Word: nairobi
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Under a pristine blue sky on the University of Nairobi campus, Africans in bright robes and turbans mingled with denimed Europeans wearing punk haircuts, Muslims behind veils, and Americans in trim safari gear. Thousands of women from some 130 countries poured into Kenya's capital city last week for two conferences to mark the end of the United Nations Decade for Women, one sponsored by the U.N., the other, called Forum '85, a parallel meeting of non-governmental organizations. Many had high hopes that the gatherings would provide a sisterly exchange of ideas and strategies. "You will see something that...
Skeptics, however, warned that the affair could prove a well-publicized waste of time. The U.S. especially feared that Nairobi could become a reprise of the 1980 conference on women in Copenhagen, where discussions about employment, health and education were sidetracked by heated confrontations among delegates over Zionism, imperialism, racism--essentially every ism but feminism...
...outset, however, such concerns were forgotten amid a conventioneers' snarl over accommodations. Although Kenya had spent part of its $1.6 million investment to spruce up Nairobi's streets, buildings and dormitories, authorities were unprepared for the huge turnout. In addition to the 3,000 delegates registered for the official conference, some 10,000 arrived for Forum '85. The Forum turnout was more than three times the number expected, and government authorities tried to forestall a crush by announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum...
...African countries that will achieve the Abuja target (agreed by African heads of state in 2000) of providing a bed net for at least 60% of pregnant women and children under 5 by the end of 2005. Dr Desmond Chavasse Global Director of Malaria Control Population Services International Nairobi Sachs missed one important issue: the rights of women trying to survive in repressive patriarchal societies. As long as women in aids-infected areas are forced to have sex with philandering husbands and have no birth control, they will have babies they cannot feed and care for. Without the basic human...
Once upon a time, when Maurice Flanagan was working at the airport in Nairobi, wet weather meant one thing: it was time to jump into his car and drive quickly up and down the clay runway. If his wheels got stuck, he would wave off any approaching airplane. He has come a long way. Now vice chairman and group president of Dubai-based Emirates Airlines, Flanagan is in charge of the globe's 14th largest and fifth-most-profitable airline. Under his watch, the once tiny, government-owned Emirates Airlines has been transformed, growing more than 20% a year...