Newt and the Closet Kenyan

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Sep 14, 2010 Is Newt Gingrich just pretending to have lost his mind, or has he actually gone around the bend? His lunacy certainly seems genuine enough. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Eritrean Team Seeks Asylum in Kenya

Staff / Truthdig Dec 18, 2009 You know things are bad when your national soccer team flees the country. That's what happened to Eritrea, whose national team absconded while in Kenya for a regional soccer tournament. The athletes later reappeared in the capital city of Nairobi, seeking asylum. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

United Nations: 1 Billion Going Hungry Worldwide

Staff / Truthdig Oct 15, 2009 Global hunger is a "world emergency" now, if it wasn't before, with the number of hungry people rising to a record 1 billion, according to the United Nations. Given this scary statistic, it's not looking good for a goal, set in 2000, to reduce the number of people going hungry worldwide by half by 2015. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kenyan Poverty Tourism

Staff / Truthdig Sep 26, 2009 Poverty has apparently become a kind of spectacle: Places such as Brazil's favela slums and India's shantytowns have become part of a "poverty tour" industry. Now Kenya has jumped on the bandwagon, with several organizations selling guided trips through the wretched Kibera slum in Nairobi. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

U.N. Faces Nearly $5 Billion Shortfall in Aid

Staff / Truthdig Jul 21, 2009 The United Nations is facing a $4.8 billion shortfall in funding for humanitarian aid to some of the world's poorest peoples. At the top of that list are the inhabitants of Zimbabwe, Palestine and Kenya, which face increasingly dire financial needs. Although emergency relief donations have risen, the global credit crunch has made it harder for developed countries to keep pace with the need. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Worth a Thousand Words

Staff / Truthdig Jan 22, 2009 The Boston Globe has assembled a stunning array of photos from Inauguration Day. Images from Washington, D.C., and from viewing parties around the world capture the excitement and wonder of that historic day. The subjects include Kenyans in Obama's father's home town, former Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos embracing, and crowds at the capital's Mall as photographed from a satellite. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

What Will ‘Brother Barack’ Do for Africa?

Gbemisola Olujobi / Truthdig Dec 27, 2008 As the dust settles from the feverish dances that greeted Barack Obama’s victory in the American elections, Africans wonder what “our son and brother” will be able to do for Africa in the face of daunting challenges in the United States and other parts of the world. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Kenyan PM Turns Up the Heat on Mugabe

Staff / Truthdig Dec 5, 2008 If there was ever any doubt that Zimbabwe's longtime proto-dictator, President Robert Mugabe, wouldn't exactly take to anything resembling a "power-sharing arrangement," that doubt has vanished along with the hope that Mugabe would actually work with his political rival, Morgan Tsvangirai. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Clinton Takes On Obama Photo Question

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2008 It wasn't the easiest moment in Tuesday's Democratic debate for either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, but both candidates handled it well when moderator Brian Williams broached the uncomfortable subject of the photo, leaked to the Drudge Report early Monday for apparently political purposes, of Obama wearing traditional African garb in Kenya. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Kenya Talks on Hold

Staff / Truthdig Feb 27, 2008 Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has suspended negotiations in Kenya, saying, "The leaders have to assume their responsibilities and become directly engaged in these talks." Annan has been mediating a political crisis marked by tribal violence that has claimed at least 1,500 lives. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Obama, Clinton Camps Clash Over Obama Photo Leak

Staff / Truthdig Feb 26, 2008 On Monday morning, The Drudge Report featured a photo of Barack Obama in traditional Kenyan dress taken during his 2006 visit to the African nation. Obama aides are angrily accusing Clinton's team of leaking the photo in an attempt to put off voters (with a heaping dose of "ethnicity," apparently) at a particularly auspicious moment, but Clinton's camp has denied that it released the picture. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Weeping in Blood

Manny Francisco, Manila, The Phillippines Feb 4, 2008 Dig deeper