http://www.africafiles.org/ AfricaFiles is a network of volunteers committed to promoting African perspectives and alternative analyses for human rights and economic justice in Africa. en-ca Copyright 2010 AfricaFiles. Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:34 EST 20 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22849 The third National AIDS Stategic Plan by the National AIDS Control Council launched by Prime Minister Raila Odinga 12 January 2010 will address HIV/AIDS prevention with couples with different HIV/AIDS statuses, commercial sex workers, orphans, vulnerable children, migrant workers, the military, police, survivors of rape, drug injecting users, and men who have sex with men as the most at risk populations. HIV/AIDS related deaths have falen by one third since 2002 and continue to decline. DN Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22849 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22831 Nairobi has over 100 dense, unsanitary, and insecure slums where almost half of the city's population lives with little or inadequate access to safe water and sanitation. Because this urban population living in slums is expected to double in the next 15 years, urban poverty must be urgently addressed. DN Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22831 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22839 The USA has pushed for reform in Kenya since deadly violence swept the country after an election in 2007. The US has suspended $7m of funding for free primary schools in Kenya until fraud allegations are investigated. The UK government has also pulled out of the project. DN Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22839 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22781 According to the Stockholm Environmental Institute, an environmental think tank, Kenya’s planned development path will more than double its carbon emissions unless efforts are taken to pursue low carbon development. Biomass is expected to provide around 60 per cent of household energy requirements in 2030. AB Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22781 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22713 On 1 January, President Kibaki declared 2010 as Kenya’s Green Year, but did not turn up at a recent tree-planting exercise in the Mau Forest. Has the President made a secret pact to compensate large-scale landowners? If so the President has breached a collective, cabinet decision in which people evicted from the gazetted forests would not be compensated. DN Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22713 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22719 Kenyans want to focus on getting a new consitution this year. The Harmonised Draft Constitution strengthens freedom of the press and enhances democracy in the field; so, this seems to the authors, Release Political Prisoners, to be an inappropriate time to bring a media gagging law. DN Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22719 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22711 Life on the streets of Nairobi is hard at the best of times, but this young boy has found a way to survive in the company of three other street kids. They have formed a family and care for each other. JDN Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22711 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22596 Tujuane interviews the managing director of Storymoja, a Kenya-based company formed with the ‘dream of publishing contemporary East African writing of world-class standard’. Storymoja’s mission is to grow East Africa’s reading culture and to improve writing standards. DN Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22596 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22560 Dulane Jama fled Somalia not just because of war but also because of climate change. Grazing grounds and lack of water forced him and his family to move to an over crowded refugee camp in northern Kenya in order to to find the basic necessities of life. Extreme climatic events are on the rise in many parts of Africa. DH Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22560 http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22554 A Kisii High Court Judge nullified the 2007 election victory of the National Treasurer of the ruling Orange Democratic Movement. An election to fill the seat is expected soon. DN Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:00 EST http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=22554