By PAUL REDFERN in London
Prime Minister Raila Odinga is expected to have a face-to-face meeting with his British counterpart Gordon Brown during a visit to the UK next week.
Britain’s Foreign Office confirmed that both Mr Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband were “looking forward” to meeting both Mr Odinga and a senior delegation [...]
The US Senate has voted to overturn a rule banning HIV-positive visitors from entering the US.
The US is one of only a dozen countries - including Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Russia - that ban travel and immigration for HIV-positive people.
America’s travel ban has been in force since 1987.
The provision lifting the [...]
Forum on male cut begins
Story by WALTER MENYA
The planned roll out of male circumcision as an intervention against HIV and Aids faces its hardest hurdle Thursday with a one-day stakeholders forum in Kisumu to deliberate on its efficacy and acceptance.
The meeting will bring together religious leaders, health professionals, the Government and members [...]
By Kipchumba Kemei and Beatrice Obwocha
Tourists have started flocking the Maasai Mara Game Reserve as the peak season.
The first group of wildebeests crossed into the reserve from Serengeti National Park, Tanzania, kicking off the season ending in November.
Tourists mainly from United Kingdom, Germany, USA, and Asia started arriving in most of the lodges and [...]
LUO “ ELITES” IN SHOW OF MIGHT IN CITY PUB
BY JEFF OTIENO IN KISUMU
Some clique of Luo professionals working and residing in Nairobi are molesting and harassing clients in a city pub ( KUCHE KUCHE ) situated in the precincts of Nyayo National stadium Nairobi with glee.
Following persistent complaints from regular clients of that joint [...]
Story by GATONYE GATHURA
Scientists may have finally found out why HIV infection is highest in sub-Saharan Africa, including Kenya, than other regions of the world.
American and British scientists say a gene which apparently evolved to protect people from malaria increases their vulnerability to HIV infection by 40 per cent.
Africans have a variation [...]
By Michelle Nichols
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton unveiled a deal on Thursday with six Chinese and Indian companies to cut a key malaria drug price by a third and slash the price volatility of a vital ingredient by 70 percent.
Artemisinin-based combination therapies, or ACT drugs, are recommended by the World Health Organization [...]
Tensions are high in Naples over Roma camps
Police in Italy have arrested hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country.
Expulsion orders were issued for several dozen of those detained. More than 100 Italians were also arrested.
One raid was on a makeshift camp housing Roma (Gypsies), on the edge of [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called President George W. Bush “a total failure” who “has no ideas,” in an interview with CNN.
Responding to stinging criticism from Bush on the Democratic leadership in both houses of Congress and the slow pace of the legislative agenda, as Congress prepares for [...]
Keep army out of politics, says Zuma
By Milton Olupot
THE president of the ANC, South Africa’s ruling party, Jacob Zuma, has told African armies to stay out of politics.
The visiting ANC leader was yesterday speaking at the Oliver Tambo Leadership Institute in Kaweweta, Nakaseke, a former camp where many ANC freedom fighters against [...]
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