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  • What drives conflict in northern Kenya

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    MARSABIT, 18 December 2009 (IRIN) – Cattle raids, inter-communal resource conflicts and banditry are common across much of the arid lands of northern Kenya, where firearms are increasingly common among pastoralist communities. In 2009 alone, such violence claimed more than 354 lives, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Kenya. [...]

  • Dandora Waste Site Under the Spotlight

    Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:02 pm by Dosma
    Eight years after Dandora, the site of Nairobi’s only rubbish dump, was declared full and a health hazard, tons of fuming waste from more than four million city dwellers continue to be added daily, exposing local residents to illness but also profiting a few. More than 100,000 people live around the dumpsite, a 13-hectare grey [...]

  • Historic UN Climate Change Conference Kicks off in Copenhagen

    Posted: December 8, 2009, 10:03 am by Dosma
    Copenhagen (Denmark), 7 December 2009 – The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off today in Copenhagen with a strong sense of confidence that countries can seal a comprehensive, ambitious and effective international climate change deal in Demark and with an unprecedented sense of urgency to act on climate change. The highly anticipated conference marks [...]
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