Karura

Kenya Forest Services workers use branches to put out a fire at Karura forest in Nairobi.

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Antony Njuguna/Reuters Forest Services workers used branches to try to beat out the blaze in the Karura forest.

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At left, a fireman from a Kenyan security company walked away from an extinguished blaze, his work complete, in the Karura forest near Nairobi earlier this week.

Drought Hits Kenya 2009

Alexander Kangethe Njai, one of the men who testified before the commission Thursday, said he was picked up last month by several officers who knew he was a sect member and then brought to Karura

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

The second testimony was from Danson Wahome Njoroge, who also claimed police took him to Karura and threatened to put his body in a grave.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

She was hospitalized in Kenya in 1999 after being clubbed by guards hired by developers while she and her followers tried to plant trees in Karura forest.

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She founded the Green Belt Movement and today whenever I go home to Nairobi or visitors come to my country, you will see two major green spaces, Uhuru Park our version of New York's Central Park and Karura Forest, because of her work.

CNN.com 2011

In 1999, Maathai was beaten and whipped by guards during a protest against the sale of public land in Karura Forest.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

She had led a protest against the then-government's plan to cut down Karura Forest, an urban forest in Nairobi, so they could allocate the prime land between themselves.

CNN.com 2011

I like that while she cares about her country she knows she can no longer do anything for them thus going on her own way leaving her Karurauatsuurei name behind and claiming Karura as her real name living a new simple life.

Anime Nano! 2010