WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will send a high-level delegation led by US Trade Representative Ron Kirk to the inauguration of South Africa’s president-elect Jacob Zuma, the White House has said in a statement.
 
Kirk is to be accompanied at the May 9 swearing-in ceremony in Pretoria by other senior members of the Barack Obama [...]

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By Allan Dowd
 
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said on Sunday his party was ready to force changes in unemployment aid to deal with the growing recession.
Ignatieff, who was reaffirmed on Saturday as leader of Canada’s main opposition party, said with unemployment rising across the country, Canada needed to enact a national [...]

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By The Associated Press
 
BOSTON (AP)—Dwight Howard returned from his one-game suspension to get 16 points and 22 rebounds Monday night, helping the Orlando Magic hold off the late-charging Boston Celtics 95-90 in the opener of the Eastern Conference semifinals.
The Magic opened a 28-point lead early in the second half before Boston cut the deficit to [...]

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By Alistair Bell and Daniel Trotta
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico will resume normal business operations this week after easing its swine flu restrictions, but the global flu alert triggered a trade dispute on Monday over widening bans on Mexican, U.S. and Canadian pork.
More than 1,200 cases of the new H1N1 virus have been detected in [...]

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PM condoles with Shinyalu MP’s family
By Standard Reporter
Prime Minister Raila Odinga joined his Orange Democratic Movement colleagues in sending condolence messages to the family of Shinyalu MP Charles Lugano Lilechi, who died on Monday morning.
The PM said he had learnt of Lilechi’s death at Nairobi Hospital with sadness.
“The country has lost an intellectual and a [...]

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Kenya backs full Sudan peace pact
BY PMPS
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday said the government backed the full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement which brokered a truce between warring factions in Sudan.
Mr Odinga said the agreement signed between the Northern Arabs and the majority Christians in the South of the troubled country was crucial [...]

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Fury as officers target Kenya’s boundaries
By Osinde Obare and David Ohito
Kenya has accused Uganda of violating the truce reached in Arusha last week by retaining soldiers on the disputed Migingo Island, even as more Ugandan officers were spotted in West Pokot where border beacons have been uprooted.
Minister for East African Community Amason Kingi says the [...]

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Secrets of Mau Mau and oaths that bound community
Kassam Gicimu Njogu
Mau Mau rebellion was started to defeat the white man and reclaim land. Instead, brother turned against brother as the rebellion reached its peak in 1955. Described as a one-legged devil by the British, Kassam Gicimu Njogu was one of the leaders of the rebellion [...]

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By Mangoa Mosota
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has told of how his late father saved the late Sudanese leader John Garang from execution after he illegally crossed into Kenya in the 1960s.
Raila said Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the first Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs of independent Kenya, used his influence to save Garang “and his friend [...]

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By CAROLINE NJUNG’E
If the Marriage Bill 2007 to be debated in the current session of Parliament becomes law, the Kenyan marriage is in for radical changes.
The new amendments are bound to trigger protests, raise eyebrows, elicit sighs of relief or outright jubilation depending on how one interprets the proposed law.
Clauses likely to spark controversy are [...]

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