KENYA

A team from the United States and France has found newly discovered hand axes from about 1.76 million year ago. The team made the discovery after traveling to an archaeological site located along the northwest shoreline of Kenya's Lake Turkana.

A team of French and American researchers unearthed stone axes, cleavers and picks in Kenya that are at least 300,000 years older than previous finds.

Global Trust of Nigeria could be using Uganda as a testing ground for its Shariah Law-compliant products and services.

Police have confirmed that they arrested an uncle of U.S. President Barack Obama in Massachusetts last week for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol. Onyango Obama, 67, entered a not guilty plea on Friday and was being held without bail on a detainer from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, negligent operation of a motor vehicle and failure to yield the right of way.

Vivian Cheruiyot won gold in the women's 10,000 meters on Saturday as Kenya swept the first four places at the athletics world championships in Daegu, South Korea.

Tanzanian authorities have seized as many as 1,041 elephant tusks on the island of Zanzibar, in the largest ivory haul in a year, reports say.

The Kenyan shilling was stable against the dollar on Friday, and traders said prevailing tight shilling liquidity was expected to keep the local currency on a strengthening bias, while the main share index broke a four-day losing streak.

An interbank borrowing rate of 26 percent in Kenya is unacceptable, a senior Treasury official said on Friday, and staff from the ministry of finance and the central bank are working on a plan to deal with interest rates while supporting the shilling currency.

Researchers in Britain looked at the effects of temperature on approximately 2,000 species of plants, animals and insects and found that species undergoing the greatest warming have moved the furthest. The results are published in the journal Science, and have helped to reinforce what scientists have long been saying — that there is a link between climate change and shifts in species' global ranges.

The ongoing famine in Somalia is being called the worst humanitarian crisis.

Britain said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there.

The Kenyan shilling was stable against the dollar on Monday and was seen firming due to a squeeze on shilling liquidity in the money markets, while stocks edged lower for a second session.

Kenya's central bank raised on Monday its discount window rate to 11.34 percent from 6.25 percent previously, a posting on its website showed, after it revised its overnight lending rules last week.

Tanzania's inflation rose for the ninth successive month in July on the back of higher food and energy costs and analysts said it was set to keep rising due to a poor supply outlook for staple foods and the cost of importing oil.

The following are excerpts of eyewitness accounts to the suffering in Somalia, as recorded by HRW researchers: