Tag Archives : Kenya

A Kenyan geek without any knowledge or experience in aviation has decided to build his own airplane. And failed. He plans to soon make the first flight over the city of Kitengela on the outskirts of Nairobi. The site AVWeb said last Wednesday the story of Gabriel Nderitu, 42, a technology expert who decided to make an airplane. In the biggest hacker, [...]

Two million people live in this sprawling spread of squalor where sub-human standards of living, alone are a definite equivalent of human rights violation. Amnesty International’s report entitled The Unseen Majority: Nairobi’s Two Million Slum Dwellers also outlines the gross human rights abuses, along with the sordid poverty, that exist [...]

Taking advantage of Kenya’s poverty and lame law enforcement, one of Africa’s most popular tourist destinations has been the haven of Western pedophiles that target Kenyan children for sexual abuse and exploitation. A report from Channel 4 News shows footages of children, some as young as 12, in nightclubs in Mombasa. These children go to meet [...]

According to Robert Van den Berg, a spokesman for Oxfam International in the Horn of Africa, “Somalis flee one of the world’s most brutal conflicts and a desperate drought, only to end up in unimaginable conditions in camps that are barely fit for humans.” Oxfam also asserts that ‘the international community has failed the refugees who [...]

They say that hunger is what separates order and anarchy. Social peace is only possible when citizens get their basic needs. Failure to provide food may spark a revolution. Food shortage is largely due not on the failure of the land to produce food but on the fact that the cost of food (cost of food production, really) has skyrocketed, making it inaccessible, [...]

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Japan holds the record for having the world’s longest life expectancy – at close to 90 years. The country also has one of the world’s lowest child mortality rates, indicated by WHO statistics: ‘For every 1,000 babies of both sexes born in Japan, 996 will make it past their fifth birthday [...]

International investors continue to cast their sights on farmlands, especially the best ones, in the African continent. These arable lands constitute the livelihood of local people who are likely to lose access, but African governments pay little attention to them. This phenomenon was analyzed in detail for the first time by experts from the International [...]

Somali pirates have threatened to retaliate after two hostage rescues by foreign forces have killed at least five of their companions. The last operation undertaken by US forces gained the release of Captain Richard Phillips. Three Somali pirates perished during the rescue operation. Recent events have raised fears of increased violence in the shipping [...]

Like his famous father, Martin Luther King III is also a community activist. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of uniting whites and blacks in the United States. The famous Reverend’s son now hails the reaching out to the Islamic world by US President Barack Obama. In a statement from Nairobi where he is currently attending the conference on [...]

The popular image of the US capital is that of a monumental and historic city, the bastion of US democracy, and a place of law and order. Behind the scenes in urban Washington, however, District of Columbia offers a little less pleasant scenario. The seat of the federal government, with a population of approximately 600,000 people of which 55 percent [...]