By MISSIONARY ZEAL? MACHARIA GAITHO
WITH INTERVENTIONS on the Mau Forest crisis, the Grand Regency Hotel sale; and now the Port of Mombasa, Prime Minister Raila Odinga is displaying a rare kind of leadership as he defines the functions of his new office.
The power-sharing agreement he signed with President Kibaki gave him a position that [...]
Kamukunji: Parties fight over results
By Standard Team
The war of words between ODM and PNU occasioned by the controversial Kamukunji election results went a notch higher, threatening to erupt into another test of unity for the Grand Coalition.
Kamukunji appeared to provide another forum for eruption of undercurrents of pent up anger and rivalry that have [...]
By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Writer
A flight attendant suing the wife of megachurch evangelist Joel Osteen over a preflight confrontation testified Tuesday that she felt compelled to keep an irate Victoria Osteen away from the cockpit door.
“I looked in her eyes and realized she was looking at the cockpit. I positioned myself in front [...]
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
Scrambling to find ways to punish Russia for its invasion of pro-Western Georgia, the United States and its allies are considering expelling Moscow from an exclusive club of wealthy nations and have scrapped plans for an upcoming joint NATO-Russia military exercise, Bush administration officials said Tuesday.
But with scant leverage in [...]
By David Dimba
I must let the world know, as a matter of surprise, that assassin or people with ulterior motives broke into my house in Satellite last Friday night, in fact after 2.30 am Saturday and ransacked the households including documents and left with only my small loaded Kodak still camera and my military cap [...]
Russia’s president has agreed to a proposal calling for both Russian and Georgian troops to move back to their initial positions and stop fighitng.
Georgia has not yet agreed to the plan, which also calls for the beginning of international discussion on future status of Georgia’s breakaway provinces and ways to ensure their security.
The plan endorsed [...]
From tea, Ruto moves to cotton
BY EVELYNE NJOROGE
NAIROBI, The government has moved to revive the cotton sector following the announcement that it would commit Sh60 million in the development of cotton seed.
Agriculture Minister William Ruto told a media briefing Tuesday that the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) would undertake the project with the view [...]
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