News - Salim Lone
Kenya's embattled opposition vowed another day of rallies Friday, setting the stage for more violence amid a political deadlock between the president and his chief rival who claims the closest election in the country's history was rigged. The U.S.
By Kabukuru, Wanjohi "Kenya is the only country where the media censors the government instead of the government censoring the media", says Koigi wa Wamwere, Kenya's assistant information minister and a veteran journalist himself.
United Nations workers were told to stay at home Wednesday after a cement truck packed with explosives blew up outside the offices of the top U.N. envoy in Iraq, killing him and 19 other people. The FBI was leading the search through the rubble for clues.
A car bomb exploded in front of the hotel housing the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday, collapsing the front of the building, U.S. military said. The top U.N. official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was among at least nine wounded. A U.N.
Three more bodies were pulled Thursday from the rubble of the U.N. headquarters in the Iraqi capital, a U.N. spokesman said. The discovery raised the death toll from the devastating truck bomb attack to 23. Soldiers recovered three bodies from the U.N.
