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NAIROBI Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - In one of the many backyard taverns selling chang'aa (illicit brew) in the Korogocho informal...

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 05, 2008 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have been affected after flash floods submerged hundreds of hectares of farmland in...

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - The Dandora municipal waste site east of Nairobi continues to pose environmental and health risks even...

NAIROBI Tuesday, November 11, 2008 (IRIN) - Frederick Wanzere, 25, was lucky enough to go to university, but when his guardian (an uncle) found out...

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the...

KILIFI Wednesday, November 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead...

NAIROBI Friday, November 14, 2008 (IRIN) - At least 300,000 people will require humanitarian aid in the next three months due to flash flooding and...

NAIROBI Monday, November 17, 2008 (IRIN) - An influx of asylum-seekers fleeing violence in Somalia to the refugee camps in Dadaab in north-eastern...

NAIROBI Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - HIV-positive prisoners in Kenya not only suffer isolation from friends and family, but also within the...

BRAZZAVILLE Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (IRIN) - The government of the Republic of Congo has ordered the demolition of all unauthorised makeshift...