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World Social Forum opens in Nairobi.
The World Social Forum (WSF) opened in Nairobi on 20 January with a colourful peace march from Kibera slum to the central Uhuru park.
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World Social Forum in Nairobi.
Over 150,000 people are expected to gather in Nairobi on 20 January for the start of the six-day World Social Forum (WSF) 2007 under the theme
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Nairobi airport at centre of visa scam.
Tourists and the government have been losing millions of shillings each month as the result of a visa scam involving immigration officials at Jomo Kenyatta international airport (JKIA) according to a...
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Clashes in Kibera leave three dead.
At least three people have been killed and many more are injured
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Kimathi statue for Jamhuri day.
The foundation stone of a statue of Mau Mau freedom fighter Dedan Kimathi is to be laid in Nairobi as part of events to mark Jamhuri or independence day (Jamhuri means republic in Kiswahili) on 12 Dec...
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New PostaPay money transfer service.
Kenyans now have a new and cheaper way of sending money around the country - PostaPay - the East African Standard reports. Launched by the international private company Postal Corporation of Kenya (Po...
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Hundreds of thousands of Kenyans have been displaced by flooding over the last few weeks as unusually heavy seasonal rains continue to pound the East Africa and Horn of Africa regions. The Kenya Red C...
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Fighting in Mathare slum leaves eight dead.
Calm has returned to Mathare slum in northeastern Nairobi after five days of fighting between two outlawed gangs which residents say have left at least eight people dead and thousands more displaced f...
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Nairobi slum youth get vocational skills.
Unemployed youth living in the slums of Waruku, Gatina, Kangemi and Muthangari in west Nairobi will soon be able to receive vocational skills training as part of a Ksh40 million initiative aimed at re...
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Alternative Africities meeting for slum dwellers.
Slum residents in Nairobi are holding a parallel summit alongside the pan-African Africities meeting on implementing the United Nations millennium goals for development in urban areas, which opened in...
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Preparations are underway for the World Social Forum (WSF), which will take place in Nairobi 20-25 January 2007. At least 100,000 people from all over the globe are expected to arrive in the capital f...
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7th Nairobi International Peace Rally.
The annual international peace rally in Nairobi takes place on 16 September at Uhuru Park from 07.00 to 13.00. This years march, organised by Africa Peace Point (APP) and timed to coincide with the Un...
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National Museum at centre of evolution theory row.
Nairobis National Museum of Kenya (NMK) is at the centre of a row between the scientific community and conservative Christians over its key The Origins of Man exhibit, South Africas Mail & Guardian ne...
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Hundreds of families homeless following slum demolition.
Over 600 families have been left homeless after hired youths backed by police pulled down the informal settlement where they were living, the state-owned newspaper The Nation reports. Residents of Kom...
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Work has begun on a monument to Kenyas national heroes in central Nairobi, the state-owned Nation newspaper reports. Heroes honoured at the memorial will include key figures in the struggle for indepe...
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The fourth pan-African meeting of local government authorities, Africities, opens in Nairobi on 18 September. The five-day summit on the theme of joint action in local government will examine how majo...
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South African and Kenyan tourism to join forces.
Kenya Tourist Board and its South African counterpart South African Tourism are to sign a memorandum of understanding to boost cooperation between the two countries. Rather than trying to snatch touri...
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Five Uchumi outlets in Nairobi have reopened for business six weeks after the national supermarket chain declared itself bankrupt. Following the unexpected closure of 17 branches across the country on...
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Korogocho, Nairobis third largest slum, is now on-line at www.korogocho.org. Launched by the local Catholic community, the website in English and Italian contains articles, letters, photographs, detai...
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Seventeen branches of the Kenyan supermarket chain Uchumi have closed due to bankruptcy leaving 1,200 people jobless and hundreds of millions of shillings worth of debt. Making the announcement on 1 J...
