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Athletics-World champion Cheruiyot to miss Moscow championships
Cheruiyot , 30, told Reuters by telephone from her home town of Eldoret. She gave no further details. Cheruiyot, who won both races at the 2011 Daegu world championships, also took silver and bronze in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres respectively at last year's London Olympics. Twice Olympic steeplechase ...
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Columns Juicy UK tale of $2b gemstone export from Kenya
UK newspapers , the Guardian and the Financial Times a three-judge Bench Court of Appeal has invoked the doctrine of open justice and allowed the newspapers to report on the intriguing but contested allegations which are likely to vibrate in the diplomatic and business communities in ...
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Kenya My Life Is in Danger - Kalembe
THE Independent Party leaders Kalembe Ndile, yesterday morning narrowly escaped death after bandits allegedly stormed his Syokimau estate home but were repulsed by his personal security. Athi River police confirmed that one of the gangsters was arrested after he was cornered in the compound of the former assistant minister's house at 4am by Ndile and his security men. Area police boss ...
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Bungoma Cabinet Ready for Vetting
Governor Kenneth Lusaka's county executive nominees will be vetted next week. Speaking to the Star yesterday, Bungoma County Assembly speaker John Makali said the 10 nominees will be vetted on May 27 and 28 by a five-man-team. "We expect to convene a special session of the County Assembly in early June, once the vetting report is ready, for perusal and action by members because we ...
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Railas Security Request Rejected
The Jubilee government has turned down Raila Odinga's request that he should get a security detail of up to 20 police officers. Deputy President William Ruto communicated the decision to the former Prime Minister last week when the two met privately at Ruto's Karen house. During the meeting, Raila reportedly reminded Ruto that Jubilee had promised that it would increase his personal ...
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Search Operation to Be Carried in Refugee Camps
Police are set to carry out a search operation in five refugee camps in Dadaab where it's believed criminals linked to Al Shabaab are hiding weapons. An AK 47 rifle has so far been recovered at the Ifo II camp. Area DO Joseph ole Kipuri says the rifle was stolen from a slain police reservist a week ago. Diana Madegwa ...
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East Africa Tanzania Could Boost Its Economy By Reforming the Port of Dar es Salaam - World Bank
DAR ES SALAAM, May 21, 2013 - Tanzania and its East African neighbors could boost their annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by up to US$1.8 billion and US$ 830 million respectively by taking measures to improve the efficiency of the Port of Dar es Salaam, according to the latest Tanzania Economic Update published by the World Bank. So far, Tanzania and six neighboring countries have missed this ...
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Kenya Revenues Behind Target By Close to Sh100 Billion
THE country was behind its revenue collection target by close to Sh100 billion by end of March, government data shows. According to the Treasury's latest issue of the quartely economic and budgetary review, total cumulative revenue collection including appropriation in aid, was below the target by Sh98.2 billion. Ordinary revenue collection amounted to Sh 531.6 billion against a target of ...
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Kenya West Pokot leaders seek to change cattle farming
Leading a delegation of residents from Pokot to a dairy farm in Njoro to familiarise themselves with new dairy technology, Senator John Lonyangapuo and Governor Simon Kachapin agreed that cattle related problems and illiteracy were bringing down standards of living among the community and promised to correct that. For the last four years, the Senator said livestock breeders from Lelan highlands ...
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Kenya Fire guts down Mombasas landmark building
fire which is descending fast in a building that hosts most clearing and forwarding firms based in Mombasa. Reporters on the ground could hear, mostly, male victims trapped on burning floors calling for help amid thick smoke and flying debris. It is believed ...
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More credit data sharing seen lowering rates for Kenyan firms
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI | Tue May 21, 2013 1:05pm EDT NAIROBI May 21 (Reuters) - Banks in Kenya are making a long-awaited effort to share information about which borrowers are reliable, a move that should make it easier for sound businesses to get cheaper loans. The initiative will extend information shared by banks to include borrowers who repay on time rather than only data on ...
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Obamas Africa tour leaves ancestral homeland of Kenya as loser
Kenya .Not even a relatively peaceful election earlier this year is enough to tempt Obama back to his ancestral homeland. The big problem is the winner, Uhuru Kenyatta, who is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the international criminal court (no matter that the US is yet to sign up to the ICC).At least the ...
