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Kenyan Finance Minister John Michuki speaks during ...

(AFP) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:31:00 GMT

(AFP) - Kenyan Finance Minister John Michuki speaks during a press conference of African finance ministers on the sidelines of the World Bank/International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, DC. Kenya's finance minister hit out at rich countries at the source of the financial crisis on Saturday, reflecting anger about the consequences on the economies of developing nations. Photo:Nicholas Kamm/AFP

A Kenyan farmer sells maize from his shop on ...

(AFP) — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 16:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Kenyan farmer sells maize from his shop on the outskirts of Nairobi. A key World Bank official has warned that developed countries should do more to help Africa in the turbulent economic climate and not just 'look after themselves'. Photo:Simon Maina/AFP

File photo shows a Kenyan woman reading a local ...

(AFP) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows a Kenyan woman reading a local newspapers selling in the streets of Nairobi with the headlines on US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Inside a Nairobi pub recently, a folk group sang the praises of Barack Obama, hoping that their ode to Kenya's new favourite son will match the US political star's meteoric rise. Photo:Simon Maina/AFP

File photo shows students from the Senator Obama ...

(AFP) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - File photo shows students from the Senator Obama Secondary school walking in the grounds of the school in the Kogelo Community in western Kenya. Inside a Nairobi pub recently, a folk group sang the praises of Barack Obama, hoping that their ode to Kenya's new favourite son will match the US political star's meteoric rise. Photo:Roberto Schmidt/AFP

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga alights from ...

(AFP) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:51:00 GMT

(AFP) - Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga alights from his car to give a lecture at the 25th silver jubilee of the Guardian newspaper in Lagos. Odinga on Thursday blasted African leaders' fear of criticising each other saying it was stifling the continent's progress towards democracy. Photo:Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga attends the silver Jubilee ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:06:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga attends the silver Jubilee lecture of the Nigerian Guardian titled 'Democracy and the challenge of Good Governance in Africa' in Lagos, October 9, 2008. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA)

Cooperative Bank's treasurer Caroline Mugadi works in the trading ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:51:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Cooperative Bank's treasurer Caroline Mugadi works in the trading room in Kenya's capital Nairobi October 9, 2008. Kenya's shilling slipped against the dollar on Thursday, due to demand for the U.S. currency from the energy sector and as global financial market turmoil prompted investors to sell emerging market assets. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Friday Mwafuga, head of trading at the Cooperative Bank of Kenya, ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Friday Mwafuga, head of trading at the Cooperative Bank of Kenya, speaks on phone during trading in Nairobi October 9, 2008. Kenya's shilling slipped against the dollar on Thursday, due to demand for the U.S. currency from the energy sector and as global financial market turmoil prompted investors to sell emerging market assets. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

A trader works at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya in the capital ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A trader works at the Co-operative Bank of Kenya in the capital Nairobi October 9 2008. Kenya's shilling slipped against the dollar on Thursday, due to demand for the U.S. currency from the energy sector and as global financial market turmoil prompted investors to sell emerging market assets. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

An official with Kenya Power and Lighting Company poses inside ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:39:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An official with Kenya Power and Lighting Company poses inside a sub-station in Nairobi October 8, 2008. Kenya said on Tuesday it plans to set up a second state-run electricity distribution company to meet its aim of connecting a million new customers to the national grid by 2012. Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi said Kenya will also form another company to tap its vast geothermal resources and help meet growing energy demand in east Africa's largest economy. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

An official with Kenya Power and Lighting Company takes notes ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:35:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An official with Kenya Power and Lighting Company takes notes at a sub-station in Nairobi October 8, 2008. Kenya said on Tuesday it plans to set up a second state-run electricity distribution company to meet its aim of connecting a million new customers to the national grid by 2012. Energy Minister Kiraitu Murungi said Kenya will also form another company to tap its vast geothermal resources and help meet growing energy demand in east Africa's largest economy. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Barrack Obama's grandmother receives congratulatory ...

(AFP) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:24:00 GMT

(AFP) - Barrack Obama's grandmother receives congratulatory messages at her home in Kogelo after her grandson delivered an acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in August 2008. The American author of a best-selling book blasting Obama on Tuesday faced deportation from Kenya after being detained by security officials. Photo:Simon Maina/AFP

Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya Raila Odinga addresses ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:42:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Prime Minister of the Republic of Kenya Raila Odinga addresses a plenary session during the 1st World Policy Conference in Evian October 6, 2008. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse (FRANCE)

