• Kenyas Foreign Secretary Sworn Into Office

  Nairobi - Amina Mohamed has been sworn-in as the Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs, four days after her colleagues took their oaths of office. Mohamed was away in New York winding up her duties at the United Nations headquarters when her 15 colleagues were sworn in last week. Speaking during the ceremony at State House Nairobi, President Uhuru Kenyatta said he looked forward to working ...

• Motivations Behind Attacks in Western Kenya Remain Unclear

  Nairobi - Police officers in western Kenya have detained and questioned over 300 individuals in an effort to determine the motivations behind the violence in Bungoma and Busia counties that has killed 13 people and injured hundreds since April 28th, but nothing yet has been revealed. Violence began April 28th when a group of unidentified people hacked to death two Bungoma County residents and ...

• Kenya Kenyan Nominated to Lead UN Trade Agency

  United Nation Secretary General Ban Ki-moon Thursday (May 16th) nominated former Kenyan Minister of Trade and Industry Mukhisa Kituyi to lead the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) beginning September 1st. If confirmed by the UN General Assembly, Kituyi will succeed Supachai Panitchpakdi, from Thailand, who will step down at the end of August. Kituyi was a member of ...

• World Obama to skip Kenya in Africa tour

  Africa , including through expanding economic growth, investment, and trade; strengthening democratic institutions; and investing in the next generation ...

• Kenya Snapp Announces Sponsorship of the Miss World Kenya 2013

  East African Breweries Limited (EABL), through the Snapp brand, recently unveiled Miss World Kenya 2013 beauty pageant, of which Snapp is the title sponsor. The Miss World Kenya pageant is held every year as part of the Miss World competition. The lady crowned as Miss World Kenya 2013 will represent Kenya in the global contest that will be held in September at the Sentul International ...

• ODM Furious Over Party List

  ODM party officials from Tana river county have threatened to take IEBC to court following the listing of wrong party officials. The officials claimed that the names that were last week listed by IEBC in the newspapers were not known to them. Speaking to the press at mororo area over the weekend, the officials led by tana river county ODM young democrat leader Mohamed Dabaso, they said that ...

• Odinga - I Do Not Want Uhuru Job

  CORD leader Raila Odinga has dismissed reports that he is hoping for a state job in Uhuru Kenyatta's government. The former Prime Minister told a church service in Nairobi yesterday that he was not interested in any government job as his hands were full serving Kenyans in the opposition. "I have not been offered a job and I am not interested in any state job. I have not been offered ...

• Kenya Nduku My life with Mutula Kilonzo

  Nduku Musau and a workmate took notice of the smartly dressed lawyer, always in a blue or black suit with an office in Atlas House on Moi Avenue, across the road from what used to be the US ...

• Kenya Activists in MPs pay push protest arraigned in court

  human rights activists arrested last week during demonstrations at Parliament Buildings have been charged with taking part in a riot, breach of peace and cruelty to ...

• Kenya Justice Angawa challenges her removal

  Judges and Magistrates Vetting Board and be reinstated to continue serving as a judge. In a petition lodged before a Nairobi Court on Monday, she accuses the vetting board of denying and violating her rights to a fair administrative action. "The vetting process and determination were not lawful, reasonable and procedurally fair as required by the law," says Justice ...

• Kenya One call that netted wanted terrorist

  A single call Otuko made to his friend in Oyugis Town arouse police to start tracking him after he went underground for almost two years. Otuko, a recent Kenyan Muslim convert, is said to be hailing from Migori County. His body lying at the City Mortuary is yet to be claimed by any relative. Officials aware of the operations that led to his killing said Otuko called a friend who also happens to ...

• Magazines Small entrepreneurs see gains in the new law

  law ," said George Okari, an MSE contractor. The MSE Act is meant to regulate the MSE sector by creating a regulatory authority that will guide in formalisation and facilitate such enterprises operate from secure premises, set up a revolving fund to offer them cheaper loans. The Act categorises enterprises into four sectors; agribusiness, services, trade, and manufacturing. ...

• Introducing the Bangla-Pesa Kenya’s beautiful new complementary currency

  Credit: Koru The Kenyan Bangla-Pesa, shown above, could enliven the interior of any wallet or purse. But most Kenyans won't have the pleasure of handling the stunning new bills, because they are only accepted in an impoverished settlement called Bangladesh near the city of Mombasa. The ...

• Kenya Ruto fights back on luxury jet claims

  Vistajet , the successful bidder, as well as those of Lady Lori Kenya Ltd, and ABM Aviation, with the last two charging slightly more money for the flights. Earlier, media reports had claimed that the Deputy President had used the plane which had been hired in a one-year contract that would cost the country at least Sh100 million. Quotations showed ...

