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Kenyan police arrest man with 100,000 bullets

Albert — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:24:36 +0000

A senior Kenyan security official says police have arrested a suspected gun smuggler with more than 100,000 bullets and an assortment of weapons and equipment.

The official says police are also investigating whether Kenyan government security officials were involved in supplying the bullets and weapons. The official was speaking Tuesday just ahead of a news conference. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the information hadn’t yet been made public.

Lawyer Cliff Ombeta says the suspect is Munir Ahmed, a Kenyan. Ombeta says Ahmed is his client and is innocent.

He says Ahmed owns only four hunting rifles and that police should explain where they got 100,000 bullets, bulletproof vests and pistols.

Struggling to make it in Kenya

Albert — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 07:17:36 +0000

This sprawling industrial park south of Nairobi was supposed to be a centerpiece of a Clinton-era U.S.-Africa trade program designed to make “Made in Kenya” almost as familiar as clothing labels from China and...

A time bomb for world wheat crop

Albert — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:48:18 +0000

The spores arrived from Kenya on dried, infected leaves ensconced in layers of envelopes.

Working inside a bio-secure greenhouse outfitted with motion detectors and surveillance cameras, government scientists at the Cereal Disease Laboratory in St. Paul, Minn., suspended the fungal spores in a light mineral oil and sprayed them onto thousands of healthy wheat plants. After two weeks, the stalks were covered with deadly reddish blisters characteristic of the scourge known as Ug99.

Mauritania soldiers bodies found

Albert — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:28:28 +0000

Mauritania’s army says it has found the bodies of 12 soldiers who were abducted earlier this week in an ambush by a suspected al-Qaeda branch.

A frustrated Zimbabwe awaits official announcement of Mugabes demise, or a runoff

Albert — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:29:36 +0000

As this country waited in frustration for a fourth day without official results of its presidential election, the main opposition party of Morgan Tsvangirai announced its own final tally Wednesday, proclaiming victory with 50.3 percent of the vote - just enough to avoid a runoff against President Robert Mugabe.

Zimbabwe is now waiting to see whether the official count matches the opposition’s, knowing it would not require a very heavy thumb on the scale to force another round of voting three weeks from now.

There were signs that Mugabe had endorsed a second vote, which, while not as humiliating as an outright defeat, would still be a bitter pill for a man who has held power for 28 years and considers himself the father of the country.