• Rev. Dr. William Charles Fryda Missionary In Kenya Suspended After Challenging Cardinal Njue Nuns

  By Fredrick Nzwili Religion News Service NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) An American missionary priest who is entangled in a dispute with the country's top Catholic cleric and a group of nuns in Kenya over the ownership of two mission hospitals has been suspended from the priesthood by his order. The New York-based Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers suspended the Rev. Dr. William Charles Fryda after he ...

• Witnesses Describe Kisumu Killings By Police - Used Live Ammunition Tried to Cover Up Evidence

  Nairobi - The Kenyan authorities should promptly investigate and prosecute those responsible for shootings by the police in Kisumu on March 30, 2013. Five people died and at least twenty-four were injured. The shootings occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory on March 4. Human Rights ...

• I Was Also a Victim of the Robbery Incident - David Tett

  The son of former nominated MP Betty Tett who is facing robbery with violence charges yesterday pleaded innocence saying he is also a victim of the robbery incident. In his defense, William David Tett told the trial court he was taken hostage by three armed men who ordered him to take them to his parent's residential home. William told the court he was hijacked at gunpoint at Barma Market ...

• Kenya Billboard of Shame to Be Put Up in Eldoret Town

  Names of people or companies which engage in corruption in Uasin Gishu county will be put up on a large bill board in Eldoret town. Uasin Gishu governor Jackson Mandago yesterday said corruption is eating up too much revenue meant to improve services in the town and that he will fight the vice. "I have proposed that we put up a large bill board in town so that those we catch engaging in ...

• Kenya Former councillors ask for Uhurus help in send off package stalemate

  They lamented that without the gratuity, they were unable to cope with the increasing cost of living, saying they were wallowing in poverty after losing in the March General Elections. Speaking to the press in Kisii town on Thursday, the civic leaders led by former Kisii Deputy Mayor Patrick Siro, they said MPs in the last parliament were each paid Sh3.7 million gratuity but councillors were ...

• Kenya Diaspora deny link with lobby group

  Diaspora issues are concerned but how can there be a retreat at some hotel to discuss our future relationship with the government without our involvement?" Questioned Peter Kerre, a Kenyan social activist living in New York. It was reported in a section of the Kenyan media early in the week that a task force comprising officials from the ministries of foreign affairs, labour and national ...

• Flat Kenyan shilling vulnerable to end-month demand for dollars

  View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A fuel attendant handles Kenyan shilling notes at a petrol station in the capital Nairobi March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Noor ...

• Senate Deputy Speaker Halts Supremacy Debate

  SENATE deputy Speaker Kembi-Gitura yesterday resisted attempts by members to draw the House into the supremacy battle war with the national assembly. The two House of parliament are at war over the Division of Revenue Bill which was triggered by the national assembly on Tuesday. Gitura restrained eager members from ventilating on the matter arguing that the Senate is the Upper House. He warned ...

• Kenya Lawmaker Seeks More Electricity Distributors

  The monopoly enjoyed by electricity distributor Kenya Power may soon end if Parliament passes a motion compelling the government to liberalise the industry. Markwet East MP David Bowen said this will encourage competition in power distribution and reduce inefficiency. "The cost of power in the country scares investors. This House urges the government to find a way to reduce the baggage ...

• Kenya Equity Bank Kicked Out of Its City Hall Branch

  THE county government of Nairobi has ordered Equity Bank to relocate its City Hall branch. In the letter, to the bank City Hall has given Equity six months to move out because it wants open up a restaurant for the County Assembly members. The Star has learnt that Equity Bank chief executive Mwangi has been trying to get an appointment with Nairobi Governor Dr. Evans Kidero. Interim County ...

• East Africa EAC Countries Can Learn From Kenyas Machakos

  With devolution in high gear as the counties take root in Kenya, competition for business and investment just got fierce for Rwanda and other EAC member states. Take the investor conference recently hosted in Machakos County hosted, some mused, with a display of naked ambition by its new Governor, Dr Alfred Mutua, formerly spokesperson for the national Government. The conference aimed to ...

