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Kenya Encounter with MRC top brass
But nothing had prepared me for my first meeting with the top brass of the group. "How many are you in the car. Do you have a policeman with you?" a man who refused to introduce himself asked as soon as I picked my phone on my third day of the investigation. If there was time when I wanted a source to call me for a story, this was it. I had been expecting the call for more than 48 ...
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Kenya Senate advised to work closely with county assemblies
Senate and various levels of Government during a senators' retreat in Mombasa over the weekend. CIC chairman Charles Nyachae among other speakers addressed participants. Prof Wanyande said in playing an oversight role in the counties, ...
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Kenya FBI find terror suspects DNA in toothbrush
Mombasa, Kenya: A toothbrush found in a bag containing ammunition has the DNA of the sole suspect in the terrorist attack on a nightclub in Mombasa, an FBI detective told a court ...
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Opinion Kenya has right to secure borders against traffickers
It is hard enough to keep track of legal aliens within the borders of the Republic without worrying about the thousands willing to ferret themselves under the rug, whether intending to melt into the general population or in transit to third ...
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Magazines Kenyans mint billions from foreign investor interest
Kenyan investors have been making "clever exits" and reaping millions -- billions in some cases -- in the process of selling their firms, particularly those in the telecommunications, manufacturing and financial sectors. Some local business owners are taking the large sums of money on offer to shore up their companies' competitive positions, others are looking for a return on ...
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Kenyan official seeks ally in UN to drop criminal charges against new president
Kenya's UN ambassador says the crimes against humanity indictments of the country's president and his deputy are flawed. Can his move influence the International Criminal ...
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Kenyan riot squad try to block 59-year-old British aristocrat as she lays roses outside the police station linked to ...
A grieving mother was confronted by riot police as she tried to lay flowers at the Kenyan police station where her son was detained before he died in ...
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House Committees to Conduct Elections Today
National Assembly departmental committees are expected to conduct elections for their chairpersons and deputies today. MPs interested in the committee leadership had by yesterday evening intensified their lobbying ahead of today's voting. The Standing Orders provide that the elections must be conducted within seven days after the House approves the names of members to the committees. The ...
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Three Mbeere AP Killers Arrested
Three suspected violent robbers who last Friday hacked an administration police officer to death and cut six residents with axes at Mbeere South have been arrested, Mbeere South police boss Bernstein Shari said the three were arrested after they invaded Kianjiru village and robbed several residents of cash and assorted items. Shari said the AP officer was responding to resident's distress ...
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Rare Antelope Found in Park
A rare species of antelope in the country is facing extinction, a conservation group has warned. The World Wide Fund has warned that the Sable antelope, only found at Shimba Hills National Reserve will be extinct if no action is taken. This comes after a census by Kenya Wildlife Service which indicated that the antelopes have reduced in numbers. KWS senior warder in charge of Kwale and Kinango ...
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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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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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