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- Dave Lucas: Nairobi Now
  Posted by davelucasnotes from dave-lucas.blogspot.com
  As the United States paid tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Junior with a holiday, citizens of the African Nation of Kenya are confronted with the same issues of poverty and racism the Civil Rights leader crusaded against during the 1960s--- Monday morning I spoke by phone with Bin, who is in Nairobi. We chatted about what was happening in Kenya
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- Fossil finds challenge view of man's place in evolution - Independent Online Edition > Sci_Tech
  Posted by Sandyenglish from The Independent
  Two fossils discovered in northern Kenya directly challenge the established view that there was a linear progression from apes to humans.
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- Kenya shock at mutilation death
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Kenyan villagers have been shocked by the death of girl who bled to death after trying to perform female genital mutilation (FGM) on herself. Pamela Kathambi did the procedure on her own because she was being teased by her friends for not being circumcised in the remote village of Irindi.
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- Kenya's 'Koranic fish' recovered
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  A fish with markings that resembled a Koranic text has been found by Kenyan officials after vanishing from the fisheries office where it was stored. The tuna fish, which had provoked intense interest from Muslims, had apparently been stolen by people posing as National Museum officials.
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- Kenya outrage at HIV boy killing
  Posted by Billbar from BBC News
  Hundreds of people have marched through the Kenyan capital to protest at the brutal killing of an HIV-positive boy. Isaiah Gakuyo was allegedly stabbed to death with a pitch-fork because of his status. Police are hunting his uncle, who was supposedly looking after him.
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- 13 killed in Kenyan plane crash
  Posted by Billbar from CNN
  At least 13 were killed when a Kenyan military aircraft carrying government officials to a peace meeting in northern Kenya crashed as it approached the Marsabit air strip. The plane was carrying officials from Nairobi to Marsabit -- 450 kilometers (280 miles) northeast of the Kenyan capital -- to participate in a peace conference among factions in northern Kenya whose conflict reached a height last year when violence broke out.
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- Police raid Kenya media offices
  Posted by Billbar from CNN
  Masked police carrying AK-47 assault rifles have raided the television station and newspaper owned by the country's second-largest media group and briefly detained four journalists. "They went straight to the transmission studios and instructed the staff there to switch off the transmitters," said KTN Managing Editor Farida Karoney.
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Kenya's 'Koranic fish' recovered
Kinda like those folks who see Jesus' image in various objects...
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Kenya

Dave Lucas: Nairobi Now

Fossil finds challenge view of man's place in evolution - Independent Online Edition > Sci_Tech

Kenya shock at mutilation death

Kenya's 'Koranic fish' recovered

Kenya outrage at HIV boy killing

13 killed in Kenyan plane crash

Police raid Kenya media offices

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