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World Curfew imposed in Maiduguri Nigeria
Nigeria's military has imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri as it presses its offensive against ...
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World Gay marriage legal in France
The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservatives in France, where allowing gay marriage is one of the biggest social reforms since abolition of the death penalty in ...
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Sports Jose Mourinhos worst season
Widely expected to move on at the end of the campaign and linked with a return to Chelsea, a grim-faced Mourinho gave little away about his future but said Real, the world's richest club by income, had suffered a "disastrous" season, with only a ...
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Kenya MP distances self from pay rise demands
MPs entered the house earning Sh50,000 and they got Sh500,000 which is quite big for them and they are contented with it. Some of us didn't join parliament so as just to earn money, we have worked for many years without pay serving the people," said Njuki. The MP stressed on the need for servant leadership and vowed to serve the country irrespective of ...
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MPs Are Only the Face of Our Collective Greed
Tuesday 14th May saw a demonstration outside Parliament to protest the MPs planned salary increment. While I was in solidarity with them on the notion of ensuring that as a nation, leader's salaries ought not to be a mill stone on the national GDP, their rage was misplaced and they failed to see our collective role in the MPs clawing at the budget. I think MPs ought to be given that salary ...
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Priest Attacked By Employee
The priest-in-charge of Christ the King Catholic Parish in Nanyuki town is recuperating at Huruma Mission Hospital after being hit with a hammer on the head by his employee. Father Franco Crabu was attacked by his long time driver Emmanuel Wachira on Monday following an unknown dispute. According to the Parish chairman Samson Mburugu, Wachira came to the Father's house on Monday evening, ...
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Isiolo Woman Asks CJ to Intervene
A woman has appealed to Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to intervene and rescind a court decision to have her pay a lawyer an outstanding bill until her case is complete. Lilian Nkirote has been ordered by an Isiolo court to pay her lawyer Mbaabu M'Inoti Sh48,076 failure to which she will be jailed. Speaking to reporters in Meru town, Nkirote said they had originally agreed with the lawyer ...
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Kenyans Asked to Report Corrupt Procurement
Report procurement malpractices in your county to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. There have been reports of county governments being accused of illegal recruitment. Here is Irene Keino from the ...
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Lawyer Quits Bungoma Poll Petition
A lawyer representing a petitioner in a case filed at the Bungoma High Court challenging the election of a Bungoma women's representative has sought to withdraw from the case. Lawyer Sichele sort to withdraw from representing the major Godfrey Masaba in a case challenging the election of Reginalda Wanyonyi. Judge Hellen Omondi directed that the petitioner appoints another advocate to ...
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Six Murder Suspects Out of Tana Delta Police Cells
Six murder suspects yesterday escaped from Gamba police station in the Tana Delta. Five of the suspects are accused of killing police officers in Kilelengwani last year. The sixth was allegedly involved in the killing of a schoolboy, who was shot with an arrow, at Chara last week. The boy died while undergoing treatment at Coast General Hospital. Sources said the suspects escaped through the ...
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Kanunga High School On the Spot Over Missing Student
The parent of a boy who went missing two months ago from Kanunga High School has written to the Ministry of Education PS seeking the government's intervention to have the school investigated. Speaking to the press outside the school compound yesterday, Kellen Wairimu said 17-year-old Obadiah Karanja disappeared after he was allegedly sent home on March 15 by the school deputy principal ...
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Lost Pupil Found in Webuye
A standard eight pupil who went missing 10 days ago has been found. Ibrahim Okwiri of Kakamega Hill school who disappeared from the school a day after the schools opened was found in Webuye where he had joined street families. His mother, Caroline Shichenje, said Ibrahim went missing from the school on May 6. The school management did not inform Ibrahim's parents or report the matter to ...
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Kisumu Slums Children Get Sh21.1 Funding
SOME 7,800 Most Vulnerable Children living in slums in Kisumu County have benefitted from Early Childhood Development Education. The programme targets MVCs who include school children who are at risk of dropping out. The project is designed to complement the Kisumu City Directorate of Education office's efforts to achieve the second millennium development goals. The Sh21.1 million project ...
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Kenya Herders Disobey Police Orders Against Trading in Tseikuru
HERDER who had previously clashed with residents of Tseikuru district in Kitui, have defied measures put in place by local security authorities and ventured into area. A district security committee and peace meeting on Monday outlawed the use of panya routes by the pastoralist in taking their livestock for sell in Tseikuru markets. It was chaired by deputy County Commissioner Stephen Momanyi ...
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Buffaloes Herds Trouble Nakuru
LAKE Nakuru senior Park Warden John Wambua has raised an alarm over the increasing number of buffaloes at the park which stand at 4,800. Wambua said the park has a holding capacity of 500 buffaloes but the number has so far surpassed the the required number. "In a census carried out back in the year 2009 it showed that the number of buffaloes had gone higher than the expected," he ...
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Kenya Kenya May Soon Reap Millions From Its Forests Says Kefri Researcher
A scientist at the Kenya Forestry Research Institute has said the forests may soon earn Kenya millions of shillings when the carbon offset scheme begins. Researcher Chemuku Wekesa said the scheme will start once the development policies are set by the Environment ministry and discussions take place at the national and international levels. "The carbon trading business is big and will soon ...
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Kenya Kengen to Increase Power Output
Power producer Kengen plans to increase output to the national grid by 70mw by December this year to address the high national demand, managing director Eddy Njoroge said on Wednesday. The power will be supplied by the new Olkaria IV geothermal power plant which is part of the 280mw Olkaria complex, the biggest geothermal plant in the world. Njoroge said construction is on course with 50 per ...
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Kenyans flock to vote on crucial referendum
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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Kenya Swiss national decries high bail terms in porn case
court in Mombasa with luring 11 Kenyan women into prostitution has moved to the High Court to challenge the Sh1 million bond slapped on him on ...
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Kenya Kidero promises to work with Government
Speaking in his office at City Hall, Mr Kidero said he is prepared and anxious to co-operate with Jubilee's central administration despite being popularly elected on the opposition's Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) ...
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Kerry to visit Middle East Africa in late May
US Secretary of State John Kerry is scheduled to visit the Middle East and Africa later this month, the State Department announced on Friday.On May 21, Kerry will visit Muscat, the capital of Oman, and meet with senior Omani officials on a range of bilateral and regional issues, the department said in a statement.On May 22, the top US diplomat will visit Amman, the capital of Jordan, to meet ...
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We’re not planning to ‘punish’ Eagles – Kenya
Kenya have denied they will retaliate against Nigeria for the alleged mistreatment of the Harambee Stars by the Nigeria Football Federation when they visited the country for their first leg 2014 World Cup ...
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Will Kenyas new president respect international court
At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ...
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Kenya Teen battles heart defect
And this is why she was shocked to discover she was born with an abnormal condition. A congenital heart disorder that threatened to tear her life apart. The Form Four student at Mahiga Girls High School was busy doing her cleaning on a Saturday in October last year when she suffered chest pains. The chest pains, she narrates, worsened and she started wheezing. Within an hour, she was bleeding ...
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Kenya Crisis as Bungoma hospitals are overstretched
Bungoma town is another facility that has been receiving victims of the recent atrocities and it is here where the wife of a slain businessman and her daughter were admitted. ...
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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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