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Kenyan police scoured the rubble of a Nairobi hotel complex for more victims Wednesday as the death toll from a jihadist attack jumped to 21 and mourners began to bury the dead.
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Fifteen people have died in an Islamist attack on an upmarket hotel complex in Nairobi, Kenyan police sources said Wednesday, as fresh explosions and gunfire rang out in the siege which stretched into its second day.
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In Kenya, they've dubbed it 'Obamacare': potholes filled, new pavements and overnight flower beds, as Nairobi is spruced up for the capital's most awaited visitor, US President Barack Obama.
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U.S. health authorities have issued new guidelines for health workers returning from Ebola-hit nations after a firestorm of criticism over state quarantine restrictions, including from the UN chief.
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A Fokker 50 cargo plane crashed into a two-story building in Nairobi, Kenya early Wednesday, killing all four crew members. The plane had taken off shortly before from the city's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
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A shooting attack around noon today at a shopping center in Nairobi, Kenya, left at least 30 people dead and about 50 injured. Early reports speak of armed men throwing hand grenades and shooting people in the most exclusive shopping mall in the city.
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Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, was engulfed in flames on Wednesday morning. Firefighters are battling the blaze and passengers are being evacuated. (Updated).
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The recent spate of explosions that have rocked Nairobi’s Eastleigh neighbourhood in Kenya has taken a new twist with the apparent targeting of Mr. Yusuf Hassan, a member of Parliament who was injured in a blast outside a Nairobi mosque.
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The attacks on Kenyan Christian churches may have their roots in the October, 2011 incursion into Somalia by Kenyan troops.
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The British government has issued a warning to its citizens abroad that a terrorist attack in Nairobi is imminent. This follows the activities of the Kenyan army in Somalia. The UK warning comes after a similar alert issued by the USA.
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Reports coming out of Kenya's capital city say that a fire in a slum area of the city has killed at least 100 people with police saying the number could rise.
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At least two people have been killed, six have been injured and 14 individuals are unaccounted for after a building collapsed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The Red Cross immediately dispatched emergency crews to the scene.
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Riots have broken out in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, over the holding of a radical Muslim cleric. Authorities have been trying to deport Abdullah Al-Faisal, who is on a global terror watchlist, without success.
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Is 'Poorism' a voyeuristic expedition to see people less fortunate than ourselves or is it a sustainable form of tourism that will benefit residents of impoversihed neighbourhoods?
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After a UNICEF conference it has been found that an estimated 900 babies are at risk each year in Africa as their Mothers are not getting adequete treatment from the governemnt to prevent contracting HIV at birth.
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A crowd of hundreds gathered to protest the rising cost of food was fired upon by police using tear gas to disperse the crowd.
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After being filmed for shooting at two men that were later found dead during the election protests, a Kenyan policeman is set to be charged for murder according to the police. The shooting took place in Kisumu.
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Nairobi - Somali pirates released a Danish ship late Wednesday after a ransom of 1.5 million dollars was paid to them, the head of a maritime organization said Thursday. The Danica White cargo ship was hijacked June 4.
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NAIROBI (dpa) - Western politicians from German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and France's president Jacques Chirac are enthusing about a new African partnership.A good dozen African head of states are hoping that th...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights as proclaimed by the United Nations in December 1948 leaves no room for doubt: "No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms."...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - The "coffin budget" is a relative newcomer to the books of Kenyan companies but it is growing all the time in a country where up to 700 people die of AIDS every day.
In Kenya, funeral assistance is part of the duties of the average c...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - Fourteen-year-old Nina hid her scarred knees beneath a long skirt, one which she has exchanged for her tattered school uniform.
It was the uniform which Nina was wearing when she and around 400 other pupils recently ran away from the...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - Josephine stares at her lap and wrings a handkerchief as she talks about the horrific events that sent her to live on the streets.
Last September, two men took her from her home in a Nairobi slum and raped her repeatedly for three da...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - The snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro has a new adornment -a mobile telephone transmission mast.
Topping Africa's highest peak which soars from the plains of Tanzania to 5,895 metres above sea level, Vodacom's steel tower is not ...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - The children no longer notice the stench and are undaunted by their surroundings.The horde of bare-footed boys and girls are laughing and chasing a soccer ball, while the wind blows the smell of the nearby garbage dump and sewage over t...
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NAIROBI (dpa) - The first information about AIDS was available in Kenya in the middle of the 1980s, yet nothing was done about it.By the mid-1990s 55 per cent of prostitutes tested in the port of Mombasa were HIV positive. Still nothing happened.Sexual...
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Nairobi (dpa) - Suddenly a carriageway of the urban motorway in Nairobi is enveloped in thick black and grey smoke and the only thing a driver can do is to slam on the brakes.
No, the weather has not taken a sudden turn for the worse and this is no...
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Massive fire engulfs Nairobi International airport forcing closure on August 7, 2013. YouTube
September 21, 2013 -- Gunman have stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Government special forces have entered the complex and it is believed that at least 22 people are dead in suspected terror attack Courtesy Euronews
September 21, 2013 -- Gunman have stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Government special forces have entered the complex and it is believed that at least 22 people are dead in suspected terror attack Courtesy Euronews
Samantha Lewthwaite, 'White Widow' Handout photo
Reuters Pictures of the Year 2013: Women carrying children run for safety as armed police hunt gunmen who went on a shooting spree in Westgate shopping centre in Nairobi, September 21, 2013 With permission by Reuters / Goran Tomasevic
Massive fire engulfs Nairobi International airport forcing closure on August 7, 2013. YouTube
Kenyatta Conference Centre, Nairobi www.en.wikipedia.org
Mr. Yusuf Hassan (left) MP for the Kamukunji Constituency, Nairobi, Kenya, in Toronto during his Canada Day keynote address on July 1, 2011, with Hassan Karate, anchor of Ogaal Radio and entrepreneur Mariam Adam. Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
September 21, 2013 -- Gunman have stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Government special forces have entered the complex and it is believed that at least 22 people are dead in suspected terror attack Courtesy Euronews
September 21, 2013 -- Gunman have stormed an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. Government special forces have entered the complex and it is believed that at least 22 people are dead in suspected terror attack Courtesy Euronews
A Fokker 50 cargo plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport killing all 4 crew members. YouTube
Massive fire engulfs Nairobi International airport forcing closure on August 7, 2013. YouTube
A Kenyan policeman stands in front of the wreckage of a bus at the site of a bomb blast in Nairobi on May 4, 2014 Carl De Souza, AFP/File
Police work to control a crowd of onlookers at the scene of an explosion on May 16, 2014 on the outskirts of Nairobi's business district Tony Karumba, AFP
A Nairobi slum Shreibkraft
Nairobi skyline. Clara Sanchiz/Flickr Creative Commons
Eastleigh, Nairobi, Kenya. affordablehousinginstitute.org
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