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A drugs agency is pushing for a law that allows rapid tests on students in schools to fight alcohol abuse.
Royal Nairobi Golf Club's Ken Abuto will take on Vet Lab's Ali Kimani in the first semi-final of the inaugural Musimba Investments Matchplay Championship at Royal Nairobi on Wednesday morning.
The third edition of the Safaricom Imenti South 10km road race has attracted top elites, including Hong Kong marathon champion Cyprian Kiogora, veteran Sally Barsosio, Emma Muthoni Kiruki and John Yego.
Government got the green light to spend Sh567.7 billion in the 2009/2010 financial Tuesday but not without a reprimand from the House to better manage its budget.
The debate over the restoration of the Mau Forest is set to find its way back to Parliament after Chepalungu MP Isaac Ruto asked for a statement from Prime Minister Raila Odinga over the matter.
Kenya will next week host a green electricity conference to develop a mixed power generation plan to meet rising needs.
Kenyans will exchange their ordinary bulbs for energy conserving ones at no cost from January next year under a government energy saving project.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has ploughed in Sh296 million $4 million) in support of the Kenya government's facilitation of suspected Somali pirates trials.
Hopes for a new constitution in Kenya were high today November 17, as the country launched the harmonized draft that will be reviewed by the Kenyans in the next thirty days.
Four stockbrokers have lost a crucial income opportunity after the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) struck them off a list of service providers, denying them millions of shillings in brokerage fees.
The battle for a piece of Kenya's battery market is set to intensify with the entry of a new manufacturer to be based in Kisii town.
Pastoralists will be compensated for loss of their animals from January after a livestock insurance product is launched in Kenya.
As wheat rust threatened crops in the 1950s, a global effort to breed resistant wheat varieties led to 117 million hectares of cropland being protected from the deadly fungi and ensured the food security of 60 to 120 million rural households.
Early this month Kenya Railways Corporation took a full page advertisement defending its Railways Master Plan.
Agriculture minister William Ruto has accused members of the executive of discussing a graft case against him in public.
In what seems to be a true East African spirit a Kenyan is reported to represent Tanzania at the World's Motor Sports Council, but Arusha rally officials aren't amused.
During the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Arusha early October, there was a heated debate among the legislators and other participants about the viability of coalition governments in Africa. While some legislators argued that the current coalition governments in Kenya and Zimbabwe pose serious threats to parliamentary democracy, others like Prof. Palamegamba Kabuli of Dar es Salaam ...
Uganda surrendered the annual East African AMU motocross championship to Kenya at Jamhuri Park Nairobi on Sunday. Team Kenya collected a total of 2549 points after the third leg to beat outgoing champions Uganda by 549.
The Kenyan government is expanding services to meet the growing demand for voluntary medical male circumcision after the launch of a national campaign a year ago.
A Pentecostal bishop who aided the conversion to Christianity of the leader of a violent religious group says she has advised him to go into hiding after he received death threats.
Kenyan telecom companies are bracing for an increase in customer migration and the possibility of price wars when the proposed mobile number portability becomes a reality in a few months.
The Kenyan Government has refuted claims that the evictions of settlers from the Mau Forest are inhuman. The government has not gone back on its word and those leaving the forest were provided with transport and food, Forestry and Wildlife minister Dr Noah Wekesa said in a statement released on Monday evening.
Public debate on the new constitution starts on Tuesday after the Committee of Experts formally publishes its draft at KICC, Nairobi.
Politicians, teachers and Catholic Church leaders are not amused: Married women in central Kenya do not want to have any more babies.
MPs have confirmed that Kenyans are being recruited to fight on behalf of the Transitional Federation Government of Somalia. A senior government official had admitted that he found out that 42 youths from his constituency had been recruited but were intercepted at Mwingi Town on their way to Manyani for training, they said.
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