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Kenya dropped 10 places in the United Nations Development Report, published this week. Bad news. Had an interesting conversation with a researcher about this. He said he never saw such a change in Kenya since the last president came into power. ‘Kenya suffers from a lot of bad publicity’, he said. ‘But watch this country. For next year, there is a forecast in economic growth of more than 5 percent. ‘I have done research to the underlying currents of the change in Kenya. This gives hope. Institutions like Worldbank, IMF only look at the elite of the country. But if you look at the agricultural sector, on grassroot level, you will find a major changes. The income from small diary farmers almost doubled over the last two and a half year, thanks to major efforts of the Kenyan government. You

On the 19th of August 2005, 21 years old June Wangu was shot dead in Jericho estate, her only known safety heaven (home). A group of armed gangsters approached June at about 7 pm in the company of her little brother, relieved her off her mobile phone, then shot her dead at close range. June was a social actress from Eastlands, Nairobi, innocent of the lethal accessory that spilt her blood. The incident surrounding Mrs. Wangu’s Death and the deaths of many more innocent Kenyans thus prompts the initiative to a National Campaign against Guns, Drugs and Crime. Source: Kikwetu Festival (info@kikwetu-festival.org) Kenyan poet Jacob Oketch Tambo wrote this poem inspired by the event above… DISTRESS CALL The wretched of the earth Without a right to life Death hangs on our shoulders Because the vile-hearted Have been let loose You

Earlier you could download a fragment of an interview I had with a teacher who found four 15 year old guys in Turbi. In this fragment i visited Marsabit Hospital and had a short talk with nurse Amina. We are standing next to a 2 year old girl. Her legs were speared in the massacre.