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Kenya Senate told of plot to derail devolution
Devolution could be crippled by lack of common understanding on its implementation and rival interpretation of laws guiding it, a Senators' retreat ...
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Kenya Balala pledges strict mining policies
Balala said no person or agency shall be licensed unless they prove they are competent and able to deliver. He promised to ensure transparency in management of natural resources and to promote Kenya as a mining destination. "We shall not give licenses to speculators. To explore any mineral the investors must prove their resource base to complete the job and deliver on the deal," he ...
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Kenya Row over plan to hire county police chiefs
Divisions are growing among senior officers over whether to apply for the Assistant Inspector General positions before the May 28 deadline. Potential applicants feel under pressure to "take sides" in the power struggle between the ...
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Kenya Bungoma residents recount losses
Bungoma . After all, I was born and raised here. Most of my schooling was also in this County. But it does not take more than five minutes to realise that this is not the same town I grew up in. Something has changed in the years since I was here ...
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Kenya Anger over slow police probe on Bungoma killings
Bungoma 's Kware village in early April. No other charges have been brought over the dozens of other attacks, including those that ended in ten murders. In an exclusive interview with The Standard On Saturday at ...
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Opinion Kenya needs laws against torture
One of the key reforms introduced in 2010 with the adoption of the new Constitution was the absolute prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading ...
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Christians Suffering in Central African Republic Islamists Targeting Churches Says Bishop
Reports from Africa indicate that militia soldiers under the control of the Central African Republic's government are looting and destroying Christian churches and mission ...
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Kenya Ruto Denies ICC Shuttle Diplomacy
DEPUTY president William Ruto yesterday clarified that he is on "an official bilateral trip" to four African countries, as the Senate saw heated debate on the issue. Ruto denied claims he is on a shuttle diplomacy to gain support against the International Criminal Court where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta, together with radio journalist Joshua arap Sang are standing trial for crimes ...
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Kenya Uasin Gishu Reps Snub NCIC Peace Meeting
Uasin Gishu county assembly members yesterday boycotted a key meeting of the National Cohesion and Integration Commission which had been called to discuss peace, reconciliation and operations of counties. NCIC commissioner Fatuma Muhammed said the boycott did not augur well for the planned peace activities in the region. "Even if they have complaints, it would have been better to attend ...
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Kenya Counties to Maintain Class D and E Roads
The Kenya Roads Board has said it will restructure its operations and devolve part of its mandate to county governments in line with the new dispensation. Speaking in Bomet yetsrday, the board's chairman Joel Wanyoike said the county government will be in charge of the class D and E roads. He said Kenya Rural roads Authority and Kenya Urban Roads authority, which are the board's ...
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Kenya Kenyan Traders Told to Increase AGOA Exports
Kenya' small scale entrepreneurs have been challenged to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the African Growth and Opportunity Act to access the American market. African Cotton and Textiles Industries Federation chief executive Officer Rajeev Arora said since Kenya currently exports less than thirty products yet the trade deal offers a market for more than 6,400 products from ...
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Kenya reviewed on torture reforms
There are two sides to the human rights story in Kenya and one of them deals with reports of torture and cruel treatment, the United Nations was told. Kenyan Attorney General Githu Muigai briefed a U.N. committee against torture from Geneva. He said there have been major improvements in Kenya's human rights record in terms of how it applies U.N. conventions on torture and ill-treatment. ...
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Venezuelas ties with Africa
At the third Summit Africa - South America (ASA)held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, 63 countries participated, including Venezuela, which was represented by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Elas Jaua. He read a letter written by President Hugo Chvez to the ASA members in Malaba. The Venezuelan President highlighted the ties between both ...
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Congo Does Not Have The Worlds Largest Deposits Of Tin and Coltan
At least 20 people were killed when a mine collapsed in mineral-rich but conflict-plagued eastern Democratic Republic of Congo following heavy rains, the government said on ...
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23 young men dead in initiation rites in South Africa
July 7, 2006 - FILE photo of an unidentified initiate, with his face caked in white lime clay, eating rice from his blanket during his rite of transformation from a boy to manhood near Port St. John's, South ...
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Zimbabwes PM says his is poised to win elections sweep in change to end years of isolation
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of isolation. "We are going to be new brooms" for change, he told about 500 party leaders and activists at a party conference to finalize a platform. He will be pitted against long-time ...
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Algerias aging regime restive youth makes for a volatile political mix in North Africa
FOR STORY ALGERIA GENERATION'S END - Tahar Belabes, one of the few activists in Algeria that has succeeded in mobilizing the youth, during a meeting in Algiers on April 29, 2013, Belabes denies being a revolutionary "I am a simple activist demanding his rights." he said. The generation of aging politicians and generals that has run Algeria for the last half-century is reaching its ...
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Kenya Uhuru in Closed-Door Meeting With Top Cops
Police chiefs have told President Uhuru Kenyatta that they are losing command of the police following overlaps and contradictions in two key police Acts -The National Police Service Act and the National Police Acts. Provincial Police commanders, Provincial CID chiefs and Provincial AP commanders, who attended a meeting at State House Nairobi yesterday, told Uhuru they have problems deploying ...
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Kenya Kenolkobil Has Rallied 17.29 Per Cent Over Two Sessions
The Nairobi All Share rallied 1.0866% to close at 126.52 and has closed at an all time high for the 2nd consecutive session. The Nairobi All Share has rallied 2.958% over the last 2 sessions. The Nairobi All Share is +33.375% in 2013. The Nairobi NSE20 Index rallied 37.34 points to close at 4955.61. The NSE20 sits 1.51% below its July 2008 closing high of 5,031 from last month. The equity ...
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Zimbabwe PM confident hell oust Mugabe in vote
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he is poised to sweep to victory in upcoming presidential elections and return the nation to the world community after years of ...
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Kenya Golf weekend for President Uhuru
Golf Club on Saturday at 4.00 p.m. Cabinet Secretary Ministry of Sports, Culture and Arts Dr. Hassan Wario, County Governor Nderitu Gachagua and the chairman ...
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Zimbabwe PM We are new broom set to win polls
HARARE, Zimbabwe -; Zimbabwe's prime minister says he is poised to win the presidency in upcoming elections and return the nation to the world community after years of ...
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South Africa Highlights its Relations with China
Pretoria, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Relations between South Africa and China are beneficial to both countries, said the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ebrahim Ebrahim, in a speech published here today. Agreements between those countries are being constantly reviewed and renegotiated to make them convenient for both sides, said Ebrahim during the speech at Witwatersrand ...
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Briefing Restive northern Kenya sees shifting power risks
Keeping vigil: Residents in the north have taken up arms to protect themselves GARISSA-NAIROBI, 17 May 2013 (IRIN) - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. But ...
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Six Arrests Made in Tanzania Church Attack
Tanzanian police have arrested six people, including four Saudi Arabians, in the investigation of a church bombing in Arusha. At least two people died and nearly 60 were wounded when a motorcyclist tossed a bomb into St. Joseph's Catholic Church Sunday. The town is popular with tourists going on safari near Mount Kilimanjaro. Militant Islamists have attacked at least 30 Tanzania churches ...
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Three major African airlines to launch new regional player
West and central Africa may soon have a regional airline to connect the countries of the region and feed the three largest airlines in Africa, especially South African Airways, which has dominance on the continent, although it has indicated it will not provide financial support to such a venture.
There are exciting plans afoot in the African aviation industry the continent’s three largest airlines, South African Airways, Egypt Air and Ethiopian Airlines, considering the establishment of a regional airline in central and West Africa that would feed the larger airlines on loner routes or what they call ‘truck routes’. Read more
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