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  • Kenya Visa and Equity Sign New Money Deal

    Visa in partnership with Equity Bank yesterday launched a new money transfer service dubbed Visa Personal service. It enables Visa card holders to transfer money to other Visa card holders anywhere in the world. Equity Bank chief operating officer Julius Kimngetich said the service will enable Equity Bank Visa card holders receive funds at no cost. He said the service is instant and one can ...

  • Kenya Pupils get cancer vaccine in Sh141m project

    NAIROBI, KENYA: On May 14, nine-year-old Mariam became the first girl in Kenya to receive a free vaccine against cervical cancer at her Central Primary School ...

  • Kenya Five people killed in Mandera

    Degodia sub clans. North Eastern police boss Charlton Murithi said the injured are admitted at the local District Hospital in a stable condition with bullet wounds. "We suspect the attack was in an apparent retaliation to the ongoing clashes that have occurred in the past weeks. It happened deep in the villages and the attackers targeted herders," said Murithi. The attack happened days ...

  • Improbably Missionary Trains Stars in Kenya

    The ...

  • Kenya Government Targets Six Percent GDP Growth in 2013

    Kenya's economy expanded by 4.6 per cent in last year helped by growth in key sectors despite a turbulent global economy, delayed long rains and a weaker shilling in early 2012. The government is however targeting a six per cent GDP growth this year, an ambitious target going by figures resgistered in the past five years. The Cabinet Secretary for Devolution and Planning Anne Waiguru said ...

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Topsy-Turvy [Blu-Ray]

Topsy-Turvy [Blu-Ray]

Mike Leighs Topsy-Turvy is a visually sumptuous film about the last phase of the partnership between William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the respective lyricist and composer who, from 1871 to 1896, wrote 14 operettas that ruled the London theater and are still among the mo ... ...

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  • Kenya President Uhuru woos Brazil at AU meeting

    Brazillian President Dilma Rousseff on various projects in the country at the ongoing Africa Union 50 th anniversary in Ethiopia. The two leaders followed up on discussions held during the 2010 visit to Kenya by former ...

  • Kenya Mudavadi wants Governors to oversee security

    Musalia Mudavadi has called on the government to respect the Constitution and enforce the law that allows Governors to oversee County security in order to restore normalcy in security operations in the ...

  • Mother Punished for Burning Son

    A woman who set her son on fire has been sentenced to one year community service at Ziwa Ngombe. Saumu Said was accused of beating and burning her 10-year-old son for stealing Sh500. The boy had stolen the money from his aunt but gave back Sh300. His mother however, tied his hands and set them on fire. She only put out the fire when neighbours responded to the child's cries for help. Said ...

  • Kenya KNUT Officials Plot Next Years Elections

    KNUT officials in four counties in Western province have begun plans to take up top union positions after the death of their secretary general David Okuta. Most of the union's national executive members are set to retire between December and August next year leaving room for a battle for the top positions. The national chairman Wilson Sosion, second vice chairman Wycliffe Omucheyi and ...

  • Kenya Maize Disease Destroys Crops

    MAIZE farmers in Narok South district are counting losses after about 2,000 acres of their crop was destroyed by a strange viral disease suspected to be lethal necrosis. Speaking at Mogoiyuet Primary School in Narok yesterday, spokesman Simon Seroney said their crops have turned yellow. This is the second time the disease is reported in the South Rift region, Kenya's biggest maize belt. ...

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