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African first world war soldiers without a grave
A crackly audio recording made in the 1980s is one of the few direct links left to the African soldiers…
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Mau Mau Uprising
The Mau Mau Uprising (1952–1960), also known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Kenya Emergency, and the Mau Mau Revolt,…
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Kenya
Kenya (/ˈkɛnjə), officially the Republic of Kenya (Swahili: Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in Africa with 47 semiautonomous counties…
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Coronavirus: German army shipment of masks ‘vanished in Kenya’
A German army shipment of six million face masks needed to protect against the novel coronavirus has vanished in Kenya,…
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Africa talks tough against coronavirus but many wonder why
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Shoppers threaded their way between stalls hawking everything from watches to pigs’ feet in Sierra Leone’s capital…
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Absa Bank says Kenya mobile banking app used by almost 5 million customers
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya’s Absa Bank has moved most of its customers onto its mobile banking platform, which it sees…
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‘Like an Umbrella Had Covered the Sky’
At first, villagers thought the dark, dense blot in the sky was a harmless cloud. Then came the terrifying realization…
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Kenyan Women Group Pooled Cash to Build a 5-Storey Residential Block
By Samuel Abuya It is widely said and agreed, that iron sharpens iron. This can be said of a Kenyan…
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China’s relationship with Africa is illustrated by garlic tensions
From #Kenya... Farmers say the growing presence of Beijing in Kenya is having a negative impact on their lives, their…
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Uhuru Kenyatta
Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta (born 26 October 1961) is a Kenyan politician and businessman who is the fourth and current President of…
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Primacy of the law has been asserted in Kenya – but the aftermath is unpredictable
On Friday 1 September, Kenya’s Supreme Court delivered a surprise. Against the expectations of many, the court ruled – in…
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'They're like the mafia': the super gangs behind Africa's poaching crisis
Late on 6 June 2014 Kenyan police, acting on a tip-off, raided a used car lot in Mombasa’s industrial area.…
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'It's Hard to Remove a Seating African President'
Another election, another win, another loss, another dispute, another positive endorsement by the ‘international observer teams,’ and another litany of…
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Loss of Fertile Land Fuels ‘Looming Crisis’ Across Africa
Climate change, soil degradation and rising wealth are shrinking the amount of usable land in Africa. But the number of…
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