WASHINGTON (AFP) - White House hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain Sunday vowed to step up the fight against HIV and AIDS in America, after government figures showed the epidemic was growing faster than previously thought.
Democrat Obama said he would develop a national strategy to cut down on new infections, expand testing and education, and [...]
Venture out of Kenya, Raila tells businesses
By Robert Nyasato and Kepher Otieno
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has challenged local businessmen to venture outside Kenya and tap investment opportunities in the Diaspora.
Raila said Kenya fetches more than Sh67 billion annually from Kenyans in the Diaspora.
“The financial contribution from the business community abroad is very crucial to [...]
DAKAR (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton wound up a four-nation Africa tour aimed at combating HIV/AIDS in Dakar on Sunday, praising France for its financial support through the agency Unitaid.
“It is possible to honour the World Health Organisation guidelines, in my opinion, only because of Unitaid and the government of France,” he said [...]
The co-wives, 24-year-old Winnie Atieno Wachara and Judith Akinyi Wachara, 23, are surrounded by their five children aged between six years and four months. All are pondering where their next meal will come from.
The women lost their husband Samwel Owino Chara early this year at the Homa Bay District Hospital.
They are among a group of [...]
War of words rages among Kibaki allies over succession
By Standard Team
The succession war among President Kibaki’s allies burst out in the open at the weekend as politicians from central Kenya waged a veiled attack against Cabinet Minister Martha Karua.
Several MPs, including Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi, spoke strongly for the strengthening of PNU – which Karua [...]
A police officer guards a house at Mimdan ,Malindi where two Al-Qaeda suspects were arrested yesterday. INSET: Terror suspect Fazul Abdalla Mohammed. [PHOTO: OMONDI ONYANGO/STANDARD]
A suspected Al-Qaeda mastermind and key suspect of the 1998 American Embassy bombing in Nairobi is in Kenya, but has eluded a police dragnet.
Fazul Abdullah Mohamed escaped arrest in Malindi [...]
ANC allies to come out for Zuma
By Peter Biles
Southern Africa correspondent, BBC News
Kwazulu-Natal’s provincial capital, Pietermaritzburg, could be brought to a standstill on Monday when Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s presidential hopeful, appears in court.
With its colonial architecture and its prominent statue of Queen Victoria in front of the city’s legislature, Pietermaritzburg [...]
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A spokesman for Mr Blair told the paper that the former prime minister was 100% behind Mr Brown, but declined to comment on the memo itself.
A group of ex-Labour ministers are to set out their own policy agenda to fill what they see as a “vacuum” at the heart of government. [...]
( Photos Rick and Kathy Hilton)SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Paris Hilton’s mother — a John McCain donor — on Sunday dismissed as a “waste of money” a television ad that used her daughter and Britney Spears to portray Democrat Barack Obama as more celebrity icon than chief executive.
Kathy Hilton, the mother of the blond socialite-actress, [...]
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