ODM snaps up Ainamoi
BY GEORGE MUNYORI
NAIROBI, June 12 – The Orange Democratic Movement has retained its hold on Ainamoi constituency after a neck and neck race between the party’s candidate Benjamin Langat and Paul Chepkwony of the United Democratic Movement (UDM).
Presiding officer Humphrey Rono announced that Langat had secured the seat with 17,532 votes, followed [...]
By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a historic apology Wednesday for more than a century of abuse and cultural loss involving Indian residential schools.
Aboriginal leaders - some in traditional garb - sat in a circle in front of Harper in the House of Commons as he officially said sorry to former [...]
By Bob Awuor
Disgusted citizen.
London.
I write to protest the upcoming ban by the Kenya Police of the cheapest transport modes used by the poor in our country’s urban areas.
That the Kenya Police have decided to ban Boda Bodas, Tuk Tuks, and Mkokoteni operators from kenya’s urban centres smacks of utmost arrogance, mischief and demogogary on the [...]
By Nickson Turyahikayo
A new born baby boy in Bakuli set tongues wagging as residents alleged that he was a carbon copy of his ‘parents’ shamba boy. What made residents even more suspicious was that he had six fingers, just like the shamba boy. However, the husband to the baby’s mother did not know any of [...]
Leaders mourn departed colleagues
By Standard Team
Messages of condolence continued to pour in following the deaths of Cabinet ministers Kipkalya Kones and Lorna Laboso.
Politicians, members of the diplomatic corps, the clergy and ordinary Kenyans condoled the families and friends of both leaders, who died in a tragic air crash in Narok on Tuesday.
ODM headquarters announced that [...]
MPs should vet commissioners, Kriegler team told
Story by DAVE OPIYO
The Electoral Commission of Kenya came under renewed attack in Kisumu as the Kriegler commission held its first session in the lakeside town.
A member of the public gives his views to the Kriegler-led commission during a public hearing on Tuesday at the Kisumu Municipal Hall. The [...]
By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama staked an ambitious claim to new political turf with the states he chose for his first two stops of the White House general election campaign — Virginia and North Carolina.
Pushing deep into Republican territory, Obama took aim at two states that have spurned Democratic [...]
KOGONY YOUTHS DEMANDS MANAGER REMOVAL
By Agwanda Powerman
Youths from Kogony clan in whose land Kisumu airport is to be expanded has said that they will go ahead with their threat to disrupt the airports expansion if Kenya Airport Authority and the Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications does not remove the current Kisumu Airport Manager a Mr. [...]
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese authorities were on Wednesday searching for passengers who escaped a jet carrying over 200 people that exploded on landing at Khartoum airport, burning at least 30 to death.
The plane, a Sudan Airways Airbus A310 carrying 214 people, burst into flames shortly after landing late on Tuesday, but on Wednesday dozens were [...]
By Tom Withers, The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - Magic Johnson looked very nervous. Across the court, Jack Nicholson fidgeted with his sunglasses, Sylvester Stallone squirmed in his seat and nearly everyone else styling in shades of purple and gold was on edge.
The Los Angeles Lakers, kings of the Western Conference, were in real trouble, [...]
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