Kenya How MRC funds its activities

The separatist group has a network of over 30,000 registered members spread across 97 branches at the Coast. The 30,000 membership is based on signatures raised to support one of its court petitions. However, it is also understood that the members could be more and the group may have thousands of sympathisers. At the top is the 'president' or chairman, who runs a government of about 14 ...

Kenya ICC changes judge in Rutos case

The court also changed the Presiding Judge who will oversee the trial of Deputy President William Ruto and radio journalist Joshua arap Sang as the Kenyan suspects await the court's decision on the date of the crucial trial. The ICC Presidency appointed Judge Olga Herrera Carbucci as the new presiding judge on a temporary basis replacing Judge Kuniko Ozaki in the Ruto and Sang Case in ...

Kenya MPs chide Senators over supremacy

MPs insisted they were superior to their Senate counterparts thanks to the Constitution. Debate started when Suba MP John Mbadi said taking the Division of Revenue Bill 2013 to the Senate was unconstitutional. He argued the Senate only has powers to handle revenue touching on county governments and not national revenue. House Speaker Justin Muturi thanked Mbadi for raising the matter and said he ...

Kenya 50 years later political union evades East Africa

President Kenyatta said the prosperity of the continent lay in the economic integration of the 54 countries to mirror the European Union, and cited the current fragmentation of Africa as largely responsible for soaring poverty. African countries were competing amongst themselves rather than working together to enhance trade and investment, according to Mr Kenyatta, which compounded a problem ...

Athletics-World champion Cheruiyot to miss Moscow championships

Cheruiyot , 30, told Reuters by telephone from her home town of Eldoret. She gave no further details. Cheruiyot, who won both races at the 2011 Daegu world championships, also took silver and bronze in the 5,000 and 10,000 metres respectively at last year's London Olympics. Twice Olympic steeplechase ...