Word: kenya
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Only a strong person would defy the iron regime of Kenya's President Moi, and Maathai, 58, fits the bill. An anatomy professor at the University of Nairobi and the first Kenyan woman to receive a Ph.D., she founded the women's Green Belt Movement, which has planted 7 million trees in Kenya and inspired similar efforts around the globe. In 1989 her protests forced Moi to abandon a personal plan to erect a 62-story office tower in a Nairobi park. And in 1991 her activism became a political force when she helped start an opposition group called...
Morgan Evans, the protagonist of the play, was acted with great skill by first-year Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta, a native of Nairobi, Kenya. Evans--an out-of-place scholar in the mining town--loves to learn, yet is not entirely able to tear himself away from other hobbies such as drinking and hanging out with his buddies. Nyatta intelligently portrayed this inward struggle with grace and thoughtfulness and was able to show us the many sides of his complex character, some of which were not entirely positive, such as his predilection for pub life. Overall, Nyatta utterly fulfilled the depth...
...August, the White House said the attacks were in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which bin Laden was allegedly involved. The American bombs were dropped three days after Clinton's televised apology for his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky...
...Owhali and Odeh have implicated bin Laden in the Kenya and Tanzania bombings, according to federal-court documents. The FBI says they were part of al-Qaida, an international terrorist organization that bin Laden heads, and had been trained at a camp in Afghanistan. Federal prosecutors in New York are drafting a broader terrorism case against him that will include the East African bombings...
...fellow African, I sympathize with the families of all those who were killed or injured in the Nairobi and Dar es Salaam embassy blasts [WORLD, Aug. 17]. In some countries, the U.S. embassy is in a strategically secure location, but in Kenya it is in a densely populated residential waterfront area where the neighboring buildings are other embassies and elementary schools. It's time the U.S. government reviewed security measures for its buildings and reassessed their location to protect the people who live or work near these embassies. And international terrorists need to be watched more closely than ever...