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SCIENCE AND NATURE

AUGUST 2005Sorry we have found no science and nature stories for Kenya in August 2005

JULY 2005• P&G'S PUR HELPS VILLAGERS IN KENYA STAY HEALTHY (JULY 28)
http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050728/BIZ01/507280324/1002/BIZ
A newly published study shows that cases of diarrhea and deaths stemming from it dropped significantly among Kenyan villagers when they treated their water...

• KENYA LAUNCHES FIGHT AGAINST ITS TOP CHILD KILLER, MALARIA (JULY 25)
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-07-25-voa21.cfm
Kenya has launched a campaign against malaria, which remains the country's leading cause of death for children under the age of five. (Related articles: Kenya declares war on killer malari)

• CLINTON TO HELP KENYA WITH HIV/AIDS CARE (JULY 22)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072200884.html
Nairobi — Former President Clinton pledged Friday to help Kenya expand HIV/AIDS care and treatment, particularly for children and people in rural areas ... (Related articles: Clinton in Kenya To Announce New Program, Clinton Foundation Gives ARVs to 1,000 More Kids, Clinton Launches Programs To Put More HIV-Positive Children on Antiretroviral Treatment, Needed — More Meds for Kids)

• POLIO VACCINATIONS TO TARGET A MILLION CHILDREN (JULY 19)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/55f0e6e51a0d3c3097ae0fe5026f440e.htm
Nairobi — Kenya is to undertake two rounds of emergency polio vaccination in August and September to protect nearly a million children from the

JUNE 2005Sorry we have found no science and nature stories for Kenya in June 2005

MAY 2005

• KENYA STEPS UP BID AS AFRICA'S TELECOM HUB (MAY 24)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20050524-21050100-bc-kenya-internet.xml
Oslo — A Norwegian telecommunications group said Monday Kenya will become its hub in Africa.
(Related article: Kenya steps up bid as Africa's telecom hub)

• BRITISH MUSEUM BEGINS JOINT EFFORT WITH KENYA'S MUSEUM (MAY 23)
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/4df7bc9e-cbae-11d9-895c-00000e2511c8.html
When Kiprop Lagat, a senior curator at the National Museum of Kenya, was seeking artefacts for an exhibition ...

CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENT

AUGUST 2005Sorry we have found no conservation and environment stories for Kenya in August 2005

JULY 2005

• UGANDA IMPORTS KENYA RHINOS (JULY 25)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507250700.html
In a move to boost the tourism sector, the Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has imported four Kenyan rhinos at undisclosed amount.

• NOBEL WINNER: AFRICA SACRIFICES WILDLIFE FOR FARMS (JULY 00)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20504703.htm
Johannesburg — Africa must stop pushing out wildlife to make way for farming or it will lose out on crucial tourism revenue, Kenya's Deputy Environment ...

• KENYA BEATING WILDLIFE CRIME (JULY 19)
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1739886,00.html
Nairobi — The international police organisation Interpol has awarded Kenya its first-ever award for fighting wildlife crime by using a new system to report ... (Related articles: Interpol Gives Ecomessage Award to Kenya for Fighting Wildlife)

• WORLD VISION KENYA FOOD CRISIS UPDATE (JULY 15)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/217167/112140942495.ht
World Vision's response to the current food emergency in Kenya is now in its fifth month

JUNE 2005

• KENYA RECLAIMS FAMED GAME PARK FROM POACHERS (JUNE 16)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29267599.htm
Michael Kipkeu sounds more like a soldier than a game warden when he talks about keeping watch over Kenya's biggest national park...

• KENYA PLANNING JUMBO MOVE TO BIGGER GROUNDS (JUNE 4)
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=39076&version=1&template_id=39&parent_id=21
Nairobi — Wildlife authorities in Kenya announced multi-million-dollar plans this week to re-locate hundreds of elephants from an overcrowded game reserve...

MAY 2005

• HUNDREDS HOMELESS AS FLASH FLOODS HIT WESTERN KENYA (MAY 24)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/58f5bcb86d38d4c13e570cd23ac4be08.htm
Nairobi — Hundreds of people have been left without shelter in western Kenya after flash floods...
(Related article: Four killed, hundreds homeless as floods ravage Kenya)

• KENYA'S FORESTS AT RISK (MAY 21)
http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=28766
Nairobi — For many people, Kenya is defined by the endless grasslands of the Masai Mara, herds of wildebeest and accompanying predators.

• NOW MINISTER ORDERS FRESH INQUIRY INTO RHINO DEATHS (MAY 21)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505201059.html
The Tourism and Wildlife ministry has started its own investigations into the deaths of four black rhinos...

• FUNDS SOUGHT TO AID VULNERABLE CHILDREN IN DROUGHT-HIT AREAS (MAY 6)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/8963830fe164811fc06e1d1b6a5da020.htm
Nairobi — The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has issued an emergency appeal for nearly US $3 million to help thousands of children...

DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION

AUGUST 2005

• KENYA DEMANDS UK APOLOGY OVER BAN (AUG 5)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4750127.stm
Kenya has demanded an apology from London after the UK banned a Kenyan cabinet minister from entering the country over corruption allegations.

• RELIEF FOOD FACTORY TO OPEN IN KENYA (AUG 4)
http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2004/08/27-08-04/Relief.htm
Pan-African food giant Promasidor is setting up a Ksh 550 million relief food factory in Kenya. Nutro Manufacturing is targeting the 11 countries in the Horn of Africa and Great Lakes region...

• OIL DRILLING OFF KENYA COAST TO BEGIN NEXT YEAR (AUG 1)
http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/News/regional010820055.htm
A member of a British-Australian consortium prospecting for oil off Kenya's coast says exploratory oil drilling will begin next year...

• KENYA CAN GROW LIKE ASIAN TIGERS (AUG 1)
http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Opinion/comments010820057.htm
Kenya was at the same level of development as Singapore and South Korea in 1973. Today, it is reeling in poverty while the two countries are economic giants.

• KENYA MOURNS DR GARANG (AUG 1)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=26559
Kenyans have joined the Sudan nationals in mourning the passing on of the country's first Vice President Dr John Garang.

• CONFLICT OVER RESOURCES IN BORDER AREAS (AUG 1)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/ec3b64b2e6052d1bbdd05c3909f610af.htm
Mandera — The recent killing of 70 people in northern Kenya's Marsabit district demonstrates a frequent pattern of conflict...

• KHATAMI: IRAN READY TO SHARE EXPERTISE WITH KENYA (AUG 1)
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0508010762142452.htm
New Kenyan Ambassador to Tehran, Ali Abbas Ali, on Monday submitted his credentials to President Mohammad Khatami.

JULY 2005

• ENVOYS' VIEWS REFLECT THE THINKING OF THEIR GOVERNMENTS ON KENYA (JULY 31)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200508011056.html
Most prosperous nations have thinktanks which dedicate their efforts to studying other countries.

• ECONOMIST BLAMES FOREIGN AID FOR FAMINE (JULY 30)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5178414,00.html
Dakar — In Niger, a desert country twice the size of Texas, most of the 11 million people live on a dollar a day.

• UNICEF EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ANN M. VENEMAN SAYS CHILDREN ARE KEY TO DEVELOPMENT (JULY 26)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6EP4WD?OpenDocument
Nairobi — On Sunday 24 July UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman visited Wajir in Kenya's North Eastern Province, to draw attention to the ... (Related articles: UNICEF Chief Calls For Redoubled Efforts To Improve Health, Education, Indicators In Northeast "Unacceptable"—UNICEF Head)

• GRASSROOTS DISASTER-PREVENTION IN WESTERN KENYA (JULY 27)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6EPHER?OpenDocument
Nairobi — A 1999 study commissioned by the United Nations Secretariat for the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR) described sub-Saharan Africa's vulnerability to natural hazards...

• DEARTH OF RESOURCES, POOR PLANNING EXPOSE MANY TO EFFECTS OF DROUGHT (JULY 27)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/4d94206b33be3b4c286020fef83f5017.htm
Nairobi — like several other countries in the Horn of Africa region, is frequently affected by drought, and populations in the country's

• KENYA: RED CROSS TO OPEN OFFICES (JULY 18)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6EEPZR?OpenDocument
Nairobi — Kenya Red Cross Society will put up regional centres countrywide...

• FREE PRIMARY EDUCATION BRINGS OVER 1 MILLION INTO SCHOOL (JULY 22)
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/HMYT-6EJPVX?OpenDocument
Nairobi — Twelve-year-old Esther Wamboi lives in Nairobi's Kibera neighbourhood, one of the most impoverished areas in Kenya.

• KENYAN WOMEN'S VILLAGE ILLUSTRATES RISING BRAND OF FEMINISM IN AFRICA (JULY 17)
href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002386090_kenya17.html
Umoja — Seated cross-legged on sisal mats in the shade, Rebecca Lolosoli, matriarch of a village for women only, took the hand of a frightened 13-year old... (Related article: Women in Kenya challenge the culture )

• KENYA'S POOR RATING BLAMED ON THE PEOPLE (JULY 16)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507170007.html
A Cabinet minister yesterday blamed the Government's poor rating on what he termed people's negative attitude.

• CHANGE OR PERISH, CHERIE BLAIR TELLS KENYA'S YOUTH (JULY 15)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507140942.html
The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday told Kenya's young people to fight AIDS by practising safe sex.

