Dozens Injured as Building Collapse in Kenya
A multi-story building in the Kenyan town of Kiambu has collapsed injuring scores of people. Reports coming out of Nairobi states that 15 people have already been removed from the rubble and taken to the hospital suffering from severe injuries and one person is said to have died on the scene. According to eye witnesses [...]
Post Elections Perpetrators in Kenya May Face ICC Trial
Former United Nations Chief, Kofi Annan believes there is every need for the perpetrators of the 2007 post election violence in Kenya to face justice at the International Criminal Court. The former UN Chief is in Kenya to assess progress made so far in the country’s call for democratic reforms. His visit to the country [...]
Will Kenyans live up to Expectations?
What happened in Kenya a few years back could best be described as a demonstration of the selfishness of some African politicians who are always bent on exploiting a given situation in an effort to satisfy their political aims. As was in Zimbabwe where an opposition Movement For Democratic Change party won an election but [...]
Kibaki Set to Replace Anti-Corruption Chief
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki has summoned anti-corruption chief, Justice Aaron Ringera to a meeting at state house to discuss what many analysts are saying is ‘a respectable way out’. Until now, Kibaki has defied international calls for the sacking of Ringera after he re-appointed the ant graft chief for a second tenure. Ringera has recently [...]
Condoms Banned in Kenya
The Kenyan authorities have banned a particular brand of condoms in the country after tests in Zambia showed they leak. The ‘Hot’ brand condoms, manufactured in the UK were banned after tests revealed their weakness. The government took the immediate decision because it feared stories about condoms that leak, could damage its fight against AIDS. [...]
Census Ends in Kenya
A census that has generated lots of controversy ends in Kenya today. The government said the census was necessary to provide much needed data to help future development plans for the country. Some say it is a ploy to identify their ethnicities after the post-election violence of 2007 and that the head-count strategy would be [...]
Kenyan Man Offers 40 goats and 20 cows For Clinton’s Daughter
A Kenyan man has asked for the hand of Chelsea Clinton by offering livestock in return for her hand in marriage Chelsea’s mother, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says it will be up to her daughter Chelsea to accept the offer or not. The Kenyan man’s offer of 40 goats and 20 cows was first [...]
Hillary Clinton Arrives In Kenya
American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Kenya marking the first stop of a seven-nation tour in Africa. The Secretary of State will impress upon the Kenyans the U.S concern about the country in the wake of corruption scandals and the disputed 2007 elections that led to violence which left over 1.000 people [...]
Hillary Clinton Due In Kenya Today
U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, arrives in Kenya today kick starting her maiden trip to the continent which forms part of a seven-nation tour. She is expected to meet Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga as well as other government officials. But human rights groups hope Clinton will pressure Nairobi to [...]
No More Death-Row Inmates In Kenya’s Prisons
Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki has announced that more than 4,000 prisoners on death row will have their sentences commted to life imprisonment. Kenya has not carried out death sentences for more than a decade now. More than 4,000 people have been on death row in the country’s overcrowded, underfunded prisons. President Kibaki said the law [...]
