ALAN KNIGHT was one of the white settlers who led the move for racial reconciliation and partnership in Kenya in the aftermath of Mau Mau.

Ask around any office in Nairobi for a cricket fan and the reaction lies somewhere between a blank and a grimace. Cricket is not a Kenyan sport, say many, and some go further: it is not really an African sport - yet.

PARK RANGERS and staff at a lodge warmly welcomed the man charged with the murder of a British tourist when the court moved yesterday to the Masai Mara game reserve where the remains of Julie Ward were found 11 years ago.

PARK RANGERS and staff at a lodge gave a warm welcome to the man charged with the murder of a British tourist when the court moved yesterday to the Masai Mara game reserve where the remains of Julie Ward were found 11 years ago.

Emma McCune lived an extraordinary, short and romantic life. Raised in Yorkshire, she died in Africa in 1993, aged 29. There, she had become a star after marrying Riek Machar, a leader of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army. Emma's mother Maggie McCune, 57, lives in Surrey and next month publishes Till the Sun Grows Cold, the story of her daughter's life. Johnny McCune, 28, Emma's brother, is a producer with GMTV. He was in Africa when his sister died.

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THE CASE against one of the men accused of murdering the British tourist Julie Ward in Kenya 11 years ago was dropped yesterday.

NO ONE meeting Anne Spoerry - physician, aviator and adventurer - could forget her two greatest attributes: a heart of gold and the Big Voice she always wrote of with capital letters and which she developed specially, as she put it, "to get things done".

JOHN WARD hates the night flight from Gatwick to Nairobi. He says airlines get away with "dreadful service" because for most people the flight is a once-in-a-lifetime experience to a dream game park destination. Not for him; he has flown to Kenya more times than he can remember over the last 11 years - sometimes two or three times in a month - to doggedly pursue an investigation into the so-far unsolved murder of his daughter, Julie, in Kenya's Masai Mara national park.

AFTER 11 YEARS of extraordinary perseverance, John Ward will see the murder trial of his daughter, Julie, officially open in the Nairobi High Court today. "I am content because everything has been done now that could be done, and the stage is set for a fair and open trial," Mr Ward said of the event marking the end of an affair that has come to dominate his life.

STUDENTS AT two Kenyan universities clashed with riot police yesterday as violence spread in a protest against the exploitation of one of Kenya's last surviving virgin forests.