As Kenyans began lining up to vote today in an important election for the country’s leadership after the creation of a new constitution, there were reports of brutal election-related deaths, including police officers, in several pockets of the nation—but nothing like the violence during the disputed election in 2007 that killed more than 1,200 people. [...]
Grenade Attack Strikes Sunday School in Nairobi
September 30, 2012 | Posted by
A grenade attack on a church in the Kenyan capital Nairobi claimed the life of a child, and left three other children seriously injured on Sunday. A police spokesman blamed the Sunday school attack at St. Polycarp’s church on sympathizers of Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which operates out of nearby Somalia. In what was believed [...]
World Economic Forum: Africa’s Time Has Arrived
May 10, 2012 | Posted by
The 22nd World Economic Forum (WEF) is meeting in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. There have been a lot of articles and programs in world media about how the WEF is taking place in Addis Ababa at a time when the “continent is poised for economic takeoff”, and when it has “six of the world’s [...]
