Kenyan weathermen put on a brave frontDaily NationMany Kenyans currently experiencing heavy rains and flooding swear that experience over time has taught them not to trust broadcasts from the Kenya Meteorological Department. Some say weather forecast…
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Kenya Re Rebranding CocktailAllAfrica.comBy Joel Magu, 19 May 2012 The oldest Reinsurance in Eastern and Central Africa - Kenya Reinsurance Corporation - took up the technology challenge and finally re-branded at a colourful dinner emceed by Citizen…
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Kenya: Kitale to Get 3000 TreesAllAfrica.com"We are partnering with Kenya Forest Service and the Kitale Asian community to plant the seedlings to make our environment green," he said. He said the trees will be planted along the town's streets and bes…
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Kenya: Relative Values - We've Always Been Best Friends but I Once Betrayed My ...AllAfrica.comI cannot forget how we used to cry when our mother was leaving for Kenya after visiting us. It was not easy; we love our mother very much even to date. In…
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East AfricanKenya's exports to region up 34 pcEast AfricanFarmers from Mau Narok in Kenya's Rift Valley wash carrots for export to Uganda which offers better prices. Kenya's exports to Uganda grew from $626 million to $915 million — a 47 per cent r…
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Kenya: Superhighway Speed Capped At 50kphAllAfrica.comBy Lordrick Mayabi, 18 May 2012 Nairobi, Kenya — The Traffic Police department has now set the maximum speed limit in the yet-to-be commissioned Thika Superhighway at 50 kilometers per hour. Nai…
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ABC NewsCounterfeit KenyanWall Street JournalBreitbart.com "has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as 'born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.' " Of cour…
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Kenya's 2012 tourism earnings to dip on euro crisis, attacksReutersBy Beatrice Gachenge | NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's white sandy beaches look set to have fewer visitor footprints meandering over them this year. While this may be good news for Europe…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Telegraph.co.ukKenya shilling extends losses vs dollar, stocks rallyReutersCentral bank mops up $17.2 mln via repos * Euro woes to weigh on shilling, stocks * StanChart, Barclays, Uchumi lift bourse (Adds markets close, stocks) By Kevin Mwanza and Du…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Telegraph.co.ukKenya PM: Sudan conflict threatens world oil pricesCNNSee more on the interview with Kenya's prime minister Raila Odinga and the conflict in Sudan on Market Place Africa today at 1945 CET. (CNN) -- The spiraling conflict between Sudan…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

MUNICH, Germany, May 19 – Didier Drogba was the hero as Chelsea shattered Bayern Munich’s Champions League dream here on Saturday with victory in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out at the Allianz Arena. Drogba stepped up to rifle home the winning pe…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19 – Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta gets his big day on Sunday, when he launches his new party at the KICC and simultaneously across Kenya and in the Diaspora. The event, whose cost is billed to run into several millions o…
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BOSTON, May 19 – Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka on Saturday kicked off his tour of the United States, by addressing Kenyans in Boston where he declared that he was seeking the presidency in order to unite the country, lead the fight against corrupt…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 19 – President Mwai Kibaki has ordered for a speedy conclusion of a probe into the scandal surrounding the Civil Servants Medical Scheme, promising that punitive action would be taken on those found to have ‘participated in an…
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CAIRO, May 19 – Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi will travel to Sudan on Sunday, following a request from Khartoum for help over South Sudan’s invasion of the Heglig oilfield, Arabi’s deputy said. Arabi will hold talks with President Omar al-Ba…
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  MOMBASA, Kenya, May 19 – Mombasa County was abuzz with activity on Saturday as Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his most trusted friend turned rival Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi of the United Democratic Forum (UDF) try to muscle for pop…
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ADDIS ABABA, May 18 – Five of 11 people accused of links with Al-Qaeda and Somalia’s Shebab rebels and of plotting to overthrow Ethiopia’s government appeared in court Friday. Another six have been charged in absentia with terrorism in Ethiopia…
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MALABO, May 18 – The government of Equatorial Guinea’s Prime Minister Ignacio Milam Tang resigned in line with a constitutional reform approved in November, the country’s communications minister said on Friday. “The government will present it…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May, 19 – Parliament’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has rejected a request from the Independent Electoral and Boundary Commission’s (IEBC) for Sh35 billion to hold the next general elections, instead pressing the polls bo…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 18 – Road engineers have started repair work on the Mai Mahiu – Narok road section that was closed on Thursday after huge cracks emerged in the middle of the busy highway. Engineer Daniel Cherono of the Kenya National Highways…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his estranged deputy Musalia Mudavadi are expected to flex their political muscles this weekend when they hold parallel rallies in Mombasa.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Eleven years ago, Ruth Achieng was dreaming of motherhood. As her difficult pregnancy progressed to term, she occasionally suffered heavy bleeding, though the doctor reassured her that this was expected owing to her HIV positive status.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Elections in Kenya are the most expensive in the world thanks to a high voter registration cost, administrative inefficiencies and outright theft of funds.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

