Kenya says 1st AstraZeneca vaccine doses to come next month
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s health minister says the country is expected to start receiving 24 million doses next month of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, as countries in sub-Saharan Africa begin to announce progress in obtaining the desperately needed vaccines.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Kenya: Al-Shabab kills man taking pregnant wife to hospital
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A police report says extremist gunmen ambushed an ambulance carrying a pregnant woman and killed her husband before setting the vehicle ablaze in northern Kenya, as such attacks are again on the rise.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Kenya: Doctors call off strike, nurses continue picketing
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors, pharmacists and dentists in Kenya called off a three-day strike over inadequate personal protective equipment and insurance Thursday after the government acquiesced to their most immediate demands.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Kenya: Doctors call off strike, nurses continue picketing
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Doctors, pharmacists and dentists in Kenya called off a three-day strike over inadequate personal protective equipment and insurance Thursday after the government acquiesced to their most immediate demands.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Majority of Kenyan medical workers on strike amid a pandemic
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan doctors and other crucial medical personnel in public hospitals Monday started a nationwide strike to protest the lack of personal protective equipment and health insurance for frontline workers fighting against the spread of the coronavirus.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The accepted wisdom was that young people had less to fear from COVID-19. But in Kenya, youth suffered from the pandemic in other ways.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
A pandemic atlas: Kenya's youth suffer collateral damage
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The accepted wisdom was that young people had less to fear from COVID-19. But in Kenya, youth suffered from the pandemic in other ways.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Somalia cuts diplomatic ties with Kenya amid rising tensions
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Somalia's government says it has severed ties with strategic neighbor Kenya "to safeguard the unity, sovereignty, stability of the country.”
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South Sudan's spy agency abuses prisoners, says rights group
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Jabbing needles in prisoners' genitals, pouring melted plastic on their skin and hanging them upside down for long periods: These are tortures allegedly being perpetrated by South Sudan's National Security Service, according to an international human rights group.
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Kenya to compensate rape victims from violence 13 years ago
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan high court on Thursday ordered the government to compensate four victims of sexual attacks by security agents during post-election violence 13 years ago.
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Kenyans fear they're on their own as COVID-19 surges again
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan doctor died of COVID-19 over the weekend after no bed for him in an intensive care unit was available. Other doctors say they cannot afford the treatment they administer to COVID-19 patients, yet many work while dangerously exposed without protection. Some health care workers …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
Kenyans fear they're on their own as COVID-19 surges again
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan doctor died of COVID-19 over the weekend after no bed for him in an intensive care unit was available. Other doctors say they cannot afford the treatment they administer to COVID-19 patients, yet many work while dangerously exposed without protection. Some health care workers …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 3 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
As schools reopen in Africa, relief is matched by anxiety
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — One cash-strapped parent asked to pay her child's school tuition fees with bags of the rice she grows, leading headmaster Mike Ssekaggo to request a sample before he would agree. Eventually he did.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Kenyan court sentences 2 for Westgate attack that killed 67
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan court on Friday sentenced two men to 26 and 11 years in prison for supporting the days-long 2013 attack on Nairobi’s upscale Westgate Mall that left 67 people dead.
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Tanzania's opposition says vote 'spit in face of democracy'
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Whatever happened on Wednesday wasn't an election and was like “spitting in the face of democracy," Tanzania’s leading opposition candidate said Thursday, while the United States noted “credible allegations of significant election-related fraud and intimidation.” The other main opposition party said several leaders were arrested after …
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Tanzanian opposition leader rejects presidential election
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania’s leading opposition candidate has rejected Wednesday’s presidential vote after alleging widespread irregularities, saying on Thursday that whatever happened was not an election and was like “spitting in the face of democracy."
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Observers say Tanzania's presidential vote is already flawed
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania's opposition faces a new obstacle in its quest to unseat President John Magufuli in Wednesday's election: It says the government has made it difficult to accredit thousands of opposition electoral observers who want to ensure the vote is fair.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
From 'role models' to sex workers: Kenya's child labor rises
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The teenage girls cannot remember how many men they have had to sleep with in the seven months since COVID-19 closed their schools, or how many of those men used protection.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS AGO
Tanzania asks for aircraft to battle fire on Mt. Kilimanjaro
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzania's government is hoping helicopters and planes will help put out a fire raging on Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest mountain at 19,443 feet (5,926 meters).
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Kenyan officials investigating death in police custody
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyan authorities are investigating the death of a man who was detained for allegedly not wearing a facemask and was seen in police custody badly beaten. Later his body was found floating in a river.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
500 volunteers fighting fire on Africa's tallest mountain
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian authorities say 500 volunteers have been trying to put out a fire on Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's tallest peak. The flames can be seen from miles away.
COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 1 MONTH AGO
Tanzania intensifies repression ahead of polls, says report
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Tanzanian authorities have intensified repression to muzzle the opposition, civil society and the news media ahead of elections on October 28, where the incumbent President John Magufuli is seeking a second term, an international human rights group said Monday.
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Stampede in Kenya as slum residents surge for food aid
A vast population of informal workers, with little or no savings, worries about the next meal as no one knows when the measures will end
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 4 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