• World UN chief begins DR Congo visit

  Congo , said the money would be used for health, education, cross-border trade and hydroelectricity projects. Government and M23 rebel forces have been involved in heavy fighting ...

• World Man dead in suspected UK terror attack

  The footage shown on the ITV website shows a man, speaking to the camera, saying: "We must fight them as they fight us. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a ...

• World Japan man climbs Everest at 80

  An 80-year old Japanese mountaineer has reached the summit of Mount Everest, making him the oldest man to scale the world's highest ...

• Lifestyle Twitter boosts security after hacks

  security option turned on, it's still important for you to use a strong password and follow the rest of our advice for keeping your account ...

• Lifestyle Venezuela hit by toilet paper shortage

  Venezuela n shops. The oil-rich nation relies on imports, but currency controls have restricted its ability to pay for foreign goods. President Nicolas Maduro, who won a narrow majority in April's presidential elections, maintains that the country's ...

• Kenyan lender IM looks to list shares by June

  NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan lender I&M plans to list shares on the stock market by next month after it completed a merger with small investment ...

• Kenya Probe Moi Biwott Over Ouko Death Says TJRC

  TRUTH, Justice and Reconciliation Commission has recommended the questioning of former President Moi over the1990 murder of former Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko. In their final report handed to the President yesterday, TJRC said former minister Nicholas Biwott and TJRC chair Bethuel Kiplagat should also be questioned on the death. "In addition to Biwott, former President Daniel ...

• Outcry Over Cabinet Posts

  FORMER Kenya National Union of Teachers national chairman Joseph Chirchir said the distribution of cabinet secretaries positions in Rift Valley was not fairly done. In a telephone interview with the Star, Chirchir said South Rift region was shortchanged in the distribution of cabinet secretaries position. He said the region deserved more than one cabinet secretary due to the huge support and ...

• Herder Killed in Mandera Clashes

  A herder was today gunned down in the village of Batuul village, Banisa district in Madera County while herding his camels 20 km from Banisa town. The 26 years old Degodia herdsman was ambushed by suspected bandits from the Garreh community who shot him several times on the head. Another person from the Guba village was yesterday shot dead by armed militia raising the death toll to twenty in ...

• MPs Senators Battle Over Supremacy

  Who is superior - the Senate or Parliament? This is the question that House Speaker Justin Muturi is expected to answer today following yesterday's acrimonious exchange between MPs and senators over who is superior to the other. The MPs accused the senators of "overstepping" their mandate and describing the members as comprising "political retirees" who should ...

• 34 Charged Over Foiled Warehouse Burglary

  POLICE have arrested 34 suspects after foiled robbery at a warehouse in Mikindani area, Changamwe district. Reports indicate the armed gangsters forcefully gained access and broke into four containers that stored more than 600 bags of rice and sugar worth more than Sh4 million on Monday. Changamwe police boss Joseph Muthee said police recovered part of the consignment already loaded into a ...

• Macharia Justifies His ICC Letter to UN

  KENYA's ambassador to the UN has stuck to his criticism of the International Criminal Court describing it as a failing institution in an opinion published in the Nation yesterday. Macharia Kamau said nations of the world should "revisit its ICC fundamentals" in the article justifying his controversial letter requesting the UN Security Council to terminate the Kenyan ICC cases. ...

• Police Hunt for Gang Members

  TESO Police have launched a manhunt for four 'dangerous' gang members believed to be behind the recent attacks in Busia and Bungoma. Police chief Elphas Korir said the four have been identified as key financiers of attacks in Akobwait that left two people dead and 19 injured. He said the four are residents of Kajei, Onyunyur and Katanyu in Teso North and Odioi in Teso South. "We ...

