New Delhi: Ethiopia's Lelisa Desisa won the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in the men's elite category with a timing of 59:29 minutes on Sunday. Kenya's Lucy Kabuu grabbed the women's title with a timing of 67:04 minutes. This is the seventh edition of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon and in all, over 8000 people have participated in various distance-runs. Over 40 athletes took part in the run. Bollywood actors Shah...
09:02 AM, Nov 27, 2011
Mogadishu: Somali militants on Monday threatened to bring down Nairobi skyscrapers after Kenya sent hundreds of troops into Somalia. The threat emanated from the same lawless country in which the al-Qaida masterminds behind 1998 bombings of two US embassies sought refuge. The Kenyan invasion comes at a time when al-Shabab has been weakened by famine in its strongholds, has been pushed from the capital of Mogadishu by African Union troops...
03:58 AM, Oct 18, 2011
Nairobi: The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Monday mourned the death of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who died of cancer here Sunday night. Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004, becoming the first environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the honour. The 71-year-old activist was founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement and patron of the UNEP. She was one of Africa's foremost environmental campaigners, internationally recognised...
07:08 PM, Sep 26, 2011
Nairobi: Joseph Mwangi hoped and prayed his children had escaped the inferno caused when a leaking gasoline pipeline exploded on Monday, sending flames racing through a Nairobi slum and killing at least 75 people. Then he saw two small blackened bodies in the wreckage of his home. "Those were my children," he sobbed, collapsing in anguish amid the charred corrugated iron sheets and twisted metal. Mwangi had been feeding his...
07:56 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Nairobi: A leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya's capital exploded on Monday, turning part of a slum into an inferno in which at least 75 people were killed and more than 100 hurt. Flames leapt out from the pipeline in a radius of some 300 yards (meters), setting shacks ablaze and incinerating scores of people. Reporters later saw clusters of charred bodies and blackened bones at the site. Some burned bodies...
12:26 AM, Sep 13, 2011
Nairobi: A leaking gasoline pipeline in Kenya's capital exploded on Monday, turning part of a slum into an inferno in which at least 61 people were killed and more than 100 hurt. Flames leapt out from the pipeline in a radius of some 300 yards, setting shacks ablaze and incinerating scores of people, leaving charred bodies and blacked bones in the charred homes. Some burned bodies floated in a nearby...
06:12 PM, Sep 12, 2011
Boston: Officials say President Barack Obama's uncle has been released from a Massachusetts jail two weeks after being arrested on a drunk driving charge. Onyango Obama was detained by federal immigration officials for allegedly violating an order to return to Kenya. Federal officials would not say why he was released on Thursday or where he went. People who live in the same Framingham home as him and workers at a...
02:31 AM, Sep 10, 2011
Boston: A federal official says President Barack Obama's uncle, an illegal immigrant charged with drunken driving in Massachusetts last week, was ordered by an immigration judge to leave the country almost two decades ago. The official says a deportation order was issued against Onyango Obama in 1992. The official spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release details on the case....
07:55 AM, Sep 01, 2011
Nairobi: Somali refugees seeking shelter in Kenya from extreme drought and hunger are the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable in the world, the head of the UN refugee agency said. Increasing numbers of malnourished young children are dying after trekking for weeks to receive emergency aid in what has become the "worst humanitarian disaster in the world", UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres said. "We ran because of starvation,"...
01:35 AM, Jul 12, 2011
Nairobi: Revelations that $45 million meant to pay for elementary students education was stolen is turning into political poison in Kenya, where activists on Wednesday locked themselves in the education minister's offices to demand his arrest. The UK, a major donor to Kenya, told the government that the portion of stolen funds that Britain donated must be repaid. Britain said on Monday it would not give the Kenyan government any...
09:41 AM, Jun 23, 2011
Nairobi, Kenya: A UN humanitarian report and aid workers caught in the crossfire reported on Wednesday an increase in violence in a new front near the already tense internal border between north and south Sudan, with dozens of people reported killed in attacks. The violence in South Kordofan has killed at least 25 people, a UN humanitarian report said, though it said local sources indicated that up to 64 people...
02:59 AM, Jun 16, 2011
Nairobi: The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who didn't immediately realize he was the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said on Saturday. The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed - a man who topped the FBI's most wanted list for nearly 13 years - is the third major...
08:17 AM, Jun 12, 2011
Nairobi: Nine fans died in a stampede while trying to enter a stadium where a football match between two of Kenya's most popular teams was being played, the Kenya Red Cross said. Jack Oguda, the CEO of the Kenya Premier League, said he did not know why fans couldn't get into the stadium properly because it wasn't full. "A gate was broken into by fans forcing their way into the...
07:43 AM, Oct 24, 2010
Gender activists say they are not worried about the lawsuit. ...
08:58 PM, May 09, 2009
The Kenya Red Cross said the death toll was 113 but was expected to rise. ...
07:14 PM, Feb 02, 2009
A truck crashed in Molo on Saturday, spilling oil that burst into flames. ...
04:53 PM, Feb 01, 2009
Troops gave a standing ovation to the 44th President. ...
05:04 PM, Jan 21, 2009
About 35,000 Mumbaikars took part in the mega marathon event after 26/11. ...
02:42 PM, Jan 18, 2009
The champion emerged with a new course record of two hours, 11 mins and 51 seconds. ...
01:52 PM, Jan 18, 2009
India's Surinder Singh wins 21-km Half Marathon. ...
10:41 AM, Jan 18, 2009
