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The indictment of key post-election violence suspects drew closer on Thursday after International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo asked for the go-ahead to start investigations.
Kenya's economic growth is still depressed but signs of recovery are starting to emerge, the country's top economic advisory organ has said. The Monetary Policy Committee, which advises the Central Bank of Kenya on how to manage the economy, noted that credit risk is easing increasing stability in the banking sector.
The country will take over two months to plug the wheat deficit created after two vessels with 75,000 tonnes were hijacked by pirates early this month, millers said on Friday.
In yet another clear indication of why MPs should not be entrusted with too much power over economic policies, parliament on Wednesday passed a Bill seeking to reinstate price controls in certain segments of the economy.
In July 2008 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced his intention to prosecute President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for human rights violations related to the conflict in that country's Darfur region. Less than a year later, on 3 March 2009, ICC judges confirmed that an arrest warrant had been issued for President Bashir on charges of crimes ...
It was billed as a simple fundraising event for squatters evicted from the Mau Forest, but the loaded political speeches pointed to a new political grouping united by a common antipathy towards Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
The terms regulation and control sound retrogressive when used in the context of information and communication technology.
We cannot afford to waste more time. The more we delay, the more we embolden those using the illegal occupation of the Mau Forest as a weapon of blackmail
ANXIETY is building up in Mumias ahead of the opening Group C match between The Uganda Cranes and Tanzania's Kilimanjaro Stars on Sunday.
An Indian vehicle manufacturer has launched its brands in the Kenyan market in a move that is bound to intensify competition.
Armed gangsters on Thursday afternoon robbed a mobile shop within Mombasa Central Business District and walked away with cash and goods worth more than Sh400,000.
Kenya Ferry Services Limited has requested tenders for the expansion of its Peleleza mooring jetty to accommodate the two 70-metre new ferries.
Sand quarry owners in Magarini District must from now on sell their sand to the Magarini Sand Harvesters Cooperative Society.
A meeting held Friday between Parliament and the Executive to exhaust areas of concerns failed to exhaust its agenda and another one is being lined up.
The Anglican Church has asked for the removal of the Kadhi courts from the harmonised draft constitution, saying it amounts to "the elevation of one religion over the rest."
The government will assist the families of nine inmates who succumbed to Cholera at Kamiti prison in funeral and burial arrangements.
Employers are opposed to a section of the draft constitution, but have generally termed it as a good document for Kenya.
When Dr PLO Lumumba penned his 76-page book on the rot in Kenya politics, little did he know he would be the man slated to take over the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission and bring "political hygiene" to this "highly political society."
A judge has declined to bar a local media house from broadcasting a programme alleged to be defamatory.
East African governments hope to open up all job opportunities for fair competition among the region's citizens even as concern rises that retaining national immigration laws in the signed common market protocol could restrict movement of labour.
US President Barack Obama's trip to China and other East Asian states last week appeared like a routine visit, but it emitted some signals of major significance to African countries and the global economy.
Exporters of live animals to Mauritius are preparing to resume the business following the recent rainfall that has improved pasture in Coast province.
China is making a big push to encourage greater international use of its currency, the renminbi.
According to oil marketers, the Kenyan refinery is holding some 300, 000 tonnes of crude belonging to marketers.
Kenyan men and women are continuing to have unprotected sex with multiple partners - despite numerous national media campaigns to sensitise the public to the dangers of sex without a condom and multiple partners.
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