Stray Cat Eats New Born Baby

A stray cat today devoured a baby at a hospital in Garissa a Kenyan town. Garissa is the largest town in Northern Kenya situated close to the somali border. The mother of the baby Halima Mohammed had just delivered the baby through cesarean and was recovering.

Little did she know that her bundle of joy was going to be end in tragedy, because a stray cat entered the nusery where the pre mature infant lay and devoured the infant starting from the infants umbilical cord.

The baby’s mother upon hearing of the incident collapsed and has gone in shock.

This is the first time such a bizzare and unfortunate incident has happened in this hospital said one member of the medical staff when she was questioned about the incident by Citizen TV one of Kenya’s Leading Television stations.

The baby’s father Daudi Mohammed was lost for words and couldn’t comment on it.

The story which aired on Citizen TV 7pm and 9pm has left Kenya’s shocked and disgusted and it comes amid incidents of theft of new born babies in Kenya’s public hospitals and the poor state of medical services and cases of negligence that have been filed against the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.

Celebrating Echo’s the elephant’s life

If you have never heard of Echo, then you must know very little about elephants. Echo the Matriarch elephant perhaps the most famous of elephants that have ever lived in Kenya’s Amboseli has died.

She has been the leader of her family for over 36 years and through all of the research, books and media attention that has focused on her, she has become an icon for elephants.

One of the oldest metrach having survived the slaughter of her kind in the 80’s and early 90’s that saw Kenya’s elephant population reduced from 167,000 individuals elephants to about 16,000 through poaching. Read more

Sex-starved Kenyan sues over boycott

In what was seen as women power in Kenya, 10 civil society groups under the Gender 10 banner issued a sex boycott aimed at Kenya’s president Mwai Kibaki and Prime minister Raila Odinga to end squabbles in the coalition government.

The women said they could no longer sit back and watch the nation being torn apart by bickering and bad leadership by the coalition partners. Read more

Mafia Island

Well… it’s not what you think! It’s not a haven for the Mafia mobs and its not in Italy. Mafia Island is a slice of the archaic Swahili Coast that stretches along the Tanzanian and Kenyan coastline. The name Mafia is not Italian but is a twisted version of the Arabic term morfieyeh, for group that refers to the Mafia archipelago. Mafia Island seems to be unaffected by the hustle and bustle of the rest of the world. Inhabitants of this slice of paradise continue with their traditional way of life almost undisturbed by the outside world. Well, if white sandy beaches and clear waters are your thing, Mafia is the place to be. Read more

Police Foil 5 year old Children’s dash to Africa

BERLIN (Reuters) – Three German children aged five, six and seven who said they were fed up with cold weather at home set off on a voyage to Africa but only got as far as the local train station, police said on Monday.

The boy and the older girl were planning to get married in Africa and brought the girl’s five-year-old sister along as a witness. They left their home in the city of Hanover, which they shared with the boy’s father and the girls’ mother, early on New Year’s Day as their parents slept. Read more

Mount Kenya

The mountain is an extinct volcano standing alone, which last erupted between 2.6 and 3.1 million years ago. This mountain dominates the landscape of the Kenyan Highlands, East of the Rift Valley. Mt. Kenya lies about 140 km North, North-East of Nairobi with its Northern flanks across the Equator. The mountain has two main peaks - Batian (5200m) and Nelion (5188m). The mountains slopes are cloaked in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and snow. Mt. Kenya is an important water catchment area, supplying the Tana and Northern Ewaso Ngiro systems. Read more

The trans-Saharan trade

No one knows exactly when the trans-saharan trade first began. It may well have begun 2000 years ago. The trans-saharan trade involved two regions North Africa and Western Sudan.

Western Sudan is at present part of west Africa. The northern traders were the Berbers of North Africa. In the 7th century AD the Muslim Arabs conquered North Africa. The Arabs were great traders who were quick to see the potential of the trans-Saharan trade. The trade reached its peak during the period between the 8th and the 16th centuries AD.

For trade to take place, there must be a need between two people who have something the other doesn’t have, and wants. Read more

Top 10 African safari - vacation destinations

These are Africa’s Top Safari Destinations

10- Okavango Delta, (Botswana)

The Okavango is a labyrinth of lagoons, lakes and hidden channels covering an area of over 17,000 square km making it the largest inland delta in the world. Trapped in the parched Kalahari sands it is a magnet for the wildlife who depend on the permanent waters of this unique feature. On the mainland and among the islands in the delta, lions, elephants, hyenas, wild dog, buffalo and hippos can easily be seen. It certainly is a vacation destination that would provide you with a lifetime of memories. Read more

Organizing a safari- Planning a safari

There are three ways to arrange a safari – buy a tailor made or what is known as a customized safari with an African Safari Tour Operator, buy a package, or arrange everything yourself.

Whatever you choose depends on you and each has got its own advantages. For people seeking to maximize on their holidays a prearranged safari would be advised so as to save hours and days which could be spent trying to find reliable transport and accommodation.

Caution should be taken when choosing a safari company or Tour Operator especially since it is standard practice to pay in advance to ensure a booking. The nightmare scenario would be to pay for your safari and then get to your destination and discover that the company does not exist! Read more

Kenya As A Tourist Destination

Kenya a country found on the Eastern part of Africa is one of Africa’s most exciting wildlife destinations. For the visitor, Kenya is a promise of the world’s finest game viewing, unspoilt beaches, rugged mountains, spectacular landscapes, ancient Swahili cities and gracious, unaffected hospitality. Read more

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