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Safaricom Gives Five Million to Annual Diabetes
The Kenya Diabetes Management and Information Centre yesterday launched the annual diabetes walk. The walk to be held on July 6 in Nairobi and Mombasa aims to raise Sh25 million to fund free insulin for children under 18 years of age from underprivileged families. It also aims to fund diabetes education and awareness campaigns. "Diabetes has no cure and as such, managing the condition is ...
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Kenya Kitengela Students Block Namanga Road
ANGRY students yesterday blocked the main Nairobi/Namanga road with bonfires and stones to protest the condition of the road linking Kitengela with Ongata Rongai. The over 200 students from Athi River Vocational Centre overpowered the less than 15 police officers from Kitengela as they proceeded to block the Nairobi/Namanga road for about four hours. Their leaders told reporters they took ...
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Kenya Budget Committee Rejects Sh700 Million for Kibakis Office
The Parliamentary Budget Committee has rejected a proposal by Cabinet Secretary for Finance Henry Rotich to purchase a building which will house an office for retired president Mwai Kibaki worth Sh700 million. Rotich had proposed the purchase of a building to house the office of the retired president as a sendoff package to Kibaki. The Sh700 million was part of Sh19.6 billion that national ...
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Kenya Matatu Owners Ask Traffic Boss to Resign Over Extortion
Matatu owners want the traffic boss to take responsibility and resign over bribery claims against traffic police. Speaking to the Star yesterday, chairman of the Matatu Owners Association Simon Kimutai said the traffic boss Samuel Kimaru had failed to stop the rampant extortion rings run by his officers. "Kimaru is unable to explain to us where this money collected by traffic officers who ...
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Illiteracy Link to Female Cut
Female Genital Mutilation and early marriages are still common in Tana River county due to the high illiteracy levels in the region. Speaking during the Day of the African Child at Odha village, Tana Delta, Ms Mwanajuma Hiribai, the manager of Action Aid Kenya, said the theme of the event was to eliminate harmful cultural practices in the region. NGO officials told children, their parents and ...
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Kenya We Are Not Going On Strike Say Secondary Principals
Newly elected Kenya Secondary School Heads Association chairman John Awiti yesterday denied that secondary school teachers will go on strike. Awiti said teachers cannot down their tools while their respective school principals are away. He said secondary school heads are part of the unions including Kuppet and Knut. Awiti was addressing journalists at the Wild Waters complex where about 7,000 ...
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Water Rates for Yatta Institutions
Yatta MP Francis Mwangangi has told organisations using water at the Yatta canal to pay rates as they have failed to maintain the furrow. Mwangangi said the organisations should source their water from the canal intake, which is the Thika River because they have the capacity. He said their continued use of the furrow is denying hundreds of farmers water for domestic use and irrigation. ...
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ICC suspect placed at scene of Darfur crimes
A militia leader wanted for war crimes by the ICC is suspected of playing a role in the destruction of villages in Sudan, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The rights organization in an early June report said witnesses to an April raid in the Um Dukhun region of Darfur put former militia leader and police commander Ali Kosheib at the scene of alleged crimes against humanity. He's wanted by ...
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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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Jambo pesa
End Quote In Kenya, not-for-profit organisations were using phones to tell village farmers the daily price in Kenya's markets of the crops they were harvesting: real-time information which undermined the grip of the middlemen who had been their sole buyers until then. Hawkers could get prices from different suppliers, rather than depending on the one next door. I saw this and reported ...
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Kenya ICC Allows Ruto Not to Attend Full Trial
The Trial Chamber V at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has granted Deputy President William Ruto's application in which he had asked not to physically attend consecutive sessions of his hearing at the Hague based court that is scheduled to start on September 10. In a communique released today, the court has however asked Ruto to attend opening and closing statements of all parties ...
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Kenya Shababaab Post Pictures of Two Aps On Twitter
The al Shabaab yesterday posted photos on Twitter of men they claim are two missing APs believed to have been kidnapped by the militia from Damajaley AP camp last month. Constables Fredrick Chirchir and Joseph Wambugu were kidnapped during an ambush on June 25. The militia promised to post photos of a Uganda People Defence Forces commander whom they claim was captured during fighting for the ...
