Nairobi, Nov. 22 : Kenya’s Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula has clamed that Somali pirates have collected over 150 million dollars in ransoms over the past year, and appealed to ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked.
According to Fox News, Somali pirates have seized eight vessels including a huge Saudi supertanker loaded with 100 million dollars worth of crude oil in the past fortnight.
"We are advised that in the last 12 months, ransom to the excess of 150 million dollars has been paid to these criminals and that is why they are becoming more and more audacious in their activities," Wetangula said.
Nairobi - Somali pirates have demanded a ransom for a Saudi supertanker carrying around 100 million dollars worth of crude oil amid reports Wednesday that another ship had been seized and that an Indian warship had destroyed a pirate vessel.
"Negotiators are on the ship and on land," Farah Abd Jameh, who claimed to be a member of the group that seized the Sirius Star, said in a tape sent to Arabic broadcaster al-Jazeera. "Once they agree on the ransom, it will be taken in cash to the oil tanker."
Nairobi - Dozens of suspected dealers in illegal wildlife products have been arrested and one ton of ivory products seized in an operation encompassing five African countries, INTERPOL said Monday.
The operation - which targeted local ivory markets, airports and border crossings in Kenya, Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Uganda and Zambia - saw 57 suspects arrested.
Aside from raw, powdered and processes ivory products, cheetah, leopard, serval cat and python skins were seized.
Nairobi - US president-elect Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, 86, is to become an ambassador in the fight against malnutrition in her native Kenya, The Standard newspaper reported Saturday.
Sarah Obama would work on an anti-malnutrition campaign by the Kisumu Kids' Empowerment Organization, the report said.
Kisumu, which is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, is Kenya's third largest city and some 70 kilometres from Sarah Obama's native village of Kogelo in the west of the country.
Kogelo (Kenya), Nov. 5 : Relatives of U. S. President elect Barack Obama are celebrating his victory in Kogelo in western Kenya.
According to a report in the Guardian, Obama’s Kenyan relatives streamed out of Mama Sarah''s compound, dancing and singing loudly in the local Luo language: "We are going to Obama, we are going to the White House."
Nairobi, Nov. 22 : Kenya’s Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula has clamed that Somali pirates have collected over 150 million dollars in ransoms over the past year, and appealed to ship owners not to pay when their vessels are hijacked.
Nairobi - Somali pirates have demanded a ransom for a Saudi supertanker carrying around 100 million dollars worth of crude oil amid reports Wednesday that another ship had been seized and that an Indian warship had destroyed a pirate vessel. 
Nairobi - Dozens of suspected dealers in illegal wildlife products have been arrested and one ton of ivory products seized in an operation encompassing five African countries, INTERPOL said Monday.
Rome - Italy's foreign ministry confirmed Monday that two Italian Roman Catholic nuns have been abducted in Kenya.
Nairobi - US president-elect Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, 86, is to become an ambassador in the fight against malnutrition in her native Kenya, The Standard newspaper reported Saturday.
