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  • July 2008

    • Idealism Met Different End for Obama Sr.

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 17, 08 4:03 PM CDT

      Idealism Met Different End for Obama Sr.

      Like his candidate son, Barack Obama Sr. was charismatic, eloquent and idealistic, those who knew him say—so idealistic he was devastated by the corruption he saw in his native Kenya. The Harvard grad was so disillusioned upon his return to Africa, the Los Angeles Times reports, he turned to drink, with several DUI accidents preceding the car crash that killed him, at 46, in 1982. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Kenya  • Harvard  • alcoholism

    • African Union Pushes Unity Government in Zimbabwe

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 1, 08 3:44 PM CDT

      African Union Pushes Unity Government in Zimbabwe

      The African Union adopted a resolution today calling for President Robert Mugabe to begin negotiations with the Zimbabwean opposition on forming a unity government, Reuters reports. The action marks the first time the AU has censured Mugabe, who once enjoyed a strong reputation as Zimbabwe’s liberator, for his undemocratic practices. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Kenya  • African Union  • election fraud  • Southern Africa  • Botswana

  • June 2008

    • Kenyan PM: Intervene in Zimbabwe

      newser  |  BBC  |  Jun 30, 08 1:30 PM CDT

      Kenyan PM: Intervene in Zimbabwe

      Kenya’s prime minister blasted Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe today, saying it would set a dangerous precedent for the African Union to accept him as "a duly elected president," the BBC reports. "They should suspend him and send peace forces to Zimbabwe to ensure free and fair elections," Raila Odinga said at the AU summit. More »

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      Zimbabwe  • Robert Mugabe  • Kenya  • Raila Odinga  • African Union  • prime minister  • voter fraud  • disputed election

    • Grandson as President? Eh, No Big Deal

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 6, 08 2:20 PM CDT

      Grandson as President? Eh, No Big Deal

      Her grandson could be the next president of the United States, but don't think Kenya's "Mama Sarah" is about to let it go to her head or Barack Obama's. “It’s just a job, a government job," she tells the Guardian . "I am not going to make a big deal out of it or pretend that it's anything really great.” She remains proud, however, of his rise from humble origins, as the newspaper notes in a profile. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Kenya

  • May 2008

    • Kenya Mob Torches 11 for Witchcraft

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  May 22, 08 8:15 AM CDT

      Kenya Mob Torches 11 for Witchcraft

      A mob in western Kenya hunted down and killed 11 people they accused of being witches and wizards, AP reports. The gang went from house to house with a list of suspected sorcerers and the spells they had cast. The eight men and three women, most over 70, were lynched and burned in their homes in the notoriously superstitious district. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • lynching  • witches  • witchcraft

  • April 2008

    • Cheruiyot, Tune Win Boston

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Apr 21, 08 1:38 PM CDT

      Cheruiyot, Tune Win Boston

      Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya became the fourth man to win the Boston Marathon four times today, crossing the finish line on 2:07:46, 32 seconds slower than his own course record, the AP reports. Dire Tune of Ethiopia won the women’s race in 2:22:25, squeaking past Russian Alevtina Biktimirova by just 2 seconds in the tightest women's finish ever. More »

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      Kenya  • Boston  • Ethiopia  • marathon  • Boston Marathon  • Robert Cheruiyot

    • IPO Fever Shows Kenya is Recovering

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Apr 15, 08 1:24 PM CDT

      IPO Fever Shows Kenya is Recovering

      When Safaricom, Kenyan’s partially state-owned cellular giant, went public, Kenyans lined up by the thousands to buy in—a generally good sign for a country recently wracked by paralyzing ethnic violence, the Wall Street Journal reports. Safaricom’s IPO itself had been delayed by post-election clashes, but now the country’s economic boom appears back on track. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • IPO  • Kenyan elections  • emerging markets  • Kenya's economy

    • Obama Senior's Long-Lost Political Writing Surfaces

      newser  |  Politico  |  Apr 15, 08 11:13 AM CDT

      Obama Senior's Long-Lost Political Writing Surfaces

      A mid-'60s treatise on Kenyan socialism has been causing a stir in the 2008 US presidential election, Politico reports, because of its author—Barack Obama Sr. Titled “Problems Facing Our Socialism,” conservative bloggers believe the paper reveals the elder Obama’s hidden communist leanings. But the scholarly paper is more a moderate, mocking critique of the “African Socialism” Kenya’s government was then advocating. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Kenya  • father  • socialism  • Dreams From My Father

    • Kenya Announces Shared Cabinet

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 13, 08 2:11 PM CDT

      Kenya Announces Shared Cabinet

      Calling for Kenyans to "put politics aside and get to work," president Mwai Kibaki named chief opposition leader Raila Odinga prime minister today in a move to end political strife with a power-sharing cabinet. The 40-member cabinet, including two deputy PMs, was divided evenly between the two parties, though the BBC notes that key positions remained with Kibaki loyalists. More »

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      Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections  • power sharing deal  • Cabinet

    • Deal Reached in Kenyan Crisis

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 12, 08 7:18 PM CDT

      Deal Reached in Kenyan Crisis

      Kenya’s election crisis may finally be over. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga today reached a deal on a new cabinet, the BBC reports, ending the dispute that has long delayed a February power-sharing deal. The new cabinet will be announced tomorrow and should be in place before the parliament returns on Tuesday. More »

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      Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections  • power sharing deal