• Kenya Residents issue ultimatum to KWS over rogue lions

  lions that have left residents counting losses. About 10 cows and 15 goats from the village situated along the Mara escarpment, which overlooks the game reserve, have been killed. ...

• Kenya Report reveals half of inmates are minors

  The Committee, which reported the findings after touring prisons at the Coast, observed provisions of the Children Act prohibited the incarceration of minors in the same facility with adults. POMAC officials now want to ...

• Kenya Disease wipes out 1000 animals

  Pastoralists in the area have been left on their own as the Government finds it challenging to curb the spread of the disease owing to their nomadic way of life. Veterinary officials in the area led by District Veterinary officer Mr Micah Kabon, said they have carried tests on the affected goats and discovered the disease ...

• Kenya Court gets tight security after lawyer stabbed by client

  Iten, Kenya: Security in and outside Iten law courts in Elgeyo/Marakwet County has been beefed up following Friday incident where an advocate was stabbed by a former client inside ...

• Kenya Road agency sets August date to complete city ring roads

  The construction, being implemented through a flagship project under the Enablers and Macro Sector of the Kenya Vision 2030, will be completed on August 15. The missing link roads identified and prioritised through Nairobi Urban Transport Master Plan connects Waiyaki Way at Westlands roundabout, Lantana Road and Riverside drive to Ngong Road through Mandera Road (Kileleshwa police station). It ...

• Kenyan art up for auction in London

  Kenyan artwork is going under the hammer for the first time at a major auction house in London. In recent years international buyers have invested millions of dollars in African art. But Kenya is still relatively unknown in the art world. Prices are still considered reasonable Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri reports from ...

• Kenya Encounter with MRC top brass

  But nothing had prepared me for my first meeting with the top brass of the group. "How many are you in the car. Do you have a policeman with you?" a man who refused to introduce himself asked as soon as I picked my phone on my third day of the investigation. If there was time when I wanted a source to call me for a story, this was it. I had been expecting the call for more than 48 ...

• Kenya Senate advised to work closely with county assemblies

  Senate and various levels of Government during a senators' retreat in Mombasa over the weekend. CIC chairman Charles Nyachae among other speakers addressed participants. Prof Wanyande said in playing an oversight role in the counties, ...

• Kenya FBI find terror suspects DNA in toothbrush

  Mombasa, Kenya: A toothbrush found in a bag containing ammunition has the DNA of the sole suspect in the terrorist attack on a nightclub in Mombasa, an FBI detective told a court ...

• Opinion Kenya has right to secure borders against traffickers

  It is hard enough to keep track of legal aliens within the borders of the Republic without worrying about the thousands willing to ferret themselves under the rug, whether intending to melt into the general population or in transit to third ...

• Magazines Kenyans mint billions from foreign investor interest

  Kenyan investors have been making "clever exits" and reaping millions -- billions in some cases -- in the process of selling their firms, particularly those in the telecommunications, manufacturing and financial sectors. Some local business owners are taking the large sums of money on offer to shore up their companies' competitive positions, others are looking for a return on ...

• Kenyan official seeks ally in UN to drop criminal charges against new president

  Kenya's UN ambassador says the crimes against humanity indictments of the country's president and his deputy are flawed. Can his move influence the International Criminal ...

• Kenyan riot squad try to block 59-year-old British aristocrat as she lays roses outside the police station linked to ...

  A grieving mother was confronted by riot police as she tried to lay flowers at the Kenyan police station where her son was detained before he died in ...

• House Committees to Conduct Elections Today

  National Assembly departmental committees are expected to conduct elections for their chairpersons and deputies today. MPs interested in the committee leadership had by yesterday evening intensified their lobbying ahead of today's voting. The Standing Orders provide that the elections must be conducted within seven days after the House approves the names of members to the committees. The ...

• Three Mbeere AP Killers Arrested

  Three suspected violent robbers who last Friday hacked an administration police officer to death and cut six residents with axes at Mbeere South have been arrested, Mbeere South police boss Bernstein Shari said the three were arrested after they invaded Kianjiru village and robbed several residents of cash and assorted items. Shari said the AP officer was responding to resident's distress ...

• Rare Antelope Found in Park

  A rare species of antelope in the country is facing extinction, a conservation group has warned. The World Wide Fund has warned that the Sable antelope, only found at Shimba Hills National Reserve will be extinct if no action is taken. This comes after a census by Kenya Wildlife Service which indicated that the antelopes have reduced in numbers. KWS senior warder in charge of Kwale and Kinango ...

