Kenya
US-backed Kenyan forces invade Somalia
By Eddie Haywood, October 26, 2011
Kenya sent military forces into Somalia last week, vowing to fight al-Shabaab militants it blamed for a spate of abductions of foreign nationals.
Over 100 dead, others horribly maimed in Nairobi pipeline explosion
By Julie Hyland, September 13, 2011
More than 100 people have been killed, and scores horribly burned in Kenya, after a leaking fuel pipeline exploded Monday morning in a Nairobi slum.
Kenyans win right to sue UK government for colonial torture
By Joe Mount, August 2, 2011
Four Kenyans are to sue the UK government for the treatment they received during the suppression of the Mau Mau uprising during the early 1950s when Kenya was a British colony.
Workers Struggles: Europe & Africa
November 7, 2008
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Kenya: School fire kills at least 59 students
By David Rowan, March 30, 2001
At 1.40am on March 26, fire swept through a dormitory of the Kyanguli Secondary School in Machakos, 30 miles (65 km) to the southeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi, killing at least 59 male students between the ages of 15 and 19.
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