    • Riots Flare as Kenya Talks Stall

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Apr 9, 08 6:14 AM CDT

      Riots Flare as Kenya Talks Stall

      Riots erupted again in Kenya yesterday as opposition leaders suspended talks with the government over a stalled power-sharing pact, reports the New York Times . Dozens of men in a Nairobi slum lit bonfires and hurled rocks at police, chanting, "No cabinet, no peace!" The violence marked the first major riot since February, when Kenya's president and his main rival agreed to form a government together. More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • riots  • Kenyan elections  • political protest  • East Africa

    • Wright Takes Cross Over Racial Divide

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Apr 6, 08 8:39 PM CDT

      Wright Takes Cross Over Racial Divide

      Barack Obama pastor Jeremiah Wright built his Chicago church on black liberation theology, which directs Christianity at African Americans, Kelefa Sanneh writes in the New Yorker . The movement’s founder aimed to “emancipate the gospel from its ‘whiteness,’” but also from Frederick Douglass’ belief that antebellum America had profoundly perverted Christianity. More »

  • March 2008

    • Slowly Changing Painful Customs

      newser  |  Christian Science Monitor  |  Mar 14, 08 7:46 PM CDT

      Slowly Changing Painful Customs

      The practice of female circumcision has been twice banned in Kenya, but nearly 40% of young women still undergo the painful and dangerous rite of passage into married life. The Christian Science Monitor profiles activists at the Tasaru Girls Rescue Center who work with villagers—using role models, lessons about womanhood and hygiene, and most of all, patience—to chip away at the deeply rooted rite.  More »

    • Tough Work Awaits Kenya Lawmakers

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 6, 08 4:53 PM CST

      Tough Work Awaits Kenya Lawmakers

      Kenya's parliament reconvened today, the New York Times reports, and was immediately given the task of putting into law the power-sharing deal that ended the startling wave of violence that followed December's disputed election. "You must now become the ambassadors of peace and reconciliation,” President Mwai Kibaki told legislators. “Please forget the history of what has happened." More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections  • ethnic violence

    • Kenya Gov't Linked to Militia

      newser  |  BBC  |  Mar 5, 08 2:15 PM CST

      Kenya Gov't Linked to Militia

      Kenya's government might have played a direct role in sanctioning recent ethnic violence. A source tells the BBC that senior officials met with the violent Mungiki militia, with the aim of recruiting the outlawed group as a "defense force" to help protect the ethnic Kikuyu population. In January, Mungiki thugs allegedly used machetes to attack non-Kikuyu in the Rift Valley. More »

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      Kenya  • Human Rights Watch  • Kikuyu  • ethnic violence  • militia  • Mungiki

    • Poisoned Arrows Riddle Kenya

      newser  |  Time  |  Mar 1, 08 7:58 PM CST

      Poisoned Arrows Riddle Kenya

      Kenya has struck a peace agreement, but its people are still stockpiling a new weapon of choice: poisoned arrows. A primitive arms industry is supplying ethnic warriors with the projectiles to replace their time-tested machetes, Time reports. “This is obviously something very wrong and very new,” said one former police commander. More »

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      Africa  • politics  • Kenya  • violence  • peace  • weapons

  • February 2008

    • Kenyan Rivals Sign Peace Deal

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Feb 28, 08 4:43 PM CST

      Kenyan Rivals Sign Peace Deal

      Kenya’s rival political leaders signed a power-sharing deal today in a ceremony that brought jubilant crowds to the streets of Nairobi, the New York Times reports—a change from the violence that followed December's disputed election. The agreement creates a powerful prime minister position for opposition leader Raila Odinga, with cabinet positions filled by the parties of both Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki. More »

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      Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections

    • Kenyan Leaders Reach Deal

      newser  |  BBC  |  Feb 28, 08 8:12 AM CST

      Kenyan Leaders Reach Deal

       Kenya’s feuding leaders have finally reached a power sharing deal, Kofi Annan announced today after a four-hour meeting. Annan said he could not yet release details, but the deal is expected to spell out duties for the prime minister position to be created for opposition leader Raila Odinga, the BBC reports. Though the violence that swept Kenya after the election has waned, tensions remain high. More »

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      Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections  • Kofi Annan  • power sharing deal

    • Annan Suspends Kenya Talks

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Feb 26, 08 11:09 AM CST

      Annan Suspends Kenya Talks

      Mediator Kofi Annan is suspending the talks to end the bloody crisis in Kenya. In lieu of the negotiations, the ex-UN Secretary General says he will speak personally to rival leaders Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga, reports the AP. "I hope people will understand this is a move intended to speed up action," Annan said. More »

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      Condoleezza Rice  • Kenya  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kofi Annan

    • Kenya Stalemate Frustrates Negotiators

      newser  |  BBC  |  Feb 26, 08 3:45 AM CST

      Kenya Stalemate Frustrates Negotiators

      Kenya's peace talks have ground to a standstill and the task of coaxing the country's two rival parties into an agreement is beginning to try even the patience of former UN secretary-general and lead negotiator Kofi Annan, reports the BBC. The two sides cannot agree on a power-sharing deal and aides say an increasingly exasperated Annan is beginning to feel like a "prisoner of peace." More »

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      Africa  • Kenya  • diplomacy  • Mwai Kibaki  • Raila Odinga  • Kenyan elections  • prime minister  • Kofi Annan  • power sharing deal

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