Nairobi

The narrowness of the way into the slum made it hard for the fire brigade to douse the flames, not that Nairobi has much of a fire brigade.

At the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Nairobi last November, the Stern report was the topic of the moment.

He lived in a slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, and was nursed by his mother.

He text ed this appeal from his own mobile phone to the mobiles of two United Nations officials, in London and Nairobi.

Whelchel traveled from his office in Connecticut to Nairobi to help GBM take what he calls "a business approach to conservation. "

The move was blasted by the international community, prompting U. N. Somalia envoy Augustine Mahiga to call for the Nairobi talks.

Not so: Nairobi is at 1680m above sea level, yet until the mid-1950s, epidemic malaria was a serious problem at altitudes up to 2450m.

Shovels in hand, Obama, his wife and his daughters planted an African olive tree in Freedom Park in Nairobi.

The recent discovery in Nairobi of two and a half tonnes of gold, worth around $100m, led to an investigation by Kenya's revenue authority.

Still Want to Go? It is possible to obtain a tourist visa through the Somali embassies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and Nairobi, Kenya.

Nairobi to Shenzhen is dedicated to her, as well as to his younger brother David, who died in a motorcycle accident.

"I'm not aware of this. I don't know anything about it, " he said in an interview in Nairobi.

The ivory may have been among the large shipment just uncovered at the main airport of Nairobi, Kenya's capital.

I grew up in Nairobi, Kenya, and I have been drawing cartoons ever since I can remember.

The second explosion in less than 24 hours was also in the centre of Nairobi, and the police say it was a grenade attack.

Athor told reporters in Nairobi Sunday that the key demands of his South Sudanese Democratic Movement have not been met.

Speaking by telephone from Nairobi, Geddo tells VOA the famine, as terrible as it is, appears to be working in favor of the insurgents.

More frightening is the prospect of terrorist cells being set up in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, and elsewhere in the region.

At least 120 Kenyans have been killed in a fire at a fuel pipeline in a Nairobi slum.

Six people died in Nairobi, the capital, after grenades were thrown into a meeting organised by the No campaign.

A blast has gone off at a bus stop in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, killing at least one person, police say.

Jane Wangui owns a hair salon in downtown Nairobi, one of a handful of shops in the area open for business on Friday.

M-PESA keeps tabs on all the money and the float is held in a single account at the Commercial Bank of Africa in Nairobi.

In its bid to defer the Kenyan trial, leaders in Nairobi are arguing for a local mechanism to deal with the violence.

Another poster, noting Nairobi's cloudy skies Monday, said: "No wonder the sun is not shining today. "

flyovers should ease the jams in central Nairobi in a year or so.

MARINA MILLER: "We started out in Nairobi. We got a chance to meet with local musicians and listen to them play. "

Mungiki gangs had terrorized people going in and out of Nairobi, the capital, for years.

The next day, Obama arrived at the airport in Nairobi, Kenya.

Bol Agoot is a 25-year old economics student at Nairobi University and a native of Southern Kordofan, one of the disputed areas.

The largest concentration of camps is in the Rift Valley and around the capital, Nairobi .

he jokes, picking out a fleecy top to counter Nairobi's morning chill for a mere 200 shillings at the Gikomba street market.

France Lamy, program director for Google. org, explained the system at a "mapping Sudan" conference in Nairobi.

Maureen Reagan headed the U. S. delegation to the 1985 World Conference on the United Nations Decade for Women in Nairobi, Kenya .

I feel far more in tune with what is going on when I am in the bush than when I am in London or Nairobi.

Yet the wire services in form and content do not recognise Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos or Cairo as clients.

An assortment of illicit firearms recovered by the police are destroyed at the Uhuru Gardens in Nairobi, Kenya.

The shipment was bound for Nigeria, purportedly from two embassies in Nairobi that do not exist.

Thousands of miles away in Kenya, his half-brother will be facing a rather different audience in a Nairobi courtroom.

It is reported that the second attack occurred in the center of a bus station in Nairobi, was at its peak period.

The incident follows the death of at least 25 people in Nairobi on Wednesday when a supermarket caught fire there.

At a ceremony in Nairobi , the two men put their signatures to a power-sharing deal brokered by ex-UN head Kofi Annan.

