2) Fresh snow covered Mount Kilimanjaro seen at sunrise from
Ambuseli game reserve in Kenya, May 04, 2008.
(MLADEN ANTONOV/AFP/Getty Images)
3) Passengers ride atop overloaded carriages of a commuter train
in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 5, 2010. Public transport
in Kenya's main cities was paralyzed for days following
a strike by matatu (minibus) drivers and conductors on allegations
of extortion and corruption by police. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
4) Pink flamingos wade through Lake Nakuru in Kenya's Rift Valley,
160km (99 miles) west of the capital Nairobi, December 18, 2009.
(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
5) A young boy from the remote Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya
plays to the camera as villagers wait their turn to see
if they will be selected for food aid by other villagers at Kokuru
on November 9, 2009 near Lodwar, Kenya. The villagers themselves
decide which family gets food in a democratic voting process.
Selected villagers usually give food to those that
lose out as there is never enough to go round. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
6) Residents of Kibera search for survivors and bodies from the
wreckage of a cargo train after it derailed near residential areas
in the Kenyan capital, on December 21, 2009, killing several people.
The train, which carried cooking oil, slammed into passers-by
who were walking beside the track when it derailed.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known.
(SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)
7) A hippopotamus stands in a mucky pool to cool its body
from a prolonged drought at Tsavo West national park,
southeast of Kenya's capital Nairobi, October 9, 2009.
Successive failed rain seasons in Kenya have led to a drought that
experts say is the worst in the country since 1996.
(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
8) Training shoes belonging to young Kenyan athletes are piled up
at the entrance to a boarding facility at Kiptenden Success Runners Club
based in Kericho district. The club was closed down by
the national sports regulating body Athletics Kenya, AK
after reports of sexual abuse, an action which has laid bare the level of
exploitation facing many Kenyan youth getting into athletics to
escape poverty. (Aileen Kimutai/AFP/Getty Images)
9) A young boy from the Turkana tribe stands on a dried up riverbed on
November 9, 2009 near Lodwar, Kenya. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
10) A member of the Turkana tribe drinks water from a nearly empty well
on November 9, 2009 near Lodwar, Kenya. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
11) Stefano De Luigi, a VII Network for Le Monde Magazine photographer
based in Italy, won the second prize in the Contemporary Issues
Singles category of the World Press Photo Contest 2010 for
this photograph of a giraffe killed by drought in northeast Kenya.
(REUTERS/Stefano De Luigi/VII Network/Le Monde Magazine)
12) Somali Kenyan boys sit with wooden tablets with verses of the Quran
in a Madrasa in the settlement of Dela in northern Kenya near
the Somali border on Oct. 22, 2009. The traditional way of life
for Kenya's roughly three million nomads is rapidly giving way
under the pressures of increasingly severe and frequent droughts,
coupled with a rapidly rising population. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
13) Athletes start their race on February 20, 2010 during
the Kenya National cross country championships 12km men's race
in Nairobi's Uhuru gardens. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
14) An elephant grazes at the Ol Pejeta wildlife conservancy near
Nanyuki town, 350 km (217 miles) north of the capital Nairobi,
on the slopes of Mount Kenya on January 19, 2010.
(REUTERS/Noor Khamis)
15) A soccer fan carries his rooster painted in the colours of
the Kenyan national flag at the Nyayo Stadium during a public viewing
of the FIFA World Cup trophy in the capital Nairobi,
November 14, 2009, during its tour that takes in all 54 African countries
ahead of the 2010 event to be held in South Africa. (REUTERS/Noor Khamis)
16) This Oct. 22, 2009 photo shows a Somali Kenyan woman laughing as
she holds her baby in the settlement of Dela in northern Kenya
near the Somali border. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
17) World and Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt holds a cheetah cub
at the headquarters of the Kenyan Wildlife Service in Nairobi
on November 2, 2009. The triple Olympic and world sprint champion
in both the 100 and 200 meters events arrived in the land
of long-distance running on October 30, ahead of the launch of an
environmental charity campaign to preserve local ecosystems.
