Nairobi/Dakar - The international lobby group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday warned that the military in Guinea was escalating the number of human rights abuses against civilians. The west African state has been in flux since the death of long- serving president Lansana Conte last December, after which the army seized power and suspended the constitution.
Nairobi - The jeep bumps along a dusty track, its occupants peering out into the long grass, studded with the occasional Acacia tree, that carpets the open plain as far as the eye can see.
Scores of wildebeest, zebra and impala feed contentedly across the plain as the sun reaches the end of its long trek down the sky.
Suddenly a finger points and the jeep shudders to a halt. There, emerging from the grass, comes a solitary lioness.
Nairobi - A French warship delivered 11 Somalis accused of piracy to the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Wednesday as the trial of another nine suspected pirates apprehended by the German navy got underway in the town.
French commandos from the warships Nivose captured the men last week as they attempted to board the Liberian tanker Safmarine Asia in the Indian Ocean.
The men delivered by the Nivose were immediately taken away by the police and are expected to appear in court on Thursday.
Washington, April 22 : A new study has shown widespread and substantial declines in wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve in only 15 years.
The study was analyzed by researchers at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and led and funded by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
It is based on rigorous, monthly monitoring between 1989 and 2003 of seven “ungulate,” or hoofed, species in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, which covers some 1500 square kilometers in southwestern Kenya.
Nairobi - At least 24 people have been killed in clashes between members of the public and the banned Mungiki sect in Central Kenya, police said Tuesday.
Police spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the German Press Agency dpa that fighting broke out on Monday evening in and around the town of Karatina, around 100 kilometres north of the capital Nairobi.
The police arrested 34 people on Tuesday night then discovered the bodies early Tuesday morning, Kiraithe said.
It was not clear how many of the dead were members of the banned sect and how many were members of the public.
Nairobi - Somali pirates have released a Togo-flagged ship originally routed to carry food aid to the Horn of Africa nation, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday.
A Nairobi-based WFP spokesman, citing the MV Sea Horse's owners, said that the ship, which was taken on April 14, was released on Friday.
There was no official information on whether a ransom was paid, although some reports suggested that as much as 100,000 dollars may have changed hands.
Nairobi/Dakar - The international lobby group Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday warned that the military in Guinea was escalating the number of human rights abuses against civilians. The west African state has been in flux since the death of long- serving president Lansana Conte last December, after which the army seized power and suspended the constitution.
Nairobi - The jeep bumps along a dusty track, its occupants peering out into the long grass, studded with the occasional Acacia tree, that carpets the open plain as far as the eye can see.
Nairobi - A French warship delivered 11 Somalis accused of piracy to the Kenyan port of Mombasa on Wednesday as the trial of another nine suspected pirates apprehended by the German navy got underway in the town.
Washington, April 22 : A new study has shown widespread and substantial declines in wildlife in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve in only 15 years.
Nairobi - At least 24 people have been killed in clashes between members of the public and the banned Mungiki sect in Central Kenya, police said Tuesday.
Nairobi - Somali pirates have released a Togo-flagged ship originally routed to carry food aid to the Horn of Africa nation, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday.
