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  • Kenya West Pokot leaders seek to change cattle farming

    Leading a delegation of residents from Pokot to a dairy farm in Njoro to familiarise themselves with new dairy technology, Senator John Lonyangapuo and Governor Simon Kachapin agreed that cattle related problems and illiteracy were bringing down standards of living among the community and promised to correct that. For the last four years, the Senator said livestock breeders from Lelan highlands ...

  • Kenya Fire guts down Mombasas landmark building

    fire which is descending fast in a building that hosts most clearing and forwarding firms based in Mombasa. Reporters on the ground could hear, mostly, male victims trapped on burning floors calling for help amid thick smoke and flying debris. It is believed ...

  • Obamas Africa tour leaves ancestral homeland of Kenya as loser

    Kenya .Not even a relatively peaceful election earlier this year is enough to tempt Obama back to his ancestral homeland. The big problem is the winner, Uhuru Kenyatta, who is facing charges of crimes against humanity at the international criminal court (no matter that the US is yet to sign up to the ICC).At least the ...

  • Nyandarua County Roots for Equalisation Fund

    Leaders want Nyandarua categorised as a marginalised county so it can benefit from the Equalisation fund given by the Commission on Revenue Allocation. Led by Governor Daniel Waithaka, the leaders claim there must have been an oversight in the process that left out their county, saying Nyandarua is poor because it is starting its business from scratch. A delegation from the CRA at the weekend ...

  • MP Calls for All to Join Hands

    RARIEDA constituents have been challenged to put their political differences aside and work together to develop the region. Netto Adhola who lost the race for MP seat in the March 2013 polls challenged politicians who lost the election to join hands with elected leaders to improve the area economically. He appealed to MP Eng Nicholas Gumbo to be accommodative and ready to ensure equitable ...

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Fiend Without a Face [DVD]

Fiend Without a Face [DVD]

Fiend Without a Face is considered by many to be the best movie of the brief, five-year outpouring of science-fiction/horror hybrids in Great Britain in the late 1950s. Although shot on a tight budget, Fiend is a well-crafted and generally suspenseful genre flick that has held up surprisingly well, despite its sometimes dated dialogue and reliance on Cold War-era paranoia and fe ... ...

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  • Kilifi Mother Delivers At Home Bleeds to Death

    A middle-aged woman in Matsangoni, Kilifi county succumbed to excessive bleeding after delivering triplets. Dama Charo delivered the triplets at her home in Roka, two girls and a boy at home with the help of a traditional midwife but was later rushed to Matsangoni Health centre after the midwife failed to stop the bleeding. One of the triplets also died shortly after birth. According to the ...

  • Drop ICC Cases - Clergy

    A section of Bishops in Rift Valley have supported suggestions to have the United Nations Security Council terminate ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. The clergymen led by Bishop Geoffrey Songok of the Reformed Church said the ICC cases were based on propaganda and should should not be used to disrupt government operations. Songok said the cases were also ...

  • All Forests to Become Bhang Free Says KFS

    Kenya Forest Service has declared war on drug barons cultivating bhang in Mt Kenya Forest. KFS chairman Peter Kirigua said that a massive aerial surveillance has been launched in all forests, especially the Mt Kenya Forest and declared forests a no go zone for drug people. Kirigua said that the government has given them an aircraft to help them in their surveillance. He said the aircraft will ...

  • Row Over Detention of Goods At the Port

    A war of words is simmering between a multi- national shipping company, and several major players in the shipping and export industry, over what has been termed as illegal detention of transit cargo at the port. Several containers of wheat, furniture and pipes destined for Uganda have been lying at the port of Mombasa, despite the Kenya Revenue Authority clearing the same, with claims that the ...

  • Uhuru Ruto Must Keep Vow to Youth

    President Kenyatta's administration has started on a wrong footing on issues related to the youth. The President recently indicated that the Sh6 billion that was supposed to finance the run off would now be channeled to the youth fund to address unemployment. Although this sounds like a good idea, the trouble is that the President's declaration has not been followed by any well ...

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