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Museveni reveals national oil plan
By Florence Nakaayi, Raymond Baguma and Ibrahim Kasiita
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has said revenue from Uganda’s oil will be used to develop infrastructure and other sectors of the economy such as agriculture.
He said the oil and gas revenues would be chanelled to building the human resource [...]
By Joseph Murimi
Minutes after Finance Minister Amos Kimunya stepped aside, politicians from central Kenya went into an overdrive as they lobbied for the position.
With President Kibaki expected to pick a replacement from the PNU stable, a section of the MPs mainly from Kiambu and Thika districts summoned an urgent meeting at a hotel in [...]
Tough choices as PNU, ODM seek to fill vacant seats
By Martin Mutua
The exit of Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has triggered reorganisation of President Kibaki’s troops to counter those of the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM).
President Kibaki is now more than ever before, since the formation of the Grand Coalition Government, faced with an uphill task identifying [...]
Reuters Photo: Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit stands in front of the Brandenburg gate during his visit to…
By Erik Kirschbaum
BERLIN (Reuters) - Can Germany’s Social Democrats find a Barack Obama of their own to revive their party?
At a recent rally in Nuremberg, Hubertus Heil, the deputy leader in the struggling SPD, tried to inject a [...]
Three Mungiki members found murdered
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
The bodies of three people suspected to be Mungiki sect members, who went missing a week ago, were found dumped in Nairobi’s City Mortuary on Tuesday.
They include that of a matatu driver, his tout and another matatu crew member.
Family members of the deceased said their kin were last [...]
BY CAPITAL REPORTERS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday sought to clear his name over the controversial sale of the Grand Regency Hotel and denied in Parliament that he was directly involved in the transaction.
Giving his first statement in the August House as a Prime Minister (PM), Odinga said that he was kept in the [...]
Bamburi Cement wins Commonwealth award
BY CAPITAL NEWS
Bamburi Cement Company has scooped a top continental business award from the Commonwealth Business Council.
Bamburi won the inaugural CBC-African Business award for Best Corporate Citizenship/ Social Responsibility at a ceremony held in London on July 3.
Close to 500 government, business and media leaders from Africa, Europe, Asia and the [...]
(The Canadian Press Photo: Prime Minister Stephen Harper poses with Canadian flag waving Japanese children. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson )
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press
RUSUTSU, Japan - The United States and Russia’s stamp of approval on a G8 declaration that endorses a halving of the world’s greenhouse gases by 2050 is being heralded by Canada [...]
TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - The Group of Eight has agreed to seek U.N. sanctions against Zimbabwe after a violent election that extended President Robert Mugabe’s 28-year rule, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Tuesday.
The G8, holding a three-day summit in northern Japan, was due to issue a formal statement on the political crisis in [...]
By Caren Bohan
ATLANTA (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Tuesday will propose overhauling bankruptcy laws to ease their impact on people unable to pay their bills because of medical expenses or military service.
“I’ll reform our bankruptcy laws to give Americans who find themselves trapped in debt a second chance,” Obama will say in [...]
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