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Hague Court Ruling Body Challenges African Union Over Kenya
The relationship between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations Security Council has generated much discussion, criticism and controversy. The Security Council has played a crucial role in international criminal justice. It was the Council that established several ad hoc criminal tribunals, like the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the ...
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Kenya Visa and Equity Sign New Money Deal
Visa in partnership with Equity Bank yesterday launched a new money transfer service dubbed Visa Personal service. It enables Visa card holders to transfer money to other Visa card holders anywhere in the world. Equity Bank chief operating officer Julius Kimngetich said the service will enable Equity Bank Visa card holders receive funds at no cost. He said the service is instant and one can ...
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Kenya Pupils get cancer vaccine in Sh141m project
NAIROBI, KENYA: On May 14, nine-year-old Mariam became the first girl in Kenya to receive a free vaccine against cervical cancer at her Central Primary School ...
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Kenya Five people killed in Mandera
Degodia sub clans. North Eastern police boss Charlton Murithi said the injured are admitted at the local District Hospital in a stable condition with bullet wounds. "We suspect the attack was in an apparent retaliation to the ongoing clashes that have occurred in the past weeks. It happened deep in the villages and the attackers targeted herders," said Murithi. The attack happened days ...
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Improbably Missionary Trains Stars in Kenya
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Kenya Government Targets Six Percent GDP Growth in 2013
Kenya's economy expanded by 4.6 per cent in last year helped by growth in key sectors despite a turbulent global economy, delayed long rains and a weaker shilling in early 2012. The government is however targeting a six per cent GDP growth this year, an ambitious target going by figures resgistered in the past five years. The Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Anne Waiguru said ...
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Kenya President Uhuru woos Brazil at AU meeting
Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff on various projects in the country at the ongoing Africa Union 50 th anniversary in Ethiopia. The two leaders followed up on discussions held during the 2010 visit to Kenya by former ...
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Kenya Mudavadi wants Governors to oversee security
Musalia Mudavadi has called on the government to respect the Constitution and enforce the law that allows Governors to oversee County security in order to restore normalcy in security operations in the ...
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Mother Punished for Burning Son
A woman who set her son on fire has been sentenced to one year community service at Ziwa Ngombe. Saumu Said was accused of beating and burning her 10-year-old son for stealing Sh500. The boy had stolen the money from his aunt but gave back Sh300. His mother however, tied his hands and set them on fire. She only put out the fire when neighbours responded to the child's cries for help. Said ...
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Kenya KNUT Officials Plot Next Years Elections
KNUT officials in four counties in Western province have begun plans to take up top union positions after the death of their secretary general David Okuta. Most of the union's national executive members are set to retire between December and August next year leaving room for a battle for the top positions. The national chairman Wilson Sosion, second vice chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi and ...
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Kenya Maize Disease Destroys Crops
MAIZE farmers in Narok South district are counting losses after about 2,000 acres of their crop was destroyed by a strange viral disease suspected to be lethal necrosis. Speaking at Mogoiyuet Primary School in Narok yesterday, spokesman Simon Seroney said their crops have turned yellow. This is the second time the disease is reported in the South Rift region, Kenya's biggest maize belt. ...
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House Commitee Wants SRC Gazette Notice Revoked
THE Select Committee on Delegated Legislation of the national assembly has declared as unconstitutional, unlawful and ultra vires the gazette published by the Salaries Commission slashing MPs Salaries. In its report tabled in the House yesterday, the committee has recommended gazette notices number 2885, 2886, 2887, and 2888 should be annulled. The tabling of the report sets the stage for the ...
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Kenya Stanchart Hopes to Resolve Sh14 Billion Pension Case
Standard Chartered Bank is eagerly awaiting the determination of a court case in which its former employees sued it demanding up to Sh14.6 billion in unpaid pension. The bank's acting chairperson, Anne Mutahi told the annual general meeting it is counting on the new judiciary to expedite the matter that has lasted four years. She was responding to shareholders' concerns that the bank ...
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Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops
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 ...
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Kenya UK murder suspect Michael Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya last year.
Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend - one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday - had rejected the approach from the security ...
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World AU leaders mark 50th anniversary
On Friday, AU foreign ministers backed a request from Kenya to have crimes against humanity cases, brought against the president and vice president by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, referred back to ...
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Nairobi court finds two Iranians guilty
Two Iranians charged last year with being in possession of explosives have been found guilty of the offence. The court ruled that the two Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour had suspected links to a terror network planning bombings in Mombasa and Nairobi. The court is expected to sentence them on Monday next week. Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour, who were arrested last June, were found guilty of ...
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Kenya A Swiss National arrested while making a pornographic movie - girls were having sex with a dog in Mombasa
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Marrying a white man to elevate status is risky Swedish man wants his Kenyan ex-wife deported from Sweden without their baby
Sweden and the baby's Kenyan mother should be deported. He will take good care of the baby in Sweden, adding that the woman has been very cruel to him during their short-term ...
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Co-Op Bank Face Blazers in Top Premier League Match
REIGNING national champions Co-operative Bank of Kenya face Blazers in a top Premier League clash at the Nyayo Stadium tomorrow. The bankers, who last week whipped Strathmore University 82-61, are in lo losing mood after going down twice. Allan Ouma and Titus Musembi should rally the champs against Blazers free shooting Abel Nson. United States International University (USIU) ...
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Nyamweya to Sit in African Nations Championship Organizing Committee
Football Kenya Federation Sam Nyamweya has been picked to serve in the African Nations Championship (CHAN) Organizing Committee headed by Mamy Camara of Guinea. Nyamweya is among the four Kenyans who will serve in the key CAF's standing and legal committees for the next two years. CAF unveiled the standing committee at it's two-day executive committee meeting in Cairo last week. ...
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One in 7 Kenyans receive money from abroad
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 ...
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Kenya Lamu residents not consulted on Lapsset project TJRC says
Lamu rely on the media to establish whether their rights to the land they occupy would be recognised? if the Government moves? to implement the Sh2 ...
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Rawal Denies Shes a Gatekeeper for the State
Nairobi - The nominee for Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana Rawal was on Friday put to task by Parliament's Justice and Legal Affairs committee over her past judgements. Members of the committee put her on the spot over key cases like that on Robert Ouko's murder and investigations into Professor George Saitoti's death. "Is it by coincidence that every time that there is an ...
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Farmers Ask Koskei to Address Challenges
Farmers in Rift Valley have petitioned the Agriculture Secretary Felix Koskei to address key challenges in the sector especially the provision of subsidies to farmers. The farmers yesterday said the high prices of farm inputs including fertiliser, seeds and chemicals reduce production of food and cash crops in the country. "He must come up with clear-cut policies that will boost ...
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Kenya leading the world on credit access
Kenya has been hailed by the World Bank as a world leader in financial innovation, revamping its financial services sector in such a way that access for the poor to micro-loans is made easier, providing the means to independence and future prosperity.
Proponents of micro-loans argue that they are a significant means of lifting the poor out of poverty and providing them with the means by which to develop financial independence. When one considers that Kenya has a population in which around 56% of people live below the poverty line, the government’s efforts to increase access to credit and financial services for the poor becomes poignant. Read more
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