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The Ndungu Report: Land & Graft in Kenya

Seeded on Sun Feb 3, 2008 4:11 AM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

The following summary of the Report of the Ndungu Commission on Illegal and Irregular allocation of public land provides an insight into a critical, recent episode in the struggles over 'land' and 'graft' in Kenya.

politics, rights, democracy, crisis-management, kenya-elections, land-and-historical-injustices

Kenya Today equals images of Darfur

Seeded on Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:19 PM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

I take sides, since ODM, ODM K, PNU and whatever else party has failed Kenyans! The political elite be they ruling, coalition or opposition are all guilty of this crime.

politics, failed-state, pnu-odm-kenya-politics

Territorial Politics- What can be done?

Seeded on Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:42 AM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

Historically, Kenya vaguely became a country in 1885. During this time the political social, religious and economic systems of this new found country was vested on the individual ethnic community.

elections, politics, tribes, solutions, tribalism, odm, pnu, kenya-crisis-management, mwai

Kenya solutions: Reconstruction and Counting the losses

Seeded on Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:46 PM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

The first piece in the political chess has been more difficult to resolve, the hardline views from the protagonists has not helped in anyway.

politics, opposition, odm, kibaki, pnu, kenya-parliament, vote-of-no-confidence, odm-k

Jan 15 2008: The Nightmare Continues

Seeded on Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:46 PM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

On January 15 the year 2008, most Kenyans will wake up confused and will be facing a very uncertain future. What the events over the last two and a half weeks have taught us is to anticipate nothing and to hope for nothing.

politics, parliament, speaker, sno, koffi-annan, kenya-elections, odm-rallies

PNU ODM-K versus ODM, a new challenge

Seeded on Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:22 PM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

The flurry of diplomatic effort to resolve the political, human and economic crisis in Kenya seems to have hit a politics of trust brick wall.

elections, politics, au, kenya, koffi-annan, kaffour

Kenya solutions: Reconstruction and Counting the losses

Seeded on Tue Jan 8, 2008 1:39 AM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

This is the time to dissect Kenya as a nation, the underlying reasons to what happened , however bitter and painful this might be a mechanism should be set up to go to the hearts of those who were victims and the perpetrators of the heinous brutalizing crimes.

politics, kenya-political-solution, kenya-crisis-management, kenya-beyond-post-conflict, kenya-reasons-to-act

Land, Poverty and Politics: Three piece solution to Peace

Seeded on Sat Jan 5, 2008 6:47 AM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

Mwai Kibaki, a once Times declared Africa's future leader he is now fighting to disentangle himself from the same vocabulary platform with Idi Amin and Mugabe.

un, elections, peace, usa, politics, au, kenya, uk, kibaki, odinga

ODM and PNU agree to Dialogue

Seeded on Thu Jan 3, 2008 5:40 PM EST (http://www.udongo.org)

Finally it appears as though the hard line positioning by the two parties has been toned down. Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga have agreed in principle on the need to engage in talks aimed at resolving the crisis in Kenya.

politics, kenya, election-2008, odm, pnu, govt-of-national-unity, constitutional-conflict

Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Seeded on Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:51 AM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

Draft United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples; The Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, by signing you will join others in:-

united-nations, world-news, environmental-groups, political-rights, cultural-rights, united-nations-declaration

Self-fertility in fungi - the secrets of 'DIY reproduction'

Seeded on Thu Aug 16, 2007 1:46 PM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

In new findings published in the journal Current Biology on August 2, they reveal that the fungus has evolved to incorporate the two different sexes into the same individual.

science, DIY, fungus, ressearch

Ilomantsi Moonligthing

Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:03 PM EDT

Spectacular rainbow shows in the country of northern lights.

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nature, arts, rainbow

Investing in a speculation

Seeded on Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:17 PM EDT (Friends of Udongo, )

The panicked selling of shares across the global financial markets saw, European Central Bank pump an extra 48bn euros ($65bn; £32bn) into the banking system, Japan's central bank injected an initial one trillion yen ($8.5bn; £4.2bn) into the financial system last week, before …

business, investment, european-central-bank, us-federal-reserve

Our land is dying

Seeded on Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:26 AM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

At 85, Mzee Kiuri Kimaru has seen many things. The portly man says he has witnessed sacred natural sites in Karima Hill forest near Othaya town desecrated and most of the streams from the hill disappear.

climate-change, kenya, intergovernmental-panel, othaya-town-council, shalin-ry, cultural-biodiversity, porini-association, mt-kenya, karima-hill, mzee-kiuri

New fossils challenge the lineage theory of origin

Seeded on Sat Aug 11, 2007 5:35 AM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

Two new fossils found in Ileret region, east of Lake Turkana in Northern Kenya challenge the long standing view that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis. The fossils discovered by a team of scientists date 1.55 and 1.44 million year.

science, kenya, theory-of-evolution, leakey, charles-darwins, turkana, fossil-new, eugene-dubois

Deep ocean's most turbulent areas has big impact on climate

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:55 AM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

Different models predict differing outcomes of global warming.

global-warming, science, climate-change, north-america, north-atlantic, oceans, ice-age, gulf-stream

Maralal (Center for Education and Ecotourism), Kenya

Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 8:41 AM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

Twenty kilometres north of the entrance to the Maralal Lodge, take a left turn through the village of Poror. About 6km along this track, you come to the knife-edge Losiolo Escarpment, also known as 'World's End'.

education, kenya, rift-valley, suguta-valley, maralal-game-sanctuary

Ecological Mapping and Improved Governance (GISEEM)

Seeded on Thu Aug 9, 2007 1:42 AM EDT ()

Forest ecosystems, like other ecosystems, represent a hub of stakes from different individuals, groups and organisations.

science, geographic-information-systems, with-financial, participatory-mapping, spatial-data-management, participatory-learning, global-concept, forest-carbon-units

Home builder discovers geothermal heating & cooling helps spur home sales

Seeded on Tue Aug 7, 2007 5:06 PM EDT (indianasnewscenter.com)

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Kirby Sink, an Indiana land developer, was surprised to discover the amount of interest an all-geothermal subdivision yielded. Although not the first all-geothermal community for Indiana, it may be the largest.

oil, global-warming, green, environment, science, efficient, earth, fossil-fuel, sustainable, smarter

Mukogodo Communities to Map their resource

Seeded on Fri Aug 3, 2007 3:30 PM EDT (Friends of Udongo)

Participatory GIS and 3D modelling is changing the general understanding of how local groups or communities have traditionally related to their environment.

science, indigenous-peoples, jennifer-koinante, julius-muchemi, yiaku-peoples-association, technical-centre