By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 
WASHINGTON – After weeks of turmoil, House Democrats reached a shaky peace with the party’s rebellious rank-and-file conservatives Wednesday to clear the way for a vote in September on sweeping health care legislation.
Bipartisan Senate negotiators reported progress, too, on a bill said to extend coverage to 95 percent of all [...]

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Raila rails at Ruto, Uhuru
By: KIPNGENO RUTO.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga has rebuffed threats by politicians from Rift Valley province that he will lose their political support if he goes ahead with plans to evict people who have settled in the Mau Forest Complex without compensation. “I am ready to pay the price for my stand [...]

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By Gibson Amenya
Kenya Young Greens
email: gamenya@kenyayounggreens.org
Am forced to suggest that it will be much prudent for Kenyan society to open up and develop a policy that will lead to legitimacy of sex work as one of the critical ways to scale-up HIV/Aids prevention and also open a flood gate of revenues for those who engage [...]

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BY JOSEPH KAMOTHO
While ordinary Kenyans seeking to put fear and threats behind them  welcomed the  publication of the findings of the  Kenya National Commission on Human Rights  (KNCHR) report on the perpetration of the bloody  post election violence, some members of the Executive  and the  Legislature  named as suspects  sought to distance themselves  from blame.
Perhaps [...]

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