Further to calls by the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) and the Roman Catholic Church in Kenya for an extension to the 31st January deadline for the issue of new generation identity cards, the President of Kenya, Daniel arap Moi, has extended the deadline by a month. President Moi made the announcement on 30th January stating that he had made the extension after having considered the difficulties many Kenyans have had to get the new cards.
14 February 1997
The National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK) and the Roman Catholic Church in Kenya have renewed their calls for constitutional reforms before the next General Elections scheduled for later this year.
31 January 1997
Torn by the remnants of civil war between rival rebel groups, Liberia remains an unstable and dangerous country, but the return of Bishop Edward Neufville, the Anglican diocesan bishop in January marked a significant step toward reestablishing normal life for the country's Anglican churches.
27 January 1997
Last month, the Rt Revd Samuel Elenwo, Bishop of Niger Delta North, was shot and seriously wounded during an attempted burglary at his official residence in Port Harcourt.
27 January 1997
The Most Revd David Gitari was enthroned last Sunday (12 January) at All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi, and becomes Primate of the Anglican Church in Kenya and Bishop of Nairobi. The Revd Canon John L Peterson represented the ACC at the enthronement.
17 January 1997
The Rt Revd Samuel Elenwo, Bishop of Niger Delta North, was shot and seriously wounded during an attempted burglary at his official residence in Port Harcourt just before Christmas.
17 January 1997
Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the Archbishop of Cape Town, will lead a group of South African leaders on a Pilgrimage of Reconciliation and Hope to the prison on Robben Island in March.
17 January 1997
The Bishop Alison Bible School in Koboko in north-west Uganda was razed to the ground at the end of October by Ugandan rebels believed to be sponsored by the Government of Khartoum in their attempt to get the Sudanese refugees in the area back into the Sudan. Families were made to stay inside their houses as the grass roofs were set alight. Only when the smoke and fire were threatening to kill them were people let out.
17 January 1997
In October 1996, more than one million Rwandan Hutu refugees, displaced by the 1994 Rwandan genocide, were forced to move from UNHCR refugee camps in Zaire. Camouflaged in their number were the feared Interahamwe, 70,000 Hutu militia who led the killings of moderate Hutus and 800,000 Tutsi in Rwanda two years before. As the refugees and Interahamwe moved towards Rwanda the Interahamwe killed Zairean villagers and kidnapped children to provide human shields.
17 January 1997
The Rt Revd David Gitari, Bishop of Kirinyaga Diocese, has been elected Archbishop of the Church of the Province of Kenya by the Church's 210-person strong Electoral College.
19 December 1996