Report out in Australia cites Police bias towards Africans

A report prepared for the Legal Services Board of Victoria cites widespread bias by some members of the Victoria police force towards young Africans.
Examples mentioned in the report include false accusations of evading arrest and lack of follow-up on complaints by African immigrants. According to the report, out of twenty complaints filed by people of [...]

Wangechi Mutu is much, much more than just “a mid-career African artist”

Murray Whyte, a Canadian art critic and entertainment writer attached that label on Wangechi Mutu when he reviewed her solo exhibition, “This You Call Civilization?” currently underway at the Art Gallery of Ontario.
He considers the red carpet reception that AGO has given Mutu, a waste of resources for a “mid-career African artist living in New [...]

The Real Cost of Fighting Deportation from the US

The most feared three-letter acronym for most Americans is I.R.S. (Internal Revenue Service). If you are a non-documented resident of the US, the three letters you most likely fear most are I.N.S. Even though the agency went through an overhaul a number of years ago and is now referred to as the USCIS, the phrase [...]

A season of Condoms, Sand, Sex and Lost Virginity on Kenya’s Beaches

Mombasa, KENYA
There is no debate that Kenya’s coastline boasts of some of the finest beaches in the world.
From Lunga Lunga in the south, Funzi Island, Mombasa, Kilifi all the way to Kiunga in the Lamu archipelago, hundreds of kilometres of beautiful sandy beaches richly adorn the Kenyan coast, like an accessory on a woman.

Yet in [...]

Merry Christmas Y’all from a very white, cold, wet, icy Texas

Merry Christmas to all Breaking News Kenya readers around the world from a frozen, snow-covered, icy Texas !!
The last time Texas saw a real white Christmas was 80 years ago. So as all things historic go, this was a rare surprise – a real White Christmas in Texas. It started Christmas eve with gusting winds [...]

Profiling of Mau Forest evictees begins

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 20
Kenya Wildlife Rangers and their forestry counterparts on Friday began to profile the evictees from Mau Forest in an exercise meant to locate their original homes in the ongoing resettlement, despite accusations that the Government is abusing human rights in its efforts to rehabilitate the water tower.
Speaking to members of the [...]

Kenya Constitution: The draft is finally here!

Twenty years of hurt and failed promises of a new Kenyan constitution now look set to be over. This follows the unveiling today of a new draft constitution proposing that the president be the head of state and creating a post of prime minister who will be the head of government.
The new draft is being [...]

Cool Picture: Pretty models in Kangas – no need to say more

Independent article – Kangalicious

Kenya Airways purchases Full Flight Simulator

CAE (Montreal, Canada) has sold a CAE 5000 Series Boeing 737NG FFS and related training devices to Kenya Airways. This marks the first time that CAE has sold simulation equipment to Kenya Airways, which is building a new training centre in Nairobi to house the simulator. The FFS, along with CAE Simfinity(TM) virtual maintenance trainers [...]

Map Kibera: Kibera’s first complete free and open map November 2009

Kenyans collaborate with international mappers to complete first free and open map of Africa’s largest slum: Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya

Map Kibera to shed new light on details of troubled slum for public use
Nairobi, Kenya – October 24, 2009 – This November, motivated young Kenyans will create the first
public digital map of Kibera, widely known as [...]

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