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Care for Young Mothers - NGO
The government has been asked to establish a rehab center for rescuing teenage mothers back to school. CEO Aiducation International-Kenya Jeremiah Kambi said there are many girls who need this help but the government does not have such a programme. "We have very many girls who dropped out of school because of early pregnancies, they have now given birth but they do not have any hope. The ...
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Kenya Isiolos Waata Community Objects to Jobs Lockout
Waata communities in Isiolo yesterday raised concern that they have been locked out of all elective positions and county appointments in the area. Speaking during the National Commission on Gender and Equality forum in Garba-Tulla at the weekend, the residents appealed to the government to intervene and have them secure positions. Community chairman Galgalo Titima told the commission that ...
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World North Korea fires sixth missile in three days
missile s on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military ...
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Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia
Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...
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Safaricom drags Kenyan shares lower shilling steady
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A stockbroker transacts shares during a trading session at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya's capital Nairobi January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas ...
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East Africa Two California Men Sentenced for Rhino Horn Trafficking
Washington - The sentencing May 15 of two California businessmen in Los Angeles for trafficking in rhino horn will send both to prison and ensure that $800,000 of their illegally acquired "profits" end up helping protect rhinos in Africa. Vinh Chung "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha pleaded guilty in September 2012 to federal felony charges brought as a result of Operation Crash, an ...
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Kenya Seventeen in Court Over Cruelty to Parliament Pigs
Nairobi - Seventeen protestors who staged the 'Occupy Parliament' demonstration using 31 live pigs last Tuesday have been charged with cruelty to animals. The activists, among them photographer Boniface Mwangi, however declined to take a plea and were released on a cash bail of Sh20,000 each or Sh10,000 surety bail. The demonstrators were charged with three counts of breach of peace, ...
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Kenya Restive North Sees Shifting Power Risks
Garissa-Nairobi - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. But securing northern Kenya is increasingly vital to the government, with the badlands growing in ...
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Rebranding Kenya As a Tourist Destination
The appointment of Cabinet Secretaries was a complex jig-saw puzzle for President Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto. Power, a function of ordinance and intelligence was at play in this exercise. But that notwithstanding, grumbling has continued in some quarters. The youth and the disabled felt short changed with the gender and equality promise not having been observed. Doctors were placed ...
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Leadership Is a Call to Service
A major event that grabbed headlines this week was the civil society's protest against plans by MPs to have their salaries increased. Different people have reacted differently to the demonstrators' expression of displeasure with the legislators' agitation for higher salaries. While some have expressed solidarity with the civil society, others have taken issue with the ...
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Three Killed in Fresh Attacks At Mandera
Three more people have been killed in Mandera only hours after President Uhuru read the riot act to his security chiefs to end the run-away crime. Government officials in the county said heavily armed militias from Ethiopia attacked a village in Malkamari division near the border with Kenya on Thursday night between 8pm and 9pm and hacked two women and a child to death then escaped back into ...
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Kenya Wheat Farmers Shift to Other Crops As Price Drops
WHEAT farmers in Uasin Gishu County have started shifting to other crops due to poor prices of the commodity offered by the government. Most farmers have shifted to planting maize and other crops after the price of a 90kg bag of wheat started coming down drastically. The 90-kg bag of wheat costs Sh3,300 at the Cereals Board, a price that has discouraged farmers compared to the high cost of ...
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Kenya Police vetting to start in June
officers know that this is a procedural exercise and it is not meant to punish or victimize anyone of them. It will be used to realise talent and other issues within the service and so be ready," he said. He said Inspector General of David Kimaiyo, his two deputies Samuel Arachi and Grace Kaindi and CID's Ndegwa Muhoro have been excluded from the exercise because they had been vetted ...
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World Uganda police shut down Monitor Publications
Police in Uganda have shut down The Monitor and its two radio stations; KFM and DembeFM in their attempt to carry out a search in the Publication's offices over alleged ...
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Bishops in Rift Valley Want ICC Cases Terminated
A section of Bishops in Rift Valley have supported suggestions to have the UNited Nations Security Council terminate ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. The clergymen led by Bishop Geoffrey Songok of the Reformed Church said the ICC cases were based on propaganda and should should not be used to disrupt government operations.Songok said the cases were also an ...
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The Day Pigs Occupied Kenyas Parliament
Kenya is like no other country in the world.Everything that happens in this country is uniquely Kenyan. What we do cannot be replicated anywhere else. It is only in Kenya where Parliament passes laws and disowns them a few months later. At best the law makers make laws for other Kenyans as long as such laws do not affect their lives. It is only in Kenya where the constitution sets up a ...
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Kenyan Bourse to Start Online Stocks Trading by Fourth Quarter
The Nairobi Securities Exchange, the world's third-best performing equities market this year, will begin online trading in the fourth quarter as it tries to enable more people to have access to the bourse. "The design work for online trading is complete" Donald Ouma, head of market and product development, said today in response to e-mailed questions. "Setup and testing ...
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Kenya Uhuru Wants ICC Trial Moved to January 2014
President Uhuru Kenyatta now wants his case on alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court to start in January next year. Through his lawyers, the president told the ICC judges, on Wednesday, that due to continued slow pace of disclosure, they have not been able to complete investigations on prosecution witnesses. "The Defence requires time to investigate the ...
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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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Opinion Agriculture key to Kenyan prosperity
Felix Kosgei , Kenya's newly appointed Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, has already shared some ambitious plans for the ...
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Politics House committees leaders elected
TNA ) trounced Karachuonyo MP James Rege by 19 to 4 votes to become vice chairman. Former Standard journalist Ayub Savula (UDF) was elected chairman of the Agriculture Committee unopposed. Savula, the Lugari MP, will be deputized by Maara MP Kareke Mbiuki ...
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Kenya Jubilee Takes Charge of 2 Committees
THE Jubilee Coalition has taken charge of two departmental committees in the National Assembly. Just a day after the House approved membership of 24 out of the 28 committees, members of four departmental committees were called upon to elect their chairpersons yesterday. The four were the committees on Budget and Appropriations, Delegated Legislation, Administration and National Security and ...
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Kenya Bureaucracy Delays Small Firms Listing
Long approval processes at the Nairobi Securities Exchange are delaying the listing of small firms at the bourse despite the existence of the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (Gems). The segment which was regularised in January this year, is yet to list any firm owing to various levels of approvals. The first firms are expected in about four months. This is despite the fact that the segement ...
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Nigeria and Kenya to Collaborate Against Terrorism
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has told Kenya's Deputy President and Special Envoy of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Mr. William Ruto, that Nigeria was concerned about the activities of terrorists in Somalia and other places in Africa, and the attendant negative effects on peace and development in the continent. ‘I have just declared a state of emergency in three states in our country, ...
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Nyanza Top in Drug Abuse Nacada Says
THE National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse has raised an alarm over increasing rate of bhang abuse in Nyanza. Nacada Nyanza regional manager Esther Okenye said the region is second in bhang smoking in Kenya. Okenye was speaking during Kisumu county choir competition on alcohol and drug abuse held at Social hall and attended by more than 200 youth. She said alcohol and ...
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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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