KENYA NEWS

Wed, 02/22/2012 08:58 AM | By Mwakilishi

The controversial issue of whether it is practically possible for a majority of Kenyans living abroad to cast their votes in the coming general election. Well, the independent electoral and boundaries commission has set up a team to draft a policy guideline on Diaspora vo...

Tue, 02/21/2012 05:36 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenya is in line to reap vast diplomatic and economic benefits from the elevation of the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) into a full-fledged international agency.

The change in Unep’s governing structure on Tuesday received the backing of the influ...

Tue, 02/21/2012 04:04 PM | By Mwakilishi

Francisca Atonga who is studying for an advanced diploma of accounting at Challenger Institute of Technology in Perth, Western Australia, has won the institution’s prestigious International Student of the Year Award. The training at Challenger Institute includes job place...

Tue, 02/21/2012 03:59 PM | By Mwakilishi

Environment Minister John Michuki is dead. The 80-year-old minister was admitted to the Aga Khan University Hospital on Sunday morning, only two days after arriving from the United Kingdom where he was undergoing treatment.

On Monday, Government Spokesman Alfre...

Mon, 02/20/2012 12:58 PM | By Mwakilishi

A young Kenyan woman is fighting for her life in a Dubai hospital following a brutal weekend assault in a car park behind the Crowne Plaza Hotel on Shaikh Zayed Road.

A Rashid Hospital official confirmed yesterday that doctors are administering critical emergen...

Sun, 02/19/2012 05:40 PM | By Mwakilishi

An inter-ministerial committee set up to enable Kenyans abroad to vote has a huge task ahead, Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo said on Sunday.

“Enabling Kenyans in the diaspora to vote is not as easy as people think. It is a huge task and we have to get things r...

Sun, 02/19/2012 03:16 PM | By Mwakilishi

Presidential aspirants are making unprecedented efforts to secure votes of Kenyans living outside the country in the belief that they could be crucial in winning the contest for State House in the forthcoming General Election.

Leading aspirants have opened offices...

Sun, 02/19/2012 01:28 PM | By Mwakilishi

Competition in the mobile money transfer market is set to intensify, with the launch of a cross-border mobile money platform by electronic payments processor Visa.

The platform will be available to all mobile users irrespective of their network, breaking the cu...

Sun, 02/19/2012 12:49 PM | By Mwakilishi

Investors who had hoped to cash in on the proximity to Kenya’s first ICT Park in Konza to make capital gains will be disappointed as the government moved to bar human settlement within two kilometres of the park.

The promoters of the Sh800 billion-technopolis s...

Sat, 02/18/2012 12:56 PM | By Mwakilishi

Amid the wrangles in the G7 group, there is at least one place where the Vice President is being awaited with bated breath - and that is at his new house put up by the Government in Karen. The residence is partially ready for occupation but a parliamentary watchdog is rai...

Fri, 02/17/2012 11:36 AM | By Mwakilishi

With the arrest of five foreign nationals, Delhi Police on Friday claimed to have busted a racket of printing counterfeit US dollars, fake passports, visas and residential permits and recovered a huge cache of fake currency and documents from their possession.

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Thu, 02/16/2012 09:13 PM | By Mwakilishi

A Kenyan refugee who fled to South Africa in 2007 during the political violence that erupted in his country now has to endure the pain of watching his life coming to an end – because he is a foreigner.

Dishon Muriuki, 37, urgently requires a kidney transplant,...

Thu, 02/16/2012 12:40 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyans working for international firms earning in foreign currencies face tough times as the shilling firms against hard currencies. The Kenya shilling begun crawling back ground last November after touching an-all time low of Sh107 to the dollar in November, reversing w...

Thu, 02/16/2012 08:46 AM | By Mwakilishi

A Nairobi high court has issued an order for the arrest and detention of former President Daniel Moi’s son Philip Moi for failing to pay the maintenance of his estranged wife Rossana Pluda Moi.

Mr Moi, in a divorce settlement, is to pay a monthly allowance of S...

