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Obama's grandmother injured in car accidentPresident Barack Obama 's 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, according to a relative and a hospital official.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 23:55
Mutula wants Baraza charged
*/ JUSTICE minister Mutula Kilonzo yesterday criticised the Director of Public Prosecution for failing to prosecute Deputy Chief Justice Nancy Baraza for threatening to shoot a shopping mall ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:18
Marende bows to pressure, recalls MPs
Under the Constitution, should Parliament fail to enact the Bills as required by the Constitution, anyone can petition the High Court to issue a declaratory order instructing Parliament to act as ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Why Raila says ODM will win
Prime Minister Raila Odinga who is facing fierce competition from his deputy in Orange Democratic Movement and against whom top politicians have ganged up, insists his party is unstoppable. Despite ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Analysts say high interest rates not falling anytime soon
The current regime of high interest rates, which some economists say is not sustainable, will only drop if inflation eases off and the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) absorbs the cue to signal banks to ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Issues raised by Ruto not appealable, says Ocampo
International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has dismissed Eldoret North MP William Ruto's appeal as a disagreement with the Pre-Trial Chamber's factual ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Census results for eight districts allowed tostand
High Court Judge, Justice Mohamed Warsame, ruled on Tuesday that to allow Planning Minister Wycliffe Oparanya to cancel the results would be detrimental to the affected ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Wedding bells go silent
A forlorn Charles Ikama holds on to memories of his bride-to-be who died in a road accident a week before their wedding [Photos: Wambui ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:15
Kenya's Makau eyes historic London double
Kenya's marathon world record holder Patrick Makau says he will be going for an historic double victory in April's London marathon and the Olympic Games in the same city three months ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 21:13
20,000 Kenyans flee conflict into Ethiopia-UN
A boy stands next to a tree in Barmil in this recently taken handout photo released on July 21, 2011.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 20:45
Peter Ongondo joins Kenya coaching staff
Peter Ongondo , former Kenya seamer, has joined the country's coaching staff. Ongondo will be based in Nakuru in Kenya's Rift Valley Province and his main task will be to unearth new ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 20:38
Kenya shilling firms on tea sales, stocks up
tea exporters , and traders said it was expected to keep strengthening, while the stock exchange's main index rose slightly. At close of trade at 1300 GMT, commercial banks quoted the ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 20:07
Top grade tea price up again at Kenyan auction
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The average price of the top grade tea in Kenya rose to $3.38 per kg at auction this week from $3.17 per kg in the previous sale due to strong demand, brokers said on Tuesday. ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 20:07
Parliament Invites Views On Election Date Bill
Parliament has called on Kenyans to give their views on the Bill seeking to change the election date currently awaiting debate in the August House. The Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Patrick ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:22
Kibaki Set to Recall Parliament Next Tuesday
MPs have successfully petitioned President Kibaki and House Speaker Kenneth Marende to recall Parliament next Tuesday. The chairman of Parliament's Constitutional Implementation Oversight ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:22
Discount Securities Victims to Get Dues After Three Year Wait
Investors who lost money after the collapse of Discount Securities Limited (DSL) in 2008 will start receiving compensation beginning Wednesday marking an end of a three years wait. The money will ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:22
Nation Unveils a Software Certification Program
The Kenya ICT Board has introduce a certification program for software developers in Kenya. Dubbed ,Chipuka, (Swahili word for Emerge), the program will offer credential examination for software ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:22
Cheruiyot Named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year
Kenyan distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot was on Monday named the Sportswoman of the Year and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic named Sportsman of the Year at the annual Laureus ceremony. The ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:22
Raila Woos Central Voters
Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday reached out to voters in Central Province and sought to counter what he termed as propaganda peddled against him by regional politicians. The PM tackled a ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
I'm My Own Man, Says Mudavadi As He Takes Campaign to Coast
Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on Monday took his bid for nomination as ODM's presidential flag bearer to Mombasa County. Mr Mudavadi, who is also the Local Government minister, said ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Civil Servants Probed On Overseas Accounts
State officials who have stashed money in foreign bank accounts may soon be smoked out, with the office of the Ombudsman saying it has started investigations. Commission on Administrative Justice ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Law to Bar Corrupt Leaders From Office
The fight against impunity gained momentum on Monday following the completion of a draft Bill to operationalise a chapter of the Constitution on leadership and integrity. The legislation will give ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Send More Judges or Quit, Mutunga Told
Residents of Bungoma on Monday held demonstrations demanding the resignation of Chief Justice Willy Mutunga accusing him of failing to post more judges to the station. Led by human rights activist ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Citizens Satisfied With ICC Verdict, Says Poll
The ruling made by the ICC on the six suspects of the post-election violence, a new survey shows. Sixty per cent of Kenyans interviewed in the Ipos-Synovate survey said they were contended with the ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Sh1.2 Billion Loan to Aid Bank Credit SMEs
I&M bank has secured a Sh1.26 billion credit line from DEG -- a subsidiary of the German Development Bank, in a sign of the times by local banks to borrow from global market. The loan, $15 ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Firm Launches Sh50 Cooking Gas Stirring Stiff Competition
Premier Gas Limited has introduced a one kilogramme cooking gas cylinder setting stage for battle in the local market for the product. The company promises to retail the gas for as little as Sh50 ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Bank Refutes It Was Censured Over Shilling Crisis
Standard Chartered Bank has denied allegations that it is one of three banks censured by Central Bank over currency speculation last year. "There is no evidence that Standard Chartered did ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Swift Cargo Clearance System to Run in December
The government is fast-tracking the implementation plan to ease congestion and accelerate cargo clearance at Mombasa Port. Through the Kenya Trade Network Agency (Kentrade), a government agency, ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 19:21
Kenya: Parliament Invites Views On Election Date Bill
Parliament has called on Kenyans to give their views on the Bill seeking to change the election date currently awaiting debate in the August House.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 16:31
Malaria Death Toll Overestimated?