Shortly after the session ended, Mr. Ban announced he would fly to Nairobi Friday to join efforts to calm the ethnic and political tensions.

By the time Barack visited Kenya in 2006 as a senator, George was living in Huruma, a tough Nairobi slum, and training to become a mechanic.

Kenyan police say one person was killed and twenty-six injured in an explosion at a bus depot in central Nairobi.

They were handed over to local officials in the Somali town of Adado, before being flown to the capital Mogadishu and on to Nairobi.

THE Korogocho slum is one of the poorest in Nairobi, Kenya's teeming capital.

She flew to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya in 1991, armed only with a catalog of products and a map.

ICANN, the body that governs the assignment of domain names is currently in Nairobi for a 6 day annual meeting - ICANN no. 37.

The police raided a Nairobi suburb populated largely by Somalis and arrested scores of them for allegedly being in Kenya illegally.

Mexico City topped the list with Shenzhen, Beijing, Nairobi and Johannesburg rounding out the top five.

By contrast, employees must toil for over two hours to earn enough for a burger fix in Mexico City, Jakarta and Nairobi.

Naivasha to Nairobi, Kenya's road is one of the busiest highways .

His blog is not more than a month old, something he started after attending a workshop on blogging and social networks in Nairobi.

Four decades ago, the Nairobi slum of Kibera, barely two kilometres (a mile) from the leafy charm of the city centre, hardly existed.

Bodies lay in smouldering piles in the Sinai slum, not far from Nairobi's city centre after a petrol pipeline exploded.

One promising avenue is research currently under way at the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) in Nairobi.

Aides then pulled Obama away and guided him into the SUV for the trip back to the Kisumu airport and then Nairobi.

Other UN agencies, including many represented here at our meetings in Nairobi, are also active on this front.

On his earlier visits, Obama had gotten on a train in Nairobi and ridden it through the night and the morning to Kisumu.

Insecurity continues to hamper food distribution and evacuation of internally displaced people from the affected regions in Nairobi.

He was indicted in connection with the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.

To avoid high rents in his hometown Nairobi, he located his plant in a far-off village.

The group's fortunes were even harder hit by the capture in 1999 of its leader, Abdullah Ocalan, by Turkish secret agents in Nairobi.

Therefore, after leaving school, I saved up the fare and went to Nairobi, Kenya.

The next round in December may be expanded to include Nairobi and other high-risk areas.

Based in Nairobi Kenya, our company is a leader in water engineering projects like boreholes, dams, water pans, pipelines, and irrigation.

The Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) says the continent must learn to adapt to shorter growing seasons.

Thank you for your work at this important Forum. Enjoy Nairobi.

In a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya, a group of international refugees has been singing songs that they hope will wake up their homeland.

In 1982 he got drunk at a bar in Nairobi and drove into a tree, killing himself.

Nairobi and Mumbai certainly have lots in common. Luckily , other places have fared better. The outlook is not all bleak.

Issuing a Nairobi Declaration after meeting in the Kenyan capital, they resolved to integrate such plans into city development strategies.

The Global Chemicals Outlook report will be discussed next week in Nairobi at the International Conference on Chemicals Management.

The explosion happened beside a bus which was about to set off for an overnight journey from Nairobi to the Ugandan capital Kampala.

This week police raided a Nairobi slum and shot dead at least 22 suspects.

Russian diplomats presented their documents of acceptance to the UN's environment agency in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Thursday.

a round-trip from New York to Nairobi, one popular ecotourism destination, creates nearly nine tons of carbon dioxide per person.

Even in the so called 'wildlife capital' of the world, Nairobi National Park, the situation is no better.

Nairobi, global conference, environmental.

Dr. John Weru of Nairobi, Kenya, a physician at a hospice, in an interview with Human Rights Watch in June 2007.

ZHU LIANGXIU gulps down Kenyan lager in a bar in Nairobi and recites a Chinese aphorism: "One cannot step into the same river twice. "

Lake Bogoria region in the middle of the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Nairobi, away from Ken about 300 km.

Based in Nairobi, Kenya, it provides capacity building and advisory services for surveying, mapping, remote sensing and GIS.

Efforts to move the UN's Somalia office to Mogadishu from Nairobi have come to nothing.

It was until 1998 when he met a Chinese from Beijing in Nairobi that he started picking up Chinese again.

