Kenya Death Toll Surpasses 1,000
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According to the Red Cross, most of the killings have been in the turbulent Rift Valley, where gangs from opposing ethnic groups have fought fiercel.
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GONAIVES, Haiti -- The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne shot up to an estimated 1,500 yesterday with 900 Haitians still missing as a thunderstorm drenched the homeless who are living on rooftops and sidewalks.
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The death toll in Africa from Sunday's tsunami has risen to at least 111 people in Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya and the Seychelles islands, countries with coasts among the farthest from the epicenter of the earthquake that touched off the waves some 2,800 miles away across the Indian Ocean.
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The U.S. military death toll in Iraq has reached 1,000 nearly 18 months after the invasion to topple Saddam Hussein, making its mark on the U.S. presidential election campaign.
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Kenya's warring political parties have been urged to acknowledge irregularities in the disputed presidential election, with the death toll from the subsequent violence now having risen to a reported 486.
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Aid pledges for Asia's tsunami victims topped 1.6 billion dollars on a tide of New Year sympathy, but the United Nations warned it would take weeks for help to reach many survivors and that the death toll would likely rise to 150,000.
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Description: The death toll from Hurricane Jeanne is rising in Haiti. Massive flooding buried the city of Gonaives in knee-deep mud, destroying homes and killing more than 1,000 people.
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MAI MAHIU, Kenya  - Hundreds of Kenyans fled their  homes Sunday after 13 people were speared or stabbed to death  northwest of Nairobi in tribal clashes over access to water,  residents and officials said.
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More than 1,000 people a day die as a result of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a report says.
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GONAIVES, Haiti, Sept. 25 -- The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne reached 1,500 Saturday, with 900 people still missing, Haitian officials said, as a thunderstorm drenched survivors living on rooftops and sidewalks.
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Kenya's feuding parties resumed talks on Tuesday after a torrent of calls from home and abroad to solve a post-election crisis that has killed 1,000 people and tarnished the east African nation's reputation.
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Washington -- The US military death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 Tuesday, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and independent analysts predicted the casualty situation is likely to worsen in the next several months as US and Iraqi elections approach.
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The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,071 and could reach 2,000, the government&#39;s civil protection agency said Wednesday.
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The death toll in tsunami-hit Thailand could rise beyond 2,000 after some 1,000 bodies were spotted on a popular beach north of Phuket, Deputy Interior Minister Sutham Saengpratoom said on Tuesday.
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Up to 1,000 passengers are dead or missing from a train that was flung off its tracks by this week&#39;s massive tsunami, police said, as workers on Tuesday cremated or buried bodies from the twisted wreckage.
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GONAIVES -- The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said yesterday. Rescuers counted 1,013 bodies recovered from floodwaters, mud, and collapsed homes in Gonaives alone by last night. Another 58 bodies have been recovered elsewhere in Haiti's northwest province, Deslorges said. He ...
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The death toll from floods in Haiti has risen to more than 1,070 and could reach 2,000, Dieufort Deslorges of the government's civil protection agency said Wednesday.