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According to the 2006 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS), 54% of women in northern Uganda have suffered physical violence and 32% have suffered sexual violence. The same survey also reveals that 53% of the men have also suffered physical violence, compared to 4% who have experienced sexual violence.
Leaders have pledged to work closely together.
Police used tear gas to force workers out of a Naivasha clinic after they resisted efforts by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board to shut it down.
The delay in the rehabilitation of a key market in Meru has been blamed on government's failure to release Sh150 million.
The provincial administration has closed several bars selling second generation brews due to their adverse effects to consumers.
Kenya and UN agencies on Tuesday launched a Sh50 billion programme to speed up development investments.
TWENTY football and ten netball teams are expected to take part in the Chief Marealle Cup set to start in Moshi on December 9.
THE national soccer team, Zanzibar Heroes left Dar es Salaam today for Nairobi Kenya to compete in the two-week senior Challenge Cup to kick off this weekend.
Employees of local authorities and water and sewerage companies in the country have an opportunity to use part of their pension to purchase homes.
Co-operative Development and Marketing minister Joseph Nyagah has asked savings and credit co-operative societies (Saccos) to establish branches in rural areas where financial services are currently not available.
Air passengers in East Africa will each be levied $0.7 (Sh52) to support the Civil Aviation Safety and Security Oversight Agency (CASSOA) if the proposal is approved by ministers of Finance.
The government has said that it has not intentions of winding up the Kenya National Trading Corporation formed in 1965 primarily to supply essential commodities.
More than 100 former employees of a State corporation will have to wait longer before receiving their terminal dues.
The government is working towards reducing the 175 local authorities in the country to 46 before the 2012 General Election, a deputy prime minister said yesterday.
A sharp division has emerged among top management of the National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse Authority (NACADAA) on the official position of the agency on the new alcohol bill.
Religious leaders have warned politicians across the political divide over taking hardline positions on various issues stated in the draft new constitution.
To mark Idd ul Adha, and for the fourth year running, Matatu Owners Association (MOA) Mombasa branch will be providing free transport to Muslims from three districts to attend the prayers at Mombasa Municipal Stadium on Friday.
Violence against women remains a major challenge to the realisation of gender equity in Kenya today, a lobby group has said.
The government could introduce price controls for Internet services if providers do not reduce prices, it warned Tuesday.
One week after the harmonised draft constitution was published and a 30-day period for public debate set aside, most Kenyans are yet to read it and offer their views.
The government is considering withdrawing some of the 7,000 policemen deployed to guard 300 VIP politicians and top civil servants, THE STAR has established.
Fifteen years ago, Dan On'gayi was the first person in the western Kenyan village of Emuhaya to go public with his HIV status; at the time, the reaction from his community was so vitriolic he considered taking his own life.
One of Nairobi's favourite entertainment spot was Tuesday partly consumed by an afternoon fire.
South Rift MPs yesterday snubbed a function in Chepalungu by Prime Minister Raila Odinga in protest over the Mau evictions.
FELISTA Laurent (15) had not been admitted to hospital in her life, until November 4, this year, when she was attacked by his father, Laurent Nyonyo and hospitalised at Tarime District Regional Hospital, with serious wounds. This was after she refused to get married. Staff Writer MUGINI JACOB visited the young girl at the hospital and now reports...
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