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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 ...

  • Cheruiyot to miss World championships for pregnancy

    Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot will not be able to defend her 5,000 metres and 10,000 metres titles at this year's Moscow World championships as she is expecting her first child. The runner said in a statement Wednesday that she felt it was "the right time to start a family" at the age of 29, reports Xinhua. Cheruiyot plans to return for the 2014 season and compete in the 2015 World championships in ...

  • Police Meet Governor Over Insecurity in Kisumu

    A security team in Kisumu yesterday met Governor Jack Ranguma and his deputy Ruth Odinga over escalating insecurity in the area. The two leaders are alarmed by widespread robberies, rape and killings in the area. Nyanza Police boss Joseph Ole Tito led the team of security officers in the meeting that lasted more than six hours in the afternoon at the Governor's office. Other officers in ...

  • Mandera Clan War Claims 20th Victim

    Another resident was gunned down in Batuul Village in Banisa district while herding his camels. The village is 20km from Banisa town. The 26-year-old herder from the Degodia community was ambushed by suspected Garre bandits who shot him several times on the head. Northeastern provincial police boss Charlton Mureithi said the attacks were occurring in the remote district villages because of ...

  • Chinas Citizens Are the Problem

    YESTERDAY members of the National Assembly condemned the Chinese government for not doing more to stop ivory poaching (see Page 3). The MPs pointed out that tourism is Kenya's biggest foreign exchange earner yet three elephants are being killed every day in Kenya. Most of this ivory goes to China, either directly or through Vietnam and Thailand. The Chinese government says that it cannot ...

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The Winslow Boy

David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and filmmaker who has created an indelible name for himself writing hard-hitting modern American dramas and complex mysteries involving con games, seems like the least likely candidate in the world to adapt "The Winslow Boy," Terence Rattigan's 1946 play about a proud British family that uses its entire family fortune to defend one of their own a ... ...

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  • Godfathers Will Not Save You Teso DC Tells Gangs

    THE new Teso South DC yesterday blamed the campaign period for the recent killings in Busia and Bungoma.Daniel Ole Nakuso said the youth led extravagant lifestyles in the run up to the March 4 general elections. "With fat pockets from politicians, the unemployed youth had 'king-like' breakfast, lunch and supper from their masters during campaign periods. After the elections the ...

  • Harsh Penalties for Wildlife Poaching Coming - Ruto

    Nairobi - Deputy President William Ruto has said that the government will fast-track the Wildlife Bill to make the killing of the Big Five to a capital offence. Speaking at a meeting of stakeholders in the tourism industry in his office on Thursday, Ruto said he was concerned that wanton poaching in the country was decimating elephants, lions, buffalos, rhinos and leopards at an alarming rate. ...

  • Kenya Speaker Defends Sh90 Million Busia Governors House

    BUSIA deputy Speaker yesterday came in defense of the Sh90m planned house for Busia governor Sospeter Ojaamong. Moses Ote said the design of governors' houses is uniform in all the 47 counties. Speaking to the press in Katakwa yesterday, Ote said no governor was being given the money to buy the house and wondered why Barasa was crying wolf instead of appreciating the kind gesture. Ote was ...

  • Kenya Two More Courts to Be Put Up in Kisii

    The judiciary yesterday started the construction of two more courts at the Kisii law courts. Resident judge justice Ruth Sitati said the Sh10 million project will enable the judges and magistrates deliver justice. "We have had a problem in terms of space so the construction of two more courts will help us quickly deal with the backlog of cases in the high and lower courts," Sitati ...

  • Kenya Give the Disabled More Jobs-Legislators

    Four MPs have threatened to sue unless people with disabilities are fairly represented in senior public appointments. They said the government is not properly constituted because people with disabilities were left out of recent Cabinet appointments. The Kenya Disability Parliamentary Association's Timothy Wanyonyi (Westlands), Rose Museu (Makueni MP) and nominated MPs Isaac Mwaura and ...

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