Swaleh Ali Tunza, one of the eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Swaleh Ali Tunza, one of the eight suspected Kenyan terrorists, recovers at his Mewa Hospital bed in the Kenyan Coast town of Mombasa October 5, 2008 after an operation on a fractured leg. Eight Kenyan suspected Islamist fighters who were held in Ethiopia after being sent there in secret in early 2007 were returned home on Saturday, Kenya said. After the Islamists who controlled large parts of neighbouring Somalia were driven out by Somali and Ethiopian forces, activists and Muslim groups say Kenya covertly rounded up scores of people and sent them to Somalia and then Ethiopia. REUTERS/Joseph Okanga (KENYA)

Winner Belgium's Rik Ceulemans (R) and second placed Kenya's ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:44:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Winner Belgium's Rik Ceulemans (R) and second placed Kenya's Willy Cheruiyot spray Champagne on the podium of Brussels Marathon October 5, 2008. REUTERS/Sebastien Pirlet (BELGIUM)

Kenya Airways Boeing B777-200ER plane is seen during a media ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:04:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Kenya Airways Boeing B777-200ER plane is seen during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi, October 2, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

An engineer works on a Boeing B777-200ER plane engine during ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:01:00 GMT

(Reuters) - An engineer works on a Boeing B777-200ER plane engine during a media tour at Kenya Airways maintenance hangar in Nairobi, October 2, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Kenya Airways engineers work on a Boeing B777-200ER engine during ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:55:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Kenya Airways engineers work on a Boeing B777-200ER engine during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi October 2, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Kenya Airways engineers work under a Boeing B777-200ER engine ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:45:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Kenya Airways engineers work under a Boeing B777-200ER engine during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi October 2, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Kenya Airways engineers walk under a Boeing B777-200ER engine ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Kenya Airways engineers walk under a Boeing B777-200ER engine during a media tour at their maintenance hangar in Nairobi October 2, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Kenyan artists perform at a concert in 2007, ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - Kenyan artists perform at a concert in 2007, aimed at creating awareness on the threat to African economies by EU backed Economic Partnership Agreements EPA's. Leaders of the world's poorest nations were Thursday hammering out ways to tackle food and energy crises as the West was warned not to use the current financial crisis to default on aid pledges. Photo:Tony Karumba/AFP

REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING Trucks transporting oil, petrol ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:30:00 GMT

(Reuters) - REFILE - CORRECTING SPELLING Trucks transporting oil, petrol and gas wait to reload outside a depot in the outskirts of Nairobi September 30, 2008. Kenya has taken a twin buffeting this year from surging global fuel and food prices, and post-election violence that paralysed key sectors in January and February. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Tracks transporting oil, petrol and gas wait to reload outside ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Tracks transporting oil, petrol and gas wait to reload outside a depot in the outskirts of Nairobi September 30, 2008. Kenya has taken a twin buffeting this year from surging global fuel and food prices, and post-election violence that paralysed key sectors in January and February. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

Maasai women form a line to be blessed by the elders during ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:28:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai women form a line to be blessed by the elders during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai elders offer roasted meat to the women during Emayian ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:27:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai elders offer roasted meat to the women during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai women rest during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:26:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai women rest during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai elders hold a goat skin before cutting it for use during ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:24:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai elders hold a goat skin before cutting it for use during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai elder blesses the womb of a woman during Emayian o ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:11:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai elder blesses the womb of a woman during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai women sing after being blessed during Emayian o nkituaak ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:09:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai women sing after being blessed during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai elder sits and drink in front of women as they sing ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:20:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai elder sits and drink in front of women as they sing traditional songs during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai women sing traditional songs during Emayian o nkituaak ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:18:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai women sing traditional songs during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai elder gives instructions to women as they sing traditional ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:18:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai elder gives instructions to women as they sing traditional songs during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai woman's face is painted with ochre during Emayian o ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:10:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai woman's face is painted with ochre during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai woman carries her baby as she sings traditional songs ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:43:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai woman carries her baby as she sings traditional songs during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

Maasai women walk outside an enclosure during Emayian o nkituaak ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:08:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Maasai women walk outside an enclosure during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A Maasai woman gets her face painted with ochre during Emayian ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:50:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A Maasai woman gets her face painted with ochre during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony in Kisokon village, southwest Nairobi September 28, 2008. Loita Maasai traditionally blessed all women from the village to enable them have children in order to ensure continuity of the community. Picture taken September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Radu Sigheti (KENYA)

A woman takes pictures of a 1959 BMW R-27 motorcycle with her ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:22:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A woman takes pictures of a 1959 BMW R-27 motorcycle with her mobile phone during the 2008 Schweppes Africa Concours d' Elegance vintage cars and motorcycles show in Kenya's capital Nairobi September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)

A 1925 DMK motorcycle is seen during the 2008 Schweppes Africa ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:17:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A 1925 DMK motorcycle is seen during the 2008 Schweppes Africa Concours d' Elegance vintage cars and motorcycles show in Kenya's capital Nairobi September 28, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna (KENYA)