LES HABITANTS DU SAMBURU DISTRICT....PHOTOS EN SLIDE SHOW


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Quelques photos du Samburu District, en slide show...


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math is like sex

add the bed
subtract the clothes
divide the legs
and pray to god you don't multiply

Written by trudy gordon


http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/math-is-like-sex/

Surprise surge in Kenya’s population as fertility rises


An increased birth rate among Kenyan women and low levels of contraceptive use are the main causes of the robust population growth in recent years, experts have said.

According to Government demographers, up to 25 per cent of men and women would like to use contraceptives but have no access. The level of contraceptive use remains at 39 per cent, where it was 10 years ago.

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VOIR --- CHECK :


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President Obama Can't Save Kenya


Never in history have more people from all over the world watched a presidential race as they did this one. Much of the sensation was because it was the first time it was likely that an African American would be elected president of a country whose foreign policy affects every country in the world. But a whole lot of it was because Obama has direct roots in the African continent, specifically Kenya. There, millions will be waiting for President Obama to offer a timeline for fixing the Kenyan economy.

What Kenyans expect of Obama is based on the mere fact that his father was from Kenya, which, according to our traditions, makes the president-elect a Kenyan. Because Kenyans abroad are expected to help their less fortunate relatives, many expect President Obama to help them. They have mistaken his quest to understand his roots and the relationship he has kept with his father's family to mean that he has accepted that responsibility.

This belief that President Obama will arrive from America – as if from heaven – to end our miseries also stems from the way we Kenyans have been trained to view our leaders.

Traditionally, a president was seen as an omnipotent figure – one whose word is law.

Past Kenyan presidents have also tended to favor their tribesmen and cronies. When Jomo Kenyatta became the independent country's first president in 1963, he filled government jobs with people from his tribe. Kenyatta also poured more development funds into the infrastructure of his home area near Mount Kenya than any other region in the country.

When Daniel arap Moi took over after Kenyatta's death 16 years later, he channeled the funds to the part of the Rift Valley he comes from. Moi is said to have built roads in places where people did not own cars. Kenyans used to joke that, while the busiest highways were eroding away, the ones to Moi's hometown were so deserted that people dried grain on them.

This promise of wealth and privilege is why Kenyans went on a rampage, killing each other earlier this year when allegations of their presidential election surfaced.

Obama has said several times that he has no obligation to help Kenya. During his 2006 visit to Kenya, a reporter asked him what he could do for Kenya.

“I’m the senator from Illinois, not the senator from Kogelo (his father’s home), so I have got a different sent of responsibilities,” he replied. “They (Kenyans) have got some terrific elected officials here and they are accountable to their constituents.”

Of course, being a politician himself, Obama was being careful not to offend local politicians, so let me say this: Kenyan elected officials aren’t of a breed any reasonable person would consider “terrific.” In fact, it’s their lack of accountability that has turned the country from the land of paradisiacal plenty it was during my childhood to the cesspool of poverty it is today. It is the politicians’ failure that has left poor Kenyans to look to foreigners like Obama for hope.

I have been told that I have ignored the fact that not all Kenyans expect Obama to help them. This I acknowledge. But such comments often come from people in the Diaspora and Kenya’s modest middle class, many of whom have no concept of how dire the situation outside that circle is. They ignore the fact that a majority of their countrymen do not have access to information and therefore do not know that, unlike their head of state, President Obama has neither the obligation nor the authority to give Kenya a blank check.

Rather than attack those who caution against these unrealistic expectations of Obama, Kenyans who understand the workings of the American government should work to help their less fortunate kinsmen learn that only Kenyans can help Kenya get out of poverty.

Kenyans should realize that as difficult as Obama’s journey to the White House was, it pales in comparison to what lies ahead of him. Considering the mess that he will inherit in January, it would be unrealistic for even those who elected him to expect him to return America to a full pre-Bush administration recovery. It would be even more insane for anyone outside America to expect anything.


SOURCE :

http://news.ncmonline.com/news/view_article.html?article_id=c7e1d9da39cb0f16f1460d801785a7fe


Continue to see the reality of our daily life in Kenya...force ourselves to improve it...

...quel que soit l'intérêt du nouveau président américain pour l'Afrique, beaucoup doutent que le continent devienne une priorité pour Washington. Le chef de l'Etat sénégalais Abdoulaye Wade le rappelait d'ailleurs ce mercredi : « Barack Obama a été élu par les Américains, pour redresser l'Amérique ».

Guns, goats and drought: Pastoral life in Northern Kenya


The short rains have just come, and shoots of grass are springing up around the cluster of domed huts being warmed by the early morning sun.

At first glance, the scene seems to embody the pastoral idyll, but it belies serious problems in Kenya's arid north.

Population pressures, exacerbated by climate change, have led to constant armed clashes between tribes fighting for dwindling water sources and pasture.

The pattern is repeated elsewhere. Over the last five years there have been countless battles between northern Kenya's many tribes, with sometimes dozens of people being killed by automatic weapon fire.

Security forces policing the thousands of square kilometres of remote scrubland, rocky plains and swathes of desert are struggling to cope.

Health services are also dire. People often die from diarrhoea after drinking whatever water they can find and the ever-longer dry seasons are leading to a high animal mortality rate.

The upshot is that communities are struggling to survive. Aid agencies say that up to 1 million people are dependent on food aid in northern Kenya.

In an attempt to address the problem, ECHO has committed 30 million euros over 18 months to help communities prepare for drought by funding the rehabilitation of shallow wells, the setting up of rainwater catchments and animal health improvement.

Fledgling peace agreements also offer hope for the future.


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http://www.topnews.in/guns-goats-and-drought-pastoral-life-northern-kenya-283950