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UN General Assembly to vote on arms treaty

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

aljazeera.com - Apr. 02 (News Report) - The UN General Assembly is due to vote on what would be the first treaty to regulate the $70bn global trade on conventional arms. The vote on Tuesday comes a week after Iran, Syria and North Korea blocked the accord by consensus despite widespread suppor

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Kenya Supreme Court upholds Uhuru Kenyatta election win - BBC News

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Mar. 30 (News) - Kenya's Supreme Court has upheld Uhuru Kenyatta's presidential election victory, rejecting several petitions challenging the vote. Chief Justice Willy Mutunga announced the decision, which was unanimous, saying the poll was free and fair.

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Kenyatta wins Kenya presidential election by narrow margin

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Sudarsan Raghavan - Mar. 09 (News Report) - NAIROBI — Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, who faces charges of committing crimes against humanity, won Kenya’s presidential election by the narrowest of margins, winning 50.07 percent of the vote and avoiding a runoff, the country’s electoral commission announced Saturday. Read full article >>

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Polls open in tense Kenya presidential race

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

aljazeera.com - Mar. 04 (News Report) - Polls have opened in Kenya for the first presidential election since deadly ethnic violence that killed more than 1,200 people after a 2007 ballot. The two rivals for the presidency, prime minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Uhuru Kenyatta, have publicl

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'Extinction crisis' focus for CITES

Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Matt McGrath - Mar. 03 (Special Report) - Delegates from 178 countries will review the convention on international trade in endangered species (CITES) amidst an unprecedented extinction crisis.

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Maasai herders breed fewer, stronger cattle to resist climate change

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Jan. 31 (News Report) - To withstand more-intense droughts herders in Tanzania cut the size of their herds and cross-breed for resilience and resistance to disease. ...

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App-rica

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Daily Beast - By Jake Bright - Jan. 29 (News Report) - During a 2011 mobile-finances presentation at a major American bank, I noticed one of the bankers, an African immigrant, chuckling. U.S. tech vendors described “cutting-edge” mobile applications “due out in a year or two” that would allow Americans to use phones for basic banking. “Cutting edge? Man, we’ve had that stuff in Africa for years now,” the African banker said to me.

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Kenya tech city building begins

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 23 (News Report) - Kenya's president launches a $14.5bn (£9.1bn) project to build a new city intended as an IT business hub, dubbed "Africa's Silicon Savannah".

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A New (Bogus) Front in the GOP War on Susan Rice

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Nov. 30 - On Wednesday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) opened up a new front in the GOP war on Susan Rice. After Collins met with Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations who may be President Barack Obama's pick to replace Hillary Clinton at the State Department, the senator echoed the complaints her colleagues John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte have hurled at Rice regarding her recitation on Sunday talk shows of administration talking points about the September 11 attacks on US facilities in Benghazi, Libya. Collins—who has now essentially endorsed the GOP's oddly targeted crusade against Rice—went further and raised a new (but old) matter, questioning whether Rice was somehow partially responsible for security failures that led to hundreds of casualties in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania when she was assistant secretary of state for African affairs. Yet State Department reports undermine Collins' expanded line of attack. Up to now, McCain and his crew ...

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Campaign Stops: The View From Nairobi

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Murithi Mutiga - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - For many Kenyans, the 2012 presidential campaign has been a curious experience, to say the least.

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London Games are the greenest ever, say environmental monitors

Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Talia Ralph - Aug. 11 (News) - London's Olympics are the greenest Games ever, the independent Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 has found.

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China: Illegal Ivory Trade Ban Gains Online Support

Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Ronald Yick - Aug. 04 (News) - Support for a ban on the global illegal ivory trade has recently gained support from Chinese netizens. From 2000 to 2011, whilst East Africa was the centre of illegal ivory trafficking, China and Thailand were the major destinations for ivory products.

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An E-Book Revolution for Africa?

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Jun. 17 (News) - Schools in developing countries are experimenting with digital books; endless titles, spotty electricity.

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WATCH: Colbert Mocks Trump's Birtherism

Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Stephen Colbert - May. 30 (Comedy News) - After a two-week hiatus, Stephen Colbert returned to "The Colbert Report" Tuesday night to tackle the latest ramblings of everyone's favorite billionaire/"basketball with tooth veneers" Donald Trump and his impact on GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romne

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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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