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Danish firm launches vitamin-rich gum for 3rd world kids

AFP Global Edition 20 days ago

A Danish firm has launched Vitamin A-packed chewing gum in Nairobi to help fight malnutrition among children in developing countries, the company said in a statement Thursday. Each piece of sugar-free gum in a pack of six contains 375 microgrammes of Vitamin ...

Kenya's beheading gang spokesman 'shot dead'

AFP Global Edition 20 days ago

The spokesman of a Kenyan criminal gang notorious for beheading some of its victims was shot dead on Thursday in downtown Nairobi, witnesses and police said. Njuguna Gitau, who last week announced the official disbanding of the Mungiki group, was gunned down ...

Somalia's Sufi forces organise in face of Shebab

AFP Global Edition 20 days ago

Somalia's main Sufi movement, Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa, on Thursday wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategise its response to the rise and radicalisation of the Shebab group. Dozens of the usually quiet religious movement's leaders have in recent days ...

First malaria vaccine 'ready in 3-5 years'

AFP Global Edition 21 days ago

The most clinically advanced malaria vaccine so far should be ready for use in three to five years after Phase three trials began in May, researchers have said. The vaccine -- known as the RTS,S -- is targeted to be at least ...

Health experts seek ways to eliminate malaria

AFP Global Edition 22 days ago

Health experts and researchers met in the Kenyan capital Tuesday to find ways of eradicating malaria, the world's deadliest infectious disease that kills around 900,000 people every year. Key among the strategies for the fifth Multilateral Initiative on Malaria is the development ...

KENYA USAIN BOLT

AP News 23 days ago

Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Copyright 2009 AP ...

APTOPIX KENYA USAIN BOLT

AP News 23 days ago

Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica holds a three-month old male cheetah cub which he named Lightning Bolt, after adopting the cub at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, in Nairobi, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) Copyright 2009 AP ...

World's fastest man adopts world's fastest animal

Reuters Life! Online Report 23 days ago

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt on Monday adopted a cheetah cub in Kenya's Nairobi National Park. The head of the Kenya Wildlife Service, Julius Kipng'etich, described the event as "the first time in history where the fastest ...

Glaxo gives price pledge as malaria shot holds hope

Reuters US Online Report Health News 28 days ago

LONDON (Reuters) - More than 5,500 children across Africa have been given an experimental new malaria vaccine and the British drugmaker behind it, GlaxoSmithKline, promised on Wednesday that price would be no hurdle if it works. The vaccine, called Mosquirix and the ...

U.S. slaps travel ban on senior Kenyan official

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 30 days ago

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States has banned a senior Kenyan government official from visiting the country and may slap similar travel bans on three more people, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Johnnie Carson said on Monday. Carson sent letters to 15 ...

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