Kenya and Iran seek to strengthen ties

Kenya’s Foreign Minister Moses Wetangula, met with Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the 15th Foreign Ministerial Conference of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran and both stressed the need for strengthening ties between the two countries.
Wetangula also said Kenya supports Iran’s peaceful nuclear initiatives.
Press TV(IRAN)

Chinese ambassador to Kenya hosts Kenya olympic team

The Chinese ambassador to Kenya, Zhang Ming, hosted the Kenyan Olympic team at the embassy compound a couple of days ago as the team prepares to leave the country for the 29th Olympiad in Beijing. The games begin August 8th and run through the 24th.
Among those who attended the party were Hon. Dr. Helen Sambili, [...]

Kenya government seeks to re-route TEAMS undersea cable

With the laying of The East African Marine System (TEAMs) undersea cable slated to begin in Decemeber, the Kenyan government is looking for an alternative routing around Somali as the cable makes it’s way from Mombasa on the coast of Kenya and terminates in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
The Kenya ICT Board deputy CEO, [...]

Farmed tilapia may be harmful to your health

Tilapia is a beloved staple not just in the Kenyan community here in the United States, but in the wider American community as well. 1.5 million tonnes were consumed in 2003 and it is expected that 2.5 million will be consumed by 2010. Tilapia ranked fifth on the U.S. per-capita seafood consumption list at 0.996 [...]

High food prices forcing Ugandan parents to send their kids to boarding school or to the countryside

The global commodity crisis is hitting families from North America to Africa with higher than normal food prices and people are finding novel ways to cope.
In Uganda, parents are discovering that it is cheaper to have their children in school because the school fees often includes not only tuition and accomodation, but the meals as [...]

Accountability Needed in Western Kenya

By Scott A Morgan
The images and the press reports that emanated from Kenya several months ago were haunting. After all, the Country was considered by many to be a hallmark for democratic governance in Africa. These elections, however, uncovered some deep-lying tensions that exploded into violence after the conclusion of the elections.
One area of the [...]

Emirates takes delivery of it’s first Airbus A380 super jumbo jet

picture source: Airbus
Emirates Airlines today took delivery today of it’s first of sixty Airbus A380s on order with European aircraft manufacturer, Airbus S.A.S based in Toulouse, France. The ceremony took place in Hamburg, Germany. In attendance were Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, the airline’s chairman and Airbus CEO Tom Enders.
The United Arab Emirates, home to [...]

Mark Ndesanjo – Is the Times newspaper trying to start something out of nothing?

One of the headlines on the Times newspaper today reads -
Barack Obama’s brother pushes Chinese imports on US
The article is about Barack Obama’s half-brother, Mark Ndesanjo, who lives and works in China.
Fair enough, you’d think because if a person decides he wants to occupy what is probably the highest office in the whole world, people have a need to [...]

Somali children in Minnesota showing unusually high rates of autism

This shocking story from Minneapolis, MN is focusing on Somali children born to Somali immigrants in the St. Paul/ Minneapolis area.
According to Ann Harrington of the Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Services at the Minneapolis Public Schools, the percentage of students who speak or hear the Somali language spoken at home and [...]

Ugandan army kills 8 Sudanese weapons smugglers

The Chinese news agency, Xinhua, is reporting that the Uganda People’s Defense Force has killed 8 members of the Toposa ethnic group as they attempted to cross the border from Sudan into northeastern Uganda. They were part of a larger group of 30 who crossed into Uganda last week.
The Ugandan army spokesman, Capt. Henry Obbo, told [...]