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Massive aid is headed to Somalia, where as many as 1.5 million people -- most of them children -- face starvation. No one knows whether the aid will arrive in time.Richard O'Mara, The Sun's London correspondent, spent 10 days in Somalia and Kenya. He traveled to Mogadishu, Baidoa and Berdera in Somalia, and to Nairobi in Kenya. He interviewed heroic relief workers, angry ship captains, gunmen and their commanders, and he saw death everywhere.His report appears tomorrow in The Sunday Sun.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Six foreign fighters tied to al-Qaida, including one carrying an American passport, were among the dead in Friday's U.S. missile strike in Somalia's northern Puntland region, Somali officials said yesterday. The fighters are believed to be remnants of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union, a group of religious fundamentalists who were driven out of Mogadishu in December by Ethiopian and Somali troops. Separately yesterday, a suicide car bomb exploded outside the home of Somalia's prime minister, killing at least seven people.

Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has left many feeling betrayed and forgotten. The effort by the families, including two from Maryland, has raised difficult questions about who is entitled to federal support when relatives are killed by an act of terrorism directed at the United States, and how much money is fair.

THIET, Sudan -- They are always there. They wait, watching, patient. Every now and again they soar from the treetops in lazy flight, as an owner might amble about to inspect his property.They will get their fill, the vultures of southern Sudan. Death is the only ample harvest in this land. The weak ones -- animal or human -- fall in the dirt, and there is often no extra strength to cover them.The giant birds may seem to smile as the world turns away. No one wants to hear of more people starving in Africa.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The highest-ranking American official to set foot in Somalia in more than a decade returned from a trip there yesterday conceding that there were "significant problems" but saying that "we have to have faith in the people of Somalia." The official, Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, spent five hours in Baidoa, Somalia, meeting with top officials of the Somali transitional government, which has been struggling to gain control of the country.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Delays and confusion over information on the major battle between United Nations forces and Somalian militiamen this weekend has underscored the difficulties for journalists operating in Mogadishu.Most major news organizations have withdrawn from the Somalian capital for safety reasons and because travel restrictions made it virtually impossible to do any reporting. Only a handful of reporters are left in the capital. As a result, news gathering has relied mostly on limited U.N. and Pentagon briefings.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Police opened fire yesterday on rampaging opposition supporters who were burning houses and cars, looting businesses and attacking people, as the death toll in Kenya's post-election violence climbed to at least 125. In Kibera, a sprawling slum area of Nairobi, youths armed with machetes, wooden posts and iron bars tore down shacks and looted whatever was left to take, in a scene played out across the country, on the third day of opposition...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner yesterday of Kenya's presidential election and hastily sworn in, defying widespread concern over vote irregularities and sparking riots and tribal violence. As smoke rose over parts of Nairobi, Kenya's emerging democracy also appeared to be smoldering. Before the chaotic election count - which saw some returns officers disappear and European Union observers turned away without access to tallies - analysts and diplomats had viewed Kenya as one of the most promising democracies in Africa.

On September 23, 2005, BETTY M. LESLIE-MELVILLE STEELE, beloved wife of VADM (Ret.) George P. Steele; loving mother of Rick Anderson and his wife Bryony of Nairobi, Kenya, Dancy Bruce Mills and her husband Carder of Glen Arm, MD, and the late Mc Donnell Bruce; dear daughter of the late Richard and Ida Mc Donnell; cherished grandmother of Garrick and Rex Anderson, Liza Mills, Coale and Jock Bruce, Alice Devaney and Michael Behrens; caring aunt of Dick...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- Clashes between police and protesters in several cities resulted in as many as 12 deaths yesterday, bringing the toll to nearly two dozen in three days of "mass actions," witnesses and officials said. The deadliest skirmishes occurred in the Nairobi slum of Kibera, where angry youths tore up railway lines that run through the restive district, connecting the Kenyan coastline to Uganda. Protesters re-dubbed the broken transport line the "Odinga Highway," in honor of opposition leader Raila Odinga.