LEBANON, Virginia (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama late Tuesday launched his most scathing attack yet on his Republican White House rivals’ reformist credentials, likening their approach to putting “lipstick on a pig.”
“We’ve been talking about change when we were up in the polls and when we were down in the polls,” Obama told a rally [...]

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By Jane Akinyi
The Luo Council of Elders has stirred a fresh storm over the male circumcision debate with a threat of disrupting a planned Government launch of the exercise in Nyanza.
The elders want the launch- to be presided by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Public Health Minister Beth Mugo next week, put on hold until ‘stake [...]

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Minister wants tougher anti FGM action
BY BERNARD MOMANYI
The war on Female Genital Mutilation and Cut (FGM/C) will not be won in Kenya unless the law is amended to impose stiffer penalties for offenders, a Cabinet Minister said Monday.
Gender and Children Affairs Minister Esther Murugi said there was urgent need to amend the Children’s Act [...]

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Karua: We are focused on law review
BY GEORGE MUNYORI and LABAN WANAMBISI
Justice Minister Martha Karua has said she expects two Bills setting out the roadmap for a new constitution would be passed by November.
She said the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs was scrutinising the Bills and expected them to be debated once the House [...]

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Raila warns MPs against defection
By LUCAS BARASA and BERNARD NAMUNANE
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday warned dissenting ODM members of Parliament against defecting to regional parties after a two-day retreat set up a disciplinary organ to punish rebels.
The caution came as the party’s national governing council was elevated to the highest decision-making [...]

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By The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion has moved to trump the Tories with a promise to double the Harper government’s $1,200-a-year child care allowance and restore the court challenges program abolished by the Conservatives.
The announcements, which repeat pledges in the Liberal “Green Shift” plan, counter a new Tory ad that claims [...]

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame in Kigali. President Kagame has ensured stability in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide. Photo/REUTERS
By KEZIO-MUSOKE DAVIDNATION Correspondent KIGALI,
Political parties that are contesting in Rwanda’s second multi-party parliamentary elections since the 1994 genocide are this week mid way the campaign trail.
Despite the pressure of [...]

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By Judy Miriga-USA
The Delay of Constitution making is what caused marginilization of the Luo’s and other tribes to be carved out of Sharing of the Cake, is what caused public assets to be stolen by a group of unscrupulous GEMA Mafia from Kikuyu tribes and disposed as private property without public information, consent or consultation, [...]

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