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  • World North Korea fires sixth missile in three days

    missile s on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military ...

  • Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia

    Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...

  • Safaricom drags Kenyan shares lower shilling steady

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A stockbroker transacts shares during a trading session at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya's capital Nairobi January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas ...

  • East Africa Two California Men Sentenced for Rhino Horn Trafficking

    Washington - The sentencing May 15 of two California businessmen in Los Angeles for trafficking in rhino horn will send both to prison and ensure that $800,000 of their illegally acquired "profits" end up helping protect rhinos in Africa. Vinh Chung "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha pleaded guilty in September 2012 to federal felony charges brought as a result of Operation Crash, an ...

  • Kenya Seventeen in Court Over Cruelty to Parliament Pigs

    Nairobi - Seventeen protestors who staged the 'Occupy Parliament' demonstration using 31 live pigs last Tuesday have been charged with cruelty to animals. The activists, among them photographer Boniface Mwangi, however declined to take a plea and were released on a cash bail of Sh20,000 each or Sh10,000 surety bail. The demonstrators were charged with three counts of breach of peace, ...

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Ordinary People [DVD]

Ordinary People [DVD]

Robert Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People, is a solemn, studied portrait of a well-to-do American family coming apart from the inside after the tragic death of a son. Based the popular 1976 novel by Judith Guest, its central idea is that all families have inner crises that remain unspoken until something forces them out into the open, which is the true test of the family's streng ... ...

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  • Kenya Restive North Sees Shifting Power Risks

    Garissa-Nairobi - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. But securing northern Kenya is increasingly vital to the government, with the badlands growing in ...

  • Rebranding Kenya As a Tourist Destination

    The appointment of Cabinet Secretaries was a complex jig-saw puzzle for President Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto. Power, a function of ordinance and intelligence was at play in this exercise. But that notwithstanding, grumbling has continued in some quarters. The youth and the disabled felt short changed with the gender and equality promise not having been observed. Doctors were placed ...

  • Leadership Is a Call to Service

    A major event that grabbed headlines this week was the civil society's protest against plans by MPs to have their salaries increased. Different people have reacted differently to the demonstrators' expression of displeasure with the legislators' agitation for higher salaries. While some have expressed solidarity with the civil society, others have taken issue with the ...

  • Three Killed in Fresh Attacks At Mandera

    Three more people have been killed in Mandera only hours after President Uhuru read the riot act to his security chiefs to end the run-away crime. Government officials in the county said heavily armed militias from Ethiopia attacked a village in Malkamari division near the border with Kenya on Thursday night between 8pm and 9pm and hacked two women and a child to death then escaped back into ...

  • Kenya Wheat Farmers Shift to Other Crops As Price Drops

    WHEAT farmers in Uasin Gishu County have started shifting to other crops due to poor prices of the commodity offered by the government. Most farmers have shifted to planting maize and other crops after the price of a 90kg bag of wheat started coming down drastically. The 90-kg bag of wheat costs Sh3,300 at the Cereals Board, a price that has discouraged farmers compared to the high cost of ...

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