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Kenya Uses Video Gaming Strategy to Fight AIDS in Slums
Kenyan aid groups, with US government backing, are fighting HIV/AIDS infection in Nairobi slums using a multi-player video game. It teaches young...
Kenya to Plant 7.6 Billion Trees to Counter Deforestation
Kenya said on Wednesday it would plant 7.6 billion trees over the next 20 years to redress decades of chopping down forest cover, the...
Kenya Village Gets Clinic from Brothers it Helped Send to Med School in U.S.
Residents of a remote village sold chickens and cattle to raise the $900.00 needed to fly the siblings to Dartmouth College. A new film...
UN to Help Maasai People From Kenya Preserve Their Heritage
Two people from the Maasai community of Laikipia in Kenya are to be given training in documenting and archiving their cultural heritage through a...
Kenya Rivals Agree to Share Power
Mediator Kofi Annan pushed throuhgh a deal to end post-election turmoil in Kenya that has killed nearly 1,000 people. For the first time in...
Kenyan Youth Club Helps to Heal Ethnic Tensions (Video)
In Nairobi's Mathare slum, a youth association helps to heal ethnic tensions which have flared up recently in Kenya. The group won a Nobel...
Wild Elephants on Increase in Kenya
Kenya's population of elephants is increasing thanks to successful protection measures and a ban on ivory trade, wildlife officials said. (Associated Press via PR...
Kenyan Parties Agree to Peace Plan
Rival political parties in Kenya locked in a deadly dispute over December's elections said Friday they had agreed to take immediate action to end...
Pamphlet Turns Life Around for Drug Addict in Kenya
Sammy Gitau grew up in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya. As a teenager, he joined a gang, and became a drug addict. But a...
Children Send Holiday Wishes to 1,000 Kenyan Peacekeepers
Kenyan children have sent more than 2,000 homemade Christmas and New Years messages to their country’s nearly 1,100 peacekeepers serving under United Nations' blue...
Kenya’s Bus Stop Cartoonist Lightens Travelers’ Loads
"A young, innovative artist has turned the bus stop into his very own daily cartoon strip, entertaining commuters on a busy highway in the...
Lions Making a Comeback on Kenya Ranches
"Conservation efforts in southern Kenya have led to an "extremely encouraging" rebound in the lion population there." Masai warriors used to prove their manhood...
Kenyans Plant Trees to Coax Back Flamingos
Where once a million flamingos awashed the shores in pink along Lake Nakuru, a community is replanting saplings to help rebuild the forests they...
KENYA: Slum-Dwellers to Benefit from UN Housing Fund
Millions of people living in urban slums throughout the world are set to benefit from the pro-poor housing fund set up by UN-Habitat and...
Kenya to Provide Free AIDS Drugs
The BBC reports Kenya's president has announced that anti-retroviral drugs will now be free to all people with AIDS within all of its clinics...
Kenya Saves Trees
Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi said he would take “drastic measures” to stop the degradation of his African nation's forests, including banning timber harvesting...
African Forest Farming Initiative Making A Difference to Thousands with Tree-Planting and Microlending
An NGO has realized that the irreplaceable value and beauty of African wilderness might be protected if, rather than pouring billions into funding park...
Century of Tree Planting Stalls the Warming Effects in the Eastern United States, Says Study
A century of gradual reforestation across the American East and Southeast has kept the region cooler than it otherwise would have become, a new...
Ghanaian Woman Entrepreneur is Revolutionizing Transportation–Building Electric Bikes to Improve Air Quality
A Ghanaian-English entrepreneur has designed an electric bike from the ground up that's transforming short-range transportation in her home country, proving that problem-solving in...
Good News in History, December 12
121 years ago today, Theodor Mommsen received the Nobel Prize for Literature, with a special mention for A History of Rome, a history so well-researched, so...