Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
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| • | Drought Forcing Children to Quit School: Under normal circumstances, 14-year-old Paul Katana would be in school, but not today. Katana is instead flagging down vehicles along the Mombasa-Malindi highway, hoping to sell sacks of charcoal he is hawking.
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| • | Joseph Maina - 'For Every 30 Kilogram of Waste, They Pay Me 50 Shillings': Joseph Maina rummages through waste at Boma, the nickname for the Dandora municipal dumpsite in the eastern part of Nairobi. He is looking for bottles, plastic containers, anything that shop owners and local companies will buy for recycling. He talked...
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| • | Islamists Vow to Fight Over Abducted Nuns: The Islamic administration of the town of Elwaq where two Italian nuns have been seized from has vowed that they would fight against Kenyan troops trying to enter the town to rescue the hostages.
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| • | Four-Axle Truck Ban Causing Fuel Shortage, Agents Say: THE ban by the Kenyan government of four-axle trucks is responsible for the fuel shortage in Uganda, clearing agents have said.
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