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  • South Sudans President Says Never to ICC

    JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN South Sudan President Salva Kiir said Thursday that he would "never acceptrdquo; the International Criminal Court. He spoke during a visit from new Kenyan president and ICC indictee Uhuru Kenyatta, who pledged the creation of roads, rail and pipelines to deepen economic ties between Kenya and the new nation. It was Uhuru Kenyatta's first visit to South Sudan since ...

  • Kenya My passion healing snake bites is beyond making huge profits

    Kitui County , 12 years ago. It was a hot afternoon and Augustus Mbila, 26, was walking home after a day's work on the farm. As he weaved his way through the dense shrubbery he felt what he thought was a thorn prick him just above his left ankle. But as Mbila bent to check his leg he saw a long, brown snake slither away. He was horrified to realise the 'prick' was the bite from ...

  • Kenya Witness row with ICC over evidence withdrawal

    witness despite having forwarded four sworn affidavits to the prosecutor's office withdrawing all the audio and written statements attributed to him. ...

  • Kenya IEBC announces Makueni by-election date

    Makueni senatorial by-election will be conducted on July 22, this is according to official communication from the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission ...

  • Kenya Ugandan tycoon charged in Nairobi

    Michael Ezra Mulyoowa has been accused of falsely obtaining credit and issuing a bad cheque worth over Sh 16,000 million to SMR Limited based at industrial area. The Ugandan represented by Eric Mutua is facing two charges and according to the charge sheet the first count states that on diverse dates between June 2009 and October 2009 at Industrial area in Nairobi he obtained credit of over Sh 6 ...

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End of Watch

David Ayers End of Watch is a potentially powerful story about the lethal daily grind of patrolling South Central Los Angeles that is wrecked by misguided aesthetics. Ayer, who grew up in South Central and is best known as the screenwriter of The Fast and the Furious (2001) ... ...

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  • Kenya asks UN to squash ICC case

    New York - Kenya on Thursday got a chilly reception to its appeal to the United Nations Security Council to ';terminate'; International Criminal Court cases against the president and deputy president for planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 post-election violence in which more than 1 000 people died and 600 000 were evicted from their ...

  • Kenyas KenolKobil says returned to profit in first quarter

    business restructuring continues," the company said. It did not provide performance figures but said it expects its restructuring plan to be complete by the end of 2013. KenolKobil, which operates in several countries including Ethiopia, posted a 8.96 billion shilling loss in 2012. A takeover bid for the company by Switzerland-based Puma Energy, a subsidiary of Trafigura Beheer BV , ...

  • Kenyan shilling firms KenolKobil lifts shares

    Kenyan shilling firmed slightly on Friday, lifted by banks cutting dollar positions ahead of the weekend and by waning importer demand for the U.S. currency. The ...

  • Advocacy group Kenyas mental hospital confines drugs patients

    NAIROBI, Kenya - An advocacy group says patients at Kenya's only psychiatric hospital are often confined and immobilized using drugs that put them into a comatose-like state, factors that could have led to the recent escape of 40 male patients. Edah Maina, who heads the Kenya Society For the Mentally Handicapped, said Friday that the mental hospital in Kenya's Mathari section is ...

  • Kenya Airways Starts Marketing $2 Billion Loan With Afreximbank

    Africa 's fifth-biggest carrier, started marketing a $2 billion loan that will be used to expand its fleet. The debt will fund the purchase of ...

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