Thu, 02/16/2012 12:51 AM | By Mwakilishi

Called Shuga: Love, Sex, Money, it looks at the complexity of love in the age of Aids and HIV - and especially at how Kenyan teenage girls and teenagers in poor countries in general - go out with older men who have the financial means to finance the young girls' expensive...

Wed, 02/15/2012 09:11 PM | By Mwakilishi

Baltimore, Maryland - Kenya National Congress (KNC) presidential candidate Peter Kenneth challenged Kenyans in the Diaspora to be the driving force behind transforming the country into what he termed - a ‘brighter Kenya’- as outlined in his vision for the country.

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Wed, 02/15/2012 05:35 PM | By Mwakilishi

There were 66 Kenyan convicts in UK prisons by the end of last year, the country’s Justice Ministry has said.

According to the Ministry’s official website, 60 of the convicts were men and only six were women.

However, a spokesman for the Ministry of...

Wed, 02/15/2012 03:23 PM | By Mwakilishi

International electronic transaction facilitators are avoiding the Kenyan market as losses mount from card fraud.

Borderlinx, an American company which deals in cross-border electronic commerce, has suspended its services in the local market in a move that wil...

Tue, 02/14/2012 11:11 AM | By Mwakilishi

On Being a Black Lawyer (OBABL) recently selected the 100 most influential black attorneys in the United States. SUNY Buffalo Law School is very pleased to announce that Dean Makau Mutua has been named to this exceptional group.

OBABL will publish “The Power 10...

Mon, 02/13/2012 02:56 PM | By Mwakilishi

Members of Parliament plan to continue earning their salaries after President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga dissolve the National Accord as expected on October 17 to allow for elections in December.

These details are set out in the Constitution Amendme...

Mon, 02/13/2012 09:33 AM | By Mwakilishi

As part of its national research capacity-strengthening mandate, Consortium for National Health Research (C.N.H.R) invites applications for Research Career Development Grants (RCDGs) from qualified Kenyan researchers (currently based in Kenya or working within the Diaspor...

Sun, 02/12/2012 03:29 PM | By Mwakilishi

Presidential aspirant Raphael Tuju on Sunday launched the Party of Action (POA) which he would use to vie for the top seat in the forthcoming general elections.

At the launch at KICC, Tuju pledged that his party which has a youth centered political agenda was d...

Sat, 02/11/2012 12:10 PM | By Mwakilishi

Joy and jubilation marked the first day of the Las Vegas tournament of the International Rugby Board Sevens circuit as the National rugby Sevens team qualified for the Main Cup quarter-final.

Two impressive victories over bitter rivals Scotland 17-14 and underdogs...

Fri, 02/10/2012 10:56 PM | By Mwakilishi

In its opener at the 2012 USA Sevens, the Kenyan rugby team rallied from an early deficit to defeat Pool D opponent Scotland 17-14.

Scotland’s Sean Kennedy scored the first of his two tries in the opening minute of the game, and Colin Gregor matched his effort...

Fri, 02/10/2012 12:21 PM | By Mwakilishi

Kenyans seeking employment in Saudi Arabia should only accept job offers from accredited employment agencies, officials have warned. Speaking yesterday at a media reception at his residence in Muthaiga, the Saudi Arabian ambassador to Kenya Ghorm Malhan said some workers...

Thu, 02/9/2012 07:12 PM | By Mwakilishi

American rapper 50 Cent is currently in Kenya on a low key mission trip to aid hungry and orphaned children in Kenya. He visited orphaned school children in Kibera on Thursday. Prior to arriving in Kenya, he visited Somalia to assess the conditions of tens of thousands of...

Thu, 02/9/2012 09:51 AM | By Mwakilishi

Two charitable organisations formed by Kenyans living in the US have donated food and drugs to integrated IDPs at Gacege village in Gatundu North, Kiambu county. Austin Friends of Kenya and One Stop Agape from Austin, Texas US, called for more assistance to help IDPs not...

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