A U.S. terrorism report which was published in the newspaper the Kenya Daily Nation on Saturday, said al Qaida allies are active in Kenya. The annual report published by the U.S. State Department warned al Qaida agents responsible for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam remain at large and currently pose "the most serious threat to Kenya.
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A Somali MP has denied that money accrued from piracy off the East African coast is being used to buy property in Kenya. Mr Ashad Awad Ashareh said, instead, the money that has seen value of property in places like Nairobi’s Eastleigh and Mombasa rise was from Somalis in the diaspora.
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Countering the escalating threat of piracy in the Gulf of Aden will be the focus of an emergency international summit scheduled to take place in Cairo.
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Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced that Spain and France will propose an international conference on lawless Somalia, where pirates continue to hold ships to ransom. "We have agreed to propose the holding of an international conference on Somalia," he told a joint news conference with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Seven actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and one improved in April 2009, according to the new issue of the International Crisis Group’s monthly bulletin CrisisWatch, released today.
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Since it peaked in October 2008, the number of payroll employees has declined by 2.0% or 296,000. Non-farm payroll employment fell by 79,600 in February, down 0.5% from a month earlier.
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Port-au-Prince/Brussels, 28 April 2009: Haiti’s environmental destruction is a time bomb that needs urgent attention if the country is to preserve its social and economic stability.
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UNESCO and 32 partner institutions launched on April 21, 2009 the World Digital Library, a Web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world. The site includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. It provides unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material.
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The number of regular EI beneficiaries has climbed 21.9% since October 2008, reaching 610,200 in February. Over the same period, the number of regular EI beneficiaries has increased in almost all provinces and territories, with the largest percentage gains in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.
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A crewman of the American ship overtaken by pirates off the coast of Africa earlier this month filed suit against his employer this morning in Harris County, asking for at least $75,000 for pain and suffering, alleging that the ship’s owner did not take proper precautions against high seas attacks.
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