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 [...]
Kenya and Malawi governments have been challenged to chart the way towards accomplishing the task of realizing the full potential of the business opportunities that exist between the two countries. Noting that trade and investment potential between the two countries is immerse, both Malawian Minister for Trade and Industry Eunice Kazembe and her Kenyan counterpart [...]
Kenya’s Interim Independent Electoral Commission of Kenya-IIEC-will from March 22rd begin a countrywide voter registration in readiness of the forthcoming National referendum on the draft constitution . IIEC chairman, Issack Hassan said the excersie will cost his commission 7 billion shillings although the ministry of finance has only released 1.2 billion to the commission. Haasan, [...]
The governments of Kenya Tanzania will conduct a joint 5-day wildlife census in the greater Amboseli Ecosystem that stretches along the border of the two EAC nations. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) is partnering with; African Wildlife Foundation (AWF), Amboseli Trust for Elephants (ATE), Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute (TAWIRI), Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) and various other [...]
The Fourth Session of the Kenyan 10th Parliament is scheduled for official opening today. On the table, is a giant tray-full of major national issues to be debated. So heavy are the issues that the public is waiting with abated breath. It is also the first time for the two chief executive officers of the [...]
Over 4,000 students in nine African countries have benefited from a strategic partnership between Coca-Cola East and Central Africa and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE). The commitment by the beverage makers is to develop sustainable communities through entrepreneurship. “The outreach programs give the students an opportunity to empower others while they improve on their entrepreneurial [...]
Kenya’s Prime Minister, Raila Odinga’s weeklong tour of the South East Asian region is a blessing to a country struggling to protect its water catchments; improve its poor infrastructure and increase electricity power generation. He concluded his official visit to Japan and Thailand on Saturday and announced to Kenyans on his arrival back to the [...]
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 [...]
