Capital FM KenyaKenya: Kibaki Orders Speedy Probe Into NHIF ScamAllAfrica.comCivil servants like other taxpaying Kenyans deserve a functional, efficient and cost effective health scheme," the President said. He warned that the Government would not to…
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Live Trading NewsVirgin finds Kenya market too hardDaily MonitorBy Peterson Thiong'o (email the author) Virgin Atlantic's decision to pull out of the Nairobi–London route has come as a shock to industry analysts and as a blessing to rivals like Ken…
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ABC NewsAfterbirthers Assemble! Rightbloggers Accuse Obama of NOT Being Born in KenyaVillage Voice (blog)The bio described him as "born in Kenya." As most non-insane articles that refer to Obama's birthplace -- including the first New York Times stor…
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Kenya government taken to court by conservation fraternityeTurboNewsAfter the decision was appealed, the appellate division confirmed jurisdiction and even the Kenyan case could head there in the end. :For now, legal action is going underway. We expe…
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NewsNet5.comKenyans win Rite Aid Cleveland Marathon, event sees 20000 for 1st time in 35 ...NewsNet5.comAbraham Kogo, 31, from Kenya, was the first to cross the finish line with a time of 2:19:59. Kogo took the lead at mile 21. Among the women, Mary…
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Plain DealerAdharanand Finn tries 'Running With the Kenyans' to uncover the marathoning magicPlain DealerMakau is, like many of the fastest runners in the world, Kenyan. Kenyans dominate long-distance running around the world, as Adharanand Finn's bo…
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SB Nation Bay AreaKenyan Man, Ethiopian Woman Beat 50000 Runners And Walkers To Win Bay To BreakersThe San Francisco AppealThe second runner to cross the finish line was Sammy Kitwara, 25, of Kenya. Kitwara's course time was 34 minutes and 41 seconds…
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Daily NationKenya's security forces losing the battle for Somali hearts and mindsDaily NationBy RASNA WARAH When does the Kenya Defence Force plan to capture the Al Shabaab-controlled city of Kismayu? Ever since Operation Linda Nchi started in Octobe…
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AFPKenya 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 and South Su…
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Telegraph.co.ukKenya Shilling Heads for Five Month Weekly Slump, on Low YieldsBloombergKenya's shilling fell against the dollar and headed for its highest weekly slump in five months on falling bond yields and a rush by risk-wary investors to buy dol…
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JOHANNESBURG, May 20 – South Africa’s renegade ex-youth leader Julius Malema received large and questionable payments from businesses in his home province of Limpopo, a newspaper reported Sunday. The 31-year-old reportedly benefited from a number…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 20 – Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday launched The National Alliance (TNA) party which he will use to vie for presidency in the forthcoming general elections. Under the slogan ‘I believe’, the Deputy Prime Mini…
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MOMBASA, Kenya, May 20 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga was in Mombasa on Sunday where he unveiled the Orange Democratic Movement “Reloaded campaigns” at the Likoni grounds. The premier cautioned Kenyans to vote wisely in the coming polls to ensur…
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DALLAS, Texas, May 20 – Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has challenged all leaders seeking elective posts to sign up and commit to free, fair and non-violent general elections as proposed by the newly launched Kenya Kwanza Initiative. Musyoka who wa…
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NAIROBI, Kenya, May 20 – Members of Parliament under the United Republican Party (URP) say they will use the floor of the House to push for an increase in budgetary allocations for County governments from 15 percent to 30 percent. Led by the party…
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ISLAMABAD, May 20 – Pakistan blocked Twitter on Sunday, saying the website had refused to remove posts promoting a Facebook competition involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. “The website has been banned by the Ministry of Information Tec…
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LONDON, May 20 – The British press on Sunday hailed the heroics of Didier Drogba in helping Chelsea win the Champions League and took pleasure in noting that a German side had “at last” lost on penalties. “Didi Did It,” was the headline in…
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HARARE, May 20 – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe reportedly told a former minister in his government that he wants to retire but fears his party would disintegrate, an independent weekly said on Sunday. “From what we discussed, Mugabe said he…
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NAIROBI, Kenya. May 20 – Police in Nairobi record at least three cases of stolen vehicles every week. The officer in charge of the Flying Squad in Nairobi Nyale Munga gave the figures after they arrested a suspect who illegally registered a stolen…
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Serb nationalist Tomislav Nikolic upset the odds to defeat incumbent Boris Tadic in a presidential run-off Sunday but vowed to pursue his predecessor's drive for the Balkans nation to join the EU.
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Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta signals his determination to contest the presidency despite the International Criminal Court indictments with the glittering launch of his new party, The National Alliance.
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The search is on for a suitable home for Baby Malaika.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga pledges to tackle problems facing the Coast region
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More than 40 families in parts of Mudug region in Central Somalia have been hit by heavy flooding.
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Zambia’s former president Rupiah Banda is expected to travel to Maseru, Lesotho on Monday
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Arab nations bordering the Persian Gulf often feel as comfortable as Maasai herders in a manyatta (hut) would
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A woman was robbed of Sh70,000 and shot dead outside her home in Obama estate Kayole, Nairobi, at the weekend.
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Red was the dominant colour at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre as Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta launched The National Alliance in Nairobi on Sunday.
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Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has promised Coast residents that they would enjoy the fruits of devolved government.
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LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - To East Africa's assets ofspectacular wildlife, abundant land and shimmering beaches youcan now add gas - so much gas it could transform global energyflows along with some of the world's poorest countries.
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LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - To East Africa's assets ofspectacular wildlife, abundant land and shimmering beaches youcan now add gas - so much gas it could transform global energyflows along with some of the world's poorest countries.
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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…
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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.
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* 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.
- 3 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

