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Barack Obama Could Not Have Won in Africa

Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Africa, 2008 Presidential Race, Barack Obama Race, Barack Obama and Africa, Barack Obama, Kenya, Kenneth Kaunda, Politics News
Sean Jacobs

While most have been taken in by the rest of the world celebrating Obama's victory, others are using his victory to ask hard questions about racism in Europe and democracy in Africa.

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Somali Pirates Make $150M A Year, Kenya Says

AP | MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR | Posted 11.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Hijackers, Somali Pirates, Pirates, Kenya, Home News

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A radical Islamic group in Somalia said Friday it will fight the pirates holding a Saudi supertanker loaded with $100 milli...

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Pirates Feel Misunderstood

The New York Times | Jeffrey Gettleman | Posted 11.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Piracy, Kenya, Islamist Regime, Islamist Government Somalia, Ukraine Piracy, Somali Pirates, Somalia Poverty, Pirate, Pirates, Gulf of Aden, Ukraine, Home News

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian freighter loaded with tanks, artillery, grenade launchers and ammunition said in an inte...

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Barack Obama Is 'the Model Kenyan'

Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.18.2008 | Politics

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Sean Jacobs

When Barack Obama, then a new US Senator from Illinois, traveled to Kenya in 2006 (as part of a four-nation tour) to see his grandmother, he was quick...

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Interpol, Kenya Wildlife Service Bust 57 Illegal Traders With One Ton Of Ivory

BBC NEWS | Posted 11.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Ivory Smuggling, Ivory, Africa, Elephants, Ivory Trade, Animals, Ivory Bust, Kenya, Green News

More than one tonne of ivory products has been seized in Africa's largest-ever international crackdown on wildlife crime. The operation, co-ordinated...

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The New Africa, the New America

Alan Patricof | Posted 11.12.2008 | Business

Read More: World Economy, Kenya, Barack Obama, Economy, Africa, Nigeria, Barack Obama Africa, Business News
Alan Patricof

After Obama's win, in Kenya, unlike when I last visited, there no heavy debates, but constructive dialogue about America resuming the role of leading the world.

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Desmond Tutu Compares Obama to Nelson Mandela; Calls Him "Post-Racial" President

Sean Jacobs | Posted 11.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Election Reaction, Africa, Madeline Dunham, 2008 Presidential Elections, Obama, Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Obama Race, Desmond Tutu, Kenya, Barack Obama, US Elections, President Obama, Obama Administration, Obama White House, Obama Priorities, Obama Transition, Obama Issues, President Elect Obama, Politics News
Sean Jacobs

Tutu counsels that Obama "could squander the goodwill that his election has generated if he does not move quickly and decisively on the international front."

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One World, One Heart

Deborah King | Posted 11.06.2008 | Home

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Deborah King

It's been a long time coming, this resurrection of hope and excitement in America, and around the world. I've been inundated with calls and emails fro...

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The United World of Obama: The Future is Now

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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Shirin Sadeghi

Tonight, the American people didn't just unite their states, they united the world: a world that in 7 short years had seen the nadir of hate, had witnessed the horror of inhumanity.

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An Afternoon on the Mara

Matthew Bergman | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sienna Boarding School, John McCain, Kenya, Massai Mara, 2008 Election, Mara, Barack Obama, Politics News
Matthew Bergman

We are heading to the Siena Boarding School, just outside the boundaries of the Massai Mara game park.

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Obama on O'ahu

Maxine Hong Kingston | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Literature, Hawaii, Election 2008, Kenya, Books, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Politics News
Maxine Hong Kingston

I am certain that growing up in Hawai'i, Obama learned the values of ho'oponopono and ohana.

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Kenyan Elephants Text Rangers Before Raiding Villages

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 10.14.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Elephants, Animals, Food Crisis, Kenya, Green News

OL PEJETA, Kenya — The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms. The ...

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Malaria Kills. Nets Save Lives.