• KENYA'S MAATHAI UPBEAT ON G8, UNHAPPY AT EVICTIONS (JULY 15)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L15350415.htm
Nairobi — Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai condemned the brutality used against thousands of peasants in Kenya's forest eviction programme... (Related articles: Forest evictions condemned)

JUNE 2005

• KENYA MPS 'DISHONEST AND SELFISH' (JUNE 24)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4619207.stm
Kenya's MPs are mostly dishonest, insincere and tribalistic, says speaker of parliament...

• THOUSANDS APPLY FOR ASYLUM AS KENYA DEADLINE LOOMS (JUNE 24)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L24468010.htm
Nairobi — Thousands of asylum seekers in Kenya are rushing to apply for refugee status just days before a deadline...

• INCREASED FUNDING FOR THE MILITARY QUERIED (JUNE 16)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506160465.html
MPs yesterday questioned increased funding to the military saying the Government should instead allocate more money to development.

• KENYA HAILS S. AFRICA ANTI-GRAFT EXAMPLE (JUNE 16)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/06/16/kenya.corruption.reut/
Nairobi — Kenya would like to follow South Africa's lead in firing graft-tainted officials...

• NYONG'O: KENYA TO APPEAL OVER DEBT (JUNE 15)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506150431.html
The Government is to ask its multi-lateral partners to review its exclusion from a list of countries whose external debts have been written off.
(Related articles: Kenya Able to Pay Debt, Says U.S. Official, Kenya: Interfaith March to Promote Trade Justice)

• WORLD BANK GIVES KENYA SH6 B FOR BUDGET SUPPORT (JUNE 15)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=22832
The Government will receive Sh6 billion in budgetary support from the World Bank during the current financial year.

• KIBAKI BIDS BRITISH ENVOY FAREWELL (JUNE 15)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news_s.php?articleid=22876
President Mwai Kibaki today bade farewell to the outgoing British High Commissioner to Kenya...

• KENYA'S BLUEPRINT IGNORED SECTORS CRUCIAL TO GROWTH (JUNE 13)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506140958.html
The budget delivered by Kenya's Finance Minister David Mwiraria received a cautious welcome from business and political leaders...

• DENMARK URGED TO RETHINK MOVE ON AID (JUNE 3)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21955
A Cabinet minister yesterday appealed to the Danish Government not to withhold Sh1.5 billon aid to Kenya...

• MOST KENYANS 'SEE LITTLE HOPE' FOR EMPLOYMENT (JUNE 2)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506020220.html
Some 60 per cent of Kenyans think joblessness will increase in 2005, according to an opinion poll.

• KENYA IS ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY, DECLARES PRESIDENT (JUNE 2)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506020198.html
President Kibaki yesterday said the Government was on course to attain its economic recovery goals.

MAY 2005

• KENYA GETS SH3.2 BILLION TO EXPAND POWER PLANT (MAY 31)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21707
The European Investment Bank has given Kenya Sh3.2 billion to expand the Olkaria geothermal power plant.

• KENYANS ANGRY OVER US PRESSURE TO SIGN ICC AGREEMENT (MAY 30)
http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-30-voa28.cfm
Angry Kenyans are urging their government not to sign an agreement with the United States...

• KENYA HAS BECOME A BANANA REPUBLIC (MAY 7)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=19862
When they voted Narc at the last election, many Kenyans expected a New Deal. They are still waiting...

• POVERTY CHALLENGE (MAY 2)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505020752.html
Barely two years after restoring its poverty reduction programme to Kenya, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is worried...

BUSINESS AND CULTURE

JULY 2005

• SWISS RE TARGETS KENYA'S AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY (JULY 26)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507251547.html
A leading international reinsurance firm plans to provide cover for high value crops in Kenya's agricultural industry.

• GLOBAL TEA OUTPUT CROSSES 3.2 MN MARK (JULY 17)
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/006200507171104.htm
New Delhi — World tea production continued to reach new highs with output growing by 2 per cent...

JUNE 2005

• TAX EXEMPTIONS ONLY BENEFITED THE RICH (JUNE 16)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506160471.html
This year's Budget deserves some comment.

• TOP SIX SPENDERS OF THE BUDGET BILLIONS (JUNE 15)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506150453.html
Kenya's biggest spending ministers spoke out yesterday - and revealed they needed yet more cash from the public purse.

• MINISTER CRACKS WHIP ON COFFEE BOARD (JUNE 3)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=21914
The Government has dissolved the boards of Coffee Research Foundation and Coffee Board of Kenya.

MAY 2005

• SAFARICOM KENYA INTRODUCES MMS (MAY 28)
http://www.mobileafrica.net/news-africa.php?id=298
Safaricom now follows the steps of South Africa's Vodacom, MTN, Cell C; Nigeria's Glo mobile, Mtel; Egypt's Vodafone, and Mobinil...

