Tag: Kenya

• Monday, January 3rd 2022 - 21:53 UTC

  Kenyan paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey dies at age 77

  

  Paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey, whose surname is tantamount to the origins of mankind, has died Sunday at his native Nairobi, it was announced. He was 77.

• Wednesday, October 13th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  The Hague Court awards Somalia most of the territorial sea claimed also by Kenya

  

  The International Court of Justice (ICJ) Tuesday drew a new maritime legal border between Somalia and Kenya in the Indian Ocean after a bitter legal battle between the two countries over boundaries involving areas potentially rich in oil and gas, it was announced.

• Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Poachers in Kenya kill the only female white giraffe and her calf

  

  Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said on Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 15:11 UTC

  The big winners in Kenya’s oil debut

  

  Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in recent months and fast-track new well development make Kenya the darling of East Africa from an investor’s perspective.

• Sunday, August 14th 2011 - 08:22 UTC

  A Window Into Kibera: Human Beings Being Human

  

  If one reads the world’s news’ main headlines on any given day, the vast majority of the stories will most certainly deal with issues related to violence, hatred, prejudice, corruption, greed, paranoia, or fear.