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When Rain becomes a curse: People are dying in large numbers in Kenya due to floods

www.africanpress.me/ Grace Adhiambo.

< Grace Adhiambo reporting from Kakamega, Kenya

How funny can this world be? Sometime back there was drought in most parts of the country. People died as a result of lack of water and food.

Pastrolists from Turkana and other parts of Kenya had to walk for long distance in search of water and food for their animals. We cannot help but hear that people are being carried away by water as a result of the heavy rain.

Kenya Red Cross Society says that at least 50 people have died from floods since March. Transport in most parts of the country has been paralysed due to flooding. 

A few days ago three people lost their lives when their vehicle was swept away around Ngong. The trio was driving past the Kwekwe river bridge in Nkoroi. According to the area residents the seasonal river had burst its banks giving room for water to flow on top of the bridge that had no rails.Innocent Kenyans are loosing their lives daily and seemingly nothing can be done. In Imenti central district, Meru county, a body of a man who drowned in river Kwetu, Gaitu location was recovered.

www.africanpress.me/ Floods in Kenya

The river does not have a bridge so residents have to step on stones to enable them cross the river. The man was carried by water as he was stepping on the stones. The residents of Kariobangi South, Nairobi are at a greater risk of contracting cholera because the area is now covered in sewerage water. The flood mixed with sewage water exposing the residents to diseases like cholera.

When the rains started their were celebrations everywhere as Kenyans had been eagerly waiting for the rains. The floods recently swept away more than 300 acres of paddy rice in Mwea Irrigation Scheme. This occurred after the river Murubara burst its banks sweeping away the rice. READ MORE..

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The rape epidemic of Norwegian women.

www.africanpress.me/ Elizabeth Mbaire Koikai __

www.africanpress.me/ Elizabeth Mbaire Koikai __

 

<Elizabeth M. Koikai reporting from Norway

Last Saturday a norwegian woman in her 30’s told police that she was raped by two men in a pirate taxi in Trondheim. The victim explained that she was picked up by a pirate taxi and that the two men in the car raped her, thereafter dropped her off and drove away. The woman approached a random resident and asked for help.

 The victim described the men as about 170 centimeters tall, in their 30’s and of foreign origin. The woman was allegedly raped repeatedly, and the police regard the assault as very serious.

Norway is suffering from a wave of rapes that are largely being perpetrated by immigrants against norwegian women. READ MORE

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My journalistic experience in Norway was a chance of a lifetime!

  • By Patience Nyange, Nairobi – Kenya www.africanpress.me/ Patience Nyange - a Kenyan journalist
  • www.africanpress.me/ Patience Nyange – a Kenyan journalist

When I got a mail from African Press International asking me to write about my stay in Norway, I went blank. This is because I tend to imagine I have so much to write about concerning my 16 months stay in Norway, the land of the Vikings.

I went to Norway as an exchange participant under a journalistic program funded by Fredskorpset Norway, FK. I was selected to represent Association of Media Women in Kenya, AMWIK where I have been a member for the last 4 years. In Norway, I worked for two organizations, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK, where I did English features for Jungeltelegraphen, a weekly show broadcasted on NRKs P2. I worked with the show hosts, Sigbjorn Nedlad and Arne Berg, my two great colleagues, who came to Kenya, just two month after my return home. “You know we miss you so much and your absence is highly felt in our office” said Sigbjorn. I totally believe him. NRK Kristiansand is very special to me. I miss it and Sigbjorn remains the greatest boss I have ever had this far.READ MORE

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Kenya: Varsity girls fear a protruding stomach due to pregnany than HIV/AIDS

www.africanpress.me/ Grace Adhiambo.

< Grace Adhiambo reporting from Kakamega-Kenya

‘I can’t stand the embarrassment. People will be looking at me and making faces or even laugh out loudly. I don’t think I can take that,’  says Lavenda Atieno, a disaster management student at Masinde Muliro University.

This clearly indicates that most campus girls fear pregnancy than contracting any sexually transmitted disease or Aids.Why should they think that pregnancy should be a big deal as compared to contracting the deadly disease. Research shows that 80% of girls in various Universities opt for ways of preventing pregnancies.
Mercy Omondi, a 2nd year English Literature student at Masinde Muliro University said that majority of her friends are scared of getting pregnant.’ They claim that pregnancy cannot be hidden as the belly will protrude after a few months while it will not be indicated on their foreheads that they are ailing,’she says.READ MORE

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Norway: Right-wing extremist Terrorist Anders Behring Breivik pleads not guilty

 

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Jokes corner: Iam glad im Kenyan, lakini…. writes Njoroge

A joke on the Luo Community 

Reality: Being supportive of one another at all times

(Wisdom – changing our ways in life)

In Germany they first came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me – and by that time no one was left to speak up.{Martin Niemöller}

Read the above, change your attitude and be supportive  to others at all times – be guided by wisdom so that you do not end up being alone with no one speaking for you when your time comes.

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