The Big Story
African beer and the occasional crisis
A fortnight ago, an illicit brew killed 15 Kenyans in the Shauri Moyo section of Nairobi. Such deaths are nothing new with memories of a similar tragedy in Machakos, eastern Kenya, a decade ago still in fresh in the mind. KAMAU MUTUNGA looks at Africa and alcohol...
Africa Insight
In Nigeria you cry with one eye open
The recent killing of a prospective presidential candidate, Muhammadu Rimi Abubakar, is...
Africa Insight
Distant drums of war sounded in Sudan
The stage is set for confrontation with Southern Sudan withdrawing its presidential and...
Africa Insight
Branding Africa not slogans
Nigerians would like to be perceived as ‘Good people, great Nation’ and Uganda as “Gifted by...
InDepth
Transcentury outwitted in RVR control bid
A bid by leading investment company owned politically influential businessmen to take...
Africa Insight
Kenya’s search for authentic tune
The Congolese have Lingala. The South Africans have kwaito, kwela, mbube and mbaqaqa. What...
Africa Insight
The ordeal of selecting exemplary Africans
Coming up with the African of this-and-that is never a walk in the park because even the...
Africa Insight
Illness could complicate Yar’Adua’s possible bid for second term
A combination of rumours and deft politics by the opposition has cast a shadow on the...
Africa Insight
Kenya could borrow, and discard, from Nigeria's constitution making
Successive military regimes in Nigeria engineered constitutional ‘reforms’ that created many...
Africa Insight
Democracy, not elite power games, should drive Kenya’s Draft debate
As Kenyans take another shot at belated constitution-making, politicians and other interest...
Africa Insight
Hungry for opportunities, European investors eye Africa’s unlisted firms
European private investors are hungry for shares in unlisted African firms and could provide...
Africa Insight
African poets says goodbye to Shakespeare
The fire in the bellies of young African poets, or ‘stoets’, is issuing from their mouths...
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Obama limits US nuclear arms use
- Obama wants tough action on Iran
- Obama looks to Mubarak for help in Mideast peace
- Obama: Good governance key to development
- Obama is a US citizen, says exasperated White House
- Obama calls for deeper US-Chinese ties
- Obama hits at police for arresting black scholar
- US support for Obama on healthcare slips
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Health one of the biggest headaches for slum dwellers
- Gorillas may be a source of AIDS, researchers find
- Organic food no healthier, study finds
- Think before you pop that herbal pill
- WHO may change ARV guidelines for pregnant mothers
- UN report pinpoints cancer risk from radon in homes
- Schools may be shut, says WHO as flu kills 70