Nairobi, Kenya 11th March,2010 … World Food Programme (WFP) has said it would welcome an independent investigation into its food assistance operations in Somalia. At the same time, the agency said it would not engage in any new work with three transport contractors named in a report from the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia, [...]
IGAD’s 14th Extra Ordinary Summit Meeting held in Nairobi today has resolved to ensure democracy prevails In Sudan ‘s elections and referendum scheduled to take place In April and January 2011 respectively. During The Meeting IGAD members states pressurised Sudanese people to ensure they conduct a free and fair elections during its first democratic polls [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 8th March … President Mwai Kibaki has barred Cabinet Ministers and their assistants from travelling outside Kenya to ensure they attend parliamentary debates on the draft Constitution. In a move to ensure the country attain the constitution after two decades of waiting the president issued the directive to ensure Ministers attend parliament Session. Parliament [...]
In response to the request by ICC Judges of 18 February 2010, the Prosecutor clarified today that senior political and business leaders associated with the main political parties, the PNU which was in the government at the time of the violence and the ODM which was the main opposition party at the time, organized, [...]
Nairobi, Kenya 2nd 2010 … Kenya is inches aways from releasing a new constitution as the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on the new constitution hand over the harmonized draft today in parliament to be debated for 30 days for its adoption before it is put to a referendum. PSC Chairman Abdikadir Mohammed said that [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 1st March,2010 – The European Union is funding a pilot project on the fight against illicit accumulation and trafficking of firearms in Africa to the tune of 344 million shillings(3.3 million Euros).The funds will be channelled through the Nairobi-based Regional Center on Small Arms in Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa. European [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 19th Feb ,2010 … International Criminal Court Judges today said they need more information from the prosecutor on his bid to open an investigation into the deadly violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 disputed presidential elections which resulted to the killing of over 1200 innocent Kenyan .The Judges asked prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo to provide “clarification [...]
Naiobi,Kenya 8th feb 2010 – President Mwai Kibaki has today maintained that Kenya is committed to see a peaceful Sudan. The President said this after holding discussions with members of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on the Darfur led by former Presidents, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Pierre Buyoya of Burundi. President Kibaki commended the [...]
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has challenged African countries to continue developing national and regional strategies for climate change. Addressing the 14th AU Ordinary Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Kibaki pointed out that the severe effects of climate change threatened the very survival of nations and mankind. The President regretted that despite Africa being widely acknowledged [...]
Nairobi, Kenya 3rd Feb, 2010 A report by UNHCR is indicating that Violence in Somalia escalated in January forcing hundreds of civilian deaths and widespread destruction. According the report intense clashes between government forces and militia groups fighting for control of the conflict-torn central regions have left at least 258 civilians dead and [...]
Kenya Airport Security officer yesterday arrested a woman with of consignment of heroin worth KSh80 million although the figure was likely to go up once all the consignment was analysed at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) shortly after it arrived from Tehran, Iran. The suspect, Scola Namunyu Mwangi, 40, a businesswoman, had [...]
