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By Judy Miriga USA
Diaspora Spokesperson
Without a Tale Tale or going by riddles, the majority poor in Kenya are languishing in serious poverty from lack of food, housing, clothing a result of joblessness situation. Even the educated have scrambled.
There is undercover reports of many dying from lack of food. Food prices have [...]
By Winsley Masese And Joel Okwayo
Seven ODM MPs are opposed to the Electoral Commission overseeing their party’s grassroots elections.
They said the ECK blundered in the last General Election, hence would not be trusted to hold free and fair polls for the party.
The MPs called on the party’s secretariat to form a transparent electoral board.
The leaders [...]
MPs warn against rifts among Mt Kenya leaders
By Francis Ngige And Vitalis Kimutai
Twelve MPs from Mt Kenya region have warned that divisions among local political leaders are likely to work against their people.
The leaders, who spoke at a meeting attended by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Justice Minister Martha Karua, said the [...]
DAKAR (AFP) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Monday briefed the Senegalese president about the ICC investigation in Darfur as part of an effort to urge African leaders to help end crimes there, the prosecutor told AFP.
“I think we have to keep explaining to African leaders the case, what we are [...]
By Jonathan Montpetit, The Canadian Press
MONTREAL - A tough, multi-ethnic neighbourhood was under tight police surveillance Monday after erupting in violence over a fatal shooting that has stoked simmering anger toward authorities.
Montreal police gunned down an 18-year-old man during a routine operation over the weekend and by Sunday night several blocks in the city’s [...]
By MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI, Associated Press Writer
Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a military base and police stations in the country’s west, officials said.
The new forays into Georgia — even after Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili signed a cease-fire pledge — appeared to [...]
Simon Mbugua declared Kamukunji MP
BY CAPITAL NEWS TEAM
NAIROBI,– Simon Mbugua was declared winner of the controversial Kamukunji Parliamentary seat Monday in an acrimonious tallying of votes at the Shauri Moyo social hall.
The Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) Returning Officer Priscilla Wamiru handed the Party of National Unity candidate a certificate, effectively sending him to [...]
Poll chaos not planned, says PC
BY CORRESPONDENT
KISUMU,Western Provincial Commissioner Abdul Mwasera has told the Commission probing the post poll skirmishes that none of the violence was pre-planned.
Appearing before the Commission Investigating Post Election Violence (CIPEV), chaired by Justice Philip Waki in Kisumu on Monday, Mwasera stated that cases of aggression in the province were [...]
By Matt Spetalnick
BEIJING (Reuters) - President George W. Bush said on Monday he used talks with China’s leaders during the Beijing Olympics to press them to use their influence with Sudan to help end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
Wrapping up his Olympics tour, Bush said that in Sunday’s meetings with President Hu Jintao and other [...]
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