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91. The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Everybody Ever Forever by Justin Pierce.
92. Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin.
93. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
94. Strip Jack by Ian Rankin.

95. Wizard of the Crow by ( Read more... )

I'm going to try to be regular about this again. Of course, I'm about to head out traveling for two weeks, so "regular" may be a relative term for a bit.

It appears that Indonesian villagers poisoned four rare Sumatran elephants, probably to protect their palm oil plantations. Last month two male elephants were poisoned with cyanide-laced ( Read more... )

Kenya, one year later:

The tensions that were laid bare during one of the darkest moments in Kenya's history are still festering, a year after its election on Dec. 27, 2007 unleashed weeks of ethnic violence that killed more than 1,000 people ( Read more... )

Most of the time when my news alert sends me elephant stories they are about something that I already knew; but this is both new and awesome:

The race to save Kimani began two years ago. The Kenya Wildlife Service had already reluctantly shot five elephants from the conservancy who refused to stop crop-raiding, and Kimani was the last of the ( Read more... )

First, the good (or at least hopeful) news. The Christian Science Monitor is running a four-part series on the Kenyan election, compromise, and aftermath. From part one, yesterday:

In the next five weeks, led by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and a team of African statesmen and women, known as The Panel of Eminent African Personalities, ( Read more... )

For a while there it didn't look like this was going to happen.


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A peace deal appears close in Kenya.

The NYT talks about the present and likely future of Kenya, now that tribal tensions have erupted in such a way that it'll be impossible to paper them over again. From the article: "Kenya used to be considered one of the most promising countries in Africa. Now it is in the throes of ethnically segregating itself." Be warned that this is not a ( Read more... )

In Kenya, the death toll has passed 1,000, but negotiations are continuing. Kofi Annan was already my hero, but if he can pull this off I will love him forever.

To the northwest of Kenya, Chad is also in crisis; overwhelmed with refugees from the Darfur crisis and the Central African Republic, with a war raging between the government and rebel ( Read more... )

Kenyan Pundit points to Vuma Kenya, an organization which seeks to bring attention to and work toward solutions for the current crisis. They're planning a benefit concert on February 2nd at the Roxy in Boston, so if you're in the area you may want to check it out.

Looks like the presidential race is down to two on each side; reports are that ( Read more... )