Kenya's Graffiti Train Seeks To Promote A Peaceful Election
Kenya's peace train is ready to roll.Kenyan graffiti artists received permission from the Rift Valley Railway to spray-paint a 10-car commuter train with peace messages and icons. It may be the first...
View ArticleFighting Stream Of Terrorist Capital, Kenya Cracks Down on Somali Businesses
U.S. counterterrorism efforts include choking off the flow of cash to extremists, and urging friendly countries to help.
View ArticleFearing Election Turmoil, Kenyans Seek A Tech Solution
As Kenya prepares for a presidential election next Monday, it's trying to prevent a recurrence of the last such poll, in December 2007, when more than 1,000 people were killed in postelection...
View ArticleIn Kenya, Political Puppets Give Voice To Satire
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View ArticleGuys, Your Color Blindness Might Be Messing With Kenya's Elections
In Kenya, colorblindness may be contributing to more than just questionable sartorial combinations.
View ArticleHow Kenya's High-Tech Voting Nearly Lost The Election
It was supposed to be the most modern election in African history. Biometric identification kits with electronic thumb pads, registration rolls on laptops at every polling station, and an SMS-relayed,...
View ArticleWhat's Next For Congolese Warlord Now At U.S. Embassy?
Bosco Ntaganda, the Congolese warlord and rebel leader wanted by the International Criminal Court, showed upatthe U.S. Embassy in Kigali on Monday in a taxicab. He was apparently unexpected."We did not...
View ArticleWestern Money, African Boots: A Formula For Africa's Conflicts
For the past six years in Somalia, Western countries have been putting up the cash and African nations have been supplying the soldiers, a formula that has pushed back al-Qaida-linked militants and...
View Article787 Dreamliner Could Mean Big Things For Africa's 'Air Wars'
Transcript ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: And I'm Audie Cornish. The Dreamliner is coming back. FAA regulators have approved a...
View ArticleWith Robocalls, Eritrean Exiles Organize Passive Resistance
Tucked in the northeast corner of Africa, Eritrea is one of the most closed societies in the world, so much so that it's sometimes dubbed the "North Korea of Africa."President Isaias Afwerki does not...
View ArticleTo Count Elephants In The Forest, Look Down
Imagine you're flying in a two-seater plane over Africa, and, in an effort to see how elephants are faring, your job is to count all the ones you see. Over the savannah, that's easy. But how do you...
View ArticleThe Enemy Inside: Rhino's Protectors Sometimes Aid Poachers
It says a lot about the state of the war against poachers in Africa that the Lewa Conservancy, a private sanctuary in Kenya with 12 percent of the country's rhinos, recently appointed a CEO who has...
View ArticleYoung Kenyans Build Mobile Apps For Local Use
You're out navigating the jammed sidewalks of Kenya's capital city when you suddenly realize you're in desperate need of a toilet. You crane your neck over the crowds, vainly seeking a McDonalds, a...
View ArticleFor Young Somali Journalists, Work Often Turns Deadly
Shabelle Media is Somalia's largest news outlet — and a very dangerous place to work. Of the 12 journalists gunned down in the country last year, four were reporting for Shabelle.A number of the...
View ArticleBritain Apologizes For Colonial-Era Torture Of Kenyan Rebels
A 60-year-old wound in Kenya has finally found its recompense.Last week, the British government finalized an out-of-court settlement with thousands of Kenyans who were tortured in detention camps...
View ArticleIn Kenya, Using Tech To Put An 'Invisible' Slum On The Map
If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the...
View ArticleIn Nairobi, A Maasai Detective Pursues Elusive Justice
If not for his earlobes, Detective Mollel would cut a classic figure of the crime fiction genre: moody, obsessive and a widower estranged from his son. But Mollel is a Kenyan from the Maasai tribe and...
View ArticleHow An Ethiopian Bean Became The Cinderella Of Coffee
As we reported during Coffee Week in April, coffee aficionados pay top dollar for single-origin roasts.The professional prospectors working for specialty coffee companies will travel far and wide,...
View ArticleFor Ethiopian Women, Construction Jobs Offer A Better Life
Earlier this summer in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, I heard a complaint from many professionals that they could no longer find cheap house cleaners and nannies.The apparently endless supply of...
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