Global warming is the most serious environmental threat of our time. As these facts show, affordable options are available. And America cannot afford to fall behind any more in the race to invent clean, renewable energy sources. 45% Increase in world’s solar generating capacity in 2005. 2 Rank of China... [view entry]

Photo: Allan Gichigi/IRIN Children in a crowded class at the Moto primary school, Molo town MOLO, 25 February 2008 (IRIN) - With four or five pupils to a desk, the average class size at Moto primary school, in the western town of Molo, has jumped from 40 in the last... [view entry]

Photo: Manoocher Deghati/IRIN Damaris Mumbi and her children now live in a camp for displaced families on the outskirts of Nairobi NAIROBI, 29 February 2008 (IRIN) - Around 600,000 people have been left homeless by the violence and chaos following Kenya’s disputed elections in December 2007. Audio Slideshow Click here... [view entry]

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN Grace Anyango and her daughter Ida fled to Kisumu, western Kenya, from Naivasha after Mungiki attacked KISUMU, 25 February 2008 (IRIN) - More than 10,000 displaced people, who have moved to their “ancestral lands” in western Kenya to escape ethnic violence, face an uncertain future in what... [view entry]

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN A demonstrator in Nairobi with a message for former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan who is mediating talks to resolve the Kenyan political crisis NAIROBI, 19 February 2008 (IRIN) - “We are all affected” While world attention has focused on the fallout from Kenya’s post-election crisis in the... [view entry]

Photo: Julius Mwelu/IRIN Damaris Angulu with her friend Nancy Wanjiru, who have been displaced by the post-election violence NAIROBI, 28 February 2008 (IRIN) - Damaris and Nancy were friends and neighbours in Nairobi’s Mathare slum before Kenya was plunged into a post-election crisis in late December 2007. They have remained... [view entry]