President Mwai Kibaki has urgead Kenyans living in areas earmarked for Vision 2030 cities not to hoard land for speculative purposes.
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Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her diamond jubilee in June marking 60 years on the helm as Her Majesty. Kenyans will join millions from around the world in watching the historic celebrations scheduled for early June.
- 4 hours ago, May 21, 2012 -

Fourteen schools have been closed in Baringo County with over 2,000 pupils dropping out to due to insecurity.
- 4 hours ago, May 21, 2012 -

Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta unveiled his much-publicised political vehicle, The National Alliance (TNA), at an elaborate and expensively assembled launch.
- 4 hours ago, May 21, 2012 -

Police have blamed some Muslim preachers for the rising cases of youth radicalisation that breeds terrorism.
- 4 hours ago, May 21, 2012 -

Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has once again asked Prime Minister Raila Odinga to quit politics claiming the PM was no longer influential.
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Politicians and civil society groups in Kangundo Constituency now want a thorough audit of relief supply and redistribution at the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) depot in Tala.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga is now supporting talks with the separatist Mombasa Republican Council (MRC).
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A family in Nyeri can finally breathe a sigh of relief after they found their daughter who had been missing for two months.
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United Republican Party (URP) has vowed to oppose nominees to the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) if it is not consulted by ODM ans PNU.
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[Capital FM] Nairobi - 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…
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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…
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[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…
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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.
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[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…
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[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…
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[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…
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… characters, and present the latest updates on them as they try to survive the toughest month of the year. In Kenya, Richard updates on Moja…
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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…
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RAF servicemen from a base in Shropshire are leaving on a mission to deliver football kits to schools, orphanages and communities in Kenya. The…
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David Passmore visits Nairobi Primary School to see the Bristol Kenya Partnership in action ahead of the country's athletes training in Bristol…
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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…
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Simon Reeve visits Mogadishu in Somalia while travelling around the Indian Ocean.
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… 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…
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… 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…
- 11 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…
- 13 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…
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For a country whose Constitution progressively embraces the imperative of dual national citizenship, Kenya’s formal institutions are incredibly timid when it comes to acknowledging the reality and benefits of hybrid ethnic identities. Read the Full…
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I am glad that Charles Onyango-Obbo had the gumption to ask the “elephant-in-the room” question in his report on military actions in Somalia published in the EastAfrican last week Read the Full Article
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The Judges and Magistrates’ Vetting Board, in recommending the removal of four judges a fortnight ago, offered the country at large and the Judiciary in particularly invaluable lessons on the conduct of state officials and their role in the country…
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga pledges to tackle problems facing the Coast region, and which have not been addressed by successive governments since independence. Read the Full Article
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I just turned 23. There is this guy I got to know about three years ago. In the first year, we used to go out but we could quarrel a lot and end up not speaking to each other for even a week. He never expressed what he felt for me apart from saying t…
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The appointment of 47 county commissioners by the President has been widely condemned as unconstitutional. However, most of the debate has centred on the issue of regional balance and proportionate gender representation. Read the Full Article
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Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta signals his determination to contest the presidency despite the International Criminal Court indictments with the glittering launch of his new party, The National Alliance. Read the Full Article
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In the past, the executive arm of government has gotten away with suspect, unpopular, and sometimes out-rightly illegal appointments to key positions in parastatals and other public institutions. Read the Full Article
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It is one of the most challenging aspects of management as it requires a fair amount of wisdom, fortitude and a steely resolve to stand by your rating despite the remorseful or downright resentful eyes of your subordinates sitting before you. Read th…
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President Yoweri Museveni's scathing outburst against Kenya-based Ugandan journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo published in both New Vision and Daily Monitor on May 7, left the Ugandan leader more exposed than the man he was trying to expose.
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The Coastal town of Mombasa played host to two presidential hopefuls with Prime Minister Raila Odinga and his deputy Musalia Mudavadi conducting parallel rallies as they sought to raise their political stakes in Region.
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga Sunday condemned frequent attacks on churches in the country and asked Kenyans to rise up collectively and defeat such acts of terrorism irrespective of their religious affiliations.
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The Government will not tolerate persons who plan to undermine efforts aimed at availing quality health services to Kenyans through corruption, President Mwai Kibaki has warned.
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IEBC is calling on the media censure political leaders who propagate hate speech during the campaigns for the forthcoming general elections.
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The VP praised Kenyans abroad for being at the forefront in the agitation for more civil liberties in the country Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka kicked off his tour of the US Saturday, by addressing Kenyans in Boston where he declared that he was see…
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SENIOR Kenya Railways officials yesterday visited a disputed house in the posh Kizingo estate which was last month demolished by a private developer who claimed ownership of the house.
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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.
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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.
- 2 days ago, May 19, 2012 -