• Care for Young Mothers - NGO

  The government has been asked to establish a rehab center for rescuing teenage mothers back to school. CEO Aiducation International-Kenya Jeremiah Kambi said there are many girls who need this help but the government does not have such a programme. "We have very many girls who dropped out of school because of early pregnancies, they have now given birth but they do not have any hope. The ...

• Kenya Isiolos Waata Community Objects to Jobs Lockout

  Waata communities in Isiolo yesterday raised concern that they have been locked out of all elective positions and county appointments in the area. Speaking during the National Commission on Gender and Equality forum in Garba-Tulla at the weekend, the residents appealed to the government to intervene and have them secure positions. Community chairman Galgalo Titima told the commission that ...

• World North Korea fires sixth missile in three days

  missile s on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticizing what it said were its legitimate military ...

• Kenya Lobbies Mahama Over Somalia

  Prez Mahama and Kenyan envoy President John Dramani Mahama has accepted a request from Kenya tochampion their cause for an expansion of Amisom troops at this week’s African Union (AU) Summit, noting that peace and security remain vital to the growth of the continent. Kenya’s Deputy President, William arap Ruto, in a discussion with President Mahama in Accra on Sunday, said that his ...

• Safaricom drags Kenyan shares lower shilling steady

  View Photo Reuters/Reuters - A stockbroker transacts shares during a trading session at the Nairobi Securities Exchange in Kenya's capital Nairobi January 11, 2012. REUTERS/Thomas ...

• East Africa Two California Men Sentenced for Rhino Horn Trafficking

  Washington - The sentencing May 15 of two California businessmen in Los Angeles for trafficking in rhino horn will send both to prison and ensure that $800,000 of their illegally acquired "profits" end up helping protect rhinos in Africa. Vinh Chung "Jimmy" Kha and Felix Kha pleaded guilty in September 2012 to federal felony charges brought as a result of Operation Crash, an ...

• Kenya Seventeen in Court Over Cruelty to Parliament Pigs

  Nairobi - Seventeen protestors who staged the 'Occupy Parliament' demonstration using 31 live pigs last Tuesday have been charged with cruelty to animals. The activists, among them photographer Boniface Mwangi, however declined to take a plea and were released on a cash bail of Sh20,000 each or Sh10,000 surety bail. The demonstrators were charged with three counts of breach of peace, ...

• Kenya Restive North Sees Shifting Power Risks

  Garissa-Nairobi - The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. But securing northern Kenya is increasingly vital to the government, with the badlands growing in ...

• Rebranding Kenya As a Tourist Destination

  The appointment of Cabinet Secretaries was a complex jig-saw puzzle for President Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto. Power, a function of ordinance and intelligence was at play in this exercise. But that notwithstanding, grumbling has continued in some quarters. The youth and the disabled felt short changed with the gender and equality promise not having been observed. Doctors were placed ...

• Leadership Is a Call to Service

  A major event that grabbed headlines this week was the civil society's protest against plans by MPs to have their salaries increased. Different people have reacted differently to the demonstrators' expression of displeasure with the legislators' agitation for higher salaries. While some have expressed solidarity with the civil society, others have taken issue with the ...

• Three Killed in Fresh Attacks At Mandera

  Three more people have been killed in Mandera only hours after President Uhuru read the riot act to his security chiefs to end the run-away crime. Government officials in the county said heavily armed militias from Ethiopia attacked a village in Malkamari division near the border with Kenya on Thursday night between 8pm and 9pm and hacked two women and a child to death then escaped back into ...

• Kenya Wheat Farmers Shift to Other Crops As Price Drops

  WHEAT farmers in Uasin Gishu County have started shifting to other crops due to poor prices of the commodity offered by the government. Most farmers have shifted to planting maize and other crops after the price of a 90kg bag of wheat started coming down drastically. The 90-kg bag of wheat costs Sh3,300 at the Cereals Board, a price that has discouraged farmers compared to the high cost of ...

• Kenya Police vetting to start in June

  officers know that this is a procedural exercise and it is not meant to punish or victimize anyone of them. It will be used to realise talent and other issues within the service and so be ready," he said. He said Inspector General of David Kimaiyo, his two deputies Samuel Arachi and Grace Kaindi and CID's Ndegwa Muhoro have been excluded from the exercise because they had been vetted ...

• World Uganda police shut down Monitor Publications

  Police in Uganda have shut down The Monitor and its two radio stations; KFM and DembeFM in their attempt to carry out a search in the Publication's offices over alleged ...

• Bishops in Rift Valley Want ICC Cases Terminated

  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 an ...

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