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Montreal superintendent, building owner ordered to pay tenant $13K after racist remarks

02/10/2016

A Montreal superintendent along with the owner of the building have been ordered to pay a total of $13,000 for moral and punitive damages after actions targeting a [...]

Casino gambler stoned to death after he kills two in Nairobi

02/09/2016

A gambler who killed two people after losing Sh30,000 was on Monday lynched in Nairobi. John Barnabas Mchanga was stoned to death by an irate public after he stabbed the two [...]

Zika concerns could see Kenya withdraw from Rio 2016 Olympics

02/09/2016

Kenya could pull out of this summer’s Rio Olympics if the Zika virus in Brazil reaches “epidemic levels”, says the head of Kenya’s Olympic committee. [...]

US President Obama signs Africa electricity plan into law

02/09/2016

US President Barack Obama has signed into law an initiative aimed at bringing electricity to 50 million people in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020. The Electrify Africa Act of 2015 [...]

Neville-Lake kids killed in drunk driving

Marco Muzzo pleads guilty to impaired driving causing death of 3 kids, granddad

02/04/2016

A man who pleaded guilty in a horrific drunk-driving crash that killed three young children and their grandfather has been released on bail until his sentencing later this [...]

Janet Mbugua death announcement

01/31/2016

It is with tremendous sadness that we announce the sudden death of Janet Mbugua of Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.) Canada. Janet or mama Njeri as most of us knew her [...]

HIV becoming resistant to key drug, study finds

01/29/2016

Strains of HIV are becoming resistant to an antiretroviral drug commonly used to prevent and fight the virus, research has suggested. HIV was resistant to the drug Tenofovir [...]

Zika Virus ‘Spreading Explosively’, WHO warns

01/28/2016

The Zika virus is “spreading explosively”, the head of the World Health Organisation has warned amid fears it may be carried by the common mosquito. Speaking at a [...]

Milca Kakete is singing and holding on

01/28/2016

Born Milka John Luziro in Kilwa, South Eastern Tanzania to missionary parents, Milca Kakete has become a music power brand here in North America & elsewhere. She was 10 [...]

Dan Kinuthia Ngara death & memorial

01/28/2016

This is to invite all Kenyans in the GTA for a prayer service and fundraising for Dan Kinuthia Ngara who died alone in his apartment in Toronto on January 22, 2016. It is an [...]

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