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Wanjohi KabukuruJUST how did Kenya’s flamboyant former prime minister and leading presidential contender, Raila Odinga lose the coveted President of Kenya prize? This is a question that for decades to come may
2012 very warm
GENEVA. — The World Meteorological Organisation said yesterday that the year 2012 was the ninth warmest on record despite the cooling influence of a La Nina episode early in the year. The WMO’sBullying rife at BBC
LONDON. — A report into staff behaviour at the BBC commissioned after the Jimmy Savile abuse scandal concluded yesterday that sexual harassment was rare, but bullying was a “very real concern”. It saidMine collapse in Darfur claims dozens
KHARTOUM. — Dozens of people have been killed in a gold mine collapse in Sudan’s Darfur, said the chief of the district where fighting over gold in January led to the region’s worst unrest in yearsBrazil eyes Maputo dam
BRASILIA. — Brazil is negotiating an agreement with Mozambique to finance the construction of a dam to provide drinking water for the city of Maputo, according to local news sources. It is expected to costCoup attempt flops
N’DJAMENA. — A foiled coup attempt in Chad has left several people dead while a number of others have been arrested in connection with what the government described as a “destabilisation plot”, police260 000 die of hunger in Somalia
NAIROBI. — Almost 260 000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a UN report yesterday, which admitted the world body should have done more
Maduro sounds warning
PARIS. — Venezuela’s newly elected President Nicolas Maduro yesterday warned Europe of the risks of “political explosions” as a result of growing economic tensions. In an interview with France’s Le