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This is no photo op in a wildlife park for tourists on safari. This is Mugie Ranch, a commercial livestock operation in Kenya's Laikipia district, about six hours north of Nairobi. Some 14,000 sheep and 1,000 cattle graze here on the open grasslands, tended by 200 ranch hands. Barely a mile from the feasting lions, herders are bringing cattle and sheep into their nighttime pens, raising clouds of red dust. The herders whistle at their dogs, which are on the alert for lions--and for leopards, which go to the nearby water hole at night to feed...
...Four years since arriving from Nairobi, Marumba, 48, is hoping communities like Laverton, Coonanna and Norseman will immerse themselves in the waters of his faith. "If you go to most of the Aboriginal communities, you'll find vandalism there," the Kenyan says. "Property has been destroyed. (There's been) no proper handing over, no proper overseeing." The same goes for Christianity, he believes. After the missionary societies began withdrawing from the area in the 1970s, "those people starved spiritually," he says. "Now we are trying to revive - that is what Malarrpa is all about." Three years ago, Marumba approached...
...buried mortar rounds that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. Results of final tests on the shells, which had been buried for at least 10 years, should be available this week. Terror on Trial KENYA Three men pleaded not guilty at the opening of their trial in Nairobi to charges of conspiracy in a series of terror attacks including the 2002 bombing of a hotel near Mombasa and the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, for which the al-Qaeda network claimed responsibility. Positively Liberal SINGAPORE The government announced it was considering decriminalizing oral sex. The move...
Hudani, from Nairobi, spent the past two summers in Rwanda studying the judicial system’s response to the country’s 1994 genocide...
...appointment from church leaders in Africa and Asia, the fastest-growing areas of Anglicanism, was especially swift and stern. "We cannot be in fellowship with them when they violate the explicit Scripture that the Anglican Church subscribes to," said Peter Karanja, provost of the All Saints Cathedral Church in Nairobi, Kenya. "It's outrageous and uncalled for." Bishop Lim Cheng Ean, leader of the Anglican Church of West Malaysia, was only a bit less blunt: "Practicing homosexuality is culturally and legally not acceptable here." He indicated that the bishops in the nine-nation Southeast Asian province may consider severing relations...