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Kenya giving laptops to all first graders amid controversy
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, delivers his speech, during the 50th Madaraka Day celebrations, at the Nyayo National Stadium, in Nairobi, Kenya, June 1. Kenyatta plans to decrease Kenya's digital divide with the rest of the world by giving, with Microsoft's help, laptops to all first ...
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World G8 leaders agree deal on tax evasion
The measures are designed to combat illegal evasion of taxes, as well as legal tax avoidance by large corporations that make use of loopholes and tax ...
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Give IG Full Control Over Police Service
The decision by the constitution experts to have the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) wield more powers than the Inspector General of Police (IG) in running the police force is ill-advised. Parliament should as a matter of urgency move and amend the law to give Mr. David Kimaiyo's office executive powers over the NPSC in recruitment, promotion and transfer of police officers up to ...
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Authority Must Probe Police Shootings
THERE is a new constitution but the police are still trigger happy. Yesterday the Star reported that APs shot dead Dennis Simba who went for a walk with his girlfriend. He was shot getting into his car, without warning or explanation. Yesterday police shot at a matatu in Limuru that refused to stop, wounding the tout in the leg (Page 15). Two weeks ago, the Star reported that a Kenyatta ...
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Leaders Split Over the Name of Eldoret VC
UASIN Gishu Governor Jackson Mandago and elected leaders yesterday met members of Eldoret University's council to discuss the appointment of a new Vice Chancellor at the institue. Mandago met Senator Isaac Melly, Moiben MP Sila Tiren, Women's Representative Eusila Ngenyi and four members of the university council in his office. "The council members had asked to meet the governor ...
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Wives of Slain Terror Suspects Charged in Mombasa Kilifi
The wives of the two slain terror killed in gunfire exchange with officers of the Anti-Terror Police Unit have been charged in separate courts in Mombasa and Kilifi. Salim Mohammed 's wife, Rehema was charged with several counts of possessing illegal arms and ammunitions before a magistrate court in Shanzu. Rehema denied possessing an AK47 found in Mohamed's house and 147 rounds of ...
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Call to Protect Elephants
A wildlife conservationist has urged the government to empower communities in the war against poaching. Elephant Neighbours Centre Director Jim Nyamu said communities play a key role in safeguarding wildlife. He was speaking at Meru School during an awareness drive dubbed "Ivory Belongs to Elephants" that was attended by students from 20 high ...
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Kenya Government to Speed Up Completion of Northern Corridor
The government is to speed up the completion of the Northern Corridor road in order to ease movement of goods from the Port of Mombasa to other countries in the region. Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure Michael Kamau says the completion of the road will include a by-pass in Eldoret to cost more than Sh 2 ...
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Kenya MPs to Vote On Sh19 Billion Supplementary Budget
MPs will today decide on whether the national government will be allowed to withdraw Sh19.6 billion to run the country for the now ending financial year. The House will be deciding on whether to approve Supplementary Budget II which among other items proposes that the government be allowed to use Sh700 million to purchase a building to house an office for retired President Mwai Kibaki. Cabinet ...
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Nigerians Fear Mass Deportation
A further wave of deportations of Nigerians has followed the expulsion of of drug dealer Anthony Chinedu and two other Nigerians early this month. A Nigerian businessman based in Nairobi yesterday claimed that about 40 Nigerians have been forced to leave Kenya. The businessman, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisals, said the situation deteriorated after President Uhuru Kenyatta ...
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Kodiaga Inmates Escape Bid Foiled
KODIAGA prison warders in Kisumu were yesterday forced to shoot in the air to scare inmates who attempted to escape from the jail. Gun shots rented the air and sent members of the public into fear yesterday morning at the facility located in the outskirts of Kisumu town on Kisumu-Busia Road. Residents around the prison dashed to various business facilities to seek refuge. There was heavy ...
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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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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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