Word: kenyan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While researchers were celebrating the latest AIDS advances in Vancouver this summer, Rosemary Omuga had other things on her mind. Since testing positive for HIV in 1992, the Kenyan mother of four has lost both her job as a midwife and her home. Today she barely earns enough to keep her children alive and cover her $12 monthly rent on a tin-roof shack in one of Nairobi's most fetid slums. Treating her illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local...
...plead for his help on behalf of her husband John, who was being held by Kerubino's forces in war-torn Sudan. Richardson says he never accepts a mission unless the family, the State Department and the country holding the hostage all invite him to mediate. Early, his Kenyan co-pilot and an Australian nurse were captured by Kerubino's men on Nov. 1, when their Red Cross plane landed at an airstrip near Gogrial. The plane was seized because it had also been carrying five wounded fighters of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, with which Kerubino's forces...
DIED. MOHAMED AMIN, 53, acclaimed Kenyan photographer whose images of the 1984 famine in Ethiopia shocked the world into providing help; in the crash of hijacked Ethiopian Airlines flight 961; off the Comoro Islands. Among the others killed: Brian Tetley, 61, a colleague who often wrote the text for Amin's photo books...
...BOSTON: Kenyan Moses Tanui won the 100th Boston Marathon with a time of 2:09:16. His upset of countryman and three-time defending champion Cosmas Ndeti gave Kenya its sixth consecutive victory. Germany's Uta Pippig followed 18 minutes and 12 seconds later with a time of 2:27:12 for her third consecutive win in the women's division. Behind early in the race, Pippig stormed back late in a rally that was the highlight of the race, says TIME's Sam Allis. "People had written off Pippig when she fell behind Kenya's Tegla Loroupe," says Allis...
...There were about 15 of us. We ate meals together and went out for New Year's Eve," says Kaniaru Wacieni '98, a Kenyan student and Woodbridge Society officer who stayed in his Eliot House room during the break...