FORMER president Mary Robinson will fly out to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa today to see first-hand the crisis affecting more than 10 million people.

AT the largest refugee camp in the world, Dadaab, in north-eastern Kenya, children are dying within 24 hours of arrival, despite receiving emergency treatment and care.

Hillary Clinton adopted a sharper tone as she came face-to-face with Barack Obama in a bid to revive her ailing campaign for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination, but never achieved a “knockout blow”, US political pundits said today.

A Roman Catholic bishop was shot to death near his church in northern Kenya last night, the Vatican Embassy in Nairobi said.