Word: nairobi
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...killing of the two activists - as well as the subsequent killing of a University of Nairobi student who was shot by police while protesting the slayings - brought hundreds of students from several colleges onto the streets in protest on Tuesday. "You can see your friend being killed today. Tomorrow it might be your turn. That's what we are fighting against," said Edwin Ruto, a 22-year-old student at the University of Nairobi...
...allow protests, the U.N. is not so sure. Its peacekeeping force in Sudan, which was intended to have more than 30,000 troops at full strength, now has only 12,000. It is lacking essential equipment, including helicopters, and considers itself vulnerable. On Monday, the U.S. embassy in Nairobi issued a travel warning that spoke of the arrest warrant as all but a sure thing. It said Europeans and Americans could be the target of "violent protests" if the warrant is delivered...
...Obama, Barack • half-brother of wastes no time joining the ranks of embarrassing White House sibs (e.g. Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, Neil Bush) by getting busted in Nairobi for marijuana possession • news anchors are serially told "I screwed up" by • policy of to curtail exorbitant rewards for grotesque failure • sudden attempt by journalist Robert Feuereisen to get autograph of during signing ceremony by is thwarted by Secret Service agents trained to prevent unexpected approaches...
Bring a Friend. To celebrate Barack Obama's Inauguration, Ethiopian Airlines is offering a free companion ticket to any of its 32 destinations in Africa, including Nairobi, Cairo and Johannesburg, from Washington's Dulles Airport. Book Feb. 1 through March 30. 800-445-2733 (See 10 things to do in Washington...
...drug war, free trade and democratic elections as panaceas for a continent still plagued by one of the world's worst gaps between rich and poor. Democratic elections are of course a good thing. But "if we want to win the hearts and minds of people in Caracas, Jakarta, Nairobi or Tehran," Obama wrote in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope, "dispersing ballot boxes will not be enough. We'll have to make sure that the international rules we're promising enhance, rather than impede, people's sense of material and personal security...