By FRANCIS KOKUTSE NATION Correspondent
ACCRA, Tuesday
An ancestral hoopla seems to be in the offing ahead of the Obamas visit to Ghana in August.
The country has a historical site and many Africans from the Diaspora visit it to see where their great-grand parents passed through to America.
For President Barack Obama, this might not give him any [...]

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Phantom Income is Taxable!
By Jim Hnatiuk - Leader of the Christian Heritage Party
 
“Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, Oh how I wish he’d go away!” (”Antigonish” William Hughes Mearns”)
 
While a phantom problem may be laughable in poetry, it’s not a laughing matter when it comes [...]

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Heavy clashes in Mogadishu
BY AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
MOGADISHU, - Heavy fighting broke out on Tuesday in a densely packed slum area of the Somali capital, sending thousands of residents fleeing while a leading aid agency warned of a humanitarian catastrophe.
Officials and residents said clashes erupted in Dharkinley in southwest Mogadishu around 10:00 am (0700 GMT) when [...]

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Nyanza: Pregnant women share beds
By KEPHER OTIENO
Nurses press milk through tiny tubes and check monitors attached to the under-developed baby.
Alarms beep constantly as electronic traces record increased heartbeat, breathing, oxygen level and blood pressure, while ventilator pipes vibrate gently.
At the incubator ward at Nyanza Provincial Hospital, discussion centres on is problems facing the maternity ward.
And [...]

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BY JEFF OTIENO 
Hope for Victoria children (HOVIC) has donated blankets, food stuffs and built a house for the family of a former notorious Kisumu street Urchin Benard Odhiambo. 
Odhiambo who is aged 14 years is now in standard 6 in Nduru Primary School in Kadibo Division Kisumu Town East District courtesy of HOVIC. 
The institution through its [...]

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Dear Friends,
We are saddened to announce the death of Pastor Samson Nyaoke Owuor of Kano Kanyagwal - Kenya. Pastor Samson Nyaoke was husband to Doris L. Nyaoke and father Brother to Professor Okeyo to Job, Roy and Donna Nyaoke of Houston TX. Tom Nyaoke of New Jersey, Benta Omonge and Evelyn Nyaoke of Kenya. Owuor, [...]

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Ugandan cargo ship lost in Mombasa
A ship similar to MV Uganda that disappeared under mysterious circumstances at the Port of Mombasa
By Madinah Tebajjukira
A UGANDAN cargo ship mysteriously disappeared from Mombasa harbour, the Kenya Ports Authority has revealed.
The authority’s managing director, James Mulewa, told visiting Ugandan MPs that the ship disappeared in strange circumstances and that [...]

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State of the Nation
By Tom Kagwe
Many readers have always wondered (or asked me) why I am so critical of Kenya , and especially, its leaders. Yes, I am critical, but I do not hold any grudges with anyone. Looking back at our history, and looking at where we were supposed to head, I get very [...]

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