HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe’s political rivals reached a power-sharing deal Thursday in a bid to end a bitter crisis after marathon talks that centred on how much authority President Robert Mugabe would cede.
South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has long served as mediator in the talks, announced the agreement in Harare, where he had been [...]

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NEW YORK (AFP) - Former president Bill Clinton said Thursday Barack Obama would win November’s election “handily” as he prepared to bring his vaunted campaign skills to bear on behalf of his heir as Democratic leader.
Obama and Clinton sat down for a fence-mending lunch lasting over 90 minutes, after months of bitter sniping during the [...]

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NEW YORK (AFP) - White House rivals John McCain and Barack Obama paid homage at Ground Zero together Thursday on the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In a rare show of unity, the increasingly bitter contestants for the presidency walked with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg into the still unreconstructed site of the September [...]

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From the desk of President of Halala USA,
Hon Pius Mwemba
www.halalausa.org
I would like to thank the editors of Abeingo network and majimbo Kenya for giving publicity to the just ended Halala Conference in Massachusetts USA.
Halala is the ship all Luhyas should board to the long awaited dream of rebuilding western Kenya.
I strongly agree with the message [...]

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Karua launches presidential campaign website
BY ISAAC ONGIRI
Brace yourselves for a titanic battle in 2012.
That was Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua’s message to her rivals last night as she launched her presidential campaign website.
Karua told Kenyans not to take her opponents seriously. Although they had dismissed her interest in the race, she said she [...]

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Position of PM gains acceptance in Central
By Joseph Murimi And Francis Ngige
Leaders from Central Province, including those who bitterly opposed the creation of the office of the Prime Minister, have changed their minds on the post.
The position of PM has gained acceptance in the region and appears set to be a permanent feature [...]

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By Churchil K’Ombeto-Kisumu-Kenya
The mayor of Kisumu aparently being handpicked does not and has not been able to appreciate the emerging leadership tenets that lay empahasis to involvement, participation and consultation of stakeholders.
For even as our people were emerging from the violence of the post election period he ordered goons who work for the council to [...]

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By William ODuor-Denmark
It is my desire in this article to attempts to share with you my thoughts on measures that are needed to change Luoworth. The Luo, though a significant ethnic community in Kenya, are still unable to make Luoland a better place to live in.
The reason to this is simple; we have been unable [...]

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By Ko’obetto. Churchill Kisumu-Kenya
Colleagues, Our Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga and his erstwhile Minister For Medical Services Hon. Peter Anyang Nyongo have just wound up a highly productive party meeting which had set out to find lasting answers to various maters that threatened to tear our party apart.
I am particularly gratified that the MPs [...]

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We are saddened to announce the sudden death of Mr. George Owande Okello of Arlington, TX. Who passed away on August 25th,2008. He is survived by his wife and three children.
The organizing committee and the family invite relatives, friends, church members & well wishers to a Funeral Fund Raiser; NEXT SATURDAY September, 13th 2008 at [...]

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