by Karin Zeitvogel Karin Zeitvogel
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The groom wore a black tuxedo, a damask-rose pink waistcoat and tie, and an ear-to-ear smile.
He picked out his wedding outfit at a mall in Virginia — his first time ever in one of the sprawling shopping centers that are monuments to consumerism in the suburban landscape across [...]

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By Dr. Barack Abonyo
Nyando is a constituency that has been won  by mediocres. At one time we had an Onyango Midika who turned out to be a felon followed by many other folks whose names vanished with the wind that whisked them into the limelight.
No Nyando MP has ever made an impact into Kenyan national [...]

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By BERNARD NAMUNANE and ERIC SHIMOLI
The outlawed Mungiki sect nets Sh7 million a day through extortion in Nairobi only, a Cabinet meeting was told on Thursday. The first full Cabinet meeting in more than a month dealt largely on security issues, and came out with a resolution for an all-out war against Mungiki and other [...]

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Kenyans reject Parliamentary governance
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
Kenya may not be ready for a pure Parliamentary system of governance as anticipated, according to a new survey.
An opinion poll released by Transparency International on Thursday showed that majority of Kenyans preferred a hybrid of both presidential and parliamentary systems with sharing of executive powers between a President and [...]

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BY CORRESPONDENT
 
A man has moved to the High Court seeking damages from a group of women activists who organised the just ended weeklong countrywide sex boycott.
James Kimondo said on Friday that he has been aggrieved by the decision and wants the court to order the G10 women group to pay him damages
Mr Kimondo, through his [...]

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BY BERNARD MOMANYI
A day after President Mwai Kibaki held a cabinet meeting to discuss the deteriorating security in the country, mainly caused by the outlawed Mungiki sect, top police chiefs held a meeting on Friday to come up with strategies of fighting the gang.
Police Commissioner Major General Hussein Ali summoned Provincial Police chiefs from regions [...]

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