Questions of misappropriation of the Cash Transfer Fund which the govt distributes to the elderly have been raised across the country.
- 3 days 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.
- 3 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).
- 3 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

Finance Minister Njeru Githae’s son allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday night at their Runda home in Nairobi.
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It has now emerged that one of the people who was injured in the grenade attack at a Mombasa nightclub was among the attackers.
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A security guard is believed to have died on Tuesday after suspected terrorists hurled three grenades to a night club in Mombasa.
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The proprietor of Club Click Jackson Maina Wangui and a bouncer accused of murdering a patron two weeks ago have denied the charges.
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KWS has defended its decision to transfer three orphaned cheetah cubs from the Mara Conservancy to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage.
- 6 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.
- 6 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.
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On April 26, the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) convicted the former Liberian President Charles Taylor of crimes under international ...
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Kenyans came out in droves early Wednesday to vote in a referendum on a new constitution, part of the reform process aimed at avoiding a repeat of the violence that followed December 2007's ...
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Until recently when fellow DPM and presidential aspirant Musalia Mudavadi joined the UDF after leaving ODM, Mr Kenyatta was widely considered the main political player eclipsing Martha Karua and ...
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The much-publicised strike called by the Dock Workers Union flopped last week exposing the union's soft underbelly and raising questions on how effectively it would represent members going ...
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File | NATION Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) is said to be quietly trying to come to a deal with MPs over a possible enactment of the Finance Bill in the next two ...
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Serb nationalist Tomislav Nikolic upset the odds to defeat incumbent Boris Tadic in a presidential run-off Sunday but vowed to pursue his predecessor's drive for the Balkans nation to join the ...
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Zambia's former president Rupiah Banda is expected to travel to Maseru, Lesotho on Monday where he is leading an 18-member election observation mission to the southern African nation next ...
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Residents of Rhoda slums in Nakuru town at a house that collapsed on Saturday night when raging floods rocked the area on May 20, 2012. Photo/SULEIMAN ...
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A powerful blast went off within a few metres of a team of UN truce monitors visiting the Damascus suburb of Douma on Sunday, an AFP correspondent ...
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"I had come from Narok headed to Maai Mahiu after purchasing hides and was advised by a friend to drive through a shortcut as the repair works were underway, but I got stuck in the mud for the ...
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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…
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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…
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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…
- 2 days 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…
- 2 days 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…
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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…
- 2 days 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…
- 2 days 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…
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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…
- 2 days 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…
- 2 days ago, May 18, 2012 -

The frequent grenade attacks in Kenya raise the question: Is this external or internal aggression
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Uganda is struggling with what should really not be a problem. On Saturday May 12, a unit of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces that has been hunting down the elusive Lord’s Resistance Army rebels in the jungles of Central Africa scored a signifi…
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Zimbabwean rights organisations have reacted angrily to a suggestion by a senator that women must shun bathing, have bald heads and dress shabbily to curb the spread of HIV. Senator Morgan Femai of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for De…
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

Greece has got no governmentAnd we feel much the same: Their major parties took a hitAnd ours are simply lame. Greece thinks a coalitionMight stabilize the State, But Kenyans know that power-sharingIsn’t all that great! It’s best…
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

THE COST of fuel in Kenya has once again gone up by Ksh2 in Nairobi and about similar margins across the country. This is happening at a time when Kenya seems to be at a cross roads; do we go Vision 2030, Konza City Way, the Thika Highway or what?
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

The proposal to give traditional councils of elders in Kenya statutory authority to adjudicate over some matters is well intentioned but ill advised. Well intentioned because its object is to give people at the village level access to justice. It is…
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

Given the lack of estimates, however, on what can the public base its inputs? One place to look is the Budget Committee’s report.”
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

I am not at all a believer in that Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus business, but there are times when I can understand how such a notion could become attractive. Zimbabwean politician Morgan Femai recently stated, and I quote: “What I propo…
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

Soon after he came to power, he made it clear that Africa’s biggest problem was leaders who overstayed their welcome.”
- 1 day ago, May 19, 2012 -

Something is happening in Kampala society and Bukedde Television is helping bring it out. People are getting bolder in their search for life partners and both men and women go openly on television to make their pitch for a suitor.
- 1 day ago, May 19, 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
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"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
- 22 days ago, April 29, 2012 -

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

A manhunt was launched for a sixth suspect who escaped.read more
- 29 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
- 31 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
- 32 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
- 37 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
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Explosions injured more than a dozen people along Kenya's coast today.read more
- 50 days ago, March 31, 2012 -