By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama’s visit to Canada on Feb. 19 to discuss economic issues with Prime Minister Stephen Harper will likely serve to acquaint Canadians with the popular new president’s steely pragmatic side.
On his first foreign trip since his inauguration last week, Obama heads to Ottawa in the dead of [...]

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End of an era as Mboya’s widow
dies

By EMEKA-MAYAKA GEKARA
Kind, intelligent, lively, tough, no-nonsense and highly personable. Perhaps those are the attributes that nationalist Thomas Joseph Mboya admired in Pamela Odede, reckons veteran journalist Philip Ochieng.
Mrs Pamela Mboya, the 70-year-old widow of the former Economic Planning minister and trade unionist, died on Monday night in a [...]

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CBI Welcomes
 

Professor

George Wajackoyah

in conversation with

Rabbi Elie Spitz
 
 

 
Saturday, March 14th at 1:00 PM
 
 

following Shabbat Morning Services and Kiddush Lunch
 
The ‘causes of poverty in Kenya’

Why the country cannot sustain itself despite

being the ‘Land of Plenty’. What can Kenyans

learn from the transformation of Israel’s arid

desert into an agriculturally productive land?
 
There is no charge to attend
 

 
Professor George [...]

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Kenyans and friends from all walks of life having a good time during a President Barack Obama inauguration ball in Rockville, Maryland last week.H.Maina/AjabuImages
Close to 1000 jubilant Kenyans attended an Obama ball in Rockville, Maryland to celebrate the astounding inauguration of President Barack Obama that occurred earlier in the day on Tuesday, January 20, [...]

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Kenya MPs okay Special Tribunal
BY GEORGE MUNYORI
Members of Parliament have approved a Bill that seeks to create a Special Tribunal to try perpetrators of the post election violence.
MPs endorsed the Bill during a second informal parliamentary meeting (Kamkunji) held on Wednesday afternoon at Parliament’s old chambers.
Addressing journalists after the meeting that was chaired by President [...]

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