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LSK Joins Senators Suit As Friends of the Court
THE Law Society of Kenya and the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution were yesterday included as "friends of the court" in a case filed by senators who have sought an advisory opinion from the Supreme Court on the Division of Revenue Act. The CIC and LSK asked the court to include them in the suit through lawyers Wilfred Nderitu and Tom Ojienda. Justices Mohammed Ibrahim ...
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Abide By Article 110 - Marende
FORMER Speaker Kenneth Marende has said he will mediate on the ongoing supremacy battle between the Upper House and the Lower House if he is called upon to do so. Marende said he will offer his experience if called upon by the bicameral Parliament to mediate. Marende was responding to Kirinyaga Senator Daniel Karaba's question at an induction workshop for senators on delegated legislation ...
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Sh210 Billion Plan Not Sufficient
A handful of technocrats are out to frustrate the smooth transition process of devolution, Kwale senator Juma Boy Juma has said. Speaking to the Star yesterday, Juma said the Senate has the mandate to ensure that counties get a fair allocation of revenue that can sustain development. "We know well what the counties need, but they have since decided to look down on our proposal and have ...
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Kenya Poverty Levels in Kenya Dropping - World Bank
THE living standard for most Kenyans has improved over the last ten years due to better economic conditions, a World Bank report shows. Kenya's poverty rate is estimated at between 34 and 42 per cent at the moment, down from 47 per cent in 2005. The current figures are however based on projections since the last household survey was conducted in 2005. "Over the last decade, ...
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Man who drowned off Dubais Jumeirah beach identified as Kenyan cafe worker
DUBAI // A man who drowned off the Jumeirah Open Beach last week has been identified as a Kenyan who worked at a Dubai cafe. Stanley Wekesa, 32, had been employed as a waiter at the Madeline Cafe and Boulangerie in Dubai Mall for the past eight months. He died at Rashid Hospital last Monday after being pulled from the water by police. "He had the day off and decided to relax at the ...
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Kenya Committee slashes Kibakis office budget
The Budget and Appropriations Committee also slashed the allocation to the Tourism and Industrialisation ministries by Sh4 billion to go towards the Sh21 billion needed ...
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Tax worries push Kenyan shares to 14-week low
By Kevin Mwanza NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan shares fell for the eighth straight session to hit a 14-week low on Tuesday as investors jolted by a planned re-introduction of capital gains tax booked profits on this year's ...
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War crimes court says Kenyas Ruto can skip trial
William Ruto (centre) listens to lawyers at a hearing in the International Criminal Court in The Hague last month. The International Criminal Court on Tuesday excused Kenya's Deputy President William Ruto from attending parts of his crimes against humanity trial in September because of demands placed on him in ...
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Scotland to host Kenya in five-match series
Cricket Scotland has announced that Kenya will tour Scotland for a five-match series between June 30 to July 10. The teams will play two World Cricket League (WCL) Championship matches, two T20 matches and an Intercontinental Cup fixture. All matches will be played at the Mannofield ground in ...
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Athletics-Rudisha faces injury layoff before world championships
David Rudisha is facing a three-week layoff with injury, sending the east African nation into panic mode and sparking fears over Rudisha's challenge at ...
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Kenya Launches Renewable Energy Portal
The lack of access to comprehensive, accurate and reliable information on the renewable energy regulatory landscape in Kenya has been a significant barrier to private sector participation. Types and number of licenses/clearances, application procedures, associated costs, contacts of related government agencies, expected turn-around time and the sequence of application process remains a mystery ...
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I Didnt Kill Mercy Says Businessman
A businessman linked to the death of Mercy Keino yesterday denied any involvement. Wycliffe Lugwiri told the public inquest into the death of the University of Nairobi post-graduate student that he did not kill or dump her body on Waiyaki way two years ago as alleged. Mercy's body was found less than two kilometres from Wasini Luxury Apartments in Westlands where she had hang out with ...
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Kenya Residents frogmarch a man to the police station
Shinyalu . Kakamega county. It is said the suspect used a jembe to cut off the sheep's head. Police said he will be arraigned in Kakamega Law Courts once investigations are ...
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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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