Kenya’s Amina Mohammed elected COP president
The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Justice National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs Amina C. Mohamed has been elected President of the COP (Conference of State Parties) to the UNTOC for a term of two years. Mohammed is leading a high-powered Kenyan delegation to the 5th Conference of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention on Transnational More...
Reports of mass rape by DRC rebels
Almost 200 women have been raped by rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during a four-day seizure of a town, aid groups have said. A US aid worker and a Congolese doctor told the Associated More...
Eight reasons why Kenyans voted for new law
Kenyans voted for the new constitution for eight main reasons. The reasons, political analysts say, were that people were tired of the old constitution; did not trust the leaders of the ‘No’ team, and the new More...
Back to Africa
The leaders assembled for the African Union summit in Kampala were sidetracked by the fight against terrorism but Egypt employed the occasion to revive traditional ties with the continent, writes Gamal Nkrumah For More...
From Nairobi to Somalia and back Again
Somali pirates are arraigned in the law courts of Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa, November 18, 2008. The pirates were handed over to the Kenyan police after they were arrested by the British Navy for trying More...
Bomb materials on sale at only Sh1,000
Commercial explosives, which can be used by terrorists to make bombs, are freely available in Nairobi. For Sh1,000, the Daily Nation bought enough material to make a bomb powerful enough to blow up a large room. More...
Uganda Says It Thwarted Another Bombing
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ugandan police announced Tuesday that they had found an explosives-laden vest at a popular nightclub here in the capital, thwarting another potential bomb attack just days after three deadly More...
Kenya PM Odinga out of hospital
Prime Minister Raila Odinga was on Sunday discharged from the Nairobi Hospital, six days after he underwent a head operation. The PM – with his wife Ida and close family members in tow – emerged from More...