Rift Valley, Kenya News

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.