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Kenya Senator Chris Obure in court
Obure who is a respondent in the suit filed by then Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) chief tallying clerk Charles Mogere told the election court sitting in Kisii that the polls were fairly conducted and reflecting the will of the people of Kisii County. The senator told trial judge, Justice Ruth Sitati that submission by ...
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Rlg Expands To Kenya And Hopes To Capture East Africa
After what many market players have described as impressive performance in the West African region, ICT Device assembler, Rlg Communications Limited has entered Kenya, hoping to spread into the booming East African market. Senior officials of the company say Rlg is using Kenya as a springboard to enter Tanzania and Ugandan markets. The newly appointed Country Manager, Rlg Kenya, Mr. Sesi ...
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Kenya Controversy as patient dies resurrects then dies
This emerged after an elderly patient was declared dead on arrival to the facility on Tuesday for the hospital to recant it and but on Wednesday at 11am declare her dead. Relatives said a doctor at Provincial General Hospital declared that Hannah Wanjiru Chege,78, be placed at a temporary room awaiting transfer to the hospital mortuary on Tuesday when she was taken to the hospital claiming she ...
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Business Nominee to revoke railways agreement
Muli said the decision will be based on the fact that the Rift Valley Railways Consortium had failed in its mandate. He said as Transport PS, he will engage the Ugandan government so as to come up with a way forward over the matter. ?Our Ugandan counterparts are actually on the receiving end more than us,? he stated. He told the Transport , Public Works and Housing Committee that before the ...
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Kenya dismisses concern over capital gains tax
NAIROBI -- Kenya sought to assuage concern over a planned review of capital gains tax, saying it was too early to say what asset classes would be targeted in a measure aimed at compelling the rich to fund development. Finance Minister Henry Rotich told legislators in his budget speech last week there would be a review of the tax, which was suspended in the 1980s, to allow the wealthy to make a ...
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East Africa a new population heavyweight
The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building ...
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Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel
Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their ...
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Kenya assists Ethiopia fight Oromia rebels
The Ethiopian government is hailing Kenya for its registration of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as "an organised criminal body." Several OLF rebels have already been killed and arrested in ...
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E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya
In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe water for ...
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Kenyans in U.S. Stripped of Overseas Vote
On the heels of Pres. Barack Obama’s struggle to defend the voting rights of U.S. citizens, Kenyan officials announced this week that the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere outside the country would not be allowed to vote.National elections are scheduled to take place in March 2013 for President, Senators, County Governors, Members of Parliament, among ...
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Kenya County government petitioned to introduce contraceptives among street children
In a petition letter served to the County Governor and the Speaker of the County Assembly, The Centre for Human Rights, Democracy and Mediation wants the county government to legislate laws that would provide for either mandatory or voluntary family planning measures for the young but sexually active street girls. "It is our observation that the street population has become endemic in the ...
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Kenya Suspected senior students force form one to take Ethanol
Salat Kipkoech,15,is said to have been cornered by two form four students at the dormitory on Monday evening and forced him to drink Ethanol,arousing alarm from those who witnessed and called the teachers who took him to hospital. Efforts by the press to get a comment from the victimized student were not successful as the student was still weak to talk. The parents of the student led by Joseph ...
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Kenya Kimaiyo names 130 new OCPDs
The commission has protested the moves and alleged it is being systematically frustrated, saying they have virtually been reduced to bystanders. Appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Implementation of the Constitution only a day after Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku downplayed differences between Kimaiyo and the commission, Chairman Johnston Kavuludi maintained the ...
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Politics Governor faces impeachment over nominees
NAKURU, KENYA: A show down is looming between Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua and Members of the County assembly following the swearing in of rejected nominees to the Executive ...
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Uganda says to build 30000 bpd refinery by 201617
barrels per day refinery by 2016/17 and double this capacity two years later in a move towards commercial output of the country's oil. Explorers struck oil in east Africa's third largest economy in 2006 and Uganda estimates its crude reserves at 3.5 billion barrels but wrangling over taxes and the viability of a ...
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Kenya MPs Cut Kibaki Kitty for Teachers Pay
THE Budget and Appropriations Committee has reduced the Sh700 million set aside for retired President Mwai Kibaki's office to pay teachers. Tourism and Industrialisation ministries will lose Sh4 billion to raise more than Sh21 billion for teachers and lecturers. Committee chairman Mutava Musyimi said the amount meant to acquire Kibaki's office is extravagant at a time when teachers ...
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Kenya Raila asks AU to champion reforms
Africa Union (AU) stop chest thumping like we recently witnessed during the celebration of Africa's 50th Anniversary and get back to serious reforms," he ...
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Lamu Oil and Gas awards 2D seismic contract
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Kenyan shilling pauses at 13-wk low seen easing further
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A fuel attendant handles Kenyan shilling notes at a petrol station in the capital Nairobi March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Noor ...
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Kenya Crackdown on illicit brews intensifies
illicit brew s netted in a major crack down on the menace. Police said the suspects were arrested in Mwatate and Taita districts regarded as major brewing points for the bootleg liquor that had been blamed for the rising cases of crime among other alcohol-related deaths in the region. "We have lost two people in Wundanyi division as a result of alcohol related deaths in the past one week. ...
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Tame Budget Deficit World Bank Tells Kenya
NAIROBI, June 19 (BERNAMA-NNN-KBC) -- The World Bank has warned of a disruption in macro-economic stability in Kenya if the government fails to tame its rising budget deficit and public debt levels. The Banks latest Economic Update report Kenya launched here Tuesday says that Kenya's budget deficit has risen significantly to a projected 7.5 per cent in the 2013-2014 expenditure plan. ...
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Why President Obama Will By Pass Kenya in July
WHEN Kenya held its fourth general elections early this year, I was there in the country covering the voting process. In effect, the race was between the two front runners - Uhuru Kenyatta, today's president of the country and the then Kenya's Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga. Raila, who was billed to win the race by a good measure, clearly lost to Uhuru, who trailed him in the ...
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Kenya benchmark coffee price falls at auction
NCE ) said. The east African nation is a small producer of the commodity but its specialty beans meet high demand from roasters who blend it with coffees from other nations. Some 23,353 bags were offered at auction on Tuesday and 10,368 bags were bought, NCE said, compared to 16,238 bags offered last week and 6,961 bags bought. The coffee sold this week had a total value of $1.7 million ...
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Kenya Kenyans Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor
On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians. "Do you know taxes are increasing in Kenya?" he asks, handing out flyers urging Kenyans to say "no to Unga (maize flour) tax" by dialling a phone number that will register their signature on a petition. Ngila is one of 17 ...
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Big Brother Africa Update Seven Housemates Have Been Nominated
, seven housemates are on the nomination list. Kenya’s Annabel, surviving eviction last week, changed her mind on Melvin and Bolt last minute. However, being nominated again, it seems that the Ethiopian beauty, Betty, and Sierra Leon’s Bolt, have become regulars on the weekly nomination list. Malawi’s Natasha has always found herself on the evictions list, actually for three ...
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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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