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When the moment of agreement finally came at 3 a.m., bleary-eyed delegates erupted into whoops and cheers on the floor of Nairobi's cavernous Jomo Kenyatta International Conference Center. After almost two weeks of often bitter debate, delegations from 160 countries managed a relatively harmonious conclusion to a conference marking the end of the United Nations Decade for Women. A series of compromises enabled the conference to adopt unanimously a document of "forward-looking strategies" for women that avoided ideological extremes. "The U.N. won in spite of itself," said Delegate Rosario Manalo of the Philippines, "and it took women...
...less than a dollar a day. Much of the blame for the country's decline can be pinned on Moi and his Kenya African National Union party (KANU), which ruled, until last week, since independence in 1963. In the early years, under the father of independence President Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya thrived. But since Moi took power following Kenyatta's death in 1977, Kenya has succumbed to a pernicious combination of corruption and mismanagement. Moi held onto power by playing on tribal rivalries within the opposition and the population. Constitutionally obliged to step down, he promoted Kenyatta's son, Uhuru...
...Kenyans worry about their future, both the ruling party and the opposition are fielding candidates with strong links to the past. Moi's choice to lead the ruling Kenya African National Union party (kanu) is Uhuru Kenyatta, 41, a businessman-turned-politician and son of Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta. The young Kenyatta has never held a publicly elected office; he contested a seat in parliamentary elections five years ago and lost by 12,000 votes. But Moi brought him into parliament as a "nominated" M.P. anyway, and later made him a minister. Critics fear that Moi intends...
...Israel's largest freshwater reservoir. KENYA Breaking Up President Daniel Arap Moi's KANU party split over his choice of successor. The party, which has ruled Kenya for 40 years, was divided over Moi's decision to name political neophyte Uhuru Kenyatta, son of the country's founding father Jomo Kenyatta, as kanu's candidate for presidential elections due within months. Accusing Moi of trying to rule by proxy, 22 of KANU's 99 M.P.s, including six ministers, went into opposition and tabled a no-confidence motion. Moi was expected to avoid a humiliating exit by calling an early election...
REGGAE FANS KNOW THAT A BURNING SPEAR CONCERT is an opportunity to gain a little cracker-jack island wisdom from one of the music's mystics. Winston Rodney-the 50-something-year-old St. Ann's, Jamaica, native who adopted his stage name from Kenyan freedom fighter Jomo Kenyatta-arrived at the Theatee District's Roxy Nightclub on the heels of his recent Grammy-winning album Calling Rastafari and with a revamped edition of his Burning Band...