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Nairobi - Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi was on Wednesday questioned for close to three hours by detectives from the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission investigating the graves scandal.

The governments of Mozambique and Angola have stepped up rescue efforts and issued red alerts for some areas after intense regional flooding.

The recently flooded regions of Kenya could fall victim to water-borne diseases if public hygiene campaigns are not organized, the United Nations humanitarian wing warned today.

Organisers of the Doha Conference in Support of Development and Investment in Union of Comoros yesterday announced that donors have pledged a total of $540mn for the development of the African nation. The country has also been accepted as a member of the Arab League for the next five years.

Eight years ago, I walked into the Nairobi office of the Centre for Rights Education and Awareness expecting a mildly helpful discussion of my project on women's property rights in Kenya.

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 10 -- East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big 2006 strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.

LUANDA/MAPUTO (Reuters) - Flooding in Mozambique and Angola has displaced thousands of families, prompting both governments to step up rescue operations and Mozambican authorities to issue a red alert for some areas.

A shock United Nations report has found that much of the ?340million aid sent to Somalia ends up in the hands of corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local United Nations staff.

Around 130,000 people are to be evacuated in flood-prone Mozambique because of rising waters in three main rivers, state media said on Wednesday.

ISIOLO-NAIROBI, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - At least 10,000 people in Kenya have been displaced by flooding, mainly in the north, which has prompted fears of an outbreak of waterborne diseases. Hundreds of heads of livestock have drowned or gone missing and dozens of houses and business stalls are submerged.

Kenyan agricultural stocks rose to the highest in at least 18 months and electricity shares soared as the meteorological department forecast more rain for the country, ending more than three years of drought.

Source: IRIN Abdullahi Aden Ali, 32, arrived in Bosasso, commercial capital of the autonomous region of Puntland, 10 years ago from southern Somalia. His aim, like that of thousands of young Somalis, was to go to Yemen and on to Saudi Arabia. He first fled his home town of Baidao for the capital, Mogadishu, but was again forced out when fighting between warlords intensified.

New drilling in and off countries up the coast of East Africa shows that the region may have massive reserves of natural gas and oil

Harare - FIRST it was in South Africa and then Botswana. Zimbabwean football players have opened up new bases in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Christa Paap has known for several years she wanted to work in the medical field. Her own life experiences kept pulling her in that direction.

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Nations Ethics Committee has upheld complaints by a former employee of the U.N. Development Programme who said he suffered retaliation from the UNDP for alleging that its Somalia programme was corrupt.

Bank depositors may sleep more soundly if the Kenya government adopts IMF proposals to speed up the introduction of deposit insurance as part of reforms to strengthen the financial sector.

As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, Islamist militants and local U.N. staff, according to a new report.

FIRST it was in South Africa and then Botswana. Zimbabwean football players have opened up new bases in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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