Frank Nyakairu
Frank Nyakairu is an AlertNet journalist based in Nairobi. He previously worked for Reuters in Rwanda and was war correspondent for the Daily Monitor in Uganda. He has reported extensively on the crises in northern Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Southern Sudan and Somalia.
Half a million people flee war in Somalia, UN says
Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Half a million people have fled war in Somalia this year, with hundreds dying on a perilous crossing across the Gulf of Eden to Yemen, the UN refugee agency has said.
The numbers of refugees this year are the highest since the fighting in the country resumed two years ago, according to the UNHCR, while much of the country's population needs humanitarian assistance.
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Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Half a million people have fled war in Somalia this year, with hundreds dying on a perilous crossing across the Gulf of Eden to Yemen, the UN refugee agency has said.
The numbers of refugees this year are the highest since the fighting in the country resumed two years ago, according to the UNHCR, while much of the country's population needs humanitarian assistance.
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Kenyan tea producers battle climate change
Author: Frank Nyakairu
MERU, Kenya (AlertNet) - Michimukuru's tea is considered top quality on the world market.
From the remote hills of Meru, 300 kilometers (187 miles) northeast of Kenya's capital of Nairobi, packets of tea bags find space on the shelves of London's top supermarkets.
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Author: Frank Nyakairu
MERU, Kenya (AlertNet) - Michimukuru's tea is considered top quality on the world market.
From the remote hills of Meru, 300 kilometers (187 miles) northeast of Kenya's capital of Nairobi, packets of tea bags find space on the shelves of London's top supermarkets.
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Trials not yet a deterrent to rapes in Congo
Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - In the year since the start of the first trial at the international war crimes court involving an alleged Congolese warlord, rape on a mass scale has continued unabated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thomas Lubanga, accused of training child soldiers to kill and rape, went on trial at the International Criminal Court in January and two more of his compatriots went on trial at the court on Tuesday, charged with crimes against humanity including rape and sexual slavery.
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Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - In the year since the start of the first trial at the international war crimes court involving an alleged Congolese warlord, rape on a mass scale has continued unabated in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thomas Lubanga, accused of training child soldiers to kill and rape, went on trial at the International Criminal Court in January and two more of his compatriots went on trial at the court on Tuesday, charged with crimes against humanity including rape and sexual slavery.
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Aid workers in southern Somali town moved to Kenya
Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on Monday they had relocated 12 expatriate aid workers following a deterioration in the security situation.
Rebel group Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu. The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout Somalia.
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Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI (AlertNet) - Aid agencies operating in southern Somalia said on Monday they had relocated 12 expatriate aid workers following a deterioration in the security situation.
Rebel group Al Shabaab controls much of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu. The group is fighting government troops and African Union peacekeepers to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout Somalia.
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Djibouti repatriates 40 Somali asylum seekers -UN
Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Djibouti has forcibly sent 40 asylum seekers from Somalia back to the Somali capital Mogadishu, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. A Dutch naval ship, the Evertsen, on anti-piracy patrols in the Red Sea, rescued the migrants crammed on a boat en route to Yemen late last month. ...
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Author: Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Djibouti has forcibly sent 40 asylum seekers from Somalia back to the Somali capital Mogadishu, the United Nations refugee agency said on Wednesday. A Dutch naval ship, the Evertsen, on anti-piracy patrols in the Red Sea, rescued the migrants crammed on a boat en route to Yemen late last month. ...
