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Kenya Environmental & Political News

http://kenvironews.wordpress.com/

A blog created to cover environmental and political information in Kenya

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  • Can indigenous knowledge reduce climate disaster risk?

    Posted on Tuesday November 17th, 2009 at 00:22 in environment, early warning

    I have just spent three weeks in Northern Kenya among the Borana people, followed by three weeks in Mindanao, southern Philippines, partly with the Higaonan tribe. Vastly different countries yet I was immediately struck by the similarities in the cha...

  • Africa Takes Firm Stance on Climate Change

    Posted on Friday October 30th, 2009 at 03:50 in environment

    Africa will neither accept replacement of the Kyoto Protocol, nor its merger with any new agreement, say African climate change negotiators meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the last African major preparatory gathering, before the UN Climate Change...

  • What is Behind the Mau Complex Controversy?

    Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 02:31 in environment, Economy, food security

    Photo: Jane Some/IRIN Over the past two decades, the Mau complex has lost at least 107,000ha of forest cover due to irregular and unplanned settlements, logging and charcoal burning, as well as increased agriculture (file photo) The continued d...

  • Kenya Threatened by New Urban Disaster

    Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 02:15 in lifestyle, governance, refugees idps

    Rapid urbanization is changing the face of poverty in Kenya “If the government does not acknowledge this crisis, it will get even worse. Failure to address this now will leave Kenya paying for generations to come.” Philippa Crosland Taylor Hea...

  • From Nairobi’s Kibera Slums to ‘Canaan’

    Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 03:59 in environment, development

    Photo: Jane Some/IRIN Pius Okello points at the entrance of his new home At least 1,300 slum dwellers from Kibera – Nairobi’s largest informal urban settlement – have been moved to new blocks of flats under a slum-upgrading progra...

  • Anger and Anxiety in Kenya Over “leaky” Condoms

    Posted on Monday September 14th, 2009 at 04:58 in public health

    Photo: Laura Lopez Gonzalez/PlusNews An electronic test found holes in the condoms Kenyan AIDS authorities are struggling to restore public confidence in condoms after an alarming news report recently showed locally stocked brands to be defect...

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