Kenya
After cleric killing, Muslim youths’ anger boils over in Kenya
Kenyan police shut down exhibit showing graphic photos of post-election violence
The week in amateur videos: a motorcycle miracle, brave bridge climbers and more
The world's poorest toymaker
Home to half a million people, the hundreds of thousands of shacks that skirt Nairobi make up the Kenyan capital's second largest shantytown. It’s amongst the rife poverty and scant landscape of Mathare that one man is devoting his time to making toys for children. Read more...
Makmende doesn’t watch TV, the TV watches him
He's the next big thing in Kenya, he's got 35,000 friends on Facebook, and he's the only name worth mentioning on Twitter. Meet Makmende, the man capable of giving malaria to mosquitoes and counting to 577 with his toes. Read more...
Slum turned vegetable garden
A blogger tell us how an ingenious idea got a group of shantytown residents to transform their quarters from a slum into a biological farm. Read more...
In Kenya, hate media has found a new home
The message Mashada posted on their forum page
One of Kenya's
most popular discussion forums had to close its doors yesterday because
of a barrage of abusive and hate-inciting comments left by web-users. James X
runs the ‘Mashada' project. He explains that the
site's once relatively peaceful discourse had taken a decisively violent turn since
the elections. It seems that the internet is being used to fuel ethnic
loathing. Could this media become the
next Radio Mille Collines? Read more...
Misuse of power
These images were shown on Kenyan television on Tuesday. The scene was filmed in Kisumu (east), a stronghold of the opposition and where three protesters have been killed in two days (more on the riots). The film is now being circulated by Kenyan bloggers, who are condemning the national security forces for misuse of power.
Video posted on Youtube on 17 January 2007 - source : KTN
