Howard Wolpe has spent the best part of three decades helping to form and implement American policies on Africa. After chairing the Subcommittee on Africa of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, he later served as President Bill Clinton's special envoy to the Great Lakes region.
Smuggling notes into exam rooms or scratching them on the skin used to be the customary ways of cheating in tests. Some candidates would leave notes in the toilets and would walk out and take a peek before returning to the exam room to reproduce them.
The proposal seeking to repeal the ban on brewing, sale and consumption of traditional liquor, a move that could legalise chang'aa, needs to be looked at keenly by policy makers.
Those Jaluos..." Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni remarked the other day in reference to our Kenyan brothers and sisters over the disputed Migingo Island. Shocking as it was, it got me thinking.
Aid agencies operating in Somalia say they need more money but that some donors are holding back, concerned at where resources might end up in areas too dangerous for international staff.
Music lovers the world over will be elated to hear this: Veteran Congolese artiste Tabu Ley, or Pascal Rochereau, who has been hospitalised in Europe for the greater part of this year, is recovering and in high spirits. Speaking exclusively to REVIEW on three separate days in the past one week from his daughter's Paris home, he said he was gradually getting better.
International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo leaves on Saturday morning with the fate of Kenya's post-election violence suspects resting with judges at The Hague.
The project addresses the water supply and sanitation problems in a number of small towns and the provision of water storage in Yatta area.
Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume's meeting with his erstwhile foe, Civic United Front (CUF) Secretary-General Seif Shariff Hamad, on Thursday, is probably the best news to have come out of the Isles in the recent past.
The government plan to pay poor families a monthly stipend looks noble from a distance, but it but it calls for closure examination. The scheme, launched in Nairobi by Prime Minister Raila Odinga this week, may be well intentioned, but it raises critical concerns, which must be addressed for it to be effective.
The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Louis Moreno Ocampo, left Kenyans with a clear message - that The Hague process had officially begun. During his three-day visit, the ICC prosecutor ensured that the government understood what was to happen next as the ICC president in The Hague had appointed a three-judge bench to determine the fate of masterminds of the post-election violence.
Somalia Al-Shabaab group has accused Kenyan lawmaker, particularly those from Somali-inhabited region, for backing the secret recruiting of fighters from among young Kenyan Somalis to help the Somalia's weak government fight the Islamist threat.
Experts are warning of a major strain on social services due to an unexpected surge in the number of children in Kenya. According to new statistics released last week, a drop in child mortality has kept the population growth unexpectedly high at a time when the economy is recording a serious reversal following last year's post-election violence and the global meltdown.
MOGADISHU (Sh. M. Nwetwork ) - At least two people have been killed and five others injured after heavy fighting with bitter shelling between the Islamist fighters and transitional government troops started in the north of Somali capital Mogadishu, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Saturday.
The cases against top Kenyan politicians and businessmen suspected of funding and organising the election violence in 2007/8 will go before judges at the International Criminal Court in December.
