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  • Mau Mau Veterans in Kenya Expect Impending Settlement

    Seated left to right, Kenyans Jane Muthoni Mara, Wambogo Nyingi and Paulo Muoka Nzili celebrate the announcement of a legal decision in support of Mau Mau veteran reparation payments in Nairobi in this October 5, 2012, file ...

  • Kenya Commission boosts County Assembly members pay

    The commission also came-up with responsibility allowances of Sh35,000 per month to be paid to all the assemblies' majority leaders, minority Leaders and ...

  • World Curfew imposed in Maiduguri Nigeria

    Nigeria's military has imposed a 24-hour curfew in parts of the north-eastern city of Maiduguri as it presses its offensive against ...

  • World Gay marriage legal in France

    The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservatives in France, where allowing gay marriage is one of the biggest social reforms since abolition of the death penalty in ...

  • Sports Jose Mourinhos worst season

    Widely expected to move on at the end of the campaign and linked with a return to Chelsea, a grim-faced Mourinho gave little away about his future but said Real, the world's richest club by income, had suffered a "disastrous" season, with only a ...

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Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Although Cul-de-sac was Roman Polanskis third film, it was the one he had most wanted to make since leaving Poland after his first feature Knife in the Water (1962) and it remains to this day one of his favorites. Again co-written with Gerard Brach, with whom Polanski had worke ... ...

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  • Kenya MP distances self from pay rise demands

    MPs entered the house earning Sh50,000 and they got Sh500,000 which is quite big for them and they are contented with it. Some of us didn't join parliament so as just to earn money, we have worked for many years without pay serving the people," said Njuki. The MP stressed on the need for servant leadership and vowed to serve the country irrespective of ...

  • MPs Are Only the Face of Our Collective Greed

    Tuesday 14th May saw a demonstration outside Parliament to protest the MPs planned salary increment. While I was in solidarity with them on the notion of ensuring that as a nation, leader's salaries ought not to be a mill stone on the national GDP, their rage was misplaced and they failed to see our collective role in the MPs clawing at the budget. I think MPs ought to be given that salary ...

  • Priest Attacked By Employee

    The priest-in-charge of Christ the King Catholic Parish in Nanyuki town is recuperating at Huruma Mission Hospital after being hit with a hammer on the head by his employee. Father Franco Crabu was attacked by his long time driver Emmanuel Wachira on Monday following an unknown dispute. According to the Parish chairman Samson Mburugu, Wachira came to the Father's house on Monday evening, ...

  • Isiolo Woman Asks CJ to Intervene

    A woman has appealed to Chief Justice Willy Mutunga to intervene and rescind a court decision to have her pay a lawyer an outstanding bill until her case is complete. Lilian Nkirote has been ordered by an Isiolo court to pay her lawyer Mbaabu M'Inoti Sh48,076 failure to which she will be jailed. Speaking to reporters in Meru town, Nkirote said they had originally agreed with the lawyer ...

  • Kenyans Asked to Report Corrupt Procurement

    Report procurement malpractices in your county to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission. There have been reports of county governments being accused of illegal recruitment. Here is Irene Keino from the ...

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