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WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Monday he had sacked the top commander in Afghanistan to make way for “new thinking” at a pivotal moment in the seven-year-old war.
 
Gates, explaining his decision to replace General David McKiernan after less than a year on the job as the US and NATO commander, [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
TORONTO - Tamil-Canadian activists say Ottawa is trying to deflect attention from Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war by suggesting flags flown at protests suggest that a terrorist group is part of the demonstrations.
Siva Vimal, a 20-year-old Tamil protester, says the Conservatives are using the flag to “hoodwink” the real issue: a humanitarian [...]

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Richard Wanambwa & Isaac Khisa
Kampala
A Kenyan professor of law has said that Uganda risks going the Kenyan way in the forthcoming elections if President Yoweri Museveni does not relinquish power.
Prof. Makau Mutua said this in reference to the violence that engulfed Kenya after the disputed election of 2007 when the two contenders; Mr Ralia Odinga [...]

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Kenya PM meets Blair
BY PMPS
- Prime Minister Raila Odinga has held talks with former British Premier Tony Blair over the performance and challenges facing the grand coalition government.
Mr Blair said the United Kingdom was ready to help the country in the proposed institutional reforms outlined in the National Accord.
Mr Odinga said the former colonial power [...]

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Sh9bn: Uhuru told he has Kibaki’s support
By JOHN NJAGI and BERNARD NAMUNANE
In Summary
Finance minister’s allies blame media and political enemies for budget fiasco
Finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta was on Sunday assured that he had President Kibaki’s support as he launched a public fight-back over the “typing error” that resulted in a Sh9.2 billion discrepancy in Budget [...]

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By Agwanda  Saye
When I was called by Emuhaya Constituency ODM party youth leader Ben Ombima early in the morning last week ,it never occurred to me that he was going to tell something that dreaded most but it was eventually the truth.
I wondered to him why he was disturbing me that early and quit ironical [...]

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Hussein Ali, Ojode injured in plane crash
By Anderson Ojwang
POLICE Commissioner Major General Hussein Ali and Assistant Minister for Internal Security Mr Orwa Ojode and several senior government officials from the ministries of internal security and public works were injured in a police chopper accident in Kapsabet town.
The 12.30pm incident occurred after the Russian-made police chopper [...]

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LETS HAVE A POLITICAL ACOUNTABILITY FOR A GOOD LIFE IN KENYA
By Khaguli Nandwa Maurice
(Western Kenya Movement For Change-Diaspora)
WKMC
Hon. khalwale thanks for your unrestrained involvement in matters that Luhyas and Kenyans in general care about, and more so your insightful comments about the leadership vacuum in Luhyaland. It shows that you are in touch with your [...]

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Kenya Minister risks egg on the face
BY ERIC LATIFF
A coalition of civil society organisations has sustained pressure on Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta to explain the Sh9.6 billion discrepancy in the recently approved Supplementary Budget.
In a letter to the joint Parliamentary committees investigating the matter, the Partnership for Change lobby has dismissed Mr Kenyatta’s explanation that [...]

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