• IMPORTED USED VEHICLES THREATEN GM'S GROWTH PLANS IN AFRICA (MAY 25)
http://www.just-auto.com/news_detail.asp?art=48202
General Motors is redoubling its efforts to capture a greater market share in Africa, threatening the business of leading Japanese automakers...

TRAVEL

AUGUST 2005

• TOURISM AWARDS ATTRACT INTEREST FROM KENYA (AUG 1)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200508011117.html
The 2005 Imvelo Responsible Tourism Awards has attracted interest from Kenya.

• KENYA AIRWAYS INTRODUCES NON-STOP SERVICE TO BANGKOK (AUG 3)
http://www.addistribune.com/Archives/2003/08/22-08-03/Kenya.htm
Kenya Airways, popularly known as KQ, is to introduce a new non-stop service between Bangkok and the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, from next September 4th, it was learnt.

• KENYA AIRWAYS PLANE FAILS TO LAND DUE TO LACK OF JET FUEL (AUG 2)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200508020949.html
A Kenya Airways plane yesterday failed to land at the Lusaka International Airport due to lack of jet fuel.

• KENYA AIRWAYS OVERWHELMED BY EXTRA PASSENGERS AS SAA STRIKE CONTINUES (AUG 1)
http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Business/business010820054.htm
The weeklong South African Air-lines (SAA) strike means Kenya Airways is struggling to handle extra passengers on a route already starved operators.

JULY 2005

• SAFARI BOSS SHOT DEAD IN KENYA (JULY 27)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4721593.stm
The British owner of a Kenyan safari lodge has been shot dead by robbers. (Related articles: Safari camp owner killed in Kenya , Safari camp owner killed in Kenya)

• CHARITY JOURNEY TO KENYA DEEMED A SUCCESS (JULY 22)
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~2977162,00.html
Was David Maupin's trip to Nairobi, Kenya, successful?

• KENYA AIRWAYS SEES ITS CARGO (JULY 21)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200507210774.html
Kenya Airways saw its cargo division increased revenues by 28 per cent in the first quarter of the 2005/6 to Sh974 million, compared to Sh762 million in a ...

• ROYAL NEWS PRINCE WILLIAM OFF TO KENYA (JULY 19)
http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/royal_family/75362004.htm
Royal News: Britain's Prince William and girlfriend Kate Middleton are holidaying with his ex Jecca Craig.

• SA TOURISTS FLOCK TO KENYA (JULY 18)
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=180&art_id=qw1121687463580B252
Nairobi — The last six months have seen a 25 increase in the number of South African tourists to Kenya.

JUNE 2005

• KENYA IS YET TO HIT A MILLION TOURISTS TARGET (JUNE 24)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506241154.html
The number of tourists to Kenya is yet to hit the one-million-a-year target.

• SUDAN CARRIER RESUMES FLIGHTS TO KENYA AFTER 8 YEARS (JUNE 15)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MCD547566.htm
Khartoum — Sudan's state-owned airline resumed flights to neighbouring Kenya for the first time in eight years...
(Related article: Airline Resumes Nairobi Flight)

• AFTER KENYA TRIP, WOMEN FOUND A DEEP SENSE OF CONNECTION—AND A DESIRE TO DO MORE (JUNE 00)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2002335719_africa15.html
For many Americans, traveling to Africa means two things...

• KENYA HAS POTENTIAL IN GOLF TOURISM, SAY TOUR OPERATORS (JUNE 2)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200506020211.html
Kenya can achieve a lot in golf tourism if the public and private sectors worked together.

MAY 2005

• KENYA AIRWAYS TO START FLIGHTS TO SHANGHAI IN AUGUST (MAY 28)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/28/content_3012752.htm
Nairobi — Kenya's national carrier, Kenya Airways (KQ), announced here Friday it will introduce new flights to Shanghai this August...

• CLINTON TO VISIT KENYA (MAY 22)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505230422.html
Former US President Bill Clinton is expected in the country within the next two months...

• KENYA RAILWAYS URGED TO DELAY NEW CHARGES (MAY 20)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200505201062.html
Importers will be unable to escape a new railway cargo transport fees due to take effect next month...

• STUDENTS TO STUDY SERVICE WORK IN KENYA (MAY 16)
http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+291637
Ten students from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph and St. John's University in Collegeville will travel halfway around the world...

• KHI ACQUIRES LONRHO HOTELS KENYA PORTFOLIO (MAY 14)
http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=91561
The Riyadh-based Kingdom Hotel Investment (KHI) has announced the acquisition of Lonrho Hotels Kenya portfolio from Lonrho Africa PLC...

• TRAGEDY AS TOURIST FALLS OFF MT KENYA (MAY 9)
http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=19953
A Danish tourist's pleasure hunt at the scenic Mt Kenya turned tragic when she slipped and fell on snow-caped rocks...

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