By Caren Bohan
ESPANOLA, New Mexico (Reuters) - Presidential candidate Barack Obama urged the Federal Reserve and the Treasury on Thursday to take emergency steps to keep credit flowing to the troubled housing market, saying it would help stem the crisis sweeping financial markets.
“The events of the past few days have made clear that we need [...]

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By Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper brushed aside demands Thursday that he fire his agriculture minister over some ill-timed gallows humour amid the deadly listeriosis outbreak.
Instead, the prime minister took aim at bureaucrats, accusing them of leaking the story, and questioning their motives.
With opposition parties clamouring for Gerry Ritz’s ouster, [...]

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JERUSALEM, (AFP) - Fresh from her election as the head of Israel’s governing Kadima party, Tzipi Livni on Thursday set out to become the country’s second woman prime minister and avert snap elections that could stall Middle East peacemaking.
In her victory speech, the foreign minister said she wanted to form a new government as quickly [...]

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IDPs in Kisumu threaten to return to refugee camps
By Jane Akinyi
More than 2,000 post-election violence victims in Kisumu have threatened to return to camps for the displaced.
They claimed the Government had neglected them.
The IDPs accused the Government of shortchanging them in the ongoing Rudi Nyumbani compensation programme.
The victims, who were uprooted from their homes [...]

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By Okello
We want luos to ask Kibaki to apologise to luos for having been one of the planners to marginalisation of luos a right after the death of Tom Mboya.This marginalisation was mainly done through economic suppression which Kibaki himself implemented through administration.
All the iniation plan of denying luos economic power started when Kibaki was [...]

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By John Oywa
The Nyanza Provincial Hospital, popularly known as ‘Russia’ is to be renamed after Kenya’s first Vice-President, the late Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.
The biggest referral medical facility in western Kenya, whose official opening in 1969 turned chaotic and left several people dead, will now be called Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Memorial Hospital, in honour of [...]

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MINISTER SCOFFS AT PRESS REPORTS
By JEEF OTIENO IN KISUMU
Ndhiwa member of parliament who is also an assistant minister for internal security Joshua Orwa Ojode has dismissed claims in a section of the press that his political graph was fast diminishing ahead of the forthcoming Orange Democratic Movement party’s (ODM) grassroots elections.
“I have no time exchanging [...]

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HIV-positive couples are being paired up for marriage by a northern Nigerian state in an attempt to reduce the spread of the disease.
But international Aids experts have voiced concern at the plan.
Warren Naamara from UNAids said the two people could have different strains of the virus, which could interact. He said the couples should use [...]

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Murtala Mohammed Kamara, AfricaNews reporter in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Ghana is named the best country in West Africa for investment and other business ventures. The World Bank and the International Finance Consortium (IFC) released the results in their latest ‘Doing Business’ 2009 report. The cocoa endowed country placed 87th out of 181 countries marked worldwide.
The ‘Doing [...]

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By Erick Kabendera, New York
The UN General Assembly opened its 63rd session on Tuesday, with its new president criticizing the Bretton Woods institutions for their difficult policies on developing countries.
Father Miguel D?Escoto Brockmann, who becomes the first priest to hold that position, cited the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as being under [...]

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