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 09.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Kenya, Sudan, Health, United Nations Foundation, Malaria, Bed Nets, Uganda, Nothing but Nets, Refugees, Living News
Kathy Bushkin Calvin

As an immediate, easy, and inexpensive way to tackle the disease, bed nets are an ideal remedy for this population in particular and are an indispensable component in the broader fight against malaria.

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South African Execs Looking For An Obama Victory

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.16.2008 | Home

Read More: Sub-Prime, Timber Industry, York Timber, South Africa, Natural Disasters, Inflation, Obama, Mccain, Nigeria, Kenya, Sarah Palin, Home News
Georgianne Nienaber

Our economy is tied to the U.S. economy and the U.S. Republican policies have failed. Most South African analysts believe a black U.S. president will more easily de-polarize the world and undo the divide between the East and West.

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Robbers Target Obama's Family In Kenya, Says Barack's Uncle

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Suspected thieves tried to break into the home of Barack Obama's elderly step-grandmother in Kenya, the U.S. presidential candi...

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Obama's Half-Brother In Kenya Targeted On Republican Smear Site

US News And World Report | Paul Bedard | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kenya, George Obama, Republican Smear Machine, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics News

It was only a matter of time: A website has been created to provide donations to Sen. Barack Obama's half brother, who lives on $12 a year in a shack ...

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Hopes for Democracy, Stability and Education Alive in Kenya

Gene Sperling | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kenya Violence, Kenya Literacy, Literacy, Kenya and Elections, Kenya, International Literacy Day, Politics News
Gene Sperling

On International Literacy Day today, there are few countries being more closely watched than Kenya. The cause of universal free education was linked from the start with the new hopes for a stable democracy in Kenya.

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Islam, Condoms and AIDS

Pius Kamau | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics

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Pius Kamau

Many Africans in north east Kenya will die from HIV/AIDs because of misguided Imams whose ignorance disqualify them from making any health related decisions.

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Obama's Kenyan Half-Brother: "I Say We Are Not Related"

The Daily Telegraph | Nick Pisa | Posted 08.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Kenya, Vanity Fair, George Obama, Italy, Barack Obama, Politics News

The Italian edition of Vanity Fair said that it had found George Hussein Onyango Obama living in a hut in a ramshackle town of Huruma on the outskirts...

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The New York Sun's Obama Frame-Up

Joel Whitney | Posted 08.16.2008 | Media

Read More: Presidential, New York Sun, Terrorism, Bias, Media Distortion, guernicamag.com, Swift Boat, Barack Obama, Kenya, Election, Media News
Joel Whitney

What The Sun had hoped to paint as Islamic extremism was an important agreement between a candidate and a Muslim human rights group to look at ways not to persecute Muslims.

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Kenyan Children Abducted, Tortured, Turned Into Child Soldiers

AP | KATHARINE HOURELD | Posted 06.24.2008 | Home

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BUNGOMA, Kenya — Dozens of scared children filed silently into the bare room, their eyes on the cracks in the floor. One by one, in low voices, ...

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Kenya's Rival Politicians Sign Deal

AP | TOM MALITI | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kenya, Kenya Violence, Kenya Power-Sharing Deal, Kenya Opposition, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga, Kofi Annan, Politics News

NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenya's president and the opposition leader signed a power-sharing deal Thursday to bring the country back from the depths of v...

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A Letter From Kenya

Indagare.com | Saba Douglas-Hamilton | Posted 02.26.2008 | Living

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Documentary filmmaker and conservationist Saba Douglas-Hamilton was raised in Kenya, where she still works alongside her parents, Iain and Oria Dougla...

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Coming to Los Angeles: Labyrinth

Steven Denlinger | Posted 02.15.2008 | Home

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Steven Denlinger

The novella 'Coming to Los Angeles' continues as a serial this week. Chapter 1: Labyrinth IN THE FALL OF 1998, I was teaching in the North Canton C...

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Rape Is Weapon in Kenyan Violence

AP | KATY POWNALL | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

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NAIROBI, Kenya — Looting, arson and murder have become hallmarks of Kenya's conflict over a disputed presidential election. Another, less talked...

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