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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...
...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...
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...
...gravity of the community's predicament became more apparent. I asked how many households were home to one or more orphaned children left behind by the AIDS pandemic. Virtually every hand in the room shot up. I asked how many households were receiving remittances from family members living in Nairobi and other cities. The response was that the only things coming back from the cities were coffins and orphans, not remittances...