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  • Kenya National slum upgrading and prevention policy aims to improve livelihoods

    Vision 2030 which aspires for a slum free nation. Currently it is estimated that more than 34% of Kenyan's total population lives in urban areas with this number projected to hit 63% by 2030 in not well addressed. It s also estimated that 71% of the urban population lives in slums and are facing various challenges such as social, political and economic exclusion. Other vital problems ...

  • Kenya Patrol cars top police priority list

    The team supposed to spearhead modernisation of the National Police Service said officers are incapacitated in several other ways but they urgently need vehicles, protection gear and houses. They met Tuesday at the Treasury as directed by ...

  • Kenya Over 69 cases pave way for poll petitions

    This follows enactment of new election rules, which provides that a judge or a magistrate handling petitions should not be engaged in any other court matter until the conclusion of election ...

  • Kenya Governor appoints rivals to Cabinet for peaces sake

    Dado's long awaited cabinet includes one of his competitors in the gubernatorial race in an effort, he says, will bring cohesion among communities living in the county.?? He has ...

  • Kenya Coast residents suffered most land injustices

    The Mijikenda, Taita and Pokomo communities in the Coast have suffered the worst land-related injustices since independence and successive governments did little to solve the problem, ...

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Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Cul-de-sac [Blu-Ray]

Although Cul-de-sac was Roman Polanskis third film, it was the one he had most wanted to make since leaving Poland after his first feature Knife in the Water (1962) and it remains to this day one of his favorites. Again co-written with Gerard Brach, with whom Polanski had worke ... ...

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  • Kenya TJRC blames State for massacres

    TJRC ) report wants President Uhuru to apologise for the failure of the State to avert the killings. The report, released yesterday also recommends that all the victims be compensated within two years of the issuance of the report. ...

  • Kenya Hospital warns buyers to keep off disputed land

    The hospital superintendent Benson Njuguna said it had emerged that the developer is attempting to dispose of the property at Sh2.5 million to unsuspecting business people. "I'm cautioning the business community and the public that the structure on the plot is illegally there, and soon the Government will demolish it since it belongs to ...

  • Kenya Report Kibaki Government sanctioned extra-judicial killings

    Mwai Kibaki presided over a Government that was responsible for numerous gross violations of human rights that included unlawful detentions, extra judicial killings and, economic crimes and grand ...

  • Kenya Uhuru says State is committed to healing

    Speaking when he received the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission final report at State House Nairobi, President Kenyatta said the Government would take the recommendations of the report seriously, while its contents would be made public. The President added that addressing the causes and effects of past injustices would contribute towards national unity, reconciliation and healing and ...

  • Kenya TJRC wants all assassination reports made public

    Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission wants all reports and materials of previous investigations into political assassinations in Kenya made ...

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