16 DAYS IN KENYA.
16/07. U.S. $. With the increasingly weak U.S. dollar (Shs 65), the World Bank has donated 94 pure-bred camels to a cooperative in Pokot district as an alternative to cattle. The camels cost about Shs 12 800 (€ 128) are better resistant to drought and produce 4 to 5 liters of milk a day.
17/07 . The Annual Festival of Wine was recently held in Nairobi. There appeared Italian wines, but only the South African, English and one of Chile's the fault of the strong euro (1 euro = shs 106) One liter of table wine costs about 3 euro common.
18/07. is living longer . In Kenya and Uganda, the UN says so: 54 years in Kenya and Uganda in 51.5. I have lived in Botswana for more than 50 years and the lowest in South Africa to 42 mainly due to the high incidence of AIDS.
19/07. Circumcision fatal . Pokot In a 13 year old boy bled to death after being circumcised at home by a "praticone" tribal. A rural police officer was seriously wounded by their parents while trying to stop genital mutilation of three girls from 13 to 15 years.
20/07. Hope (Hope) Pry. School . Students in slum Long-Long in Nairobi awaiting the lessons sitting on tables and coffee tables for lack of chairs, but they receive one meal a day donated by World Food Programme ..
21/07. Forgiveness shortly. In West Pokot a thief just pardoned by the President during the celebration of June 1 (Madaraka Day) was lynched by his contemporaries and his body burned after it is caught stealing in a store. Another in Kisii, resigned the court found him not guilty of murder of the mother was promptly lynched by the inhabitants of the country.
22/07 . The "first ladies" corrupt. According to the organization African Reaserch and Resource Forum, many of the wives of African presidents gorge on their accounts at the bank handling the NGO (NGO) called " philanthropic. " Among those listed elsewhere in Kenya and Tanzania.
23/07. luck. The people of Kakamega insist that the authorities remove the carpenters who made the coffins in the courtyard of the Hospital Provincial and perform at the entrance gate.
24/07. Teaching funeral. The Chepkorir of elementary school students in Keiyo district, following the lessons outside in the cemetery, which is part of the schoolyard, for lack of space in classrooms recently destroyed by fire. The lessons are often interrupted the arrival of the funeral processions. The educational direction says he requested several times to the Ministry of Education funds to repair classrooms, with no response.
25/07. Cherches la femme. Approximately 300 people were left homeless when fire destroyed 150 shacks in the slum of Kwangware (Nairobi) The accident was caused by a quarrel between two men to one woman, one of them threw a lit kerosene heater in the rival. This burst causing the fire in the cabin. The wind pushed the fire close to the other that became unmanageable.
26/07. Young man senseless. Malindi A 19 year old Furaha (joyful) was stabbed to death by a woman who perhaps only trying to seduce. The boy is introduced at night in the hut of the woman who woke him stabbed in the dark. It is possible that the boy has, at night, the hut wrong, or that the woman had mistaken for someone else.
27/07. Baby fat. General Hospital in Mombasa was born, by Caesarean section, the heaviest child in Kenya to 7.2 kg. Both the mother that the child is in good health. The world's heaviest newborn to 7.7 kg was born in Brazil from a diabetic woman.
28/07. Fiat lux. In the village of Ruiru, near Nairobi, was re-lighting of public streets after 14 years the dark, for non-payment of bills worth Shs 92 000 (€ 900) The mayor promised to pay more promptly in future.
29/07. Ecology lopsided. In Nanyuki, two men found a large turtle on the railroad tracks and then in danger of dying. The species is protected by law under penalty proceedings. The two brought the animal from a shop in town that offered them two Fanta Orange for the animal. While drinking the shopkeeper called the local staff of KWLS Service (wildlife), they arrested the two accused of poaching. Brought to court the day after they were fined Shs 8,000 (€ 80)
30/07. for tourists. The cold that has swept through many areas of the country will continue in August. Temperature in degrees C * of the last days: Nyahururu (7.6) Narok (8.4) Eldoret (8.9) Kericho (10) Thika (12.2) Nairobi (12.3)
31/07 . Rape of the month. In Kakamega a gang of robbers attacked at night Ikonyero the orphanage, where 12 students participated in a Dutch project assistance. After stealing Shs 185,000, euro650, computers and cameras, proceeded to rape five girls aged 17 to 18 years. Police have arrested 18 suspects.
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