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Article: Young, female and ready to head some state
Barack Obama’s re-election gave some Kenyans this week a reason to celebrate, seeing the US president whose father was Kenyan as one of their own. But as Obamamania quiets down, the East African nation will surely refocus attention...
Article: Kenyan leaders applaud Obama win
President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have congratulated Barack Obama for his re-election as US president. By Laban Wanambisi as published by our top partner allAfrica.com In a statement from Presidential Press Service,...
Article: Babies in a pouch: A hopping success in Kenya
A decade ago, Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya’s largest referral hospital, was dealing with escalating baby mortality rates – 50 percent of preterm born infants did not survive. Since the cost of increasing the number of...
Article: Kenya president blocks bonuses for MPs
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday blocked $110,000 end-of-term bonuses members of parliament awarded themselves after protests and a public outcry at a time when the state has raised taxes to plug a hole in its finances. Following...
Article: No calls, please: Big Brother in Kenya ties up the lines
Trying to call someone in Kenya? There’s a fine chance the person you’re trying to reach won’t pick up. No, not because that someone is busy, but because the government has switched his phone off. How many people have...
Article: Kenya army claims it has entered al-Shabaab stronghold
Kenya’s army claimed on Friday to have entered Kismayo, the Somali port city considered to be al-Shabaab’s last major bastion. The rebels and city residents, however, said the troops were still on the outskirts of the city that...
Article: Kenya minister sacked for inciting land dispute violence
Kenya’s Assistant Livestock Minister Dhadho Godana pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to charges of inciting violence over a land and water dispute in the country’s coastal region. He was subsequently sacked from the cabinet...
Article: The man who wants to kiss a million
John Telewa is a man on a mouth-led mission. The Kenyan wants to make it into the Guinness World Records as the man who has kissed the most women in the world. By Caasi Sagala, Nairobi
Article: Another dozen Kenyans left dead in ethnic dispute
A Kenyan gunman killed at least 12 people in a village along the Tana Delta, said Red Cross officials Friday. The attack was an act of revenge in a long-running ethnic dispute over grazing land and water. By Michael Kaloki, Nairobi...
Article: Kenyan schoolgirls' skirts spark controversy
“Why are you dressing a schoolgirl like a nun?” Kenyan Minister of Education Mutula Kilonzo posed this rhetorical question in a series of remarks sparking a national controversy last month. Because he supported students’...