The electoral commission has opposed a petition by a Malindi politician seeking a declaration that sections of the Constitution are unconstitutional.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

The widow of the late Olympic champion Samwel Wanjiru has threatened to stop the launch of a book that claims the athlete was murdered, saying it will damage her character.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

A humanitarian crisis looms at Sibilo and Bartabwa villages of Baringo North District following the displacement of more than 800 families by fighting between the Pokot and the Tugen.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Eldoret North MP William Ruto on Friday took his campaign to Meru where he called on the community to vote for United Republican Party, saying it had the interests of Kenyans at heart.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

The market for traditional sweet potatoes and arrowroots has never been so good.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Congolese musicians love big bands. Some, with up to 30 musicians in a session, even style themselves as orchestras. The most famous of these, perhaps, was TPOK Jazz led by Luambo Luanzo Makiadi, popularly known as Franco.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Tourists travelling to and from the world famous Maasai Mara game reserve were on Friday forced to use other routes following the closure of the Maai Mahiu-Narok road.
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SHANGHAI, May 19 (Reuters) - China's Liu Xiang lit up arain-soaked Shanghai Diamond League meeting with the quickest110 metres hurdles time of the year on Saturday, sprinting tovictory in 12.97 seconds to the delight of his home town crowd.
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NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters) - Plans to create a 26-nation freetrade area by integrating three existing African trade blocs byJuly 2014 are on track and the only major sticking point islikely to be harmonising rules of origin, the three blocs saidon…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

NAIROBI, May 18 (AlertNet) - When Nyajany Kutil left Kenya'sKakuma refugee camp to return home to South Sudan in 2008, shedid not imagine that war would force her back across the borderagain so soon.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

* Central bank mops up $17.2 mln via repos * Euro woes to weigh on shilling, stocks * StanChart, Barclays, Uchumi lift bourse (Adds markets close, stocks) By Kevin Mwanza and Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters) - The Kenya shi…
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CANNES, France, May 18 (Reuters) - Just who exploits and whois exploited in the sex tourism industry is the question askedin director Ulrich Seidl's "Paradise Love", a powerful andunsettling exploration of female loneliness and economicimbalance…
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LONDON, May 18 (Reuters) - Kenyan Treasury bill yields arelikely to fall to single digits for the first time sinceSeptember at an auction next week, while healthy demand isexpected at Zambia's first bond auction in two months onThursday.
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* Sector is a top foreign exchange earner; raked in record$1.2 bln in 2011
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NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters) - Kenya's central bank sought totake 7 billion shillings ($83 million) in excess liquidity outof the market through repurchase tenders (repos), for the sixthstraight session on Friday.
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NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters) - The Kenya shilling weakened on Friday, pushed down by importer orders for thegreenback, although traders said they expected the central bankto keep supporting the local currency. At 0652 GMT, banks quoted the shill…
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NAIROBI, May 18 (Reuters) - The following company announcements, scheduled economicindicators, debt and currency market moves and political events may affect African markets onFriday. - - - - - EVENTS: MAURITIUS-Bank of Mauritius to offer 4…
- 2 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

