Kenya Environmental & Political News Weblog
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Insecurity & Education Hold Kenyan IDPs in Camps
Posted: June 24, 2008, 12:19 am by Phil
Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN Samuel Karanja at Naivasha stadium camp for internally displaced Kenyans NAIVASHA, 24 June 2008 (IRIN) - Samuel Karanja was a resident of Narok North district in Kenya’s Rift Valley Province until he was displaced in the post-election violence this year. Karanja, a former shop-owner, has spent the past six months in two internally [...] -
Kenya HIV/AIDS: The Cutting Edge (multimedia)
Posted: June 24, 2008, 12:14 am by Phil
Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN Boys waiting to be circumcised at Migosi health centre, Nyanza KISUMU, 24 June 2008 (PlusNews) - The reproductive health NGO, Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK), has started a mobile circumcision pilot project in the western, largely non-circumcising province of Nyanza. Audio Slideshow Click here to listen and view IRIN/PlusNews recently visited one MSK mobile clinic in [...] -
Mind Your Language - A Short Guide to African HIV/AIDS Slang
Posted: June 24, 2008, 12:13 am by Phil
Photo: Anthony Kaminju/IRIN Word play JOHANNESBURG, 18 June 2008 (PlusNews) - HIV has hit our lives, our families, our economies; it also shapes the way we talk. IRIN/PlusNews looks at how the virus and its impact translates into everyday speech from the streets of Lagos to the townships of Johannesburg, and finds that despite the [...]
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