Glenn W. Ferguson, Former Ambassador to Kenya, Dies at 78
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Mr. Ferguson was a former ambassador to Kenya, the president or chancellor of three universities and, for a brief time in the 1980s, the president of Lincoln Center.
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The leading U.S. diplomat for Africa met with Kenya's president and the head of the opposition on Saturday to encourage a peaceful resolution after the disputed presidential election that sparked days of deadly riots.
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A U.S. official died after a shooting attack on Tuesday on his vehicle in Khartoum in which his Sudanese driver was also killed, U.S. and Sudanese officials said.
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NAROK, Kenya  - One man was killed in ethnic violence on Friday when Kenyan opposition protests against a disputed election spread to an area near the famed Maasai Mara game reserve in the south of the country.
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Kwesi Mfume, 56, a former congressman from Baltimore who became the N.A.A.C.P.'s president in 1996, said he wanted to spend more time with his family.
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A British man has died in Kenya, the Foreign Office said Saturday, but it was unclear whether the death was linked to post-election violence that has gripped the east African country.
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Environmental activist and deputy minister of Kenya, Wangri Maathai, won this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize. She is the first African lady to obtain this rare honour.
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Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji died Friday at a Paris hospital following a brain hemorrhage, the African nation's ambassador to France said. He was 56.
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Why a trip to Kenya by the Illinois Senator, and possible future U.S. President, was more than just a homecoming
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KOGELO, Kenya  - Senator Barack Obama's Kenyan grandmother said her grandson is "full of surprises" and will come back from defeat in New Hampshire's primary to become the first black U.S. president.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Scott Simon talks with Susan Rice, former Secretary of State for African Affairs during the Clinton administration, about the current peace talks among the members of the UN Security Council members in Kenya.
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a conservative political scientist who became the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, died at her home outside Washington late Thursday, colleagues announced today. She was 80.
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Nairobi, Nov. 18 (NNN) : Ambassadors from the United Nations Security Council are set to meet in the Kenyan capital for talks on Sudan at a two-day event in Nairobi which will focus on the peace process in
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NAIVASHA, Kenya  - Protests erupted in western Kenya and machete-wielding mobs faced off in the Rift Valley on Monday after scores died in ethnic violence, complicating mediation efforts by former U.N. boss Kofi Annan.
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A man wanted in at least 18 killings in Kenya &#151; including the deaths of a leading AIDS researcher and an American missionary &#151; was shot dead on Tuesday after a police raid on his house.
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Jeane J. Kirkpatrick was remembered at a National Cathedral memorial service Tuesday by hundreds of friends and admirers on the birthday of President Reagan, who appointed her ambassador to the United Nations in 1981.
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NAIROBI, Jan. 31 -- A second opposition lawmaker was shot dead in Kenya on Thursday in the western town of Eldoret in the volatile Rift Valley region, where tens of thousands of people from President Mwai Kibaki's Kikuyu community have been chased from their homes.