At a news conference nine days ago today, Cricket Kenya Chief Executive Officer Tom Sears, knowingly or unknowingly, stirred a hornet's nest.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Smarting from the exit of yet another political heavy weight, Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi, ODM has stepped up measures for political survival in Parliament.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

The furore over the appointment of County Commissioners has touched off fears corrupt Government officials will take advantage of the ensuing vacuum to plunder public resources.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Donors have withdrawn funding to the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) Council over leadership wrangles.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Mombasa will be the testing ground for the commitment to clean politics by leaders in the Orange Democratic Movement and the United Democratic Forum.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

President Kibaki has demanded a speedy probe into the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) scam and promised tough action on the culprits.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Uhuru Kenyatta's launch of his own political party ends anxiety among supporters over which outfit he will use for his planned presidential campaign.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

The stalemate over a key devolution Bill could cause a constitutional crisis and risk Parliament's dissolution should anyone raise a challenge in court.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Deputy Prime Ministers Uhuru Kenyatta and Musalia Mudavadi are in a fix as they continue to hold onto influential political offices without official job descriptions.
- 38 mins ago, May 20, 2012 -

Details are now emerging on how two former officials of Kanu cleared the party's bank accounts of Sh6.5 million, nine days after being ousted from office.
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[The Star] There are phrases about democracy which seem meaningless, until you see the ideas behind them being put into practice. One of these phrases, is that democratic government involves "the rule of law, rather…
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] ALBINOS living near the borders are more vulnerable to attacks, kidnappings and stigmatisation. Speaking during a workshop organised in Mombasa, the managing trustee of the Albinism Foundation of East Afr…
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] A Siaya court has acquitted George Donde, director of the controversial Deci entrepreneurship who had been charged with fleecing the public of millions of shillings.
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] AN Italian businessman who has been living in Kenya for close to three decades was relived yesterday after the High Court stopped the government from deporting him.
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] Double world champion Vivian Cheruiyot showed her class in the 1,500m as the Kenya Police athletics Championships concluded yesterday at Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani.
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] CLOSE to 500 Muslims in Mombasa yesterday took to the streets to protest the delay in the investigations into the murder of Muslim cleric Samir Khan and the disappearance of his colleague Mohammed Kassim.
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] Police in Eldoret have arrested five suspects in connection with the killing of a senior lecturer at Moi University. The suspects were found in possession of a mobile phone belonging to Ambrose Kibet who…
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] Be on the lookout the next time you swipe your card. This is the warning credit and debit card holders will have to bear in mind after police in the city received complaints of alleged thefts at ATMs and…
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] The Kenya Wildlife Service has failed to contain elephant poaching in Kenya and it has now reached alarming levels, according to research by KWS scientists and their American counterparts using satellite…
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

[The Star] COAST leaders are sharply divided ahead of political tours by Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his former deputy Musalia Mudavadi set for tomorrow.
- 5 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Andy takes Kip on a wild adventure to see elephants in Kenya. He watches as they cover themselves in dust to stay protected from the sun and manages…
- 14 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

RAF servicemen from a base in Shropshire are leaving on a mission to deliver football kits to schools, orphanages and communities in Kenya. The…
- 15 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Andy takes Kip on a wild adventure to see flamingos in Kenya. He dances with a million pink flamingos and then uses Kip's invention to surf across…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

David Passmore visits Nairobi Primary School to see the Bristol Kenya Partnership in action ahead of the country's athletes training in Bristol…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Michelle Jana Chan gives her top travel ideas for the coming weeks including watching Alaska's brown bears feasting on wild salmon as they head…
- 3 days ago, May 17, 2012 -

Simon Reeve visits Mogadishu in Somalia while travelling around the Indian Ocean.
- 6 days ago, May 13, 2012 -

… to British interests. The man the British chose was called Colonel Ian Henderson. He had been a colonial police officer in Kenya in the 1950s…
- 8 days ago, May 11, 2012 -

