Archive for May, 2008
Kenyan Student’s Suicide Reveals Gaps in HIV Education
Photo: Kristy Siegfried/IRIN
Only nine out of 16 HIV testing centres in North Eastern Province are functioning
GARISSA, 28 May 2008 (PlusNews) – The recent suicide of a secondary school student in Kenya’s North Eastern Province after he was diagnosed as HIV positive has highlighted the shortage of qualified counsellors in the region, and the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Kenyan reconciliation Jeopardized Without Bolstered Efforts, warns UN Envoy
DPs at a shelter in the Rift Valley Province (file photo)
27 May 2008 – Stepped-up measures are crucial to ensure the sustainable return of those forced to flee their homes by post-electoral violence that swept through Kenya earlier this year, a United Nations envoy cautioned today.“In the absence of substantially increased efforts, we will jeopardize [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kenya’s IDPs in Central Reluctant to Return to Rift Valley
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Samuel Ngumo Kamau and wife, Teresia Muthoni, and their three-week old baby
RURING’U, 23 May 2008 (IRIN) – Samuel Ngumo Kamau cannot dispel the images of burning houses and Kenyans killing each other from his mind – a key factor in his decision not to return to his home of nearly four [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Plastic Not Fantastic? – Bag Bans Around the World
(Reuters) — China will become the latest country to outlaw ultra-thin plastic bags, when a ban takes effect on Sunday, in a bid to cut pollution and save resources.
The ban, announced by the State Council in January, halts the production of bags that are thinner than 0.025 mm and forbids their use in supermarkets and [...]
HIV/AIDS: The Little Kenyan Village That Could
Photo: Keishamaza Rukikaire/IRIN
Two-and-a-half year old Tito, the Nyumbani village’s youngest resident, with his grandmother outside their home.
KITUI , 22 May 2008 (PlusNews) – The word ‘nyumbani’ means home in Swahili, and that is exactly what a pilot village in the eastern Kenyan district of Kitui is trying to provide for two generations devastated [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Is Agricultural Biodiversity Another Way Out For Global Food Crisis?
Another possible way out for coping with the global food crisis is stressed here on Wednesday amid United Nation (UN) sets “Biodiversity and Agriculture” as theme of the International Day of Biological Diversity (IBD) this year.
“The protection of the world’s biodiversity is essential to the world’s food supply,” said Ahmed Djoghlaf, executive secretary of the [...]
WAJIBU: Redifining Ourselves
“People who ignore their history are bound to repeat it” (Desmond Tutu)
If we really wish never again to see a repetition of the traumatic events that we experienced after the 2007 elections, we CANNOT AND WE MUST NOT bury the memory of what happened in the early months of 2008.
WAJIBU, in this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )UN to Help Kenya’s Maasai People to Preserve Their Heritage
20 May 2008 –Two people from the Maasai community of Laikipia in Kenya are to be given training in documenting and archiving their cultural heritage through a new project launched today by the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).The two people from the Maasai community will travel with an expert from the National Museums [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kenya’s Mt. Elgon: Guns recovered, SLDF Militiamen Surrender After Leader’s Killing
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN
A joint operation with army and police officers has been deployed in Mt Elgon since March
NAIROBI, 19 May 2008 (IRIN) – Kenyan security officers have recovered more guns and witnessed “several” militiamen surrendering after the killing of a militia leader in the western Mt Elgon district, a police official told IRIN [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Claims of Torture by Army & Militia, as Food Shortages Grip Mt Elgon
Photo: Ann Weru/IRIN
Displaced people from Mt Elgon area receiving food aid in Bungoma
NAIROBI, 16 May 2008 (IRIN) – The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has called for an investigation into allegations of torture committed by security forces deployed in the clash-torn Mt Elgon district in western Kenya.
“In seeking to return sanity [...]
Tax Evasion Costs the Lives of 1,000 Children a Day
The lives of 1,000 young children a day are being lost to disease and poverty in poor countries because of illegal trade-related tax evasion, says a new report from Christian Aid.
It has calculated that this evasion costs the developing world at least US$160bn in lost revenue annually. The culprits are companies using false accounting to [...]
KENYA: Muslim Clerics Declare War on Condoms
Photo: Neil Thomas/IRIN
Muslim leaders have promised to preach against the use and distribution of condoms in northeastern Kenya
GARISSA, 12 May 2008 (PlusNews) – Muslim leaders in Kenya’s North Eastern Province have resolved to campaign against the promotion of condoms as a means of preventing HIV.
The decision was made after a recent meeting on [...]
Billion Tree Campaign to Grow into the Seven Billion Tree Campaign
Grassroots Initiative Hits Two Billion Mark -Target Raised to Over One Tree Per Person by Crucial 2009 Climate Convention Meeting
Nairobi, 13 May 2008 – A unique worldwide tree planting initiative, aimed at empowering citizens to corporations and people up to presidents to embrace the climate change challenge, has now set its sights on planting seven [...]
Food Price Crisis: A Wake-Up Call for Food Sovereignty
Food prices have been increasing sharply. According to the World Bank, global food prices have climbed by 83% over the last three years. The real price of rice rose to a 19-year high in March 2008, an increase of 50% in two weeks alone while the real price of wheat hit a 28-year high, triggering [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )An Answer to the Global Food Crisis: Peasants & Small Scale Farmers Can Feed the World
Prices on the world market for cereals are rising. Wheat prices increased by 130% in the period between March 2007-March 2008. Rice prices increased by almost 80% in the period up to 2008. Maize prices increased by 35% between March 2007 and March 2008 (1). In countries that depend heavily on food imports some [...]
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