UPI Oct 20: "Africa's exports of oil to the United States, largely from Nigeria and the dictator state of Equatorial Guinea, are roughly equal to those of the Middle East." "A major oil strike was made around Lake Albert in western Uganda in 2006, and geologists say it contains at least 2 billion barrels.Only 25 percent of the region, which includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has so far been explored, and some reports say there could be up to 6 billion barrels there.Uganda expects to start producing an initial 200,000 barrels per day in early 2012." Makerere prof Naimah Achim Bucha: "The truth is that Africom is there for the militarization of Africa and for the other purpose of elbowing out all U.S. competitors from the continent, China and Russia included."(
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: "What is WSF? Something That Will Bring Me Medicine?" By: Joyce Mulama, NAIROBI, Nov 22, Posted on www.ipsnews.net on: Thu 07 of Dec, 2006 20:46 IST (1942 Reads)
Våldet i Kenyas val för fem år sedan krävde över 1 100 dödsoffer och observatörer har varnat för en upprepning. Stämningen på valdagen är "spänd men förväntansfull", säger Anders Sjögren, forskare i statsvetenskap vid Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, som befinner sig i Nairobi. - Jag bevakade bland annat när premiärministern röstade. Det var mycket folk ute men läget var lugnt och disciplinerat, säger Anders Sjögren till TT.
David Smith,Guardian, in Nairobi 3.3.: "Victory for Kenyatta would put the world in uncharted diplomatic waters: it would be the first time a nation has democratically elected a politician indicted by the ICC. Given Kenya's status as a key western ally, not least in the fight against terrorism in neighbouring Somalia, a diplomatic headache looms."
CODESRIA Kenya extracts soda ash, limestone, gold, cement and gemstones but its resources are not exploited on a scale comparable to neighbouring Tanzania, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo. However, the recent discovery of commercially viable oil reserves in Turkana [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...], the impending arrival of a new port and oil refinery on the island of Lamu, enormous rare earth and titanium deposits found in Kwale [http://allafrica.com/stories/201307...], and discoveries of gold in Narok and Migori [http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/...] have caught the eye of new investors, hungry to turn a handsome profit from the country’s untapped resources.
10 MAY 2013 - JESSICA HATCHER, IAN COBAIN The British government is negotiating payments to thousands of Kenyans who were detained and severely mistreated during the 1950s Mau Mau insurgency.
The British government will on Thursday agree an historic compensation payment to victims of one of the darkest episodes of the country's imperial past and express its "sincere regret" for the torture inflicted upon thousands of people imprisoned during Kenya's Mau Mau insurgency. bildtext: Captured Mau Mau fighters in Kenya awaiting trial in 1954. Photograph: George Rodger/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images In a statement to MPs, William Hague, foreign secretary, is expected to announce payments of £2,600 each to more than 5,000 survivors of the vast network of prison camps that the British authorities established across its colony during the bloody 1950s conflict: a total of about £13.9m.
– Det finns en stor potential för att minska risken för konflikter som är baserade på tillgången till vatten, det säger UNESCO:s biträdande chef för vetenskap, Gretchen Kalonji. – Om en månad hoppas vi kunna få tillgång till vattnet och första prioritet är invånarna i regionen, säger miljöminister Judi Wakhungu. Enligt UNESCO saknar idag omkring 17 av Kenyas 41 miljoner invånare tillgång till rent dricksvatten.
Sept 23 (CNN) -- British-born Samantha Lewthwaite was once seen as a kind of victim of the July 2005 London terror attacks -- the pregnant wife of one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people, now left alone to care for her children. She condemned the attacks but then vanished. Now, Kenyan authorities say, she is the infamous "White Widow," alleged to be a supporter and financier of people linked to the Somali terror group Al-Shabaab.
The attack on the Westgate mall in Kenya last month by al-Qaeda-affiliated militants has underscored the need for enhancing U.S. engagement with the African continent, said senior American officials in an online press conference. “It highlighted to us that we were pursuing the right strategy and proved that we had to bolster that strategy,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of African Affairs of the US State Department.
Diesmal habe ich längere Zeit darüber grübeln müssen, welchen Titel ich am besten über diesen Beitrag stellen soll. Werde ich präziser, wird der Titel viel zu lang und ich kann es mir eigentlich sparen dann noch etwas zum Inhalt des Buches zu erzählen. Also habe ich es diesmal einfach bei einer Kernaussage belassen, die zwar zutrifft, aber relativ wenig über den eigentlichen Inhalt aussagt. Tatsächlich vereint das Buch zwei verschiedene Bücher bzw. zwei ozeitlich sehr, sehr lange auseinanderliegende Handlungsstränge, die Sibylle Knaus, Professorin für Text und Dramaturgie an der Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, hier phantasievoll und unterhaltsam miteinander verknüpft.