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  • Kenya Woman kills husband in domestic row

    Kisii County on Saturday evening as news of the bizarre incident where the woman killed her husband of 15 years using a new panga spread.? The slain, a medical engineer at the referral hospital identified as Stanley Kipsang lay lifeless at bedsitter in the facility?s staff quarters as members of the public jostled to have a glimpse of what had happened.? Shocked neighbours told The Standard and ...

  • Kenya Govt Wants the Amisom Troops in Somalia Expanded

    Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya's security situation. According to Kenya's Standard newspaper, he spoke when he met Congo Brazzaville President Denis Sassou Nguesso and his Gabon counterpart Ali Bongo separately in their respective countries. The leaders talked about the need to expand the African Union forces in Mogadishu to ...

  • East Africa Eastern Africa Standby Force to Have Operational Capacity By 2015

    Military experts attending the ongoing field training exercise of 10 Eastern Africa armies held here in the eastern Ugandan district of Jinja have said the Eastern African Standby Force (EASF) would be ready for operation by 2015. The EASF is one of the five regional multi-dimensional components of the African Standby Force consisting of the military, police and civilian elements. The EASF was ...

  • Sports Weepy Beckham leaves Paris

    At 38, the oldest outfield player in Ligue 1, Beckham set up Blaise Matuidi for PSG's second goal with a corner kick and treated the crowd to a display of his passing ...

  • Kenya Civil society opposes restrictions on funding

    A new report by the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association says arguments put forward by the States to restrict foreign funding do not meet the threshold for restricting activism in the interest of national security or public safety. The report released this week and authored by ...

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Someone Like You

Someone Like You is about a decent woman who is burned by love, turns into a romantic cynic, then finds love again and ends the movie by disavowing her cynicism. ...

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  • Kenya Is Balalas Cabinet post a blessing or a poisoned lace

    Najib Balala takes his place as Mining Secretary in the Jubilee Cabinet analysts in Coast are divided over whether the plum job will end or spur his political influence in the ...

  • Kenya Uhuru and Ruto face insecurity nightmare

    Governors from affected areas have raised the alarm over escalating insecurity. They argue their hands are tied since security falls under national government. Responding to the national outcry on insecurity, President Kenyatta on Thursday assured Kenyans the Government would make every effort to curb runaway crime. He met top security chiefs and pledged to support the Police ...

  • Kenya As second in command will Ruto break the VP jinx

    It may interest newly elected Deputy President William Samoei Ruto to note that latest occupants of the Number Two slot have not been lucky enough to survive a second term in office. They have all fell by the wayside, the latest victim being ...

  • Lifestyle Kenya walks a tightrope in Somalia as Kismayo gets new leader

    Somalia 's clan elders have created a new mini-state and elected a Kenyan ally as its leader, a move likely to anger Mogadishu and sour ties between the two neighbouring ...

  • Politics The Raila Supreme Court evidence

    It is now emerging Raila had sourced a management consultant from a firm based in Barcelona, Spain, to support his local team of professionals, among them lawyers, engineers, financial analysts and technology experts to argue his election case. The former PM had compiled a case largely grounded on the failure of technology, variation in number of votes as declared at the constituency and ...

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