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  • South Sudans President Says Never to ICC

    JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Thursday that he would "never acceptrdquo; the International Criminal Court. He spoke during a visit from new Kenyan president and ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta, who pledged the creation of roads, rail and pipelines to deepen economic ties between Kenya and the new nation. It was Uhuru Kenyatta's first visit to South Sudan since ...

  • Patients drugged confined at Kenyas only mental hospital

    NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients.Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section ...

  • Kenya Commission outlines Coast marginalisation issues

    Land issues, war on terror, poor education levels and lack of infrastructure have fuelled feelings that successive governments ignored the region. "One of the critical issues, described by some as a 'ticking bomb' is the seemingly intractable land question. More recently, other factors including perceived mistreatment of residents at the hands of police in the context of ...

  • Kenya KWS entangled in insurance anomalies that may cost taxpayers Sh40m

    KWS ) may now terminate an insurance cover with CIC Insurance Company after an internal audit committee established anomalies that may have cost taxpayers Sh40 million over irregular insurance ...

  • Kenya TJRC demands justice for Taveta residents

    TJRC has recommended proceedings against a former PC and local District Officers in charge of the area at that time. This former PC, allegedly, presided over or ordered the mass arrest of these people, their illegal detention and confiscation of their property while a junior officer in charge of Bomeni Division. According to ...

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Poseidon

Poseidon

The disaster genre, specifically as formulated and perfected by producer/director Irwin Allen in the early 1970s, has to be one of the most masochistic of film genres. After all, its primary goal is to get the audience to sympathize with a group of ordinary people trying to survive extraordina ... ...

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  • African Union Reject Kenya’s attempt to shield its leaders from accountability

    The African Union must reject Kenya's attempts to shield its leaders from being held to account for the human rights violations that took place in Kenya in ...

  • Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits

    Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...

  • Kenya Witness row with ICC over evidence withdrawal

    witness despite having forwarded four sworn affidavits to the prosecutor's office withdrawing all the audio and written statements attributed to him. ...

  • Kenya IEBC announces Makueni by-election date

    Makueni senatorial by-election will be conducted on July 22, this is according to official communication from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ...

  • Kenya Ugandan tycoon charged in Nairobi

    Michael Ezra Mulyoowa has been accused of falsely obtaining credit and issuing a bad cheque worth over Sh 16,000 million to SMR Limited based at industrial area. The Ugandan represented by Eric Mutua is facing two charges and according to the charge sheet the first count states that on diverse dates between June 2009 and October 2009 at Industrial area in Nairobi he obtained credit of over Sh 6 ...

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