By Kiptenengen arap Matiangigen
Dear Kenyans, Raila Odinga had a humble request to his kinsmen to undergo the un-Luo practice of circumcision. The PM, I believe, wanted to make a point related to health and HIV transmission.
It may be unscientific as opposed to political but one thing strikes me most in our discourse. Raila’s comments have [...]

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By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
DENVER (Reuters) - Barack Obama launched a sharp assault on Republican presidential rival John McCain on Thursday with a promise to reverse the economic failures of the past eight years and restore America’s global reputation.
The first black presidential nominee of a major U.S. party linked McCain directly to President George W. [...]

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BY AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
KOGELO, An ebullient Sarah Obama Friday said she was confident her grandson Barack would make history as she tracked the latest news of the first major-party White House pick from her village home in Kogelo.
Senator Obama accepted the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination before 84,000 delirious supporters in Denver, setting course for November’s presidential [...]

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Civil society claims stake in constitution making
BY JUDIE KABERIA
The Centre for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) has rejected calls by Prime Minister Raila Odinga to lock out the civil society from the constitution making process.
CMD Chairman Professor Lawrence Gumbe is instead proposing the formation of a national committee of 200 delegates to work on the [...]

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