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  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

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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 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 ...

  • Kenya Police vetting to start in June

    officers know that this is a procedural exercise and it is not meant to punish or victimize anyone of them. It will be used to realise talent and other issues within the service and so be ready," he said. He said Inspector General of David Kimaiyo, his two deputies Samuel Arachi and Grace Kaindi and CID's Ndegwa Muhoro have been excluded from the exercise because they had been vetted ...

  • World Uganda police shut down Monitor Publications

    Police in Uganda have shut down The Monitor and its two radio stations; KFM and DembeFM in their attempt to carry out a search in the Publication's offices over alleged ...

  • Bishops in Rift Valley Want ICC Cases Terminated

    A section of Bishops in Rift Valley have supported suggestions to have the UNited Nations Security Council terminate ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. The clergymen led by Bishop Geoffrey Songok of the Reformed Church said the ICC cases were based on propaganda and should should not be used to disrupt government operations.Songok said the cases were also an ...

  • The Day Pigs Occupied Kenyas Parliament

    Kenya is like no other country in the world.Everything that happens in this country is uniquely Kenyan. What we do cannot be replicated anywhere else. It is only in Kenya where Parliament passes laws and disowns them a few months later. At best the law makers make laws for other Kenyans as long as such laws do not affect their lives. It is only in Kenya where the constitution sets up a ...

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