… the wildlife action on Planet Earth Live on Sunday and we are hoping they will join us for tonight's updates with Richard Hammond in Kenya and…
- 10 days ago, May 9, 2012 -

… event of 2012 as the Diamond League season gets underway. Among those in action are 800m world record holder David Rudisha of Kenya, while Jamaican…
- 11 days ago, May 8, 2012 -

… second while last year's winner Jacob Chesire, also of Kenya, finished third. Alice Chelangat from Kenya won the women's race in another record…
- 12 days ago, May 7, 2012 -

MOMBASA, Kenya, May 19 – Mombasa County was abuzz with activity on Saturday as Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his most trusted friend turned rival Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi of the United Democratic Forum (UDF) try to muscle for popula…
- 13 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Elections in Kenya are the most expensive in the world thanks to a high voter registration cost, administrative inefficiencies and outright theft of funds. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Musalia Mudavadi are expected to flex their political muscles this weekend when they hold parallel rallies in Mombasa. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Eleven years ago, Ruth Achieng was dreaming of motherhood. As her difficult pregnancy progressed to term, she occasionally suffered heavy bleeding, though the doctor reassured her that this was expected owing to her HIV positive status. Read the Full…
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

There is a certain age when men are expected to stop playing the field and settle into marital bliss with the woman they will spend the rest of their lives with. But there is a breed of men who have a hard time committing. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

ADDIS ABABA, May 18 – Five of 11 people accused of links with Al-Qaeda and Somalia’s Shebab rebels and of plotting to overthrow Ethiopia’s government appeared in court Friday. Another six have been charged in absentia with terrorism in Ethiopia…
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

I have always thought jangili is a Kiswahili word. But Ngugi wa Thiong’o gives me a good idea why the word is not found in the pages of D.V. Perrott’s Essential Swahili Dictionary. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

The rules of the Supreme Court are meant for legal practitioners. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

What a shame that the Attorney General succumbed to political pressure to withdraw the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill, 2012, from Parliament. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

The sight of the expanding skyline of Nairobi or Mombasa would impress any foreign visitor. Read the Full Article
- 16 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Hundreds of commuters including tourists visiting the Maasai Mara game reserve were stranded for several hours yesterday after the government ordered the closure of the Mai Mahiu-Narok highway.
- 1 hour ago, May 19, 2012 -

Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland SA o TomA© and PrA ncipe Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Western Sahara Zambia Zimbabwe AIDS Africa on the Move Agribusiness Aid and Assistance Arms and Armies Arts Asia, Australia, and Africa Athletics…
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Kassim Jembe, the university student suspected to be behind the grenade attack at a nightclub in Mombasa last Tuesday has surrendered to Kenya's Anti-Terrorism Police Unit and denied any links to the attacks.
- 10 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Police Commissioner Matthew Iteere says he has written to the Minister for Finance to reinstate a law that will see heavy commercial vehicles get Transport Licensing Board licensing.
- 13 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Sophomore marketing major Marc Flores, 20, right, of Houston glances at blindfolded Amnesty International student protester Luka Mutinda, 21, seated a senior biology major from Mombasa, Kenya, during a protest April 24 at Stephen F. Austin State Univ…
- 17 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

The workshop agenda will discuss communication strategies for the implementation of the Papal exhortation document known as Africae Munus at regional and national level.
- 21 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

For the G8 summit, Obama unveils a promise by private firms to invest $3 billion in raising Africa's farm productivity.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

While this may be good news for Europeans seeking escape from economic storms at home, it is bad news for Suresh Sofat's tour firm and other Kenyans hoping to cash in on hard currency earnings - especially after 2011 was year of plenty for them.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan city of Mombassa on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

He is yet to give 30 more cows before their upcoming church wedding. Daau is a South Sudanese Anglican priest who has been living as a refugee in Kenya since the early 1990s.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Questions of misappropriation of the Cash Transfer Fund which the govt distributes to the elderly have been raised across the country.
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Msambweni MP Omar Zonga was arrested by the EACC over fraud-related charges and released on a KES 500, 000 personal bond.
- 2 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

