Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:43:19 +0000
Five people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rains triggered a series of landslides in eastern Uganda’s mountainous Bududa district.
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A major operation to clean up the trash-clogged rivers in the Kenyan capital has led to the grisly discovery of 14 bodies, mostly children.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 14:08:08 +0000
A three-judge panel of Kenya’s High Court has upheld sections of the country’s penal code that criminalize same-sex relations.
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Singapore’s aviation regulator Tuesday banned the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in the country’s airspace following a deadly Ethiopia plane crash at the weekend.
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Credit to Author: cmolina| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 01:35:19 +0000
When Antonis Mavropoulos knew he missed his flight after arriving two minutes late, the Greek man said he was initially enraged.
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Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 09:03:20 +0000
An assembly of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) opened in Nairobi on Monday under a dark cloud cast by an Ethiopian plane crash.
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Read moreCredit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 02:29:43 +0000
Ethiopia will observe a national day of mourning Monday as investigators search for bodies and clues into the crash of a Nairobi-bound Boeing minutes after takeoff from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 people on board.
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Credit to Author: Tempo Online| Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2019 04:57:24 +0000
PARIS (AFP) – Kenya’s Olympic marathon champion Jemima Jelagat Sumgong has had her doping ban doubled to eight years for trying to tamper with a positive test for EPO, the Athletics Integrity Unit said Friday. Sumgong, whose triumph at the 2016 Rio Games made her the first Kenyan woman to win the Olympic marathon crown, […]
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Two Tanzanians have been trampled to death by elephants in the north of the country, police said Monday.
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Kenya and Tanzania on Tuesday marked the 20th anniversary of devastating US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar Es Salaam, which signaled Al-Qaeda’s emergence as a deadly player on the global stage.
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