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  • Kenya Mechanics religious group clash over land

    NAIROBI, KENYA: Tension is high Grogan area, Nairobi after police sealed off a piece of land to lock out more than 900 jua kali artisans following a court order. Police have urged motorists to stop taking their cars to the area for repairs over fears there may be clashes on Tuesday. Tens of police officers have been deployed to the spot as hired guards watched over the embattled parcel of ...

  • Kenyas Maasai tribals go into bat for social concerns

    A barefoot Maasai warrior gallops into a sprint and swings his spear arm – delivering a fast-paced cricket ball straight at the wicket in a game of cricket. Dressed in flowing red skirts and draped in colorful bead necklaces, the warriors from the legendary Kenyan tribe are one of the world's most unusual and unlikely cricketing teams. ';It is a sport that at first seemed very ...

  • Bill to Fight Child Abuse

    MOMBASA women's representative Mishi Juma has said she will introduce a Bill in Parliament to protect children's rights at the counties. Mishi said child exploitation and trafficking is a major threat in the county. "Majority of the house helps in Mombasa are children below 18 years. They are paid peanuts or sent to sell cashew nuts in the streets by their parents," she ...

  • Kenya Senator Roots for Agriculture

    KWALE county senator Juma Boy Juma has urged the government to renew investment in cashew nuts and Bixa farming to boost agriculture at the coast. Speaking during a USAID sponsored governors' workshop on agriculture at Whitesands hotel, Juma said coastal agricultural practices have been neglected. He noted that the two crops were major cash crops in Coast region during the yester ...

  • Kenya Lets Reconsider Laptops Project

    THE Budget last Thursday confirmed that the project to give laptops to over one million pupils starting primary school will go ahead. The Treasury has budgeted Sh52 billion for the laptop project over the next four years. Virtually no-one has come out publicly to support this almost certainly unworkable project. The average Standard One pupil is seven years old. He or she should be learning ...

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Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop [Blu-Ray]

Beverly Hills Cop, one of the first megahits of the early 1980s and the movie that catapulted star Eddie Murphy into the Hollywood stratosphere, is all about attitude. It has to be: Short in the narrative department, filled with caricatures, and largely lacking in any re ... ...

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  • Raila Aides Squabbles Over Access

    Just who should speak on behalf of former Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Some of his close aides have been exchanging heated missiles as each claims to take responsibility of speaking on behalf of Raila. This has especially come to the fore following the incidents in which Raila and his wife were on different occasions denied access to the VIP lounge at the JKIA allegedly on the instructions of ...

  • Trader Robbed At His Kiambu Doorstep

    A 73 year old Kiambu trader is fighting for his dear life after he was attacked by heavily armed thugs in Ngegu, Kiambu municipality. Central Province AP boss Joseph Keitany said that 4 thugs armed with an AK 47 and other crude weapons pounced on Joseph Waiganjo as he drove into his house in a Toyota harrier REG No. KBD 448J.He was accompanied by his grandson and 2 of his stewards. Waiganjo was ...

  • Teachers to Down Tools

    "The government has ignored us. We are therefore cooperating with our colleagues countrywide in downing our tools. We have considered this move and consulted widely. We are not going to work on (June) 18 (tomorrow)," executive secretary Peter Mbatani told journalists in Malindi at the weekend. Mbatani said they were angered by the fact that the government did not consider them in the ...

  • Kenya Surrender Mumias Shares Oparanya Tells Govt

    KAKAMEGA governor Wycliffe Oparanya has asked the national government to surrender its shares in Mumias Sugar Company to the county authority. Oparanya said his government wants to have a stake in the company to ensure farmers benefit from the miller. He said the company requires injection of State funds to streamline operations given that it is expected to drive the county's economy. ...

  • Queen Elizabeths Double Birthday Celebrations

    Her Majesty the Queen is one lucky lady. She gets to celebrate her birthday twice in a year. April 21, 1926 is her real birthday but it is celebrated officially in June, on a day during the summer when better weather is more likely. To commemorate her 87th birthday, the British High Commissioner to Kenya Dr Christian Turner threw a fancy bash at his residence in Muthaiga in Nairobi on Thursday ...

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