infections, the Kenyan government has shed a long-time...

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African refugees seized off Yemen

Published: Nov. 7, 2009 at 9:42 AM SANA‘A, Yemen, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A boat carrying refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea was seized in the territorial waters of Yemen, authorities said Saturday. "The smuggling boat was...

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Somalia: Fighting Kills Two, Wounds Five Others in North Mogadishu

MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Nwetwork ) - At least two people have been killed and five others injured after heavy fighting with bitter shelling between the Islamist fighters and transitional government troops started in the north of...

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Rights Group Says Sudan Evidence Obliges U.S.

Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The report, released late...

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Measuring Democracy - The ICFTU’s Reports on Violations of Union Rights - Artur Victoria Studies

and has 225 affiliated organizations in 148 countries. Affiliates are unions, union confederations or peak level associations. Association maintains close links with different UN bodies and has consultative status in some of...

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Somalia - Al-Shabaab Accuses Kenyan MPs Over Youth Recruitment

Somalia Al-Shabaab group has accused Kenyan lawmaker, particularly those from Somali-inhabited region, for backing the secret recruiting of fighters from among young Kenyan Somalis to help the Somalia's weak government fight...

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Kenya plans nuclear plant in next five years: PM (AFP)

AFP/File – A nuclear power plant in South Africa in 2005. Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in … NAIROBI (AFP) – Kenya hopes to build its first nuclear power plant in the next five years with help from France,...

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Sudan Bishop Says Church Is Growing But Challenges Remain.

The Bishop of the Anglican Catholic Diocese of Aweil, Sudan, is in the United States to attend a provincial synod of the Anglican Catholic Church in Richmond Virginia. Bishop Wilson Garang who oversees more than 180 churches in...

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Harnessing Waste Produces Gas for Cooking in Kenya

The scourge of so-called "flying toilets" - where human waste is put into a plastic bag and tossed into the air, landing on roads or in gutters - has plagued the slums of Kenya's capital Nairobi for decades. But an innovative...

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Obama lion helps raise money for conservation in Kenya (AFP)

AFP – A guest walks past a life-sized lion statue for auctioning at the Kenyan Wildlife Service (KWS) in Nairobi. … NAIROBI (AFP) – A life-sized lion statue with US President Barack Obama's face painted on it has helped raise...

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