Protesting IDPs seek audience with PM
By Peter Atsiaya
Hundreds of displaced people blocked Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s motorcade in Kisumu and demanded audience.
Raila drove into placard-waving IDPs outside the Tom Mboya Labour College on Monday evening, as he left a conference on male circumcision.
Unknown to the PM, the IDPs had been waiting for him outside [...]

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By Joram Ragem, Esq.
Sacramento, CA.
Date Filed: 18th September, 2008
In The Court of The United Nations General Assembly
H.E. Mr. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann
President of the 63rd Session
Case No: 2008-KEN-EA-145-4
The People of The Republic of Kenya.
Plaintiff,
V.

Emilio Mwai Kibaki, EGH, MP
President of The [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is ahead in four battleground states, according to a Quinnipiac University poll out Tuesday that suggested Obama could be benefiting from turmoil on Wall Street.
Republican White House rival John McCain has not been able to wrestle the banner of change from Obama, and voters in three of [...]

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NEW YORK (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts from Russia, China and Europe have called off a meeting here this week aimed at pursuing sanctions against Iran, her spokesman said Tuesday.
The decision to cancel the meeting on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly in New York came as [...]

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By Peter Rakobowchuk , The Canadian Press
MONTREAL - Canada’s mayors are telling the five federal party leaders they need more money for infrastructure, affordable housing, public transit as well as cultural and recreational facilities.
Jean Perrault, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, said Tuesday it’s time political leaders ask themselves what kind of town [...]

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By Clare Nullis, The Associated Press
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - South Africa’s finance minister and most other leading cabinet members have decided to resign following the ouster of President Thabo Mbeki.
Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s departure was a potentially devastating blow for the economic stability of Africa’s most powerful country, and for the new administration [...]

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BY JUDIE KABERIA
Kenya’s anti-graft record took a beating on Tuesday when a new report listed the country as the most corrupt nation in East Africa.
The 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) that was released by Transparency International, showed that Kenya was the 16th most corrupt country out of 47 nations in Sub-Saharan Africa with a score [...]

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By Vitalis Kimutai
Three issues are close to Bureti MP Franklin Kipng’etich Bett’s heart — education, agriculture and infrastructure.
He says dwindling education standards need immediate and long-term solutions.
“I am concerned with performance in the education sector, which has for many years been dismal and shameful,” Bett says.
The MP has set aside 25 per cent of his [...]

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Invitations to Meet the President of Kenya: Message from the Ambassador 

To all Kenyans in the Diaspora  
His Excellency President Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Kenya
will visit United States of America to attend this year’s U.N General Assembly meetings
from 21st -25th September 2008.   
While in New York  H.E wishes to meet with Kenyans [...]

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