WASHINGTON (AFP) - US president-elect Barack Obama has named longtime lawyer Eric Holder to be attorney general, which if confirmed would make him the first African-American ever to hold the post, US media said.
Holder, who served as deputy attorney general under former president Bill Clinton, has accepted Obama’s invitation to head the Justice Department, Newsweek [...]
By Shashank Bengali
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Crisis in Congo
For the past 14 years rival tribes in the Rwanda-Congo region have been in a battle that has seen the death of at least 5.4 million people.
According to Journalist Shashank Bengali “the conflict in Congo really began with the genocide in [...]
Kogelo big attraction for land buyers and business owners
By PATRICK MAYOYO
In Summary
Over 20 plots sold and village gets its first bar as tourism boom now beckons
Want to start a business or buy a prime piece of land? May be the best place to start shopping is Nyang’oma Kogelo, the village where US president-elect Barack Obama [...]
Raila pledges action on Waki report
By LUCAS BARASA
In Summary
PM says debate going on seeks to find out how to implement it
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Tuesday assured the international community that both the Waki and Kriegler reports will be implemented.
Speaking when he met visiting Denmark Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen at his Treasury Building office [...]
Revealed: The richest and poorest regions
By SAMUEL SIRINGI
In Summary
Robust economic growth and free primary education credited for reduction of poverty
Free education, CDF and scrapping of some medical charges in public health centres have helped to reduce poverty in Kenya, says a new report.
The survey released on Tuesday shows how the levels of poverty are distributed [...]
By Rev Okoth Otura`
www.cdmk.org
The unregistered-Christian Democratic Movement of Kenya (CDMK) hereby urges he Kenyan PM Raila and Hon Rutu must stop gambling with the lives of innocents Kenyans, who for decades have suffered in the hands of Moi and Kibaki regimes, which both have served as Ministers.
It is not prudent for these men to [...]
Govt to deliver a new constitution: Kibaki
BY GEORGE MUNYORI and PPS
NAIROBI- The unity of purpose achieved through the formation of the Grand Coalition government has presented the country with a suitable moment to deliver a new constitution, President Mwai Kibaki has said.
Speaking at Safari Park Hotel on Monday while officially opening the National Seminar on [...]
Waki: Row over Ruto threat to quit ODM
By NATION Team
In Summary
Party leaders disagree with the agriculture minister over report on election violence
A group of ODM MPs have asked Agriculture minister William Ruto to stop criticising Prime Minister Raila Odinga after Mr Ruto said he would lead the party’s supporters in Rift Valley to decamp from [...]
By Beth Fouhy, The Associated Press
CHICAGO - The bitter general election campaign behind them, President-elect Barack Obama and Republican Senator John McCain met Monday to discuss ways to work together in the future.
The two former rivals met in Obama’s transition headquarters in Chicago. Obama said before the meeting that he and McCain planned “a good [...]
MIKE CASSESE/REUTERS
NDP Leader Jack Layton makes a campaign stop in Toronto with former leader Ed Broadbent Oct. 10, 2008. Layton appointed Bob Gallagher, his chief of staff for the past 3 1/2 years, as the party’s principal secretary for the GTA.
Richard Brennan
Ottawa Bureau
OTTAWA–The New Democrats are already devising their plan of attack for the GTA [...]
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