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Muslim Protesters Clash With Police In Nairobi |
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 Hundreds of Kenyan Muslim protesters took to the central business district in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to demonstrate over the arrest of radical Jamaican Muslim cleric Sheikh Abdullah al Faisal. The demonstrators took to the streets in Nairobi after their noon prayers at the Jamia mosque on 15 January, demanding the release from police custody of the preacher, who had been in detention in the country after the Kenyan government had earlier failed to deport him.
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Peaceful Demonstrations in Zimbabwe |
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 As the world celebrated International Human Rights Day (December 10), civil right organizations and activists in Zimbabwe held a peaceful procession in various streets of the nation’s Capital, Harare, to express their discontent with the country’s wanting state of leadership, human rights violations and limited freedom of expression. The first, organized by ZimRights included up to 5,000 marchers, while the second, organized by Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), was smaller but aimed at passing an identical message.
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Picha Mtaani: A street Exhibition With a Difference |
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 Picha Mtaani, Swahili for “Street Exhibition”, is a youth led peace initiative supported by UNDP that primarily seeks to create space for young people to reconcile through peace building, violence prevention and promoting peaceful co-existence among young people in conflict affected towns. Through an exhibition set of images taken during Kenya’s 2007/2008 post election violence, the initiative steers to instill individual reflections on the horror that was inflicted to different people during the period.
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 Anarchy has become the word by which Somalia has come to be identified with. Years of civil war threw the country into a state of lawlessness. Today the government is still struggling to regain its control over the state from rebel forces. The countries population is witness to thousands of refugees as a result of the political unrest. The paucity under which the nation has come under is immense.
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Drought In Kenya affects Wildlife |
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 The ground is hard as a rock, the rivers are drying up, livestock and wildlife are feeble, emaciated, and are dying in numbers as worthless bags of bones everyday. This is the bitter and miserable situation that most Kenyans, their livestock and wildlife are facing. Where there was grass – green grass, is now a barren earth dusting off with every dry wind that breezes above the ground.
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