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Lifestyle Twitter boosts security after hacks
security option turned on, it's still important for you to use a strong password and follow the rest of our advice for keeping your account ...
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Lifestyle Venezuela hit by toilet paper shortage
Venezuela n shops. The oil-rich nation relies on imports, but currency controls have restricted its ability to pay for foreign goods. President Nicolas Maduro, who won a narrow majority in April's presidential elections, maintains that the country's ...
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Kenyan lender IM looks to list shares by June
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan lender I&M plans to list shares on the stock market by next month after it completed a merger with small investment ...
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Kenya Probe Moi Biwott Over Ouko Death Says TJRC
TRUTH, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has recommended the questioning of former President Moi over the1990 murder of former Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko. In their final report handed to the President yesterday, TJRC said former minister Nicholas Biwott and TJRC chair Bethuel Kiplagat should also be questioned on the death. "In addition to Biwott, former President Daniel ...
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Outcry Over Cabinet Posts
FORMER Kenya National Union of Teachers national chairman Joseph Chirchir said the distribution of cabinet secretaries positions in Rift Valley was not fairly done. In a telephone interview with the Star, Chirchir said South Rift region was shortchanged in the distribution of cabinet secretaries position. He said the region deserved more than one cabinet secretary due to the huge support and ...
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Herder Killed in Mandera Clashes
A herder was today gunned down in the village of Batuul village, Banisa district in Madera County while herding his camels 20 km from Banisa town. The 26 years old Degodia herdsman was ambushed by suspected bandits from the Garreh community who shot him several times on the head. Another person from the Guba village was yesterday shot dead by armed militia raising the death toll to twenty in ...
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MPs Senators Battle Over Supremacy
Who is superior - the Senate or Parliament? This is the question that House Speaker Justin Muturi is expected to answer today following yesterday's acrimonious exchange between MPs and senators over who is superior to the other. The MPs accused the senators of "overstepping" their mandate and describing the members as comprising "political retirees" who should ...
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34 Charged Over Foiled Warehouse Burglary
POLICE have arrested 34 suspects after foiled robbery at a warehouse in Mikindani area, Changamwe district. Reports indicate the armed gangsters forcefully gained access and broke into four containers that stored more than 600 bags of rice and sugar worth more than Sh4 million on Monday. Changamwe police boss Joseph Muthee said police recovered part of the consignment already loaded into a ...
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Macharia Justifies His ICC Letter to UN
KENYA's ambassador to the UN has stuck to his criticism of the International Criminal Court describing it as a failing institution in an opinion published in the Nation yesterday. Macharia Kamau said nations of the world should "revisit its ICC fundamentals" in the article justifying his controversial letter requesting the UN Security Council to terminate the Kenyan ICC cases. ...
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Police Hunt for Gang Members
TESO Police have launched a manhunt for four 'dangerous' gang members believed to be behind the recent attacks in Busia and Bungoma. Police chief Elphas Korir said the four have been identified as key financiers of attacks in Akobwait that left two people dead and 19 injured. He said the four are residents of Kajei, Onyunyur and Katanyu in Teso North and Odioi in Teso South. "We ...
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Kenya Sh800 Million to Train Teachers On Computers
ABOUT 80 per cent of the primary school teachers in Kenya are computer illiterate. Knut national executive council member Karinga Munuhe has called for teachers to be trained before the free laptops promised by the Jubilee government are distributed next year. "Many of the teachers mostly from the rural areas have little knowledge on the use of computers," he said. Munuhe said more ...
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Reconciliation Commission Urges Kenyan Officials to Apologise for Past Abuses
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, security forces and the judiciary should publicly apologise for abuses going back 50 years, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya (TJRC) said in a final report presented to Kenyatta Tuesday (May 21st). Set up after post-election violence in 2007-2008, TJRC compiled a four-volume report covering tens of thousands of testimonies gathered over ...
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Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Ethiopia
Sudan counterpart President Salva Kiir. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. During the AU Jubilee celebrations, member states will take stock of the past fifty years, acknowledge the contribution of the founding fathers of OAU towards ...
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Kenya William Oduol cornered over child out of wedlock
Siaya, Kenya : A petitioner challenging the election of Siaya Governor got more than he bargained for when his personal details were exposed at a Kisumu ...
