Terrorists may be on the verge of launching attacks in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the Foreign Office warned today in an alert to Britons in the Afric...
If Where No Vultures Fly (1951) was an attempt to combine documentary, travelogue, action-adventure and colour filmmaking, then West of Zanzibar slims that concoction down by losing most of the documentary approach and focusing on the colonial action-adventure, personified here by stalwart hero Bob Payton (again played by Anthony Steel).
Where No Vultures Fly (1951) is, in many ways, an overlooked Ealing film of the early 1950s, being released after the one-two hit of The Lavender Hill Mob (June 1951) and The Man in the White Suit (August 1951), and belonging to a genre - colonial action-adventure - that is less well-covered in histories of the studio.
When given access to their fundamental rights, disabled people can achieve the equality that enables them to make vital contributions to society, improving their lives and the lives of others.
I liken the experience to childbirth: absolutely relentlessly hellish in parts, goes on painfully for a good long while but when it's all over and done, the feeling is of euphoria and achievement...and any tough memories are instantly erased. And, like having babies, I know I'll sign up for another at some point soon.
The ride is over but this isn't the end of the journey! Today we transfer by road to Nakuru. to spend the night at Waterbuck Hotel. I can't wait to sleep in a bed and let what I've just done really sink in.
Sarah Mace, who works in Plan's Disaster Management Unit looking after East Africa, has recently been out to Kenya. She says that you can feel the impact of the drought everywhere. In some areas in East Africa, it hasn't rained for three years.
Never one to be shy of taking up a challenge (Dancing on Ice, Total Wipeout, MasterChef to name a few), my next death-defying adventure is a 400km cycle ride in Kenya, on behalf of Women V Cancer.
It has been three months since the declaration of famine in the Horn of Africa, which continues to be gripped by the worst food crisis in 20 years. ...
Two Britons are being held by police in Kenya after being arrested near the border with Somalia. The pair are believed to be from Cardiff and South...
There is a global economic crisis happening and many of us in the UK are struggling to make ends meet, so why should we help hungry Africans? I total...
Two Medecins Sans Frontieres staff have been kidnapped in Kenya.. According to reports they were seized by gunmen, along with two Kenyans, in a cam...
I'm in Karen, the picture perfect Nairobi suburb and preferred location for expats. A few days ago I was listening to stories from communities in Rwan...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- A Kenyan man charged in court in connection with a deadly attack on a British couple told officials that a gang abducted him at g...
A British tourist has been murdered and his wife kidnapped while on holiday in Kenya. The Foreign Office in London confirmed the attack on Sunday a...
Every effort should be made to ensure that the ICC cases are allowed to run their course. This is an unparalleled opportunity in Kenya's recent history to demonstrate the worth a judicial process unencumbered by the political concerns of the ruling elite.
Breaking cycles of impunity that reward violence and undermine trust in the rule and institutions of law is an ongoing project. The ICC has an important role to play in this project, but to succeed it must do more to engage victims in its work from the very onset of its investigations and throughout its trials.
Somehow a disaster affecting 11 million people is being ignored and the longer it takes for policymakers to act, the more people will die. That isn't hard to understand at all.
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Desperate parents are abandoning their children at the world's largest refugee camp, Save the Children has warned. Dadaab is a...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Aid parcels aimed at saving the lives of thousands of malnourished children in Africa have been flown out of Britain as the Unite...
The World Bank has announced more than $500 million in aid to help victims of the worst drought in East Africa in 60 years, as the UN held an emergenc...
Four Kenyans who claim they were tortured at the hands of colonial authorities during the Mau Mau rebellion have won the right to sue the British gove...
My visit to the Dadaab refugee camp and a hospital for malnourished children in Wajir, Northern Kenya, today was both enormously upsetting and powerfully motivating. The women I met at Dadaab, their feet bloodied by weeks of walking to reach this refuge, told me harrowing stories of their journeys. Some had been robbed, others encountered violence. Some had even lost their children to hunger on the way. The international community - countries, UN agencies and non-governmental organisations - must now work together to prevent what is already a terrible crisis becoming a humanitarian catastrophe which engulfs this whole region of Africa.
Choking droughts in East Africa could result in a human catastrophe unless the world community is prepared to give immediate help, International Devel...
British aid agencies have come together to launch a joint fund-raising appeal to help more than 10 million people affected in the Horn of Africa. ...
