RE: RUTO NEGOTIATES DEALS AS PARTS OF RV PROVINCE BECOME OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
By Tito Bongoman 
Ruto’s closeness to Uhuru Kenyatta during the just concluded PSC retreat could not go unnoticed by any keen observers. It was very easy to see from the body language and sitting arrangement which side of the political divide Ruto supported during the [...]

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Washington (CNN) — The political furor escalated over President Obama’s high-profile rebuke of a recent Supreme Court ruling on campaign advertising Thursday, as Democrats pounded the high court decision.
Democrats rallied around Obama the day after the president committed a rare breach of political etiquette, criticizing the controversial ruling in his State of the Union address [...]

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Miami, Florida (CNN) — Not all of the earthquake-traumatized Haitians are receiving the aid they need, a U.S. general said Thursday, partly because displaced residents are moving from place to place.
“We’re still not up to meeting the needs of the Haitian people as far as the amount of supplies that are there. And so, there [...]

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By Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press
DAVOS, Switzerland - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning other G20 leaders that the very body that eased the world out of recession could fail unless countries put their differences aside.
“It will stand or fall on its ability to demonstrate in the months to come to come the same co-operative [...]

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By Hon. Mohamed Abdikadir, MP
CHAIRPERSON
We would like to bring to the attention of Kenyans that the Parliamentary Select Committee has been meeting to deliberate on the harmonized draft constitution with a view of developing consensus on issues therein.
 
We want to report that after nine days of deliberations-sometimes well into the night-we have reached major agreements on [...]

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Kanu to shoot down draft if devolution is not total
By Philip Ruto
Kanu will not support the draft constitution in the referendum if it does not embrace full devolution.
Party National Vice-Chairman Gideon Moi said a devolved system of government would ensure marginalised regions benefit from fair distribution of national resources.
“Regions such as Coast, North Eastern, parts [...]

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By Alister Bull
 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, under pressure from deficit hawks, will seek a three-year freeze on domestic spending in his 2011 budget that would save $250 billion by 2020, administration officials said on Monday.
Obama will outline the spending hold-down in his State of the Union address on Wednesday and will spell it [...]

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By The Canadian Press
 
OTTAWA - A Liberal MP says he believes the federal government should investigate whether the pieing of Fisheries Minister Gail Shea by a woman opposed to the seal hunt constitutes an act of terrorism.
Shea was delivering a speech Monday at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters in Burlington, Ont., when a woman [...]

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By Patricia Zengerle
 
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Despite the best intentions of the international community, Haitians have little faith they will see the billions of dollars in aid pledged to rebuild their earthquake-shattered country, which international monitors rate as one of the world’s most corrupt.
From successful businessmen to refugees scraping to survive in squalid tent camps, Haitians [...]

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US blocks funding to Kenya over graft
BY ANTHONY KAGIRI
The American government has suspended a Sh500 million funding to the Ministry of Education owing to the recent loss of money under the Free Primary Education (FPE) program.
American Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger announced on Tuesday that his government had put on hold the five-year capacity building [...]

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