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1966 Ford Mustang

VANCOUVER — The license plate frame on Fred and Carol Turner’s 1966 Mustang reads “Memories Are Made Of This.” Those memories include a three-continent, around-the-world trip made five years after Fred...

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How to Get Laid by a White Woman

Thought being a beach boy only happens when you are in a band? In Mombasa this title gets you laid and paid. ......

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The race to become East Africa's biggest port

Kenya and Tanzania have long competed to have the most important port in East Africa and their rivalry is about to become more intense as they compete for the region's business, writes Neil Ford. The...

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AU Launches Kenya Internet Exchange Point of Presence in Mombasa:...

The African Union Commission , through the Infrastructure and Energy Department, in collaboration with the Ministry of Information, Communications & Technology of Kenya launched the Kenya Internet...

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Three women killed while staging attack on Mombasa police station

Three women were killed while staging a knife and firebomb attack on the main police station in the Kenyan city of Mombasa on Sunday in what officers said was “an apparent terror attack.” Mombasa...

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Kenya Police Kill 3 Women in Attack on Police Station in Mombasa

Three women have been killed after they attacked a police station in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa on Sunday, a police official said. ......

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ISIS behind Kenya's Mombasa attack by robed women: website

ISIS supporters carried out an attack on Kenya's port city of Mombasa in which three robed women tricked their way into a police station, stabbed an officer and set fire to the building, the group's...

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News24.com | Islamic State behind Mombasa attack by robed women: website

Islamic State supporters carried out an attack on Kenya's port city of Mombasa in which three robed women tricked their way into a police station, stabbed an officer and set fire to the building, the...

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Islamic State behind Kenya's Mombasa attack by robed women: website

Islamic State supporters carried out an attack on Kenya's port city of Mombasa in which three robed women tricked their way into a police station, stabbed an officer and set fire to the building, the...

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'No drugs' in body of British aristocrat who died in Kenyan police custody

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British Secretary of State for International Development visits Kenya

By United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office Britain's Secretary of State for International Development, The Rt Hon Justine Greening MP, has finished a two day visit to Kenya to discuss two key...

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Chris Brown Denies Smashing Fan’s Phone While In Mombasa: ‘Y’all Making This...

Chris Brown is speaking out against claims suggesting that he smashed a fan’s cell phone after she attempted to take a selfie with him upon his arrival in Mombasa, Kenya on Saturday. Brown, who is...

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Kenyan President Urges Healthcare Workers to End Strike

President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged medical workers to end their strike and return to work after 20 people have died three days into the strike from a lack of treatment, according to Al Jazeera. All...

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Minnesota Legislature Swears First Somali-American Lawmaker In U.S.

Ilhan Omar took the oath as the nation's first Somali-American lawmaker this week, just days after an 8,500-mile journey that retraced her path from her war-torn homeland to Kenya to the Minnesota...

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Kenyan MP urges women to ban sex for men without voting cards

Elections are always a tough time for ministers to get their votes and giving people incentives is the only way to make them vote. In Kenya however it...

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Meet Ilhan Omar, the First Somali-American US Legislator

On Nov. 8, Ilhan Omar made history when she was elected the first Somali-American lawmaker in the U.S. “My election win offers a counter-narrative to the bigotry in the world,” Minnesota State...

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Lands Ministry Reveals Plan to Tame Chaotic Urbanisation and Land Use

A National Spatial Structure (NSS) expected to guide physical planning in the country has been unveiled. The structure which is contained in the National Spatial Plan (NSP) for the 2015-2045 period was...

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Malik Obama Tweets Half-Brother Barack’s Alleged ‘Kenyan Birth Certificate’

After Donald Trump, one of the most prominent promoters of the so-called birther conspiracy theory, admitted publicly last September that he believed...

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I Got a D, and I’m Proud of It, Says Mombasa Governor Joho

Who thought that when he took to the proverbial pulpit on Tuesday to defend his Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education results, Mombasa Governor Ali Hassan Joho would end up agreeing with...

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27 people killed in bus-trailer truck collision in Kenya

NAIROBI: Kenyan police say 27 people have been killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a trailer truck. Police say the accident took place along the major road linking two of Kenya's biggest...

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26 Dead, Several Hurt in Kibwezi After Bus, Tanker Crash

AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa Twenty six people have died while several have been injured after bus collided with a tanker at Kambu along the Nairobi-Mombasa highway, Kibwezi OCPD...

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Kenya Standard Gauge Railway Launch Set for May 31

AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa President Uhuru Kenyatta is set to launch the Mombasa-Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line on May 31 in a ceremony to be attended by senior...

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Standard Guage Railway Train to Ferry 1,200 Per Trip From May 31

AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa A passenger train scheduled to operate on the standard gauge railway has the capacity to ferry 1,200 passengers per trip, the Kenya Railways has said....

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Maritime Silk Road opens new chapter of China-Kenya relations: diplomat

NAIROBI, June 8 (Xinhua) -- The Maritime Silk Road has opened a new chapter of China-Kenya cooperation, a Chinese diplomat has said. Guo Ce, Economic and Commercial Counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in...

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Uganda Targets South Sudan, DR Congo With Logistics Hub

AfricaMetro.Com The Best News website in Africa Uganda is considered a cheaper cargo route for goods bound to South Sudan, than the direct route to from Mombasa to Juba. This was revealed by Mr Richard...