The cub was named Lightning Bolt. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
18) Japanese artist, Yoshinari Nishio (bottom center) walks next
a patchwork of donated clothes that he and others had sewn together
in Kibera, Kenya on January 12, 2010. Nishio created a world wide project
called the "Overall Project" where donated used clothes are sewn
in cooperation with local residents to create art works and shapes
that formalize historical memories of the town. In this case, the shape of a steam engine. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
19) A woman sorts through a heap of garbage at the Dandora dumping site
among other people, cattle, pigs and storks, in Nairobi on December 10, 2009.
The dumping site was declared full and a health hazard for the
neighboring population in 2001 but chemical, hospital, industrial,
agricultural and domestic waste are still dumped here and left unprocessed.
Local communities and their partners started a campaign called "Stop Dumping
Death On Us. We have the Right to Live Too",
aimed at opening a dialogue with the institutional actors who can solve this problem.
(SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images)
20) A Masai warrior uses dark glasses to gaze up at the sun
during the annular solar eclipse as seen from Lolgorian in south western Kenya
on January 15, 2010. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
21) Beer bottles roll on a conveyor belt at the East African Breweries
Ruaraka factory in Kenya's capital Nairobi, February 17, 2010.
(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
22) Riot policemen beat a Muslim demonstrator near the Jamia Mosque in Kenya's capital Nairobi,
January 15, 2010. Kenyan security forces shot in the air and fired tear gas
at hundreds of people protesting in the capital on Friday against
the detention of Jamaican cleric Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal.
(REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)
23)In this photo taken Tuesday, March 9, 2010, two silverback jackals
are seen in the grass in the Tsavo East game park in Kenya.
(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
24) A Turkana woman walks in a village outside Kakuma Refugee camp in Northwestern Kenya,
March 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Frank Nyakairu)
25) A street kid holding a bottle of glue looks around a corner as police
and hawkers clash in Nairobi, Monday, Feb. 15, 2010, during
a protest after the hawker's illegal street side shops were demolished
by the authorities. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo)
26) Women from the Turkana tribe of Northern Kenya wait to see if they will
be selected for food aid by other villagers at Kokuru.
Water and food aid is being provided by Oxfam, and is being distributed
through relief centers in the region. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
27) Wild Zebras stand in a container to be loaded onto waiting trucks by
Kenya Wildlife Service officers, KWS, at Soysambu conservancy in Nakuru, Kenya
for their translocation to Amboseli national park on February 10, 2010.
Kenyan game rangers began rounding up thousands of zebras to be moved to a reserve
where starving lions have been attacking livestock. The spectacular nationwide
operation, launched in Soysambu conservancy is due to
last until the end of the month in what will go down as one of Africa's
largest animal translocations yet. KWS aims to move some 7,000 animals in all,
4,000 zebra and 3,000 wildebeest. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
28) A resident of Nairobi's Korogocho slum, learns the rudiments of martial arts
in order to survive in one of Kenya's most dangerous shanty towns
on January 30, 2010. This self-defense group started in 2007 as way
of fighting back at the young bandits of Korogocho who started raping women
three or four times their age. "Every time the boys make a robbery,
they will ask the grandmas to sleep with them. Young men believe that
young girls are all infected with Aids, so they'd rather go to the old ones,
because they know that we don't have any more partners,"
explains Mary Wangui, 73, one of the oldest pupils, now a teacher.
(TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
29) Kenyan fisherman attempt to remove fishing hooks from the jaw of a shark
on January 24, 2010 in the coastal town of Mombasa. Lately,
every time Kenyan fishermen go out at sea in the Indian Ocean, they bring back
at least 200 kilos more than normal. Since Somali pirates started operating
in the Indian Ocean in 2007, industrial fishing boats are avoiding the zone,
apparently leaving more to local fishermen. (TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
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