By Cris Chinaka
HARARE (Reuters) - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beat Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe’s presidential election, winning 47 percent of the vote against the president’s 43 percent, senior government sources said on Wednesday.
One source, declining to be named like the others, told Reuters a run-off would be needed because Tsvangirai did not win enough votes [...]
Story by CASPER WAITHAKA
A group of leaders from central Kenya on Wednesday called for talks between the outlawed Mungiki sect and the Government.
The leaders, who included a sitting MP and former ministers, also asked the Government to release Maina Njenga, the sect’s jailed spiritual leader, to lead the talks on behalf of [...]
Bank falls victim to daring heist
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
MOMBASA, April 30 - Five armed gangsters staged a daring bank robbery in Mombasa Wednesday morning, and made off with more than Sh650,000 in US Dollars.
The gangsters also shot and seriously injured a CID officer before escaping.
At 8am, the gang arrived at the I&M bank on [...]
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
NAIROBI, April 30 - Nine top prison commandants have been suspended for links to a strike that paralysed the country’s major jails, an official said on Wednesday.
The nine, charged on Monday with inciting thousands of warders to join the strike last week, will remain suspended until their trial is determined, the official [...]
Raila eye surgery successful
By Ayub Savula
The operation on Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s left eye at a German hospital was successful.
However, doctors at Ulm City near Stuttgart have prescribed bed rest for the PM. Raila’s spokesman, Mr Salim Lone, said on Tuesday the PM was recuperating.
In a statement, the spokesman said Raila had spoken to [...]
By Kipng’etich Magutt
Although the mandate of the proposed Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission
(TJRC) is national in reach, its ultimate test is how it handles the complex issues regarding the Rift Valley Province.
The conspiracy of silence or indifference and the failure by successive governments to get at the root of perennial inter-ethnic conflict will occupy [...]
Kenyans could vote for new constitution
By Standard Team
Kenyans could vote at another referendum if a new roadmap unveiled on Tuesday gives the country a new constitution within the year.
But there were concerns that voting at another plebiscite only months after a disputed presidential election, which almost ripped the country apart, could further [...]
Pyramid scheme losers won’t be paid
The Government will not compensate depositors who lost billions of shillings in collapsed investment schemes.
The schemes were neither finance institutions nor banks and were, therefore, not under the direct supervision of the Central Bank of Kenya, Finance assistant minister Oburu Oginga said.
However, he said, the Government had [...]
By The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON - Alberta’s envoy to the United States, Gary Mar, says the province expects a U.S. working group to classify oilsands fuel as a conventional resource to overturn a tough restriction on imports.
An energy bill passed last year prohibits the U.S. government from buying “alternative” fuels that produce more greenhouse gas [...]
By MIKE GLOVER, Associated Press Writer
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Tuesday he was outraged by the latest divisive comments from his former pastor and rejected the notion that he secretly agrees with him.
Obama is seeking to tamp down the growing fury over Rev. Jeremiah Wright and his incendiary remarks [...]
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