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Parliament has been accused of encouraging impunity in the country by failing to push through legislative reforms required to establish institutions and mechanisms needed to address violations of human rights.
The new ferries will not come before Christmas as Mombasa residents expected, instead, the new date being touted now is early January.
Forty-eight people were killed in Kisumu during the post election violence.
The constitution has been identified as the greatest impediment to the fight against graft in a report by a corruption watchdog released Wednesday.
The government has made new appointments in the provincial administration and posted some officers to the newly created districts.
FBI and CIA investigators are now in Rift Valley probing reports that communities are arming themselves in readiness for the 2012 elections.
PRESIDENT Kibaki's Party of National Unity has rejected the provision for an executive Prime Minister in the harmonized draft constitution released yesterday by the Committee of Experts.
Prime Minister Raila Odinga yesterday came under fire from two Pentagon members and MPs from Rift Valley who are unhappy with his handling of the Mau Forest and the ODM party.
Here is the statement from the Kenya Episcopal Conference (KEC) on the Kenyan Harmonised Draft Constitution launched on November 17, 2009.
Local airline, Air Uganda, is set to launch flights to Mombasa. According to Mr Hugh Fraser, Air Uganda chief executive officer (CEO), the company would be unveiling its inaugural flight to Kenya's coastal town in December.
Kenya is opposing a move by Tanzania to reintroduce the sale of ivory, saying it will increase elephant poaching in the region.
The United States has piled more pressure on Kenya to hunt down and handover Felicien Kabuga, the most wanted genocide fugitive believed to be hiding in Kenya.
The draft constitution was unveiled on Tuesday, kicking off a month of public debate on how Kenya will be governed in future. The document proposes wide-ranging changes, including creating a presidency with fewer powers, a prime minister with real power, government at three levels and an national parliament with two chambers.
Privatisation of Mombasa port has been put on hold as the government seeks to convince critics about its viability.
Kenyans' quest for a new constitution edged closer to reality after the harmonised draft constitution was published on Tuesday.
A fight over a stolen television set in a Nairobi slum escalated into a full-scale confrontation on Monday night, which left about 50 families homeless after their houses were razed to the ground.
Special interest groups and Kenyans in the diaspora will have everything to smile about should proposals in the draft constitution become law. Chapter Four of the draft spells out the general provisions of citizenship and responsibilities of citizens.
The proposed new Constitution released on Tuesday deserves the support of all Kenyans. We are not, however, calling for unqualified support for the proposals put together by the Committee of Experts.
The privatisation of Mombasa port has been put on hold as the government tries to convince critics about its viability.
It is not often that citizens of a nation participate in the writing of their own Constitution.
A proposal by players in the insurance industry to share information in a bid to curb rising fraud is welcome and long overdue.
East African cement producers have been thrown a lifeline after regional governments and Kenya's Treasury backtracked on their bid to phase out import duty.
The government has been asked to account for the money used in the development of the Draft Constitution, which was made public at a ceremony at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre on Tuesday.
A senior government official Tuesday snubbed a parliamentary committee inquiry into the loss of Sh7.6 billion worth of oil products through Triton Petroleum Limited.
It will now be constitutional for workers to go on strike if the draft proposed by the Committee of Experts is adopted as the supreme law of Kenya.
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