Solid rubbish is also bad for you when you literally live on top of it, as do the people of Korogocho, a Nairobi slum.

But there are not enough public schools for all the children who live in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

NPR made repeated calls and sent texts to the embassy in Nairobi to discuss China's role in Kenya. Embassy officials never responded.

That helps Ethiopian and Kenya Airways, since their hubs (Addis Ababa and Nairobi) make convenient stopping-points en route to Asia.

Three Chinese companies are building a massive superhighway in Kenya linking Nairobi with the city of Thika.

Business in down-town Nairobi, the capital, and in provincial towns across the country, has slumped.

The couple, from Tunbridge Wells, southeast of London, landed at Heathrow Airport on a flight from Nairobi.

The project's first plantings occurred in 2008 in the upper region of Mount Kenya and in an area close to Nairobi.

She notes these supplies could be flown to Nairobi in a matter of hours.

Kenyan officials benefit from that trade and from turning a blind eye to the import of Somali cattle for slaughter in Nairobi.

If necessary, Mr Odinga will seek to make his opposition stronghold of western Kenya ungovernable from Nairobi.

Tourists interact with elephants at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust headquarters and elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.

But there are not enough public schools for all the children who lived in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

He sent his secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, on a one-day visit to Nairobi to push the two sides closer.

Between Uganda's Entebbe airport and Nairobi, by contrast, competition is fiercer and prices reasonable.

It may well have sleeper cells in Nairobi, in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, and even as far afield as South Africa's Johannesburg.

"Never walk at night in the centre of Nairobi, even for a short distance, " says the UN's local website.

He will also pay $3, 000 a year to care for Lighting Bolt, who will be raised at an animal orphanage in Nairobi.

Some of the cases from Central Province were diagnosed in Nairobi.

This article is adapted from a paper presented at a Kenya National Academy of Sciences workshop in Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2007.

Only one person had the answer: Daphne Sheldrick, who runs an elephant orphanage in Nairobi National Park.

The main conference centre in Nairobi resembles Jomo Kenyatta's cock, he tells us; Jomo is slang for cock in Mr Wainaina's boarding school.

He increased his speed, and soon we had passed through the farming area and entered the outskirts of Nairobi.

I traveled to Eritrea last fall with my wife, Courtenay, from Nairobi, Kenya, where I am based as The Times's bureau chief for East Africa.

Turkish Airlines now has regular flights to Addis Ababa, Dakar, Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi.

Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, made the announcement Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya.

I need a brochure for a water-engineering firm based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Her sausage stalls with affordable products are found all over Nairobi and other major towns (2000).

But in practice, Google has left out wide swaths of African cities -- the Kibera slums of Nairobi, most notably.

But there are not enough public schools for all of the children who lived in the crowded slums of Nairobi.

What is confusing about the current operation, however, are the mixed signals coming from both Nairobi and Mogadishu.

Collignon, B. Urban Water Supply Innovations Coted'lvoire: How Cross-Subsidies Help the Poor. Nairobi: Water & Sanitation Program. 2002.

A man uses a photographic film strip to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.

Kalumbu keeps a photo of a pride of lions above his desk in Nairobi.

On Monday, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Nairobi to watch Mr. Kibaki get sworn-in.

Somalia's commercial capital as well as its diplomatic nexus is Nairobi.

The classified section of the Nairobi Star carries a page of erotic massage offers.

The Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute in Nairobi, Kenya will manage the project.

On Wednesday, Secretary Clinton is to address a Nairobi forum that seeks to boost U. S. trade with about 40 African states.

In December the parliament in Nairobi called for withdrawal from the Rome statute which governs the ICC.

Terrorism is not a problem only for rich countries. Ask the people of Bali, or Bombay, or Nairobi, or Casablanca.

People use photographic film strips to observe an annular eclipse near the Kibera slums in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2010.

Kenya A country of east-central Africa bordering on the Indian Ocean. Nairobi is the capital and the largest city.

U. N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leaves Friday for Nairobi to join efforts to calm Kenya's ethnic tensions.

In any event, the Shabab says it "will destroy the tall glass buildings in Nairobi" unless Kenya pulls its troops back from the border.

His eyesight damaged in the incident, he flew for treatment to Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya, where he vowed to fight on.

