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Joy as first African woman wins Nobel Peace Prize |
09 - Oct - 2004 |
| NAIROBI, 9 October (IRIN) - Kenyan environmental activists were thrilled when the news came on Friday that the country's leading conservationist, Wangari Maathai, had won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first African woman to be its recipient... more |
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Source: IRIN 09 October 2004
Author: IRIN |
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Food shortages force coastal residents to eat wild roots |
24 - Jul - 2004 |
| KWALE, 24 July (IRIN) - Dick Ngome, 60, sits forlornly in his homestead in Mtaa village of Kwale District, one of the areas seriously affected by drought in Kenya's Coast Province... more |
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Source: IRIN 23 July 2004
Author: IRIN |
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Grappling with the burden of expanding slums in Nairobi |
05 - Jun - 2004 |
| NAIROBI, 4 June (IRIN) - To the estimated 700,000 people who live in Kibera, a sprawling shantytown in the south of the capital, Nairobi, lack of a functioning sanitation and drainage system is perhaps the greatest daily nightmare they must cope with... more |
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Source: IRIN 04 June 2004
Author: IRIN |
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Precarious food situation in the northwest |
22 - Mar - 2004 |
| NAIROBI, 22 March (IRIN) - An estimated 184,000 people in northwestern Kenya's pastoral districts of Turkana and Marsabit face a precarious food situation following poor rainfall in some areas over the past two seasons, and an upsurge in conflict, a report said on Friday... more |
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Source: IRIN 22 March 2004
Author: IRIN |
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Looted Funds : Government Looking For Missing 1 Billion Dollars |
18 - Dec - 2003 |
| The Kenyan government is trying to track down at least one-billion dollars that have been allegedly taken out of the country and invested overseas by officials of the former government... more |
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Source: VOANEWS Nairobi 17 Dec 2003
Author: Cathy Majtenyi |
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