Word: nairobi
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...recent terrorist bombing in Mombasa. One in seven people is infected with hiv/aids, while more than half the population of 31 million lives on less than a dollar a day. "It's almost overwhelming," says Chege Waitara, an analyst with the Institute of Economic Affairs, a Nairobi-based research group. "It calls to mind the caliber of leader we require: someone dedicated, someone inspired." The opposition candidate, Kibaki, is hardly inspirational. But many Kenyans seem happy to support him and his colleagues just to get kanu out. Still, the opposition shouldn't underestimate the power of the incumbent. Moi steamrollered...
Wamba died of chest injuries on the way to a hospital after a truck collided with the car he was driving from Nairobi to Mombasa...
...Seething, O'Neill tried to supervise the investigation from afar. At the same time, his team in New York City was working double time preparing for the trial in January 2001 of four co-conspirators in the case of the 1998 African embassy bombings. That involved agents shuttling between Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and New York, escorting witnesses, ferrying documents and guarding al-Qaeda turncoats who would give evidence for the prosecution...
...Still Here As E.U. leaders gathered for a summit in Seville, a series of bombs exploded in other Spanish cities, injuring eight people. The Basque separatist group ETA claimed responsibility for the five attacks. SUDAN Peace Hopes Talks aimed at ending Sudan's 19-year civil war began in Nairobi, Kenya. The talks did not get off to a hopeful start. The rebel SPLA delegation rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire. It said hostilities with the government would cease only after a political settlement was reached. The SPLA, from Sudan's Christian and animist south, wants the country to become...
...investigators had some reasons for being preoccupied with attacks and threats outside the U.S. Al-Qaeda's most notorious blows against American interests had taken place in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, the sites of the 1998 embassy bombings, and in Yemen, where the U.S.S. Cole was bombed in October 2000. And in the first half of last year, the CSG monitored information suggesting the likelihood of another attack overseas. In June 2001, the State Department issued a worldwide caution warning American citizens of possible attacks. That month, says a recently retired senior FBI official, "we were constantly worried that...