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The draft constitution and a policy tabled in Parliament this week give a clear path on management of land, property and natural resources.
The government has released relief food to be distributed to squatters being evicted from the Mau forest reserve.
Though pleased that the draft constitution has been released, Martin Tairo Maseghe worries that no meaningful progress may be achieved soon. Says he: "I can see daggers already drawn by various factions, including the church. But I hope all will look beyond selfish interests and let us have a new constitution, which we all agree, is 90 per cent good and 10 per cent contentious. This is better than ...
Six people suspected to be involved in a kidnapping syndicate have been arrested.
Kenya coach Twahir Mihiddin has said Harambee Stars must be wary right from the group stage following the release of the Orange Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup draw on Thursday.
Early this year the Government swung into action and introduced two categories of maize flour targeting the poor to cushion them against acute food shortage.
Someone is being economical with the truth on the Mau Forest saga - and just about everything that ails Kenya. That is sad.
No reports of major technical changes as leading rally cars get the go ahead for the start of the 2009 Kenya Airways East African Classic Rally set to zoom off on Saturday from the coastal town of Mombasa.
The news on national examinations in the past month has been punctuated by stories of teenage girls who either sat for their papers while pregnant, gave birth right before the tests started, or had to take them in hospital. One candidate died during delivery.
The unrest in Isiolo District has been blamed on the fight for political supremacy among local leaders.
Thousands of passports which have remained uncollected over the last six years will be cancelled in a month.
A series of meetings will be held between the Executive and the Legislature to smoothen the road to a new constitution.
Being relegated from the premier league is something that many teams experience for a variety of reasons, and is also something that can be disastrous for the finances of those teams.
Undersea fibre-optic cable operator Seacom has been named the best Pan African initiative at the AfricaCom Awards in Cape Town.
The new draft constitution, published on Tuesday, canvasses many issues, but for most Kenyans in the diaspora, one thing that towers above everything else, is dual citizenship.
NIC Bank recorded a nine per cent growth in earnings for the third quarter of the year to cap off a blanket single digit performance for Kenya's largest commercial banks.
The concepts of peace and security in Africa in general, and in Kenya in particular are closely linked to electoral processes. The electoral process is an embodiment of the idea of structural conflict, which presupposes an un-peaceful situation that exists between the dichotomies of peace and war.
Regional or county governments will be responsible for hiring and dismissal of their civil servants, proposes the draft constitution.
East African Portland Cement Company shareholders have approved the directors' decision to issue a Sh3 billion bond to repay a nagging yen-denominated loan.
Cemtech-Sanghi group on Thursday announced it had received the final operating licence for its proposed Sh6 billion ($80 million) cement plant in Pokot.
The Lamu Cultural Festival, which celebrates the rich heritage of the historical archipelago, starts Friday.
Kenya might be hit by a wheat flour shortage due to the high number of pirate attacks on grain vessels.
Police in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are detaining a man in his sixties for attempting to sell one of his six children for US$2,000 (Sh148,000) in a bid to "overcome hardship".
Regional governments will have no power to tax Kenyans under the proposed Constitution.
The proliferation of kingdoms and chiefdoms in Uganda and the concerted calls for 'majimboism' in Kenya do not augur well for a regional political federation.
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