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...travel overseas for treatment, "you just sit and wait for your death," prodded me to respond. A year after learning I had breast cancer, I am once again fit and healthy. Contrary to being urged to go abroad for treatment, I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation in Nairobi, and I have nothing but praise and gratitude for every person involved in my treatment. Hettie Tooley, Eldoret, Kenya...
...debate. Protesters have hanged effigies of drug CEOs outside the offices of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in Washington; no less a figure than Nelson Mandela has condemned Big Pharma for exploiting the dying; and in Kenya in 2004, a Jesuit priest who ran an orphanage in Nairobi, Father Angelo D'Agostino, made headlines when he accused the "drug cartels" of "genocidal action." Today drug companies have lowered the prices of some ARVs. But the controversy threatens to reignite. In July, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned that newer, more effective drugs were once again...
...anti-racist religious tradition remains mute over the atrocities of the Arab and Islamic government of Sudan against Africans in Darfur and the south. Osama bin Laden and his cheerleaders treat as insignificant the deaths of hundreds of non-partisan Africans in the bombings of the U.S. embassies at Nairobi and Dar es Salaam...
...occupying the country, as they still do, Ethiopia organized its own rendition operation with the cooperation of Kenya and the new government in Somalia it had installed, transferring hundreds of suspected jihadis and their families to jails in Addis and interrogating them for months. A July report by the Nairobi-based U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia stated that Eritrea was supplying a gathering Somali insurgency with surface-to-air missiles and suicide vests to fight the Ethiopians. Ethiopia alleges Eritrea is doing the same for the Oromo National Liberation Front (ONLF), an Ethiopian separatist rebel group in the country...
...Mogadishu, the air is filled with the sounds of urban warfare and unresolved political chaos, but in the Nairobi neighborhood of Eastleigh - a.k.a. "Little Mogadishu" - the dominant sound is that of radios tuned to a local station play a strange Somali song: Cudur, meaning "Disease", speaks of the dangers of AIDS, and warns Somalis to think twice about the social stigma that comes along with this sexually transmitted disease. Somalis don't typically discuss such taboo subjects in public, much less sing about them in bands whose makeup, music and lyrics transcend every boundary imaginable in the traditionally conservative Somali...