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KENYA Over 700 pupils in Nambale Busia County infested by jiggers get free treatment
International Labour Organization [ILO] donated a total of sh145, 000 to facilitate the exercise. The pupils who benefited from the free medical camp were drawn from primary schools namely Otiiri, Khwirale Centre, Mwangaza, Musokoto B, Kaludeka as well as Musokoto D.E.B. International Labour Organization's planning and coordination officer Consolata Atieno said they decided to undertake ...
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Kenya Wildlife Service Moves 15 Rogue Laikipia Jumbos to Meru
The translocation of 15 elephants from Ol Pejeta conservancy and Mutara to Meru National Park has began.This comes barely a week after six other jumbos from Lewa conservancy were moved to the same national park. The Kenya Wildlife Service project to ease human-wildlife conflict is targeting some rogue elephants that have been destroying crops in Laikipia. Mountain region conservation area ...
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Im Not to Blame for Failed Concert - Tarrus Riley
Jamaican reggae star Tarrus Riley posted a YouTube video denying liability for the failed Saturday concert that saw violence break out when the headliners pulled a no show. In the video, Tarrus explained in a deep patois accent what led to his no show on stage. He said, "We there from Thursday. We don't see the promoter until it was time to leave, and the business them already ...
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Muhuri Decry Terror Suspects Killings
Police have been accused of executing 17 terror suspects in various parts of the country by anti-terrorism police unit this year alone. Civil society group led by Muslim for human rights group Muhuri says terror suspects have been murdered in cold blood including the two Kassim Omollo and Salim Mohammed killed in Mombasa. Muhuri director Hussein Khalid says they have written to judiciary to ...
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Atwoli Used Donor Cash for Politics
COTU diverted aid funds to Luhya unity talks last year organised by Secretary General Francis Atwoli. Auditors Deloitte are examining how COTU spent Sh120 million received from the Danish government aid arm Danida. Documents seen by the Star show that COTU paid out two cheques to Boscovic Air Charters Ltd, for Sh231,996 and Sh181,126 on October 13, 2012. Both cheques were from the union's ...
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Kenya Car Importers Oppose Import Tax
MOTOR vehicle importers have opposed the proposed 1.5 per cent railway development tax to be levied on imported goods as contained in the budget. They now want President Uhuru Kenyatta to intervene to ensure the tax is shelved saying this will push up the cost of imported goods like fuel, wheat, cars, rice, diapers and infant formula. The tax is expected to give Treasury Sh15 billion towards ...
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Kenya U.S.$46.7 Million for Kakamega Hospital Renovation
CHINESE investors will collaborate with the Kakamega county government to upgrade the Kakamega Provincial General Hospital to a referral status at a cost of Sh4 billion, governor Wycliffe Oparanya has said. Oparanya said his government has allocated Sh411 million towards the upgrade adding that negotiations with Chinese provincial governments are ongoing. "The hospital will handle ...
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Kenya Clearing Agents Seek Presidents Audience On Port Inefficiency
CUSTOMS and clearing agents have appealed to President Uhuru Kenyatta to address inefficiency at the port of Mombasa. The agents say the president should listen to their explanation on port's inefficiency and insecurity of cargo. The agents lauded the president's concern on the port and the recent visit by Transport Cabinet Secretary Michael Kamau. "We need to tell the ...
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Uganda Why Kenya Lags Behind Tanzania Rwanda and Uganda in Growth - World Bank Report
KENYA has lagged behind its peers in the East African Community in terms of economic growth for the last ten years, the World Bank says. In fact, according to the bank's latest Kenya Economic Update, the country's economic growth rate has not matched, even once, Africa's growth rate in the the past decade, though the two were close in most years. Kenya's annual growth rate ...
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Kenya Kabogo nominees challenged in court
The three: Justin Kimani, Barham Dev Vasisht and Alexandria Muhanji filed the case at the High Court in Nairobi, claiming the Kiambu County Assembly had rejected their appointments to the board on the grounds of age and ethnicity. Through their lawyer Philip Nyachoti, they sought to have the appointments put on hold pending the hearing and determination of the case. Ndungu had sought appointment ...