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Kenya to decide next week on future of Mombasa refinery
By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA | Tue May 21, 2013 12:53pm EDT MOMBASA May 21 (Reuters) - The future of east Africa's only oil refinery could be decided next week when a report is due on whether to upgrade the aging Kenyan plant or turn it into a storage facility, the country's energy regulator said on Tuesday. Fuel distributors have long complained about the poor quality products from ...
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Nyandarua County Roots for Equalisation Fund
Leaders want Nyandarua categorised as a marginalised county so it can benefit from the Equalisation fund given by the Commission on Revenue Allocation. Led by Governor Daniel Waithaka, the leaders claim there must have been an oversight in the process that left out their county, saying Nyandarua is poor because it is starting its business from scratch. A delegation from the CRA at the weekend ...
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MP Calls for All to Join Hands
RARIEDA constituents have been challenged to put their political differences aside and work together to develop the region. Netto Adhola who lost the race for MP seat in the March 2013 polls challenged politicians who lost the election to join hands with elected leaders to improve the area economically. He appealed to MP Eng Nicholas Gumbo to be accommodative and ready to ensure equitable ...
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Kilifi Mother Delivers At Home Bleeds to Death
A middle-aged woman in Matsangoni, Kilifi county succumbed to excessive bleeding after delivering triplets. Dama Charo delivered the triplets at her home in Roka, two girls and a boy at home with the help of a traditional midwife but was later rushed to Matsangoni Health centre after the midwife failed to stop the bleeding. One of the triplets also died shortly after birth. According to the ...
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Drop ICC Cases - Clergy
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 ...
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All Forests to Become Bhang Free Says KFS
Kenya Forest Service has declared war on drug barons cultivating bhang in Mt Kenya Forest. KFS chairman Peter Kirigua said that a massive aerial surveillance has been launched in all forests, especially the Mt Kenya Forest and declared forests a no go zone for drug people. Kirigua said that the government has given them an aircraft to help them in their surveillance. He said the aircraft will ...
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Row Over Detention of Goods At the Port
A war of words is simmering between a multi- national shipping company, and several major players in the shipping and export industry, over what has been termed as illegal detention of transit cargo at the port. Several containers of wheat, furniture and pipes destined for Uganda have been lying at the port of Mombasa, despite the Kenya Revenue Authority clearing the same, with claims that the ...
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Uhuru Ruto Must Keep Vow to Youth
President Kenyatta's administration has started on a wrong footing on issues related to the youth. The President recently indicated that the Sh6 billion that was supposed to finance the run off would now be channeled to the youth fund to address unemployment. Although this sounds like a good idea, the trouble is that the President's declaration has not been followed by any well ...
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Kabogo Warns Kiambu Government Doctors
Kiambu governor William Kabogo has warned Kiambu District Hospital doctors against sending patients to their private hospitals and chemists. "I know what these doctors are doing and I put them on notice that if caught there will be serious consequences," he said. Kabogo said the doctors ought to look into the patients welfare and treat them instead of looking into ways of making an ...
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Bungoma Politician Gave Out Sh 100000 for the Kikwechi Attacks .
A special team dispatched from CID headquarters to investigate the motive of the spate of violent attacks in Bungoma has unearthed how a senior Bungoma politician gave youths Sh100,000 to attack Kikwechi village for political revenge. Speaking over the weekend during the funeral of businessman Timothy Nyongesa, a victim of the wide spate of violent attacks, Governor Kenneth Lusaka, said an area ...
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Kenya Sh180 for Roads Repair
The Kenya Rural Roads board will spend Sh180 million to repair roads in Narok county.Kerra's chairman Joe Wanyoike said every constituency will receive Sh30 million. The county has six constituencies.Wanyoike said they have released 75 per cent of the money. He was speaking during a courtesy call to Narok Governor Samuel Tunai after carrying out a routine inspection of ...
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Kenya No More Strikes
The Kenya National Union of Teachers yesterday said it will not give any further strike notice to the government over shelved allowances. Union officials Wilson Sossion and Mudzo Nzili asked the new education secretary Prof Jacob Kaimenyi to ensure the 2012 parliamentary approval is implemented. Speaking in Kapsabet during the Nandi Central Annual General Meeting, the Knut officials expressed ...
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President at home on trial abroad How Kenyas new leader is coping
Kenya's new president and deputy say they are cooperating with the International Criminal Court's investigation against them, but the ICC prosecutor says that's simply not ...
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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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