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Freed Cdn. journalist arrives in Kenya

Freed after 15 tortuous months in captivity in Somalia, Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout and another foreign journalist arrived yesterday in neighbouring Kenya amid claims that a $700,000 ransom was paid for their release.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Somalia, North America, Canada, Stephen Harper

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Walta Information Centre

Kenya to host key UN conference on south-south economic ties

Nov. 25, 2009 -- A key UN conference on south-south economic relations will be held in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, early next month, organizers said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News,

Human Rights Watch

ICC: Prosecutor Seeks OK on Kenya Inquiry

The request today by the International Criminal Court prosecutor to the court's judges to open a Kenya investigation is a decisive step toward justice for the country's 2007 post-election violence, Human Rights Watch said.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Charitable Organizations, Mwai Kibaki

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis County friends say plane crash in Africa won't stop documentary

The documentary was supposed to have a simple script: Two friends in their 20s leave behind the comfortable suburbs of west St.

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Related Topix: Air Accidents, St Louis County, MO, World News, Kenya, Africa,

CBC News

Freed journalist arrives in Nairobi

Lindhout sits with a child in Mogadishu, Somalia, before her kidnapping. Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday, a day after being released in Somalia following 15 months of captivity.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Somalia, Africa

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Ocampo set to comment on Kenya violence

Caption: The prosecutor has stated that he has a strong case against the key instigators of the violence, and that he wants to pursue those "most responsible". The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will make an announcement this week on Kenya's post-election violence, following his preliminary investigation, his office said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa,

CBC

Canadian Amanda Lindhout freed in Somalia

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout, seen reporting in Iraq, was kidnapped in August 2008 in Somalia.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Somalia, Africa, Kenya,

People's Daily Online

UN to open high-level meeting to boost South-South co-op

The United Nations is to open the most important UN meeting on South-South cooperation in decades as countries from the South assume leading roles in decisions on hot global issues ranging from economic recovery to food security and climate change, the world body announced Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Firms Put on Notice Over High Internet Charges

The government has given Internet Service Providers a stern warning: Cut your charges or risk an official price cap.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Internet Service Providers,

Mon Nov 23, 2009

ForConstructionPros.com

Sandvik Plays Part in Kenyan Rift Valley Dam Project

The Sandvik QH330 feeding the QA240 with the clean aggregate fraction in the foreground.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News,

Daily News

Kenyan prisoners die of cholera

Nairobi - A cholera outbreak has killed eight inmates in Kenya's largest prison outside the capital Nairobi and hospitalised 25 others, the commissioner of prisons said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News

Sun Nov 22, 2009

The Star

Cholera claims more lives in Kenya

Nairobi - The number of Kenyans who have died since the start of the year in a cholera outbreak has risen to 89, the Red Cross Society said on Wednesday, warning water shortages could spread the disease to Nairobi.

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Related Topix: Cholera, Health, World News, Kenya, Africa,

IRIN News

SOMALIA: WHO confirms first cases of H1N1

NAIROBI, 16 November 2009 - The first cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 have been confirmed in Somalia, according to the UN World Health Organization .

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, World News, Kenya, Medicine, Influenza, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Africa

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Selkirk Today

African odyssey inspires former high school pupil's charitable nature

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa, Travel, Kenya Travel, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Fri Nov 20, 2009

BBC

East Africa to agree trade deal

East African leaders are due to sign a common market treaty later on Friday. The presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi are expected to agree to the free movement of people and goods across the region.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News,

Walta Information Centre

Canada helps train African peacekeepers

November 15, 2009 -- Canada's deep commitment to peacekeeping is highlighted in a $15-million program, now in its third year, to train African peacekeepers.

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Related Topix: World News, Kenya, Africa,

Thu Nov 19, 2009

AlertNet

Stigma holding back the fight against TB in Kenya

When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis , she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help.

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Related Topix: Kenya, Africa, World News, HIV/AIDS, Health

Athens Banner-Herald

This time, ship fends off Somali pirates

NAIROBI, Kenya - Guards aboard the Maersk Alabama used guns and a sound blaster Wednesday to repel the second pirate attack in seven months on the U.S. vessel at a time when ships are increasingly hiring armed security teams to thwart hijackings.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, World News, Kenya

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Indiana University School of Medicine...

Indiana University Receives NIH Grant to Improve Healthcare in East Africa

A $1.3 million grant to Indiana University from the National Institutes of Health's Fogarty International Center will establish the East African Center of Excellence in Health Informatics.

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Related Topix: Indianapolis, IN, World News, Kenya, Africa,

Newsday.com

Obama meets with half brother in China

Barack Obama said Wednesday that he met briefly with a half brother who lives in China and who recently wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about the abusive Kenyan father they share.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Kenya, Africa,

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