By Caren Bohan
LONDON (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama, on a tour abroad where he has got a rock star reception, will wrap up his trip on Saturday with talks in London on the Middle East conflict, Iran and Afghanistan.
On earlier legs of his trip, Obama drew a crowd of 200,000 people in Berlin and [...]

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Raila ranked top in unity government
By Samuel Otieno
Kenyans perceive Prime Minister Raila Odinga as the highest performer in government, a new opinion poll shows.
Raila is ahead of President Kibaki and the entire government.
Raila got approval ratings of 75 per cent, followed by Kibaki at 68 per cent and the government at 65 per cent, an [...]

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BY CATHERINE KARONG’O
NAIROBI, July 25 - A two day meeting of the Great Lakes Initiative on AIDS council of ministers came to a close Friday with an emphasis to strengthen HIV/AIDS initiatives among transit communities.
The meeting attended by ministers from Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya concluded that this group of [...]

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Minister assures Civil Servants
BY GEORGE MUNYORI
NAIROBI, July 25 - Public Service Minister Dalmas Otieno on Friday reassured Civil Servants that the government was committed to improving their working conditions.
Otieno told a conference of top government officials that public institutions could only offer better services if staff were motivated and well taken care off.
“I can [...]

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VIENNA (Reuters) - Radovan Karadzic evaded capture last year when Austrian police raided a Vienna apartment where he was staying but did not recognize the disguised war crimes suspect, an Austrian newspaper reported on Friday.
Karadzic, who was captured in Belgrade earlier this week after 11 years in hiding, was found disguised as a doctor. Serb [...]

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By Orton Kiishweko
While paying tribute to Mwalimu Nyerere, Prof Chachage Seith Chachage said of the father of the nation, ”Mwalimu Nyerere’s life, against the current Darwinian moral cynicism (the cult of the winner, the survivor) was an incarnation of dedication to the noblest unshakable human ideals.
He tirelessly fought for freedom, integrity, high ethical [...]

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CDF millions going down the drain in Nyanza
By NATION TEAM
The lush bushes at Nyamthoyi on the banks of River Nyamasaria in Kisumu conceal the colossal amounts of money sunk into the idle marshland in the hope of turning it into a farmland.
Since 2003, Sh4.5 million from the Constituency Development Fund has been [...]

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1,020 killed in chaos, team told
By MUGO NJERi
In Summary
1) 1,020 people killed in the post-election violence.
2) Maj-Gen Hussein Ali indicated that 616 people were killed.
3) Still 65 bodies awaiting autopsy across the country
The Ministry of Medical Services on Friday told the Waki Commission of Inquiry that 1,020 people were killed in the post-election violence.
The ministry’s [...]

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Story from BBC NEWS:
Sudan has again warned it cannot guarantee the safety of UN and African Union peacekeepers in Darfur if its president is indicted for war crimes.
A presidential adviser said that if the International Criminal Court indicted Omar al-Bashir, Sudan could not be held responsible for the troops’ well-being.
Earlier this month, the [...]

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LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown, hit by a third crushing by-election defeat in as many months, could be forced to quit unless he reverses his government’s flagging fortunes, media said Saturday.
Brown’s governing Labour Party saw the Scottish National Party (SNP) overturn its 13,507 majority in the Glasgow East constituency in a vote Thursday, [...]

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