A record 118 candidates will square it out for the nine slots available for Kenya in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA).
- 2 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

Finance Minister Njeru Githae’s son allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday night at their Runda home in Nairobi.
- 3 days ago, May 17, 2012 -

It has now emerged that one of the people who was injured in the grenade attack at a Mombasa nightclub was among the attackers.
- 3 days ago, May 17, 2012 -

A security guard is believed to have died on Tuesday after suspected terrorists hurled three grenades to a night club in Mombasa.
- 4 days ago, May 16, 2012 -

The proprietor of Club Click Jackson Maina Wangui and a bouncer accused of murdering a patron two weeks ago have denied the charges.
- 4 days ago, May 16, 2012 -

KWS has defended its decision to transfer three orphaned cheetah cubs from the Mara Conservancy to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage.
- 4 days ago, May 15, 2012 -

African Justice Ministers and AGs converge in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to discuss ways of expanding the mandate of the African Court of Justice.
- 5 days ago, May 15, 2012 -

Clinix Healthcare Chairman Jayesh Saini has now come out to defend his company saying the tender that they were awarded was clean.
- 6 days ago, May 14, 2012 -

The National Libyan Council, the interim government in "liberated Libya", is claiming that Kenya, Niger, Mali have sent regular troops to assist the Ghaddafi ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Already, 1.6 million Kenyans are receiving food aid to compensate for drought and poor harvests. Government however warns the number could skyrocket to 5 million within a few months, as rains have ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

The Ethiopian government is hailing Kenya for its registration of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as "an organised criminal body." Several OLF rebels have already been killed and arrested ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

A new survey reveals that over 14 percent of Kenyans receive substantial money transfers from abroad each year. For Africa as a whole, remittances currently reach up to US$ 30 billion ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

A new study into human trafficking trends in East Africa reveals that the capitals of Kenya and Tanzania are the region's main magnet for children and adults tricked into exploitative labour ...
- 3 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

There are phrases about democracy which seem meaningless, until you see the ideas behind them being put into practice. One of these phrases, is that democratic government involves "the rule of ...
- 4 hours ago, May 19, 2012 -

A Kenyan lorry driver died on Thursday afternoon when the canter he was driving rammed into a stationary truck in Amagoro, 6kms from the Kenya-Uganda border at Malaba. John Kenga was rushed to Kocholia District Hospital but died on arrival at Bungo…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

MORE than 500 students of Lambwe Secondary School in Mbita district in Homa Bay county have rejected the new principal and her deputy. The students trekked for more than 20kms to the district headquarters at Mbita Point to express displeasure with…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

AN assistant chief in Teso South district has ordered the arrest of a man who attempted to defile a primary school pupil. Okatekok assistant chief, Margaret Osia said the 27-year-old man tried to defile a 15-year-old standard eight pupil of Kaliwa…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

CONTROVERSY is looming in the United Democratic Forum party in Kakamega county after the party's office was opened in Mumias East constituency yesterday. Kakamega county interim party coordinator Geofrey Nasiali said the party has recruited more th…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

MPs in Siaya county are divided over the sharing of the devolved seats in the five constituencies in the region. The scramble for the seats has caused disquiet in the county, leaving three legislators in one camp against two in the second group. Fina…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Kitale Municipal Council is planning to plant more than 3,000 tree seedlings this month before the end of the ongoing rains.  Speaking to press in Kitale yesterday, the council’s Environmental Officer Godfrey Wekesa said the exercise will begin…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

FORMER Subukia legislator Koigi Wamwere has called on universities to be in the forefront in the fight against negative ethnicity. He said tribalism is divisive and retrogressive and warned against stereotyping tribes.Wamwere was speaking during the…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

The government has ordered squatters living in Gomongo area of Gilgil to move out after a huge rock crashed into a house, seriously injuring the occupants. A woman and her husband and son escaped death narrowly after the boulder from the nearby hills…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

A man was killed by thugs on Friday and his father seriously injured at Wamuini B village in Trans Nzoia county. Evans Ndung’u Wainaina, 29, was killed after he realised the thugs were raiding his father Joseph Ndung’u’s house and raised the…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

