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  • Kenyas Deputy Leader to Appear during ICC Trial

    The International Criminal Court (ICC) has ruled that Kenya's deputy president, William Ruto, must attend key segments of his trial on charges of crimes against humanity scheduled to begin in September, according to a court spokesman. Ruto and Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta face similar charges before the court in connection with their alleged role in the country's 2007-2008 post-election ...

  • Kenya Suspected senior students force form one to take Ethanol

    Salat Kipkoech,15,is said to have been cornered by two form four students at the dormitory on Monday evening and forced him to drink Ethanol,arousing alarm from those who witnessed and called the teachers who took him to hospital. Efforts by the press to get a comment from the victimized student were not successful as the student was still weak to talk. The parents of the student led by Joseph ...

  • Kenya Kimaiyo names 130 new OCPDs

    The commission has protested the moves and alleged it is being systematically frustrated, saying they have virtually been reduced to bystanders. Appearing before the Parliamentary Committee on Implementation of the Constitution only a day after Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku downplayed differences between Kimaiyo and the commission, Chairman Johnston Kavuludi maintained the ...

  • Politics Governor faces impeachment over nominees

    NAKURU, KENYA: A show down is looming between Nakuru Governor Kinuthia Mbugua and Members of the County assembly following the swearing in of rejected nominees to the Executive ...

  • Uganda says to build 30000 bpd refinery by 201617

    barrels per day refinery by 2016/17 and double this capacity two years later in a move towards commercial output of the country's oil. Explorers struck oil in east Africa's third largest economy in 2006 and Uganda estimates its crude reserves at 3.5 billion barrels but wrangling over taxes and the viability of a ...

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Piranha 3D [Blu-Ray]

Piranha 3D [Blu-Ray]

Alexandre Ajas Piranha 3D is a purposefully and unapologetically tacky monster movie that borrows all the camp and gore from the 1978 Roger Corman-produced Jaws knock-off Piranha, but without screenwriter John Sayless self-conscious wit and director Joe Dantes satirical ... ...

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  • Kenya MPs Cut Kibaki Kitty for Teachers Pay

    THE Budget and Appropriations Committee has reduced the Sh700 million set aside for retired President Mwai Kibaki's office to pay teachers. Tourism and Industrialisation ministries will lose Sh4 billion to raise more than Sh21 billion for teachers and lecturers. Committee chairman Mutava Musyimi said the amount meant to acquire Kibaki's office is extravagant at a time when teachers ...

  • Kenya Raila asks AU to champion reforms

    Africa Union (AU) stop chest thumping like we recently witnessed during the celebration of Africa's 50th Anniversary and get back to serious reforms," he ...

  • Lamu Oil and Gas awards 2D seismic contract

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  • Kenya dismisses investor worries over capital gains tax plan

    By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 5:20am EDT NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters) - Kenya sought to assuage concerns over a planned review of capital gains tax, saying it was too early to say what asset classes will be targeted in a measure aimed at compelling the rich to fund development. Finance Minister Henry Rotich told lawmakers in his budget speech last week there would ...

  • Kenyan shilling pauses at 13-wk low seen easing further

    View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A fuel attendant handles Kenyan shilling notes at a petrol station in the capital Nairobi March 15, 2011. REUTERS/Noor ...

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