Heavy fighting continued to rock Somalia capital of Mogadishu for the third day running, the fighting is between the Somalia insurgent group of Al-Shabab and the transitional federal government troops allied to sheikh sheriff sheikh Ahmed administration. The total number of deaths reported as at now stand at 50 and the casualties has reached 100 [...]
Nairobi,Kenya 12th March 2010 … Kenyan government has released Kidney ailment statistics in the country which indicated that an estimated one million people suffer from kidney ailments, 600,000 of whom being the youths. With the higher number of Kidney ailment in the country, Kenya also suffers from acute shortage of kidney specialists with one nephrologist [...]
Japan has extended Sh288 million grant assistance to underprivileged farmers in Kenya in support of government’s initiatives to increase food security through procurement of essential inputs including fertilizer, agricultural chemicals and machinery. Within the framework of TICAD IV, Kenya has benefited from many projects including expansion of teacher training in Mathematics and Science through the [...]
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 [...]
