2011

A year highlighted by a new nation, regime change, famine and hopes for climate change solutions. The big story out of Africa in 2011 was the referendum in southern Sudan. That culminated in the birth of a new country, the Republic of South Sudan, which joins the struggling band of developing nations. Africa’s newest independent […]

Hand grenades are being smuggled in from Somalia and sold to criminals and extremists for as a little as Sh4,000. The bombs are exported by the Al Shabaab terror group, partly for profit but also to forment what it calls a Holy war in the region. The Daily Nation, using contacts in Al Shabaab, was able