A giant clown float spearheaded the 2009 Rose Monday Parade in Mainz. © picture-alliance/dpa

Crazy days in Germany these days ... "Karneval"

Carnival season in Germany starts on 11 November and reaches its climax now: from "Womens Carnival Day" on Thursday to Ash Wednesday there are major street processions where people dress up in humorous costumes or in traditional dress and masks and join in the street festivals. Hotbeds are Mainz, Cologne, Duesseldorf and Bonn. The tradition stems back to the ancient custom of driving out winter.

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Federal Foreign Office increases emergency humanitarian aid for Somalia by one million euro

The Federal Foreign Office has made 1,000,000 euro available to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to enable it to provide emergency care for internally displaced persons in Somalia. The funds will be used to provide food, drinking water, medicine and emergency shelter for particularly affected groups of the population.

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Universal Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust

It was January 27 when the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated by the Red Army 65 years ago.

In 1996, Germany declared January 27 the national Holocaust Remembrance Day. The UN followed in 2005 and declared it the International Day on Holocaust Remembrance.

"If you forget about the past, you cannot shape the future ..."

Ambassador Margit Hellwig-Boette's speech at UN Headquarters in Nairobi gives the German perspective on Holocaust Remembrance Day 2010.

Kenyan Peacemaker wins Global Award

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, a peace activist from North Eastern Province, is the winner of a global award, the 2009 Hesse Peace Prize which she received in Germany last week.

Ms. Abdi, born in Wajir in 1964, grew up in a mixed neighbourhood of different ethnic groups and religions, in which, although a Muslim, her closest childhood friends were Christian and of a different ethnic group.

Green Generation Campaign

Green Generation Campaign

Capital FM journalist Judy Kaberia handed over t-shirts of the "Green Generation Campaign" to German Ambassador Margit Hellwig-Boette.

The Green Generation Campaign was launched in August last year with a view of protecting the country's water catchment areas such as the forests, wetlands and rivers to help provide food, water and power. Capital FM started the campaign to raise awareness and also participate in restoring the country's degrading environment. The Green Generation Campaign targets to plant 10 million trees by 2010.

Under the sponsorship of the German Embassy Nairobi 20,000 trees were planted in Mau at Kaptunga Forest. Capital FM staff and fans participated in the exercise - dressed in the Green Generation Campaign t-shirts sponsored by the German Embassy.

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