| Butchering an Elephant for Meat and Ivory |
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 Residents of Kagochi village in Nyeri carve the meat from an elephant which died in a nearby forest from an unknown cause. The tusks were removed and the elephant was carved up for consumption, defying armed forces recommendations not to.
Its an early Christmas festival for villagers of Kagochi in Nyeri, Kenya, after an adult elephant was found dead in a nearby forest. The cause of death was not known.
Kenya Wildlife officials suspected poisoning from the farmers. However, the villagers, armed with knives and axes defied the armed officers order with some carrying pieces of meat to their homes.
Elephant invasion has been a major problem in the area. The animals come from a nearby Mt Kenya forest and now the residents are calling upon the government to install an electric fence around the area.
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 Mercy Muthoni, 27, gazes blankly into the horizon as she ponders a future without her husband.
It is more than a year since he disappeared from their Gathaithi village home in Mathira, Nyeri, as vigilante gangs roamed the area.
At the time, the gangs were hunting down members of the outlawed mungiki sect, who they accused of committing several murders.
In turn, mungiki hit back in April last year and killed 29 people at Gathaithi village.
She recalls that Mr Dickson Muhindi left without a warning, and has never been heard of since.
“I have left it all to God since my search has yielded nothing,” Muthoni said, fighting back tears.
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| Murugi urges Kenyans to accept gays |
 A Cabinet minister has stirred a hornet’s nest with a suggestion that Kenyans should accept homosexuality and learn to live with it.
Special Programmes Minister Esther Murugi told participants at a national symposium on HIV/Aids in Mombasa targeting homosexuals, lesbians and sex workers that the government had no option but to address the community’s concerns.
“We need to learn to live with men who have sex with other men… we are in the 21st century and things have changed,” she told the gathering on Thursday.
Participants at the seminar were mainly homosexuals, lesbians and sex workers, dubbed “most at risk population” because their sexual behaviour puts them at greatest risk of HIV infection.
Ms Murugi said the group was an independent constituency and should not be stigmatised because of sexual inclination.
She told the National Aids Control Council to compile statistics to enable the government to develop a policy to cut prevalence rates among the group.
“This symposium is critical in ensuring that risk factors are discussed and taken into consideration in national planning for HIV and Aids,” said the minister.
Religious leaders were on Friday furious at the minister.
Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya organising secretary Sheikh Mohammed Khalifa said the utterances were “satanic and contrary to Africa culture”.
“God in his holy books (Quran and Bible) cursed homosexuality and directed us to fight it. The minister has offended Kenyans who passed a new constitution that criminalises the vice,” he said.
Sheikh Khalifa urged President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga to take stern action against the minister.
Kenya National Muslim Advisory Council chairman Sheikh Juma Ngao demanded that Ms Murugi resigns or be sacked.
“The minister and National Aids Control Council officials should create their own country which allows homosexual, lesbian and prostitution acts,” he said.
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| Osama wary of climate change |
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 DUBAI — Osama bin Laden has expressed concern about global climate change and flooding in Pakistan, in an audiotape aired on the Internet, his first public remarks since March, a monitoring group said Friday.
"The number of victims caused by climate change is very big... bigger than the victims of wars," said the voice, whose authenticity could not be immediately verified and made available by SITE Intelligence Group.
The tape would be the first time Bin Laden has spoken publicly since March 25.
It was not clear when the tape was made, but bin Laden congratulated Muslims on the September 10 end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
"The catastrophe (in Pakistan) is very big and it is difficult to describe it," he said.
"What we are facing... calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan."
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| The Kirima Saga. Witchcraft claims. |
 Claims of witchcraft and betrayal emerged on Thursday as the drama facing the family of real estate tycoon Gerishon Kirima took a new twist. His mother-in-law said in Nyeri that the men who dumped some of her daughter’s belongings, which they took from her Nairobi home, at her gate risked a curse. In Nairobi, a daughter of the ailing former assistant minister listed 15 accusations against Ms Teresia Wairimu Kirima, the businessman’s third wife, including that she was consulting a Tanzanian witchdoctor.
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