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Kenya How victims recounted ordeals during commissions public hearings
In its report submitted to President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday, the commision details harrowing accounts of gross human rights violation, with women and children being the main targets of heinous crimes such as rape. The commission collected over 40,000 statements from Kenyans, each narrating their own ordeals. The commission documented that although some of the crimes suffered by the victims ...
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Kenya Mt Elgon leaders dismiss links to militia group
militia as it is claimed they were involved in financing, planning and instigation of the violence witnessed in the area. Serut said there was no way he could be linked to the SLDF group as he was the major victim of the acts of brutality by the group and he suffered the brunt of it all. "How do I come in? When in fact I was the victim? I lost over five close relatives, including my two ...
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Kenya Those adversely named got chance to reply says TJRC
Invitations were sent out to persons who had been mentioned requiring them to not only record their statements and submit memoranda, but also to respond to the allegations made against them. "Many of the adversely mentioned persons opted to respond to allegations of their involvements to violations as opposed to recording statements and submitting memorandum when the statement taking ...
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Kenya Commission petitions Uhuru over TSC
Commission on Administrative Justice has petitioned President Uhuru Kenyatta to move swiftly and avert a looming crisis at the Teacher's Service Commission ...
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Sports Kenyan athletes rule Beijing track
Hillary Kipsang , who trains under Golazo Sports management, was too strong for his opponents as he led unprecedented top-four spots for Kenya. Kipsang, who boasts an impressive 8:07.71 personal best and the sixth world junior all-time, showed little respect for a classy line up that had world 3,000m steeplechase silver ...
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Kenya Accused fightback on TJRC revelations
torture of detainees and repressive operations by security forces transcending three regimes. MPs Joseph Nkaissery (Kajiado central), Samuel Moroto (Kapenguria), Omondi Anyanga (Nyatike) and John Serut (Mt Elgon) are among those who dismissed the claims against them. Nkaissery, a retired army general, is adversely mentioned over the 1984 military operation dubbed 'Operation Nyundo' to ...
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Kenyan runner Mary Keitany expecting second child
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Twice London marathon champion Mary Keitany will not compete this year because she is expecting her second child, a close friend of the Kenyan runner said on ...
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Nigeria In Olive Branch To Boko Haram Frees Their Women Obama Skips Kenya On Africa Trip Museveni At Center Of Media Crisis African Union Locks Out Activist Groups
By Global Information Network (GIN) May 21 (GIN) – Fulfilling a demand by the insurgent Boko Haram rebel organization, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has agreed to release from jail some suspects and all women "held in connection with terrorist activity." The decision was aimed at enhancing peace efforts in Nigeria, according to the defense ministry. Talk of an ...
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Polio Outbreak In Kenya A Threat To Global Eradication
A baby receives a polio vaccine at the Medina Maternal Child Health center in Mogadishu, Somalia. The country has one of the lowest immunization rates in the ...
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Kenya Duale defends Rutos Sh18.5m trip in Chamber
Duale said the money paid only catered for travel expenses for the President and 14 delegates including four MPs from the Senate and the National Assembly noting that they were guests of the countries they had ...
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Opinion Obama is wise to skip Kenya in his Africa visit
Africa in June (of course in his luxury jet fuelled by US taxpayers). Instead, he will be visiting our neighbour Tanzania--never mind he has no blood brothers there. Phew, what a brother! But weep not Kenyans. Blame not Obama as choices have consequences. Who would want to visit ...
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Opinion Kenyans hope Truth report does not end up in another shelf
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission usually invites one or two obvious responses. One is that the President receives it and immediately defuses its sting by pledging to study and adopt the findings; Two, is to manufacture some sort of crisis and fly away with public interest and ...
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Pregnant Cheruiyot out of world championships
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya's double world 5,000m and 10,000m champion Vivian Cheruiyot is expecting her first child and will not be defending her titles in Moscow this summer, the runner said Wednesday."I am very happy to announce that I will take some time off from athletics this year as I am pregnant with my first child. I have been running for many years, and at 29, feel that now is the ...
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Boom Town Baby African stock markets see big gains Ghana Kenya Nigeria up big
NAIROBI, Kenya - The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu -- East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer -- cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN BABY." Several African stock ...
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Kenyan president accused of backing post-election violence that killed 1000
Kenya 's president has received a long-awaited report that names him and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing the country's 2007-08 post-election violence, in which more than 1,000 people died.Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto already face trial at ...
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Striking Kenyan truckers block east Africas main trade route
Mombasa (Reuters) - Kenyan truckers blocked the only highway from the port city of Mombasa to the capital Nairobi on Wednesday, threatening to choke the main trade artery to east Africa unless officials reverted to the old way of weighing ...
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Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia officials say
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia.WHO said Wednesday that a 4-year-old girl near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and two of her contacts tested positive for polio, the first confirmed cases in Kenya since July 2011. A case in Somalia was confirmed earlier this month.In ...
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Kenya Gunmen kill two in Garissa escape on foot
Shifta Camp near the local library by gunmen who escaped on foot at about 6.20 pm. Police said the attackers must have mistaken the two to be security agents before shooting them in the head at close range. "The place is usually frequented by security agents and we suspect they thought the victims were police or government officials. They have escaped," said North Eastern police boss ...
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Kenya - Kenyan courts interpretation of citizens limits access to information
ARTICLE 19 welcomes a High Court decision that citizens have the right to access the information held by public and state owned corporations, but is highly concerned by the court's continued narrow interpretation of "citizens" that would prevent NGOs, media organisations, and informal associations from making requests."This ruling is important for its recognition of ...
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Kenya Moore Responds To Jay-Z Dating Rumors
Kenya Moore says that people mistake her for Beyonce all the time, so it wouldn’t be too far-fetched if she had dated him. This week, ...
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Kenya probe links president to rights abuses
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto have been named in a report investigating post-election violence and human rights abuses between 2007 and 2008.In a report released late on Tuesday, a special commission said Kenyatta and Ruto helped to plan and fund the violence, allegations that the president has denied.The Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report did not ...
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MPs Want Answers On Rutos West Africa Trip
MPs yesterday asked for answers from the government on the controversial trip by Deputy President William Ruto where he used a luxury jet to tour different African countries. MPs said majority leader Aden Duale should also explain the criteria used to pick MPs and Senators who accompanied Ruto in his trip. This came as the Public Accounts Committee said it will begin its independent ...
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Were Not Worried That Obama Is Not Coming to Kenya Says Government Spokesman Muthui
The government yesterday downplayed a decision by US President Obama to skip Kenya in his tour of three African countries between June 26 and August 3. Government spokesman Muthui Kariuki told AFP that Kenya is not worried or concerned by Obama's decision because he is free to visit wherever he wanted. He rejected claims that Obama will bypass the country because of the International ...
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Jomo Cousin Refutes Kenyattas Uganda Link
A cousin to Kenya's first president, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, has rubbished claims made by the Ugandan print and social media that the former president was fathered by the late Omukama Kabalega of Bunyoro. In a front page story published by the Star last month, the Ugandan paper New Vision is quoted as having claimed that Kabalega and Mwanga, the deposed Kabaka of Buganda, were captured in the ...
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Kenya in Need of Seafarers
KENYA is still lacking properly qualified seafarers to capitalise on employment opportunities in the sector, Kenya Maritime Authority has said. KMA head of maritime safety Wilfred Kagimbi said majority of Kenyan seafarers lack recognised certificates to allow them get employment. He said despite the recent entrance of Kenya into the IMO white list of countries recognised to offer maritime ...
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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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