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# kenya - Monday 17 October, 2011
# kenya - Friday 14 October, 2011
Vehicle found during search for Spanish aid workers
The MSF employees were kidnapped from the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya by gunmen believed to be part of Somalia’s al-Shabab militant group.
# kenya - Sunday 9 October, 2011
The Sports Pages: some of the week's best sportswriting
Paul Gascoigne’s tales from the dark side of celebrity, the origins of the Honey Badger and an incredible tribute to the elegant genius of Roger Federer: its our weekly round-up of the best the web has to offer.
# kenya - Sunday 2 October, 2011
The Daily Fix: Sunday
In this evening’s fix: the latest from the presidential campaign trail and the Sinn Féin/Fine Gael war of words, 700 arrested in New York, and an early Halloween fright…
Suspected pirates take Frenchwoman from Kenya to Somalia
Kenyan and French authorities are working to free Marie Dedieu from her captors in Somalia. She was abducted amid a shoot-out on the sea yesterday.
# kenya - Saturday 1 October, 2011
Pirates kidnap elderly Frenchwoman from Kenyan resort
The woman, who uses a wheelchair to get around, was taken from her home on Manda Island this morning.
# kenya - Monday 26 September, 2011
First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies
One of Kenya’s most recognisable women Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism, has passed away following a long struggle with cancer.
# kenya - Sunday 18 September, 2011
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
# kenya - Monday 12 September, 2011
Dozens burned to death in petrol pipeline explosion
At least 40 bodies have been counted after the blast in Kenya’s capital Nairobi, according to reports.
# kenya - Sunday 11 September, 2011
British man killed and wife kidnapped in northern Kenya
It was not known if the attackers came from neighboring Somalia, where pirates often prey on foreigners, or if they were Kenyans.
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the globe.
# kenya - Monday 5 September, 2011
750,000 Somalis now at risk of death from famine - UN
The UN says a fourth region in southern Somalia is now suffering from famine – meaning half of the south is now in crisis.
# kenya - Thursday 11 August, 2011
Second airlift of Irish aid reaches the Horn of Africa
Irish Aid has delivered aid worth €8.2 million to the region. Meanwhile aid agency GOAL has criticised the UN for “reluctance” to provide peacekeepers, and has said the “international community “has no stomach to tackle terrorists”.
# kenya - Saturday 30 July, 2011

The week in photos
This is the week that was, in pictures.
# kenya - Thursday 28 July, 2011
Column: The UN must brave up to terrorists to get aid to Somalia
Charity GOAL’s chief executive John O’Shea says that while agencies are trying to help refugees flooding out of Somalia, some four million people are trapped inside and facing death.
# kenya - Friday 22 July, 2011
Nearly 800,000 children in Somalia face immediate death
Concern video shows extent of humanitarian crisis in refugee camps as militants threatening to ban return of aid agencies not already on the ground.
# kenya - Thursday 21 July, 2011
'It is much worse than people realise': Mary Robinson visits Somalia
Such is the extent of the famine in parts of Somalia the US is to aid parts of the country controlled by Al-Shabab.
# kenya - Wednesday 20 July, 2011
UN declares famine in parts of Somalia
It is the first time famine has been declared in the region in 19 years amid the worst drought in six decades.
# kenya - Monday 18 July, 2011
Mary Robinson in drought stricken Horn of Africa
The former president’s visit comes nearly 20 years after her first trip to Somalia to highlight the crisis there.
# kenya - Sunday 17 July, 2011
After two years UN aid delivered to Islamist areas of Somalia
It’s the first time aid has been delivered to some parts of the country in two years
# kenya - Wednesday 6 July, 2011
Aid agencies seek urgent help to counter Africa's worst drought in decades
Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are close to yet another famine, after their driest period in around 60 years.
# kenya - Saturday 11 June, 2011
Al Qaeda chief in East Africa said to have been killed in Somalia
Fazul Abdullah Muhammad, thought to be responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings, was killed in Mogadishu earlier this week it was reported today.
# kenya - Monday 16 May, 2011
Kenya's Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru dies in balcony fall
Twenty-four-year-old Wanjiru was the youngest runner to win four major marathons and recorded the fastest-ever marathon time in the US.
# kenya - Sunday 17 April, 2011

Gallery: Kenyans make clean sweep in London Marathon
# kenya - Thursday 3 March, 2011
Kenyan MP thrown out of parliament for bringing too much bling
Assembly member ejected from the chamber for wearing ear studs and offending his colleagues by “imitating a woman”.
# kenya - Tuesday 8 February, 2011
Cracking up: Finger injury rules Morgan out of Cricket World Cup
Irishman out of the English World Cup squad as his former team-mates fall to three-wicket defeat against Kenya.
# kenya - Sunday 7 November, 2010
Policeman shoots 10 people dead in Kenya
Two of the dead believed have to been the gunman’s colleagues who were killed at the start of the attacks on bars in Siakago, Kenya.