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Kenya's mental hospital drugs, confines patients

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:31:42 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them in a comatose-like state, factors that may have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients, an advocacy group said Friday.

S. Sudan leader: Int'l court 'humiliates' Africa

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:34:05 -0400

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan's president is criticizing the International Criminal Court, saying the court is designed to humiliate African leaders.

'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gains

Wed, 22 May 2013 13:25:37 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu - East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer - cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN BABY."

Kenya's truth report: Killings, land grabs, graft

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:55:31 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence in which more than 1,000 people died and 600,000 were evicted from their homes.

Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO says

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:14 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.

Kenya police kill "terror couple"

Sun, 19 May 2013 08:22:19 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Police shot dead a couple suspected to be terrorists after they threw four grenades, wounding five officers in an overnight stand-off, a police official said Sunday.

S. Sudan: Doctors Without Borders hospital ruined

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:22:53 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says one of its medical facilities located in a rural but violent region of South Sudan has been ransacked and destroyed.

Correction: Kenya-Sandal Animals story

Tue, 14 May 2013 13:46:02 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - In a story May 8 about artisans in Kenya who turn old sandals into art objects, The Associated Press included two paragraphs that closely paralleled the wording of an earlier story on the subject by the Voice of America. Inclusion of such material should have been attributed to VOA.

Kenyan protesters release pigs over parliament pay

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:34:28 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Nearly three dozen piglets were released and animal blood spilled Tuesday at an entrance to Kenya's parliament as civil society activists protested what they called parliament's greedy salary demands.

Kenya: 31 psychiatric hospital patients on loose

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:55:05 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya police on Monday searched for 31 mentally ill patients who escaped from the country's only public psychiatric facility.

Elephant protectors in Kenya arrested with ivory

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:24:59 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Authorities say that two employees of an elephant conservation group in one of Kenya's most popular wildlife parks have been charged with ivory smuggling.

Kenya's Komon wins 10K race in Central Park

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:45:05 -0400

NEW YORK - Kenya's Leonard Patrick Komon, the 10-kilometer road world-record holder, won the UAE Healthy Kidney 10K in Central Park on Saturday.

Kenyan protester's lonely campaign gets a hearing

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:35:18 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Boniface Mwangi's hands trembled as he typed a Twitter post about his intention to heckle Kenya's top union leader at a rally attended by Kenya's new president.

Doha Grand Prix Results

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:28:57 -0400

800_1, David Rudisha, Kenya, 1:43.87. 2, Mohammed Aman, Ethiopia, 1:44.21. 3, Job Kinyor, Kenya, 1:44.24. 4, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, France, 1:44.77. 5, Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla, Qatar, 1:44.83. 6, Michael Rimmer, Britain, 1:44.97. 7, Anthony Cheumut, Kenya, 1:45.06. 8, Andrew Osagie, Britain, 1:45.41. 9, Timothy Kitum, Kenya, 1:46.54. Moses Kipkemboi Kibet, Kenya, DNF.

UM's 1st Wallenberg award aids grad's Kenya work

Fri, 10 May 2013 04:09:54 -0400

ANN ARBOR, Michigan - The University of Michigan has awarded its first Raoul Wallenberg Fellowship to a 2013 graduate for his plan to study conservation governance in Kenya.

Save the Children, drug co. GSK in new partnership

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:18:50 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - GlaxoSmithKline is giving Save the Children $23 million and entering into a five-year partnership with the charity to try to save the lives of 1 million children.

Henry: Even a terrorist deserves a burial

Wed, 08 May 2013 11:49:11 -0400

By REG HENRY - One of the unremarked stories of the American experience in recent years is the rise of idiocy to epidemic proportions. Everywhere one looks, idiots are at work, and not all of them in Congress.

Africa is riskiest place to be born, report says

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:20:54 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released Tuesday.

Correction: Somalia-Famine Deaths story

Mon, 06 May 2013 13:22:20 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - In a story April 29 about a report estimating the number of Somalis who died in the country's 2011 famine, The Associated Press erroneously reported that about half of the 260,000 victims were age 5 and under. Instead, half of the victims were under the age of 5.

Chinese actress feeds Kenya's orphan elephants

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:30:05 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Chinese actress Li Bingbing is in Kenya to bring attention to the growing problem of elephants slaughtered for the international ivory trade.

London hosts Somalia meeting to aid post-war gains

Mon, 06 May 2013 11:22:24 -0400

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia's president over the weekend received the country's first pieces of mail in more than two decades. It's the kind of small but hopeful development that leaders meeting in London on Tuesday want to see more of.

Kenyan court sentences 2 Iranians to life in jail

Mon, 06 May 2013 09:49:53 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - A Kenyan court on Monday sentenced two Iranian nationals convicted of plotting attacks against Western targets to life in prison.

UK, lawyers for Kenya torture victims in talks

Mon, 06 May 2013 08:52:20 -0400

LONDON - Lawyers for Kenyans tortured during a rebellion against colonial rule in the 1950s said Monday that they are negotiating with the British government over a possible settlement.

'Off the charts': 133k Somalia famine child deaths

Thu, 02 May 2013 17:54:13 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - A decision by extremist Islamic militants to ban delivery of food aid and a "normalization of crisis" that numbed international donors to unfolding disaster made south-central Somalia the most dangerous place in the world to be a child in 2011.

Kenya court: 2 Iranians guilty of terror plot

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:20:28 -0400

NAIROBI, Kenya - Two Iranian nationals, whom officials accused of planning to attack Western targets inside Kenya, were found guilty Thursday by a Kenyan court of terror-related charges.