By Steve Holland
CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful John McCain praised Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday in a speech to black leaders and outlined what he called honest differences with Obama over taxes, spending and education.
“I am a candidate for president who seeks your vote and hopes to earn it,” he told the NAACP, the [...]
Narc Kenya discards PNU deal
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
Narc Kenya on Wednesday turned its back on President Mwai Kibaki’s appeal to strengthen the Party of National Unity (PNU) and reiterated its earlier stand that it will not dissolve.
In an open letter to the PNU Coordinating Chairman Noah Wekesa, Narc Kenya Party leader Martha Karua stated that [...]
By Michael Oliveira, The Canadian Press
TORONTO - A new study released Wednesday suggests there may be a connection between feeling blue and developing heart disease in middle-aged women.
Statistics Canada tracked the health of nearly 5,000 men and women aged 40 or older over a 12-year period and found women had significantly higher risks of [...]
By Alistair Lyon, Special Correspondent
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five Lebanese freed from captivity in Israel were flown to a heroes’ welcome in Beirut on Wednesday after Hezbollah returned the bodies of two Israeli soldiers seized in a cross-border raid in 2006.
A grim mood prevailed in Israel, where the prisoner swap was widely seen as a painful [...]
Post election violence suspects secretly executed
By Kamau Ngethe
It is no longer a secret tension is building among Security corridors after it was discovered that several youth among the 1,700 arrested in Rift Valley, Western and Nyanza for participating in post-election violence were executed and their bodies secretly burnt and buried in exclusive place in [...]
Gender groups tell Waki team police raped women during poll violence
By Kipngeno Cheruiyot
GANGS raped women and children during the post-election violence, the Commission Investigating Post-Election Violence heard yesterday. In three different submissions made by groups fighting gender based violence, the commission heard that rowdy youths, some General Service Unit (GSU) personnel and some crooked [...]
Beyond Compliance: Governing for Value
By Judy Miriga
USA
Kenya’s past Rulership was infested with jiggers, generated from infectious seed of tribal corruption that which became chronic within some politicians. These politicians developed a Touch Me Not Immuned Syndrome and so they assumed that Kenyans will continue to make a political endless “Sing Song” [...]
Govt admits failure in anti graft war
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
The government has conceded failure in meeting its targets to fight corruption and change public perception on the vice.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua said the government has failed to act on recommendations by various commissions of Inquiry to stop graft.
Speaking at the third [...]
BY CHARITY KATAGO
Equity Bank has been voted the best bank in Kenya during this year’s Euromoney Excellence Awards.
This is the second time the local bank is winning this award.
The bank received the 2008 Euromoney Award for the best bank in Kenya for leveraging on its efficient systems and processes to be able to process more [...]
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