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  • Kenya to Benefit From U.S. $300 Million

    Nairobi - Newly created County Governments in Kenya will benefit from a $300 million financing arrangement from the World Bank. World Bank Country Director for Kenya Ms Diarietou Gaye said the Bretton Wood institution will expand its financial help to accommodate the new government units in helping the country realize its development goals. The funding will cover a cross section of projects ...

  • Kenyan Police Kill Terror Suspect in Mombasa

    Kenyan police killed terrorism suspect Kassim Omolo Otieno in Mombasa during a dawn raid on his home Monday (June 17th), Kenya's Capital FM reported. Otieno engaged in a shootout with police and was shot dead, Kisauni deputy divisional Police Chief Joseph Sanguiti said. "The man was armed with grenades and rifles when he was confronted," said Coast police officer Aggrey Adoli, ...

  • MP Raises CDF Graft Claims

    Former Naivasha MP John Mututho has threatened not to handover the Naivasha and Gilgil CDF audits' tomorrow claiming the CDF department is engaging in fraud. Mututho yesterday said he is being forced to handover the audits and account for funds used up to the month of June while he left office in March. He said his attempts to sign the audits in March immediately after he lost the ...

  • Kenya to Employ Drones to Thwart Gunrunners Al-Shabaab

    Garissa - Kenya is preparing to employ drones as part of increased security operations along its borders with Somalia and Ethiopia to monitor and halt the movements of al-Shabaab and gunrunners, security officials told Sabahi. Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, are needed to help Kenyan security forces on the ground patrol the country's frontiers, said Patrick Ochieng, director of the ...

  • British Woman Found Dead At Her Kilifi Home

    Detectives are investigating the death of a British national in Kilifi district.Kilifi police boss Clement Wangai said Sheila Claridge, 86, was found dead in her apartment on Friday. He said preliminary investigations indicate she might have committed suicide."Our officers recovered a poisonous pesticide bottle (Steldone) next to her body. We suspect she poisoned herself but we cannot also ...

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Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop, one of the first megahits of the early 1980s and the movie that catapulted star Eddie Murphy into the Hollywood stratosphere, is all about attitude. It has to be: Short in the narrative department, filled with caricatures, and largely lacking in any re ... ...

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  • Poachers Kill Young Elephant

    A young female elephant was found dead near a dam at Taita on Thursday afternoon.Her tusks were recovered but it was established that the elephant had been hit by a poisoned arrow. The carcass was found after police were deployed to flush out herders from the Tsavo conservation area.The herders are suspected to be colluding with poachers in the illegal ivory trade and have caused huge ...

  • Kenyan Anti-Graft Agencies Unite

    Kenyan anti-corruption agencies have united to form a single complaint and referral centre, Kenya's Daily Nation reported Sunday (June 16th). Citizens have suffered from confusion over where to direct corruption and human rights complaints in the past, as several outfits have overlapping mandates, said Olga Sawe, head of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) in the Central ...

  • Motor Insurance Fraud Unearthed

    THREE people were on Friday charged in court for alleged fraud on motor insurance covers, raising questions on the industry's data sharing system that was designed to prevent such cases. The three, according to court documents, were said to have overlapping insurance covers for one BMW vehicle and purpotedly reported accidents involving the car on November 7, November 26 last year and ...

  • Bungoma Staff May Go On Strike Over Pay Cut

    Employees at the Bungoma county office have threatened to go on strike unless Governor Kenneth Lusaka removes the interim secretary Musyoka Nyamai . The chair of the Kenya Government Workers Union Bungoma chapter Florian Nganga accused Nyamai of dictatorial tendencies and unilaterally deciding to slash the workers' night out and traveling allowances. Yesterday's threat comes two days ...

  • Safaricom Caravan to Collect Ewaste in Nairobi Nema Promises Ewaste Guidelines

    According to the United Nations, there are 2,500 tons of electronic waste in Kenya, including 150 tons of mobile phones. Since October, Safaricom has collected over 10 tonnes of waste including dead laptops and mobile phones through an initiative that saw waste recycling containers placed in Safaricom outlets. On Saturday, the firm expanded the initiative through launch of a caravan that will go ...

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