• Kenya Sh800 Million to Train Teachers On Computers

  ABOUT 80 per cent of the primary school teachers in Kenya are computer illiterate. Knut national executive council member Karinga Munuhe has called for teachers to be trained before the free laptops promised by the Jubilee government are distributed next year. "Many of the teachers mostly from the rural areas have little knowledge on the use of computers," he said. Munuhe said more ...

• Reconciliation Commission Urges Kenyan Officials to Apologise for Past Abuses

  Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, security forces and the judiciary should publicly apologise for abuses going back 50 years, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya (TJRC) said in a final report presented to Kenyatta Tuesday (May 21st). Set up after post-election violence in 2007-2008, TJRC compiled a four-volume report covering tens of thousands of testimonies gathered over ...

• Kenya Uhuru to attend AU summit in Ethiopia

  Sudan counterpart President Salva Kiir. The AU summit coincides with the Golden Jubilee celebrations of the OAU-AU. During the AU Jubilee celebrations, member states will take stock of the past fifty years, acknowledge the contribution of the founding fathers of OAU towards ...

• Kenya William Oduol cornered over child out of wedlock

  Siaya, Kenya : A petitioner challenging the election of Siaya Governor got more than he bargained for when his personal details were exposed at a Kisumu ...

• Tunai to Testify in Poll Case

  NAROK governor Samuel Kuntai Tunai will testify in an election petition filed against him . Parties in the petition agreed on ten contested issues to be determined by court during a pre-trial conference before Judge Roselyne Wendoh where each party also revealed its list of witnesses. Tunai's deputy Aruasa Evelyne will also testify in the matter while one of the petitioners Joseph ...

• Presiding Judge Quits Ruto Trial At the Hague

  A new judge will now preside in the case against Deputy President William Ruto and broadcaster Joshua Sang after Judge Kuniko Ozaki asked to be excused. Ozaki will continue to be the presiding judge in the second case against President Uhuru Kenyatta. The two Kenyan cases have been handled by the same judges since their charges were confirmed in January 2012. Yesterday, the ICC presidency said ...

• Kenya One More Killed in Mandera Clan War

  One more person was killed and another injured yesterday after armed militia attacked at Guba Village in Banisa constituency, Mandera county. Guba Village is about 15km from Banisa district headquarters. The attack has pushed the death toll to three and the injured to five after the renewed hostilities between the Degodia and Gareh clans began on Sunday, the local provincial administration has ...

• Kenya Kalonzo British Soldiers Among TJRC Indictees

  Nairobi - Details of how former Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka and others evicted 2,000 Tharaka families from a huge parcel of land at Tholoni and awarded it to themselves before putting up the Mwingi cottages and disturbing details of how British soldiers raped and sodomised 30 Kenyan women are among the damning historical injustices captured in a voluminous report released by the Truth, ...

• Optimism Amid Odds for Deaf Blind Four-Year Old Girl

  Nairobi - Grace's dad, like many other fathers out there, is trying to break the thumb sucking habit his four year old daughter. Unlike the majority of fathers however, when he receives Grace's report form at the end of the school term, he doesn't learn how well she did in Kiswahili or English or Math. He gets appraised on her vision, hearing, communication skills, self-help ...

• Ntimama Daughter Says Down but Not Out

  Nairobi - Both father and daughter contested in the March 4 General Election and both father and daughter lost but in spite of the loss, the daughter still wants to walk in her father's footsteps. Lydia Masikonte ole Ntimama stood for the Narok Women's Representative seat and lost while her father, William ole Ntimama, unsuccessfully sought to defend his position as the Narok North ...

• Swiss Tourists Bond of Sh1 Million Upheld

  THE High Court in Mombasa yesterday rejected an application by the state to cancel a Sh1 million bond for a Swiss national facing prostitution charges. Justice Martin Muya gave Christopher Clement Weissenrieder two sureties instead of the one surety handed by a magistrate's court. Muya also directed Weissenrieder to deposit his passport with the director of CID. On Friday assistant DPP ...

