Nairobi, Kenya News

Main Category: Tropical Diseases Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Article Date: 01 Jul 2009 The British Medical Journal examines the outcome of the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya, last week.

One Saturday 40 years ago, Kenya's most promising leader, Tom Mboya, was gunned down in a busy Nairobi street.

IT IS EARLY EVENING AND THE sun's rays paint a golden atmosphere across the bare plains of Hombo village in Kibwezi district.

Uganda's first case of the H1N1 swine flu virus was confirmed Wednesday night in a 40-year-old man from the UK, the Ministry of Health announced Thursday.

Security forces tortured scores of men and raped a dozen women in a sweep against the mainly ethnic Somali population of remote northeast Kenya intended to disarm militias, a rights group said yesterday.

If you're looking for a country with a bit of everything, Kenya could be your perfect destination.

An international human rights organisation has stepped up demands for the resignation and dismissal of top security officials who sanctioned military operations in Kenya's North Eastern Province last year.

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NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya's public health minister says the country has confirmed its first case of swine flu.

The pharmaceutical company, Merck, announced Monday it was partnering with the non-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative in an effort to improve treatments for neglected tropical diseases , the AP/CNBC reports.

Some poor Kenyans can't afford to seek treatment, as public hospitals, strapped for funds, detain patients who are unable to pay their bills, sometimes for months.

Caption: Public Health and Sanitation minister Beth Mugo said the patient suspected to have been infected with the flu was a 20-year old Kenyan lady who is a student at a university in London.

Kenyan health authorities were on Saturday probing a suspected case of H1N1 flu, which if confirmed would be the first in the East African nation.

With troops massed on the Somali border and heavy artillery being moved into position, Kenya appears ready to join - if necessary - the Ethiopians in an armed intervention in Somalia.

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki called together his National Defense and Security Council in Nairobi yesterday, and while Interior Minister George Saitoti assured Kenyans that Kenya would not intervene in Somalia, it was clear that other ministers and defense officials were preparing for such a step.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga - a former opposition leader now serving in a coalition government with Mr. Kibaki's party - urged East African nations to consider sending troops to Somalia to bolster the United Nations-backed transitional government against the ongoing onslaught of Islamist militias.

Kenya will not resort to military intervention in the ongoing conflicts in Somalia, Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said.

The Berega Orphanage, a cluster of neat stucco cottages in this village of red dirt roads and maize plots, is a far cry from what the name suggests.

A milk tanker lost control Tuesday along Nairobi's Outer Ring Road. In recent days, news of tanker accidents send fear among Kenyans over who may die or injured.

Assistant Minister for Internal Security Orwa Ojode Wednesday hinted at radical reforms in the police department as the force grapples with escalating crime in the country.

NAIROBI: Scores of Somali legislators have fled violence at home to the safety of other countries in Africa, Europe and the United States, leaving the nation's parliament without a quorum to meet.

Emirates Airline plans to increase flights to Nairobi to cater for the increasing number of visitors from the United Arab Emirates to Kenya.