Researchers are questioning the methodology behind a new study that doubles previous estimates of the worldwide malaria death toll in 2010.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 16:31
Discount Securities Victims to Get Dues After Three Year Wait
[Nation] Investors who lost money after the collapse of Discount Securities Limited (DSL) in 2008 will start receiving compensation beginning Wednesday marking an end of a three years wait.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 16:22
Nation Unveils a Software Certification Program
[Nation] The Kenya ICT Board has introduce a certification program for software developers in Kenya. Dubbed ,Chipuka, (Swahili word for Emerge), the program will offer credential examination for software developers and would help employers to easily identify software developers that have the skills necessary to carry out IT jobs to a professional and world class standard.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 16:21
Cheruiyot Named Laureus Sportswoman of the Year
[Nation] Kenyan distance runner Vivian Cheruiyot was on Monday named the Sportswoman of the Year and Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic named Sportsman of the Year at the annual Laureus ceremony.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 16:21
Kenyan MP to attend Sevens Rugby Tourney in Vegas
Presidential aspirant, Peter Kenneth will, this coming weekend be among a large crowd of Kenyans living in the US who will be congregating in Las Vegas to cheer the Kenya Rugby ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 16:04
Reprieve for Busia cane farmers as court halts sale of land
Sugarcane farmers in Busia County won round one of a court case filed against Mumias Sugar Company (MSC) after the High Court in Bungoma issued temporary orders stopping any transactions of the ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 16:04
Kibaki Set to Recall Parliament Next Tuesday
[Nation] MPs have successfully petitioned President Kibaki and House Speaker Kenneth Marende to recall Parliament next Tuesday.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 15:58
World Bank Vice President to visit Kenya projects
Ms Rachel Kyte, of the bank's sustainable development, will tour projects in energy, water, municipal development and natural resource ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 15:56
Zambia asks Kenya to arrest Banda son
Photo/FILE Former Zambia President Rupiah Banda's son Henry. Lusaka police have issued an international arrest warrant for the man believed to have flown to Kenya from South ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 15:56
Kenya's annual inflation drops to 18.3 pct
Kenya's annual inflation declined for the second consecutive month to 18.31 percent in December from 18.93 percent in the November due to falls in food prices, the Kenya National Bureau of ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 15:56
Tourism to earn Kenya Sh200bn by 2015
The business also wants its contribution to the country's Gross Domestic Product increased four-fold by the same year, the assistant Minister for Tourism, Ms Cecily Mbarire said on ...
Kenya Star | 07-Feb-2012 15:55
Parliament Invites Views On Election Date Bill
[Nation] Parliament has called on Kenyans to give their views on the Bill seeking to change the election date currently awaiting debate in the August House.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 15:42
Kidnapped Chinese workers in Sudan freed
Rebel forces in Sudan's border state of South Kordofan relesed 29 Chinese workers to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday, 10 days after they were kidnapped, Sudan's foreign ministry said.
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 15:26
Malaria cases reduce drastically in Kenya
Cases of chronic and severe malaria in the country have drastically reduced in the past two years; according to statistics released on Tuesday by the Kenya Medical Research Institute .
Topix.net | 07-Feb-2012 15:26
Raila Woos Central Voters
[Nation] Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Monday reached out to voters in Central Province and sought to counter what he termed as propaganda peddled against him by regional politicians.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 15:14
I'm My Own Man, Says Mudavadi As He Takes Campaign to Coast
[Nation] Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on Monday took his bid for nomination as ODM's presidential flag bearer to Mombasa County.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 15:14
Ocampo Dismisses Appeals
[Nation] ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo wants the appeals filed by the four Kenyan post-election violence suspects dismissed because no legal grounds have been raised.
AllAfrica | 07-Feb-2012 15:14