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Gunmen kill two in attack on Kenya university students: Police

MOMBASA: Two staff members were killed and several students were wounded in Kenya when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying students to the Technical University of Mombasa’s campus in coastal Kwale county...

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Police: Gunmen Kill Two in Attack on Kenya University Students

Two staff members were killed and several students were wounded in Kenya when gunmen fired on vehicles carrying students to the Technical University of Mombasa's campus in coastal Kwale county on...

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New Year's Day: More Fuzz Than Fizz

The first day of 2018 - a happily fuzzy sociable kind of a day for us - has concluded with a bright full moon in clear cloudless skies. Our littlest one and I read books by the light of the moon before...

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Chinese automaker Foton launches assembled trucks in Kenya

MOMBASA - Chinese automaker Foton on Wednesday officially launched its first assembled trucks in Kenya as it moves to cement its footprint in the local market. Sun Qingzhong, General Manager of Foton...

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Blackface in Chinese Lunar New Year Sketch Draws Criticism

A comedy sketch that featured a Chinese woman in blackface has drawn accusations of racism after being broadcast on Chinese state television's Lunar New Year variety show, although some people in...

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New fishing nets bring big catches and protect Kenya’s Indian Ocean shores

On a sunny afternoon at the Gasi beach landing site on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast, Juma Said Mkuu scoops a handful of sardines in his hand. “These were caught overnight,” he explains as a fisherman and...

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Kenya charges top officials with fraud over new $3 bln railway

NAIROBI, Aug 13 (Reuters) - A Kenyan court on Monday charged the head of the agency that...

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Europe’s top budget airlines are in talks for long haul flights to Kenya

Ryanair and easyJet are considered some of Europe’s least popular carriers. Yet Kenya’s government is now preparing to engage the low-cost commercial carriers in a bid to revitalize its tourism sector....

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Officials Now Using DNA To Nab Ivory Poachers

Researchers announced on Wednesday DNA fingerprint analysis was helping law enforcement and conservations to work together and identify three major cartels which run a large majority of the...

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Kenya must face up to rising claims of racial discrimination by Chinese...

The Chinese have established themselves as one of the biggest investors in Africa’s infrastructure projects. In Kenya, one of their flagship projects is the country’s new standard gauge railway, which...

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Kenya police arrest wife, father of hotel suicide bomber

Nairobi, Kenya - Kenyan police have arrested the wife and father of a man identified as the suicide bomber in an attack on Nairobi's Dusit hotel complex that left 21 dead, a police source said...

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Kenya is still on edge three weeks after a deadly terror attack

In the end, the explosive devices proved to be dummies. But for hours on Friday night and Saturday morning (Feb. 2), the central Kenyan town of Nanyuki remained on alert after police were informed of...

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The “debt-trap” narrative around Chinese loans shows Africa’s weak economic...

Hugging the shores of the Indian Ocean, Kenya’s Mombasa port is one of the biggest and busiest harbors in East Africa. Almost 1,800 vessels docked at the port in 2017 alone, with cargo worth over 30...

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First lady makes Valentine’s Day art with pediatric patients

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Melania Trump gave some love to her new city during a Valentine’s Day arts-and-crafts session with pediatric patients Thursday. At a station where the children wrote their...

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Decline in local farmers’ production could pose DC-area food security challenges

WASHINGTON — Maryland and Virginia farmers produce lots of food that end up on your dinner table, but not as much as they used to. Analysts reporting those findings believe it could be a growing...

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Slum gods: the Kenyans steering young radicals away from terrorism

Kenya programme funds dozens of mentors to work with 200 vulnerable people in bid to stamp out extremism It’s morning in Majengo, a poor neighbourhood of Mombasa. The palm trees and swimming pools of...

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Ghanaian startup mPharma is buying Kenya’s second-largest pharmacy chain

MPharma, the six-year old Ghanaian startup that manages prescription drug inventory for pharmacies and their suppliers, is buying Kenya’s second-largest pharmacy chain, Haltons, in an unprecedented...

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12 Nepali girls rescued from Kenya club

Kathmandu, April 14 Kenyan authorities yesterday rescued 12 Nepali women from a club in Nyali, a residential area within Mombasa City of Kenya. According to the...

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Kenyan court finds UK man guilty of possessing explosives

A Kenyan court has found British national Jermaine Grant guilty of possessing bomb-making materials. ......

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China’s plan to help build Kenya’s first coal plant has been stopped—for now

The scheme to build Kenya and east Africa’s first coal plant has been stopped. Kenyan judges at the National Environmental Tribunal on Tuesday (June 25) said officials had failed to conduct a thorough...

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UNESCO wants Kenya to review plans to build its first coal plant on a world ...

The controversy over a planned coal plant in Kenya’s idyllic coast is far from over. The United Nations cultural organization this week called on the Kenyan government to reassess the impact of the...

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Women rescued from Kenya dance bar return

Kathmandu, July 18 Twelve Nepali women rescued from a Kenya dance bar in April reached Kathmandu today. The women were rescued by Kenyan authorities in a 4:00am raid conducted at New Rangeela Bar and...

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Nairobi Journal: Kenyans Fear Chinese-Backed Railway Is Another ‘Lunatic...

The opening of a deluxe rail line between Nairobi and Mombasa, built by China, has some seeing parallels to a troubled colonial British train project. ......

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Kenya 'should declare national disaster' on cancer

Cancer patients and carers are calling on Kenya's government to declare the illness a "national...

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