The Kenya Red Cross is in Baringo North to help more than 2,000 people displaced by cattle rustling incidents. Many of the families have fled from their homes near Bartabwa and Kipsaraman areas along the border of Baringo North and Pokot E…
- 1 day ago, May 18, 2012 -

Kenya has slashed its 2012 economic growth projections to between 3.5 and 4.5 per cent from last month’s forecast of 5.2 per cent,
- 4 days ago, May 15, 2012 -

THE INTERNATIONAL Monetary Fund is prepared to work with Africa even after the African Union declared a plan to establish an African Monetary Fund to monitor the continent’s fiscal systems.
- 4 days ago, May 15, 2012 -

In the past 50 years, East Africa has never been completely off the radar screen of the international oil and gas industry, but apart from some small gas discoveries in Tanzania in the 1970s and ‘80s, exploration efforts in the region were unsucces…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

In a bizarre ritual, Hindu priests in the south Indian state of Karnataka toss babies from the rooftop of a temple onto a cloth held by waiting men, believing that this will make them grow stronger. The UK Telegraph reports that large crowds of devot…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

Austerity, thank god,Is dead:The new French PrezWill resurrect The need for spending,Jobs and growthAnd exorciseSarkozy’s ghost. So Socialism’sBack in vogueAnd Europe’s once moreOn the road To something likeOld liberté,éga…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

THE DARING affirmation by US President Barack Obama that people must respect the rights of homosexual has become the developing world’s worst enemy currently. This affirmation has been termed Obama’s political and moral suicide by his challengers…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir’s obstinacy could endanger the entire region. He maintains that the United Nations and the African Union cannot impose their will on Sudan vis a vis the continuing clashes with the newly independent Republic of Sou…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

The warning by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga that ethnic violence could recur during next year’s general election should be taken seriously by all political players.
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

On a visit to Kenya last week, the National Democratic Institute — a Washington based lobby group — pronounced Kenya not ready to hold a democratic and violence-free general election. This was not — as we often claim when criticised — yet ano…
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

Had the finance minister opted to explain “fiscal risks” clearly in Annex 10 itself, he might have avoided parliamentary and media misinterpretation.”
- 7 days ago, May 12, 2012 -

A pool of blood marked the entrance to the Bella Vista club, while spent cartridges and grenade shells were strewn near its gate. read more
- 3 days ago, May 16, 2012 -

NAIROBI — In the latest incident of growing conflict between humans and wildlife in East Africa, a lion stalked an upmarket suburb of Nairobi for months before being shot dead by park rangers.read more
- 4 days ago, May 16, 2012 -

"I heard a blast and then around me everyone was covered in blood," Steven Mulinge, the church's pianist, said. "Later I found myself lying down with a deep cut on my hip."read more
- 20 days ago, April 29, 2012 -

Activists point blame back at the US for unspent funding. John Donnelly read more
- 23 days ago, April 27, 2012 -

A manhunt was launched for a sixth suspect who escaped.read more
- 28 days ago, April 21, 2012 -

Africa's rivers and lakes are prone to shortages and not suitable for drinking. But a groundbreaking study has shown that the subterranean water resources could number over a million cubic kilometers.read more
- 29 days ago, April 20, 2012 -

Britain has released thousands of classified files from the days of British colonial rule, including one that names President Barack Obama's father at the top of a list of "anti-white" Kenyans studying in the US.read more
- 31 days ago, April 18, 2012 -

NAIROBI — Until recently Kenyan beer drinkers were limited to a few mass-produced fizzy lagers. Now there is a microbrewery that makes a variety of specialty brews named for the country's famous wildlife.read more
- 35 days ago, April 14, 2012 -

A landslide in Kenya has killed at least six people, as many others remain trapped in the rubble. read more
- 45 days ago, April 4, 2012 -

Explosions injured more than a dozen people along Kenya's coast today.read more
- 49 days ago, March 31, 2012 -