• Suspected AP Killers Arrested

  Police have said they have made "tremendous progress" in their bid to apprehend those behind the killing of a senior AP officer on Saturday in Wajir town. Northeastern police boss Charlton Mureithi said they have arrested "key suspects" whom they are interrogating. He however declined to confirm the exact number of suspects arrested. Mureithi said that among those arrested ...

• State Needs Sh800 Billion to Upgrade Slums

  THE Ministry of Land, Housing and Urban Development has said it requires Sh800 billion for upgrading slums and informal settlements in the country. The government hopes to have eradicated slums currently housing between eight and nine million Kenyans across the country by the year 2030. Director of slum upgrading in the ministry Charles Wafula said the growing cost of upgrading the slums will ...

• Uproar in Parliament Over Ruto Massage Cartoon

  Nairobi - Women MPs are demanding an apology from a Kenyan newspaper because of a cartoon it published on Wednesday, which they claim lowers their dignity. Led by Kenya Women Parliamentarian Association Chairman Cecily Mbarire, they say the Daily Nation cartoon by Gado which shows Deputy President William Ruto getting a massage was in bad taste for women MPs who accompanied him on a now ...

• Kenya Kenyan Employers Raise Alarm About Quality of University Graduates

  Nairobi - On streets across Nairobi, it is easy to spot university or satellite campus signboards advertising a variety of programmes and opportunities. While this could be a sign of improved access to education in Kenya, some employers and education officials worry that the proliferation of universities and the commercialisation of higher education have created schools that produce poorly ...

• Serem to Appear Before House Committee

  The committee on Delegated Legislation is planning to summon the Salaries and Remuneration Commission chairperson Sarah Serem by this Friday. Serem will be appearing before the committee to defend their move to "chop" MPs monthly pay from Sh850,000 to Sh532,000 and other perks after Igembe South MP Mithika Linturi petitioned the National Assembly to disband the commission. Committee ...

• Kenya Those Linked to Injustices Need Hearing - NCIC

  Nairobi - The National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) now wants Kenyans who have been incriminated by the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) report given a chance to clear their names. NCIC Chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia said that even though Kenyans must accept the report in order for the healing process to begin, those who have been adversely mentioned must get a ...

• Kenya Conflict Over Resources Caused Tana Clashes - Report

  Nairobi - The Judicial Commission formed to probe killings that left more than 150 dead in the Tana Delta presented its report to President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday. In its report, the commission identified, "conflict over resources," as the reason behind the ethnic clashes that caused the death toll and called for the prosecution of those who instigated the clashes. The president ...

• Kenya Lower Interest Rates Boost CFC Stanbic Profits

  CfC Stanbic yesterday said net profits for the three months of this year grew by 78 per cent to Sh1 billion as interest paid on customer deposits dropped by more than half. The bank, which posted Sh568 million over a similar period in 2012, said interest paid on deposits dropped to Sh531 million, down from Sh1.3 billion in 2011, a 60 per cent drop. Customer deposits however fell slightly to ...

• KQ to Start Direct Abu Dhabi Flights

  Nairobi - Kenya Airways (KQ) has announced the commencement of direct flights to Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, as it grows its presence in the Middle East. The airline will start operating the service on the route from July 1 flying three times every week between Nairobi and Abu Dhabi on a Boeing 767-300 aircraft. KQ will fly to the city on Mondays, Wednesdays and ...

• Health Secretary Pledges to Resolve Doctors Pay Grievances

  Nairobi - Health Secretary James Macharia took over office on Wednesday morning with a promise to deal with the demands of doctors and nurses on their remuneration and working conditions once and for all. Speaking to reporters at Afya House, Macharia explained that many professionals are leaving the country in search of better jobs resulting in brain drain which in turn adversely affects the ...

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