Friday 27th January, 2012
Kenya: UN scales up refugee training to improve assistance in camps
The United Nations refugee agency today announced new strategies to ensure uninterrupted assistance and services in its largest complex in Kenya, including training and mentoring of refugees as well ...
Kenya counters vote-rigging with electronic register
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will switch to an electronic register of voters to curb ballot-rigging after ballot boxes at the 2007 elections were found to contain the votes of people who were dead, the ...
Court rejects Baraza appeal against tribunal
*/ The High Court yesterday rejected an application filed by embattled Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza to appeal against the decision to suspend her and set up a tribunal to investigate her ...
Beryl Odinga Sh1.5 million fraud case withdrawn
The Star*/ Prime Minister Raila Odinga's sister Beryl Lilian Okumu Odinga finally complied with court orders and presented herself yesterday before court for withdrawal of a Sh1.5 million fraud case ...
Kalonzo to lead Ruto, Uhuru peace rallies
The Star*/ Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka is this weekend scheduled to lead a series of rallies in Rift Valley and Central provinces to show solidarity with the four individuals whose crimes against ...
Expired sugar: Mombasa residents in danger
The StandardThe sugar was to have been destroyed by order of a court. The issue comes up a few days after a Mombasa court ordered the destruction of a consignment of sugar that had been impounded at the port ...
MPs want Parliament recalled
The StandardA group of members of parliament led by the chairman of the Committee of the Implementation of the Constitution Abdikadir Mohammed have demanded the immediate recalling of parliament to address what ...
State House meeting youths named
The StandardThe names of youths who attended a meeting with President Mwai Kibaki ahead of the 2007 general elections and who ICC judges said were members of the mungiki outlawed gang were made public ...
Court dismisses Karume paternity case
The StandardA man claiming to be the son of former Defence Minister, Mr Njenga Karume has suffered a setback following the dismissal of a paternity case he had filed in ...
Kenyans will vote electronically - IEBC
The StandardThe Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has said it will embrace Electronic Voting Systems in the forthcoming General Elections to avoid a repeat of ballot stuffing and other ...
Kenya Airways issues profit warning
General SourcesAfrica 's leading carriers, issued a profit warning on Friday, blaming the euro zone debt crisis, political unrest in Egypt and escalating fuel prices. The warning is likely to surprise ...
Tribal clashes kill at least 21 in northern Kenya
General Sourcesnorthern Kenya clashed over grazing rights for a second day on Friday, killing at least 21 people and torching houses, residents said. Corpses lay strewn in scrubland outside three villages near ...
UNHCR Employs Alternative Strategies in Managing the Dadaab Camps
All Africapress release This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic - to whom quoted text may be attributed - at the press briefing, on 27 January 2012, at the Palais des Nations ...
Lessons and Implications of the Confirmation of Charges Against Kenya's 'Ocampo Four'
All Africaanalysis As judge Ekaterina Trendafilova read out, on 23 January 2012, the carefully crafted ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the confirmation of charges against the Ocampo Six, ...
Living On the Edge in Turkana Region
All AfricaNairobi - The 850,000 residents of northwestern Kenya's vast and parched Turkana region face some of the most inhospitable living conditions on Earth. On their own, meagre average annual ...
Finance Minister Quits Over ICC Charges
All AfricaKenya's Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta resigned Thursday after the International Criminal Court ruled this week he should stand trial for his alleged role in 2007-8 post-election violence, a ...
KENYA: Shortage of HIV test kits raises concerns
IRINMore than a million faulty HIV tests have been withdrawn from circulation (file photo) NAROK, 27 January 2012 (PlusNews) - Voluntary counselling and testing centres around Kenya are turning people ...
Kenya central bank says in repo market for $11.8mn
General SourcesNAIROBI: The Kenyan shilling rose against the dollar on Wednesday helped by tea sector inflows and on banks selling dollars after the central bank's recent liquidity tightening exercises had ...
Kenya's richest man at a crossroad
General SourcesKenyatta, Kenya's richest man with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine at half a billion dollars, is the son of Jomo Kenyatta, the country's first president after independence from ...
Uhuru, Ruto Eligible for Presidency - CIC
All AfricaNairobi - The Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) is categorical that Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto are still eligible to vie for the ...
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