Mykses - Instablogs
Nov 14 2009
A Guinean court has charged a second son of the late President Lansana Conte with drug trafficking. Moussa Conte and his three alleged associates deny importing machines for the manufacture of narcotics, saying they were for processing bio-fuels. The...
Nov 7 2009
Kenyans have rarely been disappointed in the ability of their political leaders to be disappointing. So it’s not all that surprising that little has been done for the past two years to hunt down those responsible for the ethnic violence that...
Oct 31 2009
Majority of Cabinet Ministers, their Assistants and Permanent Secretaries on Friday still clung to their fuel guzzlers and refused to pick VW Passat replacements. Only 17 Cabinet Ministers and 19 Assistant Ministers had returned the high capacity...
Oct 28 2009
James Christian remembers the night a few years ago when he and his wife took a Scottish travel agent camping on their land in Kenya’s Laikipia Plateau. As they sat under a starry African sky, the hill opposite them suddenly erupted with gunfire...
Sep 9 2009
The sun somehow feels closer here, more intense, more personal. As Philip Lolua waits under a tree for a scoop of food, heat waves dance up from the desert floor, blurring the dead animal carcasses sprawled in front of him.
Jun 17 2009
Kenya proved it in 2007, when the East African nation suffered its first case of the polio virus in more than 20 years, said Yusuf Ajack Ibrahim, a health care worker at the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation. As thousands of Somalis fled...
May 28 2009
Clarice Adhiambo was looking for the usual things when she moved. Safe streets, more space, a guest room, maybe even a view of something green. More than anything she wanted a place to call her own. Her wish-list would be familiar to first-time buyers...
May 26 2009
With the U.S. economy in turmoil, his job as a truck driver no longer secure and his upwardly mobile life in the Dallas suburbs in jeopardy, James Odhiambo decided it was time for a change. He wanted a healthier lifestyle for his family, less anxiety,...
May 25 2009
Nigerian security forces freed three more Filipino hostages on Sunday and extended their offensive against militants to Rivers state where one rebel leader was shot dead, an army spokesman said. The military began its biggest onslaught for years over a...