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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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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 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. ...

  • House Commitee Wants SRC Gazette Notice Revoked

    THE Select Committee on Delegated Legislation of the national assembly has declared as unconstitutional, unlawful and ultra vires the gazette published by the Salaries Commission slashing MPs Salaries. In its report tabled in the House yesterday, the committee has recommended gazette notices number 2885, 2886, 2887, and 2888 should be annulled. The tabling of the report sets the stage for the ...

  • Kenya Stanchart Hopes to Resolve Sh14 Billion Pension Case

    Standard Chartered Bank is eagerly awaiting the determination of a court case in which its former employees sued it demanding up to Sh14.6 billion in unpaid pension. The bank's acting chairperson, Anne Mutahi told the annual general meeting it is counting on the new judiciary to expedite the matter that has lasted four years. She was responding to shareholders' concerns that the bank ...

  • Kenyan pupils find teachers in laptops

    Gladys Lokilamak is always cheery in the afternoons. This is the time that she and her colleagues at the remote Asilong Primary School in north-western Kenya normally find fun in education - through ...

  • Kenya UK murder suspect Michael Adebolajo had been detained in Kenya last year.

    Abu Nusaybah told BBC Newsnight his friend - one of two men arrested after Drummer Lee Rigby's murder in south-east London on Wednesday - had rejected the approach from the security ...

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