By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed a senior Hamas leader in an air attack on his home on Thursday, striking its first deadly blow against the top ranks of the Islamist group in a Gaza offensive that has claimed more than 400 Palestinian lives.
Nizar Rayyan, a cleric widely regarded as one of Hamas’s most [...]

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By Willis Oketch
Prime Minister Raila Odinga says no former Electoral Commission of Kenya staff should preside over electoral reforms.
This comes a day after a row erupted over the composition of the team to spearhead the reforms.
“We must disband the ECK and those who were responsible for the mess, should not be allowed to preside over [...]

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We’ll kill oil cartels, says PM
By SAMWEL KUMBA
The Government will not negotiate with oil distribution cartels that seem determined to arbitrary fix oil prices, Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said.
Mr Odinga on Tuesday accused the oil distribution companies of hastily hiking prices whenever that of the commodity goes up in the global market.
“However, when the [...]

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Judy Miriga
Diasporah Spokesperson
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
This man Muthaura has no business staying in public office doing public services. He has defied all protocal and ethics of public service. Mr Francis Muthaura is appointing a team from former ECK employees to manage the transition to the proposed Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC). He is opening old wounds which are [...]

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By Dr Barrack Abonyo,
USA
A discussion of formation of a new political movement by old and young Turks in Kenya and abroad who upto date had only been serial bloggers is raging. The political class and the powers that be for upto the past three to four years had simply dubbed them as “cyber noise [...]

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