Africa too risky for Kroll: "The decision by US-based risk consultants Kroll to shut down their Africa practice on 3 April appears to have been taken, oddly enough, because the US$1.9 billion company judged Africa to be just too risky. More precisely, it was probably insurers Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), which has owned Kroll since July 2004 and generates revenues of about $12 bn. a year, which made the final call as its new managers restructured the company."

Job: Amnesty International East Africa Researcher based in Uganda

HIV and Lemon Juice: "Potentially contradictory findings on whether lemon and lime juice could safely protect women from HIV infection if they apply it to their vaginas will be presented at an international conference later this month. "

TechWeb | Domain Names | .EU registry defends itself: "An American company's charge that cheating went on during the rush for new .eu domains is flat out wrong, the European registry responsible for handing out the names countered Tuesday.
'We certainly don't agree with him,' said Patrik Lind?n, spokesman for EURid, the Belgium-based non-profit chosen by the European Commission to operate the new .eu top level domain. "

allAfrica.com: Uganda: Regulator Seeks Control of Uganda's Domain Name: "If you want to register a domain name with a Ugandan country code, .ug, the man to speak to is Charles Musisi, an Internet entrepreneur who has managed the country's domain names over the past decade." [Meanwhile, another domain name controversy closer to home...]

Soul Beat Africa: Communication for Change - Awards - Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism: "The Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism recognises independent and professional reporting that sheds new light on controversial issues. Established in 2002, two US $5,000 prizes are awarded each year, one to a local reporter in a developing country or nation in transition, and the other to a freelance journalist covering international news. "

.Eu Domain Name Fraud - 'Eu Won't Believe It' article: "Were you aware there are registered companies in Europe with such ambrosial names like ?Rus & Sia? and ?Ser & Bia?? Well, there weren?t until internet touts used loopholes in the European Union?s shambolic registration process to acquire thousands of the continent?s most desirable internet addresses."

More controversy over the mass quatting of .eu domains "The .EU landrush fiasco. A bumbling registry allows Europe's very own domain name to be highjacked!"

[Note in the comments to this post that names are named... Lexicon Media managed to grap one I wanted...]

Official: U.S. backing Somali militants | Harowo.com: "'Our leaders used to pay us $60 dollars (a month), but after the formation of the new anti-terrorism alliance they increased our salary to $160,' Garaare said."

Measuring HIV infection rates: "The new studies show, however, that these earlier estimates were skewed in favor of young, sexually active women in the urban areas that had prenatal clinics. Researchers now know that the HIV rate among these women tends to be higher than among the general population." [Pregnant women attending clinics are not representative of the general population...]

Marc Danneschewski owns kenya.eu Who owns the brand new prestigious www.kenya.eu domain?

Step forward Marc Danneschewski (marc.danneschewski@t-online.de), registered from Germany.

.EU domain squatting frenzy The Daily Nation might be surprised to know that dailynationkenya.eu is already registered to a company in Cyprus, whose website has the following er... disclaimer:

"Ovidio Limited [http://www.ovidiolimited.com] owns a portfolio of .eu TLD domain names and operates corresponding websites. Through these sites it offers product and service information to direct navigation and other customers. Ovidio Limited uses advanced proprietary techniques to identify appropriate domain names for its portfolio. It is Ovidio’s policy not to register domain names that have been registered by third parties as trade marks or that are used by third parties in the course of trade." (My emphasis)

While Kenya-Airways.eu is registered to a company called Swinweb in London...

Anyway, here's all the Kenya .eu names so far:
businessinkenya

dailynationkenya
flighttokenya
holidaykenya
hrs-kenya
kenya
kenya-airways
kenya-info
kenya-lastminute
kenya-online
kenya-safari
kenya-safaris
kenya-tour
kenya-travel
kenya-travels
kenyacoffee
kenyaembassy
kenyaholidays
kenyahotel
kenyalive
kenyan
kenyancoffee
kenyanews
kenyanewspaper
kenyangirls

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Swamp CottageSo, here are the .eu domain names registered in the first two days of .eu's existance which contain the word africa:

accomodation-in-south-africa
acrossafrica
africa
africa-business
africa-consulting
africa-cup
africa-dreams
africa-expedition
africa-festival
africa-guide
africa-hotels
africa-israel
africa-online
africa-pixelpage
africa-reisen
africa-safari
africa-tours
africa-travel
africa-travels
africa-twin
africa2010
africa24
africabazaar
africabusiness
africachart

Fourth ever public .EU domain name is "exhibitionist.eu"

BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Niger halts BBC hunger coverage: "Niger has withdrawn permission for a BBC team which found evidence of hunger in the country to continue to report on the humanitarian situation there."