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Kenya AGs dilemma over suit filed by Senate
The move has put the Senate, National Assembly and Executive on a collision course. Though he is the chief advisor to Government, the AG is caught between a rock and a hard place on which side to support. That dilemma emerged Wednesday when the case filed by the Senate at ...
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Kenya Bribery claims dominate Othaya election petition
bribery by her agents tilted the voting in her favour. Six of the 10 witnesses who testified Wednesday claimed Wambui's agents openly dished out money to voters in queues. This, they claimed, was happening in the presence of police officers manning polling stations. Rhoda Nyawira Maina who was the chief agent of the ...
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Business Real estate booms in East Africa
East Africa Managing Director Michael Turner said there is strong demand for quality infrastructure in the region, which is in tandem with the growth of its economies that continues to attract new investors. Turner made the comments at the GRI Forum 2013, an annual conference that brings together international investors and real estate developers from across Africa. Speaking to a panel ...
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Lifestyle Review curriculum now to reflect new law teachers plead
curriculum should be revised to include aspects of the Vision 2030 blueprint. "We have already updated the Education Act to conform with the new Constitution. It is important that ...
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Kenya Police team protests OCPD appointees
County Commanders was done outside the process they had initiated. He said police drivers and bodyguards assigned to him and the commissioners have also been withdrawn and no reasons had been given. "It is intimidating when you wake up to find you have no driver since he has a letter recalling him to the headquarters. It is a serious matter," said Kavuludi. The police boss made the ...
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Kenya Raila tells AU to nurture democracy
Raila argued that to effect real change, the AU needs to guide Africa to a new awakening of a continental democratic revolution. "There is no freedom in an island surrounded by a sea of poverty and ignorance. As long as this continues, political freedom faces an uncertain future," the ex-PM warned. Raila made the remarks while making a keynote address at ...
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Kenya Senate raises red flag over devolution
Ministry misplaced He claimed that had the Senate been allowed to participate in the vetting of Cabinet Secretaries, he would have voted against Devolution Cabinet ...
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Kenya Strip search man seeks more in compensation
Thika, Kenya: The High Court has awarded him Sh200,000 for having been publicly stripped and humiliated by the police, but he is now appealing against the 'pitiable' ...
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Kenya Kenya pledges stronger ties with West
Kenya has had to review its foreign policy due to globalisation, responding to increased competition among states for export, foreign direct investment (FDI), appropriate technologies and development aid. "This development is therefore not at the expense of our cherished relations with the traditional partners. This was to make it more relevant and dynamic in the new world through ...
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Kenya Kenya drops 12 places in peace ranking
Kenya took position 34 in the Sub-Saharan African ranking. Top-Ten Positions Countries ranked in the top ten positions in the region were identified as Mauritius, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Lesotho, Tanzania, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Djibouti while the bottom ten positions were taken by Chad, South Sudan, Burundi, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire, Central African ...
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Kenya Governor closes former councils bank accounts
The county administration in Kwale has announced the closure of all bank accounts operated by the defunct council whose assets and liabilities it ...
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Kenya Why this State building is a nightmare for many
To get there, he had to take the stairs. But on the third floor, a visibly tired Kajembe had to get back to the ground floor of the 15-storey building, choosing to forego a session of East Africa Community MPs' forum. For Government employees and wananchi seeking services, climbing up the stairs is a daily struggle they have to endure. "I have been struggling to go up the stairs since ...
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Kenya Over 100 displaced by flash floods
Tens of farmers in Othaya constituency, Nyeri County have protested over trespass and destruction of property in their land allegedly by Tana Water Services ...
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Kenya Deforestation threatens rare bird
The bird, which is only found at Arabuko-Sokoke forest, had been on the radar of conservationist for several years. They had attempted to locate its breeding ground in ...
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Kenya State rules out talks with Chinedu
She was speaking yesterday during a breakfast meeting in Nairobi with European Union heads. Mohammed dispelled the notion that Kenya is moving away from its traditional partners in ...
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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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