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  • Kenya CIC to challenge MPs pay demand in court

    Justin Muturi insisted MPs will be paid their "previous salaries" of Sh851,000 by the Parliamentary Service Commission and not the Sh532,000 set by SRC. CIC ...

  • Kenyan riot squad try to block 59-year-old British aristocrat as she lays roses outside the police station linked to ...

    A grieving mother was confronted by riot police as she tried to lay flowers at the Kenyan police station where her son was detained before he died in ...

  • House Committees to Conduct Elections Today

    National Assembly departmental committees are expected to conduct elections for their chairpersons and deputies today. MPs interested in the committee leadership had by yesterday evening intensified their lobbying ahead of today's voting. The Standing Orders provide that the elections must be conducted within seven days after the House approves the names of members to the committees. The ...

  • Three Mbeere AP Killers Arrested

    Three suspected violent robbers who last Friday hacked an administration police officer to death and cut six residents with axes at Mbeere South have been arrested, Mbeere South police boss Bernstein Shari said the three were arrested after they invaded Kianjiru village and robbed several residents of cash and assorted items. Shari said the AP officer was responding to resident's distress ...

  • Rare Antelope Found in Park

    A rare species of antelope in the country is facing extinction, a conservation group has warned. The World Wide Fund has warned that the Sable antelope, only found at Shimba Hills National Reserve will be extinct if no action is taken. This comes after a census by Kenya Wildlife Service which indicated that the antelopes have reduced in numbers. KWS senior warder in charge of Kwale and Kinango ...

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Ordinary People [DVD]

Ordinary People [DVD]

Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, is a solemn, studied portrait of a well-to-do American family coming apart from the inside after the tragic death of a son. Based the popular 1976 novel by Judith Guest, its central idea is that all families have inner crises that remain unspoken until something forces them out into the open, which is the true test of the family's streng ... ...

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  • Care for Young Mothers - NGO

    The government has been asked to establish a rehab center for rescuing teenage mothers back to school. CEO Aiducation International-Kenya Jeremiah Kambi said there are many girls who need this help but the government does not have such a programme. "We have very many girls who dropped out of school because of early pregnancies, they have now given birth but they do not have any hope. The ...

  • Kenya Isiolos Waata Community Objects to Jobs Lockout

    Waata communities in Isiolo yesterday raised concern that they have been locked out of all elective positions and county appointments in the area. Speaking during the National Commission on Gender and Equality forum in Garba-Tulla at the weekend, the residents appealed to the government to intervene and have them secure positions. Community chairman Galgalo Titima told the commission that ...

  • World North Korea fires sixth missile in three days

    missile s on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military ...

  • Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia

    Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...

  • Safaricom drags Kenyan shares lower shilling steady

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A stockbroker transacts shares during a trading session at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya's capital Nairobi January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas ...

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