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PHOTOS: Usain Bolt -- The World's Fastest Man With The Fastest Land Animal

Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Slideshow, Animals, Kenya, Cheetahs, Cheetah-Cubs, Kenyan Wildlife Service, Nairobi, Usain Bolt, Usain Bolt Cheetah, Green News

From Getty: "World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt holds and pets cheetahs at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service in Nairobi. The t...

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From Obama's Ancestral Village Home To Africa's Largest Slum: Perspectives On Democracy And Change

Modiba | Posted 09.21.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya, Africa, President Obama, Kibera, Kogelo, Obama, Barack Obama's Ancestrol Village, Nairobi, Global Music Corner, World News
Modiba

This is HuffPost World's regular feature that highlights interesting musicians and musical trends around the world. Know of a great musician doing g...

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Need a Dose of Nature? An Exotic Spa? Try Wildfitness in Kenya

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.07.2009 | Style

Read More: Kenya, Spa, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Fitness, Indian Ocean, Obama Kenya, Barack Obama, Nairobi, Wildfitness, Style News
Beth Arnold

I felt a deep pull to Africa that I've not felt anywhere else in the world. Wildfitness was physically tough -- an exotic luxurious boot camp -- that captured our souls.

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Walter: Everywhere and Forever

Joan Z. Shore | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Paris, CBS News, Nairobi, Vienna, New York, Concorde, Walter Cronkite, Media News
Joan Z. Shore

My memories of Walter Cronkite are very precious. We met just over 30 years ago, when I was a junior correspondent in the Paris bureau of CBS News.

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Travelogue from DR Congo: Day 1

Sienna Miller | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Take Part, Sienna Miller Congo, Nairobi, Sienna Miller, Congo, World News
Sienna Miller

Rwanda felt peaceful, but upon crossing the border, the violence which I have read so much about became apparent.

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Moving Day in Mathare Valley

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Jamii Bora, Poverty, Acumen Fund, Mathare Valley, Kenya, Nairobi, Mathare-Valley-Slum, Mathare-Valley, Political Humor, Kaputei, Mathare Valley Slum, Slum, Nairobi-Kenya, World News
Jacqueline Novogratz

I came to Mathare Valley to see if I could better understand the trajectory of people moving from this desperate slum to Jamii Bora's development of $4,000 houses in Kaputei.

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Somali Refugees, Fleeing War, Face Danger, Abuse In Camps

GlobalPost | Tristan McConnell | Posted 04.30.2009 | World

Read More: Somali Refugee, Human Rights Watch, Foreign Affairs, Somalia, Somali Refugees, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), Nairobi, Advocacy, Refugees, Mogadishu-Somalia, World News

NAIROBI, Kenya -- "Life in Somalia is not life, it is full of bullets; there is no life in Somalia," said 70-year-old Maryam. Before she fled to Ken...

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Housing the Poor? Nothing Is Impossible

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 04.12.2009 | World

Read More: Jamii Bora, The Poor, Acumen Fund, Housing, Kenya, Ingrid Munro, Slums, Nairobi, World News
Jacqueline Novogratz

Creating a housing development an hour or two drive from Nairobi for and with 2,000 slum dweller families seemed like an impossible dream.

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Two Kenyan Activists Who Investigated Police Killings Shot Dead

guardian.co.uk | Xan Rice in Nairobi | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: Oscar Foundation, John Paul Oulo, Mungiki, Oscar Kamau Kingara, Kenya Violence, Kenya Activists, Kenya Police Murders, Nairobi, Kenya, Kenya Police Killings, World News

Two Kenyan human rights activists who provided evidence to a senior UN investigator over execution-style murders by police were assassinated on a busy...

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Swings Across the World

Tamar Abrams | Posted 03.22.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Poverty, Kenya, Money, Children, Slums, Africa, Playground, Nairobi, Living News
Tamar Abrams

That swingset became my obsession. I saved my money, I let my roof leak a little longer. And what did I get? A picture of children who live in corrugated metal shacks laughing with pure joy.

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Quarter Of World's Food Production Could Be Lost In Environmental Breakdowns

Inter Press Service | Joyce Mulama | Posted 04.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Africa, Food Crisis, Climate Change, Effects of Climate Change, Nairobi, Inter Press Service, Green News

NAIROBI, Feb 18 (IPS) - Worldwide demand for food is expected to grow steadily over the next 40 years, but 25 percent of the world's food production...

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A New Approach to Terrorism

Kerry Kennedy | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Journalists, Women's Rights, Islam, War on Terror, Timothy McVeigh, United Nations, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, Global War on Terror, Chinese, Tibet, London, War on Terrorism, Islamophobia, Madrid, Bush Administration Torture, Arabs, Sudan, National Security, Guantanamo Bay, Darfur Sudan, Amman, Abu Ghraib Abuse, CIA Interrogations, Cruelty, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Mumbai, Bali, Russia Georgia Conflict, Russia Georgia War, Sudan Genocide, Nairobi, New York City, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Robert F. Kennedy, Abu Ghraib, Darfur, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Donald Rumsfeld Torture, Counterterrorism, Prison, Abu Ghraib Torture, Alberto Mora, Torture, Politics News
Kerry Kennedy

A war on terror which undermines the most basic values of society -- life, liberty, the rule of law -- is not worth waging if we end up creating a society which mirrors the repression we battled in the first place.

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Kenya's Rising Urbanization Has Spawned Tradition Of Going Home For Christmas

Los Angeles Times | Edmund Sanders | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

Read More: Kenya Christmas, Kenya, Africa, Kenya Christmas Tradition, Kenya Urbanization, Christmas, Christmas Traditions, Kenya Home Christmas, Nairobi, World News

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya -- Those aren't chestnuts roasting on the open fire; it's goat. And rather than Santa Claus and tree ornaments, 'tis the...

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Is Nairobi The Next Palo Alto?

New York Times | G. PASCAL ZACHARY | Posted 07.27.2008 | Business

Read More: Nairobi, Palo Alto, Nairobi Technology, Business News

IN the republic of innovation, life is unfair. A relatively small number of places -- all in wealthy countries or in China and India -- create nearly ...

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