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  • Kenya Man gets 20 years in jail for raping 80-year-old woman

    A Nyahururu court sentenced the 34 year man after it found him guilty of the offence which occurred on August 8 last year. Samuel Kariuki raped the granny as she slept on the morning of the fateful day at Ngombe Moja village in Laikipia. The two are said to be close neighbours in the same village. The court heard that the accused had entered the victim's house and repeatedly raped her as ...

  • Trial of Kenyas president to start in November

    THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- The International Criminal Court has pushed back the start of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta's crimes against humanity trial until Nov. 12.The court announced the new start date Thursday. Judges ruled earlier this year that the trial scheduled to begin July 9 would start at a later date to give defense lawyers time to prepare.Kenyatta is charged as an ...

  • Kenya case President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Trial is scheduled to commence on 12 November 2013

    International Criminal Court (ICC) set the new date of for the commencement of the trial of Mr Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta. The trial is now scheduled to commence on 12 November 2013. On 26 April 2013, the Trial Chamber determined that the Defence should be gr= anted additional time to prepare for trial due to the delays by the Prosecution in disclosing its ...

  • Kenya Uhuru ICC trial begins Nov 12

    On 26 April 2013, the Trial Chamber determined that the Defence should be granted additional time to prepare for trial due to the delays by the Prosecution in disclosing its evidence. The Trial Chamber invited the Defence to submit observations as to the estimated time it needed to adequately prepare for trial. After receiving these observations, and responses from the Prosecution and the Legal ...

  • ICC says Kenyan presidents trial to start on November 12

    AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The war crimes trial of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will begin on November 12, judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled on Thursday, accepting his lawyers' request for more time to prepare his defence. Deputy President William Ruto and Kenyatta were elected on a joint ticket in March. Both are accused of orchestrating violence after the previous ...

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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

As a Southern-fried tale of teary mother-daughter redemption, Callie Khouri's Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood strikes a few resounding notes of truth. Unfortunately, those notes of truth, however moving, are otherwise submerged in a generally hackneyed comedic melodrama full of eccentric caricatures and forced plot devices that make you want to roll your eyes. ...

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  • Kenyan Property Developer Proposes Smart Partnership With SPNB

    KUALA LUMPUR, June 20 (Bernama) -- Kenyan property developer Home Afrika has expressed an interest in a smart partnership with Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd (SPNB)due to its achievement in building affordable homes for low and middle income families. Its chairman Lee Karuri said the company plans to build 10,000 affordable homes for a similar group in Africa and hoped a smart partnership ...

  • Kenya tea prices rise in latest auction

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A worker picks tea at a plantation in Githunguri, 30 km (18 miles) from Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 6, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas ...

  • Mount Kenya Wildlife Estate gets ready to showcase first complete home

    Ol Pejeta is arguably Kenya's most complete and easiest to access wildlife conservancy, where game and cattle live side by side on the sprawling 90.000+ acres estate. Home to the highest concentration of the Eastern Black Rhino in the entire East Africa and an almost as large population of the Southern White Rhino, it is also the only place on earth where the rarest of the rare, the ...

  • East Africa Security Council Press Statement On Somalia

    The Security Council is outraged by the attack on a United Nations compound in Mogadishu today, for which Al-Shabaab has claimed responsibility and which has caused numerous deaths and injuries. The members of the Security Council extend their condolences to the victims and their families, as well as to the people and the Government of Somalia. The members of the Security Council commend the ...

  • We Face Harassment in Kenya Because of Raila Odinga - - Nigerians

    Nigerian businessmen in Kenya say the current wave of deportation and harassment of Nigerians in that country is because the Nigerian community in Kenya is believed to have supported Raila Odinga during the March elections. A further wave of deportations of Nigerians has followed the expulsion of drug dealer Anthony Chinedu and two other Nigerians early this month. A Nigerian businessman based ...

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