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Tunai to Testify in Poll Case
NAROK governor Samuel Kuntai Tunai will testify in an election petition filed against him . Parties in the petition agreed on ten contested issues to be determined by court during a pre-trial conference before Judge Roselyne Wendoh where each party also revealed its list of witnesses. Tunai's deputy Aruasa Evelyne will also testify in the matter while one of the petitioners Joseph ...
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Presiding Judge Quits Ruto Trial At the Hague
A new judge will now preside in the case against Deputy President William Ruto and broadcaster Joshua Sang after Judge Kuniko Ozaki asked to be excused. Ozaki will continue to be the presiding judge in the second case against President Uhuru Kenyatta. The two Kenyan cases have been handled by the same judges since their charges were confirmed in January 2012. Yesterday, the ICC presidency said ...
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Kenya One More Killed in Mandera Clan War
One more person was killed and another injured yesterday after armed militia attacked at Guba Village in Banisa constituency, Mandera county. Guba Village is about 15km from Banisa district headquarters. The attack has pushed the death toll to three and the injured to five after the renewed hostilities between the Degodia and Gareh clans began on Sunday, the local provincial administration has ...
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Kenya Kalonzo British Soldiers Among TJRC Indictees
Nairobi - Details of how former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and others evicted 2,000 Tharaka families from a huge parcel of land at Tholoni and awarded it to themselves before putting up the Mwingi cottages and disturbing details of how British soldiers raped and sodomised 30 Kenyan women are among the damning historical injustices captured in a voluminous report released by the Truth, ...
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Optimism Amid Odds for Deaf Blind Four-Year Old Girl
Nairobi - Grace's dad, like many other fathers out there, is trying to break the thumb sucking habit his four year old daughter. Unlike the majority of fathers however, when he receives Grace's report form at the end of the school term, he doesn't learn how well she did in Kiswahili or English or Math. He gets appraised on her vision, hearing, communication skills, self-help ...
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Ntimama Daughter Says Down but Not Out
Nairobi - Both father and daughter contested in the March 4 General Election and both father and daughter lost but in spite of the loss, the daughter still wants to walk in her father's footsteps. Lydia Masikonte ole Ntimama stood for the Narok Women's Representative seat and lost while her father, William ole Ntimama, unsuccessfully sought to defend his position as the Narok North ...
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Swiss Tourists Bond of Sh1 Million Upheld
THE High Court in Mombasa yesterday rejected an application by the state to cancel a Sh1 million bond for a Swiss national facing prostitution charges. Justice Martin Muya gave Christopher Clement Weissenrieder two sureties instead of the one surety handed by a magistrate's court. Muya also directed Weissenrieder to deposit his passport with the director of CID. On Friday assistant DPP ...
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Suspected AP Killers Arrested
Police have said they have made "tremendous progress" in their bid to apprehend those behind the killing of a senior AP officer on Saturday in Wajir town. Northeastern police boss Charlton Mureithi said they have arrested "key suspects" whom they are interrogating. He however declined to confirm the exact number of suspects arrested. Mureithi said that among those arrested ...
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State Needs Sh800 Billion to Upgrade Slums
THE Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development has said it requires Sh800 billion for upgrading slums and informal settlements in the country. The government hopes to have eradicated slums currently housing between eight and nine million Kenyans across the country by the year 2030. Director of slum upgrading in the ministry Charles Wafula said the growing cost of upgrading the slums will ...
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Uproar in Parliament Over Ruto Massage Cartoon
Nairobi - Women MPs are demanding an apology from a Kenyan newspaper because of a cartoon it published on Wednesday, which they claim lowers their dignity. Led by Kenya Women Parliamentarian Association Chairman Cecily Mbarire, they say the Daily Nation cartoon by Gado which shows Deputy President William Ruto getting a massage was in bad taste for women MPs who accompanied him on a now ...
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Kenya Kenyan Employers Raise Alarm About Quality of University Graduates
Nairobi - On streets across Nairobi, it is easy to spot university or satellite campus signboards advertising a variety of programmes and opportunities. While this could be a sign of improved access to education in Kenya, some employers and education officials worry that the proliferation of universities and the commercialisation of higher education have created schools that produce poorly ...
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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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