By Bob Tourtellotte
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Los Angeles city officials are planning a massive security operation for Michael Jackson’s public memorial service next week, and on Friday urged fans who do not win a ticket in a random drawing to stay away from the basketball arena where the singer will be memorialized.
Organizers have set aside [...]

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By RACHEL D’ORO, Associated Press Writer
WASILLA, Alaska – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin surprised supporters Friday and announced she is resigning from office at the end of the month without explaining why she plans to step down — throwing into question whether she would seek a run for the White House in 2012.
The news rattles a [...]

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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU, Associated Press Writer
SIRTE, Libya – After bitter wrangling, Africa’s leaders agreed Friday to denounce the International Criminal Court and refuse to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
The decision at the African Union summit says AU members “shall not cooperate” with the court [...]

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By Priscah Awino,
Meat buyers in Kisumu city have petitioned the local public health departments to close down a butchery located in downtown Kisumu over what they term as “vending of unhygienic beef and mutton” causing spread of various diseases among the consumers.
The Asian owned butchery, known as Karsons is being accused of displaying beef and [...]

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BY PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE
SIRTE, LIBYA,  - President Mwai Kibaki has declared that Africa has the potential to produce enough food to feed her estimated population of over 900 million people and have surplus for export.
He however stressed that the continent must transform its agricultural practices. 
 
President Kibaki pointed out that substantial resources were required to achieve [...]

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A Kenyan firm plans to produce 300 MW of electricity by 2012 by harnessing renewable wind power in the north of the country, its director said.
Turkana Wind Power has been studying the viability of wind power projects in the barren, inhospitable region for the last four years, Chris Staubo said.
“Full production will be in June [...]

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RACHUONYO SET FOR POOR HARVEST AS FERTILIZER,SEED SCAM ROCKS THE REGION.
By Shem Kosse
Rachuonyo distirct and its environ is lkely to receive poor harvest this season following a well ochestrated scheme whereby the area’ District Agricultural Officer(DAO) is allegedly conspiring by some top officials in the agriculture ministry to divert the fertilizer and certified seeds worth [...]

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By Agwanda Jakorandoh.
Lake Institute of Tropical Medicine is presently the only registered private medical college in Western Kenya approved to train Clinical Medicine and Surgery by the Clinical Council of Kenya.
The college which is situated on the ground and buildings of what once used to be known as Lake Nursing Home in Kisumu City which [...]

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STINKING KENYA?
By Khaguli N.Maurice
Western Kenya Movement for Change- (WKMC)
After 2007 stolen election, Butchers, monisters, and Tribal bureaucracy still exists in Kenya because of uncontrolled identity crisis. Kibaki through Mutula Kilonzo are auctioning public authority to the advantage of weak and the favoring code of law.
Even most of the civil society members have become part of [...]

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