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KENYA: Men “rent” their wives to tourists to earn extra income

Kenya men rent wives to tourists to earn a living Poverty and unpredictable tourism industry forcing men on the east coast to send spouses into prostitution. AL JAZEERA Communities living by the coast depend mostly on tourism for their living [Mohamed Aligab/Al Jazeera] Kwale, Kenya – It’s a cloudy Sunday morning in Kenya’s Kwale county and Sande Ramadan just woke up to get ready for another weekend of work. Wearing a green vest and khaki shorts, he washes his face and proceeds to the living room where his wife Janet Wambui serves him breakfast. “Thanks for waking me up, I hate Read More

Kenya ‘ICC defence witness’ in Ruto’s trial killed

Image copyright AFP William Ruto denies orchestrating some of the violence that followed disputed elections in 2007 By BBC, 6 January 2015 A man found dead in Kenya over the Read More

AFRICA: Why the EAC intergration is ‘Mission Impossible’

WHY THE EAC INTEGRATION IS ‘MISSION IMPOSSIBLE’ CHANGE OF GUARDS – This afternoon, Uganda’s Parliamentarians had a heated debate following the Presentation by the Minister of State for East African Read More

AFRICA: Can Kiswahili bring national integration in Rwanda, Somalia and Burundi?

CAN KISWAHILI BRING NATIONAL INTEGRATION IN RWANDA, SOMALIA AND BURUNDI? CHANGE OF GUARDS – Kiswahili is a language that developed as a result of early interaction of the Shiraz from Read More

Kenya: Police chief says roadside bomb kills 11 officers

NAIROBI, Kenya (Associated Press) — Kenya’s police chief says a roadside bomb has killed 11 officers on the country’s southern border with Somalia. Inspector General Hillary Mutyambai said Saturday the Read More

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge smashes two-hour marathon barrier (PHOTOS)

Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge smashes two-hour marathon barrier By CNN Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge has successfully completed the first ever marathon under two hours in the Austrian capital of Vienna, two years since he fell 25 Read More

Small Scale Kenyan Farmers Grow Drug Instead of Food Crops (VIDEO)

Small Scale Kenyan Farmers Grow Herbal Stimulant Instead of Food Crops EMBU, KENYA (VOA News) – More small scale farmers in central Kenya have switched from growing food crops to Read More

SOMALIA: New power broker is Dr. Abiy Ahmed: Ethiopia’s prime minister

Uganda’s military dictator Yoweri Museveni is about to face a challenge on blackmailing the Western powers on his UPDF / AMISOM being in Somalia. I predict that Ethiopia will take Read More

Kenya’s first oil sale shrouded in secrecy as State withholds details

Alpine Loyalty tanker transports Kenya’s first consignment of crude oil from Mombasa to Malaysia on August 26, 2019. President Uhuru Kenyatta pledged that the country’s oil windfall would be put Read More

Kenya becomes 3rd country to roll out malaria vaccine

KAMPALA, Uganda (Associated Press) — Health authorities in Kenya on Friday started administering doses of the world’s only licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission Read More

East Africa’s airlines flutter, weighed down by huge debts, losses and bad PR

Kenya Airways planes parked at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi. KQ reckons that nationalisation will help it compete effectively with other state-owned carriers. PHOTO | REUTERS East Africa’s carriers Read More