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Kenya mediation unlikely, violence feared

NAIROBI, Kenya - A Cabinet minister on Monday rejected former U.N. chief Kofi Annan as a mediator in Kenya's political strife, a day before he was expected in Nairobi hoping to help resolve bloodshed set off by the disputed presidential election ...

Ancient skeleton focus of modern debate

NAIROBI, Kenya - Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found. But ...

Experts rethinking billions spent on AIDS

Still, De Cock once worked on AIDS projects in Kenya, his office just above a large slum. "It did feel a bit peculiar to be investing so much money into antiretrovirals while the people there were dealing with huge problems like water and sanitation ...

Soldiers accused of Somali massacre

NAIROBI, Kenya - Amnesty International accused Ethiopian soldiers on Wednesday of killing 21 people, including an imam and several Islamic scholars, at a Somali mosque and said seven of the victims had their throats slit. The rights group said the ...

Jane Goodall passes torch to world's youth

Another, Weldon Korir, 23, founded a youth group in Kenya for HIV and malaria prevention. And Manoj Gautam, 22, runs what he calls a restaurant for vultures in a pasture in Nepal where birds, who have been dying in large numbers from tainted food ...

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