VOA's Paula Wolfson reports he is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Nairobi during his upcoming trip to Africa.

Though it now costs around $500 in Africa, Erik Hersman, a tech expert in Nairobi, expects its price to fall by half in the coming year.

From the countries of the war-ravaged Great Lakes region, such as Congo and Rwanda, Nairobi appears an oasis of calm.

Another matatu driver, Francis, is waiting for customers in downtown Nairobi.

Homeless for years, now living in a Nairobi slum, George is working to become a car mechanic.

Amid this messy ethnic mayhem, peace talks in Nairobi look unlikely to restore calm any time soon.

The infrastructure of the capital, Nairobi, is tottering, its traffic more jammed than ever.

Elsewhere in Nairobi, chang'aa is spiked with embalming fluid from mortuaries.

LYNCHING took place recently outside an ironmonger's shop in Nairobi, Kenya's capital.

says James Shikwati, director of the Nairobi-based Inter Region Economic Network, a think tank.

Clinton traveled to Africa on August 4 to attend the Eighth African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.

It's also expected to ease some of Nairobi's crippling traffic.

One of the show's fans is Jacquie Mwai, a public relations consultant from Nairobi.

At a recent meeting in Nairobi, all 23 organisations in the BirdLife Africa Partnership signed a petition to stop the development.

Marshall and Mboya traveled to Kiambu, outside of Nairobi, to meet with nationalist leaders.

Head north from Nairobi toward Mount Kenya and almost invariably you'll hit weather.

A child cried in a AIDS hospital in Nairobi, capital of Kenya.

Nairobi city leaders are supporting plans to build a major highway to ease traffic congestion.

Proportionately, more people make mobile-phone calls in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, than they do in New York.

Riots erupted in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, after the government said it would deport a Jamaican Muslim accused of extremism.

Despite specialized care in Nairobi and aggressive resuscitation attempts, he died on 15 January.

Three Chinese companies are building a 31-mile road from the Kenyan capital of Nairobi to the city of Thika.

Child mortality in the slums of Nairobi is 2. 5 times higher than in other parts of the city.

Mathare, one of Nairobi's largest sprawling slums, has over 600, 000 inhabitants.

0900hrs: You will then be taken on a Nairobi city tour, starting with the Nairobi Safari Walk and animal orphanage.

The network is opening studios in Washington and Nairobi, Kenya, each employing as many as 200 staffers.

Here, rescuers work to help survivors after the bombing in Nairobi on Aug.

Near Nairobi, Kenya's capital, you can experience rare on-foot safari walks.

Kenya, which as an ICC signatory is obliged to help arrest all court indictees, welcomed Sudan's leader to Nairobi, its capital, last year.

Here a girl washes her muddied sandals along a dirty water canal in the Nairobi slum of Kibera on March 21.

High costs and jammed roads make Nairobi an expensive place to build a giant call centre.

Maathai was also the first woman professor the University of Nairobi, where she taught veterinary medicine.

Jeffrey Gettleman reported from Nairobi, and Josh Kron from Kampala, Uganda.

The ICRC and Chinese embassy in Nairobi declined to comment.

"[From] my point of view, the coordination is very good at Nairobi level, but here it is lacking, " said Mohammed.

Zanzibar and Nairobi are now four weeks old and eating worms.

Flying from Addis to Nairobi is nearly as costly as flying to Europe.

Acrobats practise during a training session at the Godown Arts Centre in Kenya's capital Nairobi August 28, 2006.

Peter Ngau, who teaches urban planning at the University of Nairobi, says East Africa has never seen anything like it.

The secretary of state's plane landed in Nairobi Tuesday.

He went straight to Lagos, without stopping in Nairobi.

Illegal weapons are set aflame in Nairobi, Kenya.

Scientists at the University of Oxford and the University of Nairobi developed it after research on sex workers in Nairobi.

The initiative was formally launched in Nairobi, Kenya last week (9 March).

Nairobi's porn business is flourishing.

Nairobi has iffy security and few comforts.

Nahashon Gitau farms almost three hectares about a ninety-minute drive from Nairobi.

Gathara studied physics and math at Moi University in Nairobi, Kenya.

The use of SUVs by UN staff in Nairobi has been rankling some bloggers for some time now.

