Circumcision programme planned for Nyanza
By Jane Akinyi And Harold Ayodo
The Government plans to launch a male circumcision programme in Nyanza Province despite resistance by a group of elders.
Nyanza Provincial Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Co-ordinator John Okal said they were waiting for a report from the Ministry of Health in Nairobi that would set [...]
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Profile: Radovan Karadzic
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has long been one of the most wanted men in the world.
His arrest has come after nearly 13 years on the run - during which time Serbia has come under increasing international pressure to catch him.
Accused of leading the slaughter of thousands of Bosnian [...]
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Rebel leaders from Sudan’s Darfur region are being investigated for war crimes, says International Criminal Court’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Mr Ocampo last week asked for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to be indicted on war crimes charges, sparking angry protests in the capital, Khartoum.
Now he wants rebels to help investigate two of their own [...]
Coastals shun varsities
Story by ABDULSAMAD ALI
Although several universities have set up campuses at the Coast, only a few local students have enrolled for degree courses.
“It is a shame that only about five per cent of the total enrolment are Coast people while the remaining 95 per cent are from other areas. There [...]
Secrets of Jaramogi’s last moments with Raila
By John Oywa
The secrets of how Prime Minister Raila Odinga inherited his father’s leadership legacy can today be unravelled.
The Standard stumbled on this hitherto guarded ritual at the shrine of Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in Bondo—in a booklet.
Elsewhere, a documentary posted on the Internet by Raila appears to be confirming [...]
By Cris Chinaka
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday signed a deal laying down the framework for formal talks on forming a power sharing government to end a deep political crisis.
It was the first meeting in 10 years between the two rival leaders, widely believed to detest each [...]
By Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The African Union urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to put on hold the International Criminal Court’s move to indict Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over war crimes in Darfur.
The call, after a meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council in Ethiopia, followed a similar appeal [...]
By BARRY HATTON, Associated Press Writer
LISBON, Portugal - Portugal’s attorney general ordered police Monday to halt their investigation into the disappearance of British girl Madeleine McCann because detectives uncovered no evidence of a crime during their 14-month probe.
The case will remain closed unless new evidence emerges, Attorney-General Fernando Pinto Monteiro’s office said in [...]
By BRIAN MURPHY, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD - Barack Obama began Monday his first on-the-ground inspection of Iraq since launching his bid for the White House, with U.S. commanders ready to brief him on progress in a war he long opposed and Iraqi leaders wanting more details of his proposals for troop withdrawals.
His stops [...]
BY ROBIN NJOGU and PPS
Kenya has cautioned that any isolationist policy against the sitting Government of Sudan would be counter-productive.
“The international community must help the Government of Sudan find an amicable solution to the Darfur crisis,” President Mwai Kibaki said over the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) possible war crimes charges against President Omar al [...]
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