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...should be, and I am still learning. In my role as director of the U.N. Millennium Project, which has the goal of helping to cut the world's extreme poverty in half by 2015, I spent several eye-opening days with colleagues last July in a group of eight Kenyan villages known as the Sauri sublocation in the Siaya district of Nyanza province. We visited farms, clinics, hospitals and schools. We found a region beset by hunger, AIDS and malaria. The situation is grim, but salvageable...
...meeting took place on the grounds of a school called the Bar Sauri Primary School, where headmistress Anne Marcelline Omolo shepherds hundreds of schoolchildren through primary education and the travails of daily life. Despite disease, orphanhood and hunger, all 33 of last year's eighth-grade class passed the Kenyan national secondary-school exams. On a Sunday last July, we saw why. On their "day off" from school, this year's class of eighth-graders sat at their desks from 6:30 a.m. until 6 p.m. preparing months in advance for this year's national examinations in November. Unfortunately, many...
...With the number of products we’re bringing from Kenya, we can increase the standard of living of the average Kenyan artisan by over 20 percent every year,” Captain said...
...East African country and rein in the unelected cadres of businessmen and Islamic fundamentalists exploiting the chaos to extend their power bases. So far, though, President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and his government, led by Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, haven't even made it home. Holed up in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, many of the new Somali M.P.s - and even the new President himself - privately say they will not return without the protection of African Union (A.U.) troops. "It's sort of the Wild West there," says Colonel Craig Huddleston, Chief of Staff for the U.S.-led task force...
...when it became clear that Blair wasn't going to stand down did the plates start flying through the air." The sound of breaking crockery can be heard well beyond the confines of Westminster. A BBC TV crew, accompanying Brown on his Africa trip, asked a passerby in the Kenyan shantytown of Kibera if he recognized the visiting dignitary. The reply: "He's Tony Blair's biggest rival." Few members of the Labour Party believe that what now divides their leaders is ideology. "There may be discussions about how quickly you implement change or the way you present change...