A total of 10 rhinos are targeted for relocation from this sanctuary on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

The WFP's operation there is run from Nairobi, capital of neighbouring Kenya.

Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo is the author of the novel "Nairobi to Shenzhen. "

The fear now is that violence could erupt on a large scale in Luo strongholds in Nairobi and across western Kenya.

Lead author Oluyede Ajayi is senior scientist at the World Agroforestry Center in Nairobi, Kenya.

An opposition supporter runs with empty canisters to bring water to extinguish a burning house in Nairobi's Kibera slum January 29, 2008.

Youths celebrate New Year's Day with fire crackers in Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya January 1, 2010.

In Nairobi it's 60% of the city's population.

Experts recently met in Nairobi to discuss what to do about food shortages caused by drought.

Nairobi's slums exploded in rage.

Above, a supporter of Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki waves from a tree during a rally in downtown Nairobi on Dec.

Piles of trash are burning outside the Mamakamau Shop in Uthiru, a suburb of Nairobi, Kenya.

People in Nairobi, the capital of neighbouring Kenya, notice that a lot of visiting South Sudanese bigwigs are patently flush with cash.

The Chinese embassy in Nairobi said Kenya had requested China's help.

Dr Lee with Johnson Mwakazi, a youth activist he met in Nairobi, Kenya in March 2006.

Ask the people of Bali, or Bombay, Nairobi, or Casablanca.

My mom left Nairobi, Kenya.

S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Tanzania, killing nearly 300 people in the process.

Once the course was complete, he met two American women in Nairobi who told him he should apply for a scholarship to study in the US.

People are edgy about driving at night between Nairobi and suburbs such as Karen and Langata, 20 minutes to the west.

Flights from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Mombasa will be reduced by 1, 200 seats, according to Kenya Airways.

I am now at Dubai airport for the transit to Nairobi.

Group therapy: Nchan, Chaimu and Ndii at an elephant nursery in Nairobi, Kenya.

Again I was sitting in actually the airport in Nairobi going to visit my friend Pierre, who's worked in Tanzania.

The two parties will set up the Chinese Windows (reading room) in UN Headquarter (Nairobi) and they will do the maintenance well.

JiLi horse Zagreb in the rift valley he of about 160 km (100 miles), in Nairobi, of about 225 km (140 miles).

However, those in poorer cities such as Sofia (69 minutes), Nairobi (91 minutes) and Jakarta (86 minutes) must work much longer.

Nairobi, Kenya; 24-27 November 1997.

Nairobi, Kenya; 21-24 November 1995.

There are few places where this is more clear than in Nairobi's slums.

In Nairobi, a whopping 70% of commuters take more public transit this year than last year.

kenya airways and transaero airlines are new passenger carriers serving hong kong , while nairobi is a new destination.

Nairobi, Kenya: A boy juggles the ball during football practice at a community field in the Mathare slum

After the three weeks In Nairobi, she was moved to Harborview Hospital, a trauma centre In Seattle on the West Coast of the United States

Beijing, Venice, Nairobi, wishing you were here with me

Summit of the Nairobi II Committee on the Crisis in the Great Lakes Region;

Strengthening WHO support to countries for better health outcomes in the African Region - The Nairobi Report

A man waves an American flag while watching the Inauguration at a bar in Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women;

Performed by Confucius Institute at Nairobi University, Kenya

Nairobi Agreement on Customs Cooperation ;

Nairobi Declaration on Civil Aviation Security;

amman joins nairobi , beijing , and jerusalem

Nairobi Declaration Adopted at the First China-Africa People's Forum

Countries Will Share Practices at Nairobi Meeting

Nairobi Conference on Safe Motherhood;

Lisbon Madrid Manila Mumbai Munich Nairobi Rio de Janeiro

Children in Nairobi dance around a fire to celebrate Barack Obama

On the main road to Mombasa, leaving Nairobi:

Nairobi Declaration on the Role and Mandate of UNEP;

United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON)

Safer Nairobi Convention Kicks off

Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World;

Kisokon village, Nairobi: Maasai women rest during Emayian o nkituaak (blessing of women), a rare fertility ceremony

Tabitha, a 44-year-old woman from a slum outside Nairobi

Confucius Institute at the University of Nairobi Kenya

Nairobi Conference on Rational Use of Drugs;

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