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  • Kenyas Deputy Leader to Appear during ICC Trial

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, must attend key segments of his trial on charges of crimes against humanity scheduled to begin in September, according to a court spokesman. Ruto and Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta face similar charges before the court in connection with their alleged role in the country's 2007-2008 post-election ...

  • Kenya Controversy as patient dies resurrects then dies

    This emerged after an elderly patient was declared dead on arrival to the facility on Tuesday for the hospital to recant it and but on Wednesday at 11am declare her dead. Relatives said a doctor at Provincial General Hospital declared that Hannah Wanjiru Chege,78, be placed at a temporary room awaiting transfer to the hospital mortuary on Tuesday when she was taken to the hospital claiming she ...

  • Business Nominee to revoke railways agreement

    Muli said the decision will be based on the fact that the Rift Valley Railways Consortium had failed in its mandate. He said as Transport PS, he will engage the Ugandan government so as to come up with a way forward over the matter. ?Our Ugandan counterparts are actually on the receiving end more than us,? he stated. He told the Transport , Public Works and Housing Committee that before the ...

  • Kenya dismisses concern over capital gains tax

    NAIROBI -- Kenya sought to assuage concern over a planned review of capital gains tax, saying it was too early to say what asset classes would be targeted in a measure aimed at compelling the rich to fund development. Finance Minister Henry Rotich told legislators in his budget speech last week there would be a review of the tax, which was suspended in the 1980s, to allow the wealthy to make a ...

  • East Africa a new population heavyweight

    The East African region is slowly developing into one of the world's new population blocks, with the region surpassing all of North America in few years and all of Europe by the 2040s. A new, major power may be building ...

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Piranha 3D [Blu-Ray]

Piranha 3D [Blu-Ray]

Alexandre Ajas Piranha 3D is a purposefully and unapologetically tacky monster movie that borrows all the camp and gore from the 1978 Roger Corman-produced Jaws knock-off Piranha, but without screenwriter John Sayless self-conscious wit and director Joe Dantes satirical ... ...

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  • Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel

    Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their ...

  • Kenya assists Ethiopia fight Oromia rebels

    The Ethiopian government is hailing Kenya for its registration of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) as "an organised criminal body." Several OLF rebels have already been killed and arrested in ...

  • E-payment for a cup of water in Kenya

    In a rural district grossly neglected by Kenyan authorities, private actors have introduced groundbreaking technology to provide basic services. E-payment, microfinance and solar energy secure safe water for ...

  • Kenyans in U.S. Stripped of Overseas Vote

    On the heels of Pres. Barack Obama’s struggle to defend the voting rights of U.S. citizens, Kenyan officials announced this week that the hundreds of thousands of Kenyans in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere outside the country would not be allowed to vote.National elections are scheduled to take place in March 2013 for President, Senators, County Governors, Members of Parliament, among ...

  • Kenya County government petitioned to introduce contraceptives among street children

    In a petition letter served to the County Governor and the Speaker of the County Assembly, The Centre for Human Rights, Democracy and Mediation wants the county government to legislate laws that would provide for either mandatory or voluntary family planning measures for the young but sexually active street girls. "It is our observation that the street population has become endemic in the ...

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