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EAC Countries Can Learn From Kenya's Machakos
AllAfrica.com
With devolution in high gear as the counties take root in Kenya, competition for business and investment just got fierce for Rwanda and other EAC member states. Take the investor conference recently hosted in Machakos County hosted, some mused, with a ...

Horseed Media
Guddiga Xaqiiqo Raadinta ee Kenya oo soo bandhigay Warbixin Xasaasi ah
Horseed Media
Guddigan Xaqiiqo raadinta, Cadaalada iyo Dib u heshiisiinta (The Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission ) ee dalka Kenya ayaa soo bandhigay xog aruurintii baaritaano lagu sameeyey danbiyadii ka dhacay wadankan Kenya tan iyo intuu xoriyada ka ...

Kalonzo, British Soldiers Among TJRC Indictees
AllAfrica.com
The report singles out 130 high profile land grabbing incidents that capture the scope of the economic crimes in Kenya that has in many instances left families destitute. The detailed TJRC report for instance explains how Musyoka and others ...

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LTE Infrastructure to Reduce Costs of Date
AllAfrica.com
MTN Business Kenya Managing Director Tom Omariba says that maintenance cost of the network will come down as one Base Transmission Station can cover longer distances. "We started from 2G, then moved to 3G and are now set to deploy the 4G or LTE ...

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Human Rights Watch
Kenya: Witnesses Describe Kisumu Killings by Police
Human Rights Watch
The shootings occurred in the wake of demonstrations against the Kenyan Supreme Court ruling on March 30 upholding President Uhuru Kenyatta's election victory on March 4. Human Rights Watch interviewed witnesses, civil society leaders, and ...

BBC News
Uhuru Kenyatta and William Ruto named in Kenya TRJC report
BBC News
Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy have been named in connection with post-election violence in a long-awaited report investigating human rights abuses in the country. The report gave no recommendation for action to be taken against Mr ...
Kenya probe links president to rights abusesAljazeera.com
Kenya truth report shows assassinations, land grabs, corruption plagued its ...Washington Post
Probe Moi, Biwott Over Ouko Death, Says TJRCAllAfrica.com
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The Guardian
Obama is wise to skip Kenya in his Africa visit
The Standard Digital News
Obama won't be visiting Kenya during his trip to Africa in June (of course in his luxury jet fuelled by US taxpayers). Instead, he will be visiting our neighbour Tanzania—never mind he has no blood brothers there. Phew, what a brother! But weep not ...
Obama's Africa tour leaves ancestral homeland of Kenya as loserThe Guardian
We're Not Worried That Obama Is Not Coming to Kenya, Says Government ...AllAfrica.com
Kenya won't crumble over Obama no-showCapital FM Kenya
Amsterdam News -Independent Online -ZimEye Zimbabwe
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NPR (blog)
Polio Outbreak In Kenya: A Threat To Global Eradication
NPR (blog)
Kenya has recorded its first case of polio in two years, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. A 4-month-old girl came down with paralysis on April 30, and then two healthy kids nearby also tested positive for the virus. But this handful of ...
Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO saysMiamiHerald.com

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Telegraph.co.uk
Britain 'should apologise for colonial injustices' says Kenyan commission
Telegraph.co.uk
The government-funded commission, in a long-awaited report, found that "the British Colonial administration in Kenya was responsible for unspeakable and horrific gross violations of human rights", including "massacres, torture and sexual violence".
Kalonzo, British soldiers among TJRC indicteesCapital FM Kenya

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NAIROBI, Kenya - The barrage of hourly tweets sent out by Aly-Khan Satchu — East Africa's version of CNBC's Mad Money host Jim Cramer — cheers on what Satchu says is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're not investing in Africa, you should be. Or as Satchu loudly proclaims on his Twitter feed or newspaper column: "ITS BOOM TOWN BABY."

Kenya Begins Processing Trucks After Dispute Snarled Main Port
Bloomberg
The Kenya National Highways Authority began processing trucks that had blocked the road to and from Mombasa, the country's main port, in a dispute over cargo-weighing procedures. Truckers obstructed the road in recent days in an attempt to pressure the ...
Striking Kenyan truckers block east Africa's main trade routeChicago Tribune

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Voice of America
Kenya Truth Commission Report Links Leaders to Abuses
Voice of America
NAIROBI — A long-awaited report from Kenya's Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) has linked several of Kenya's leaders, including current President Uhuru Kenyatta, to abuses committed throughout the country's history. The commission ...

Special commission says Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy helped plan and fund post-election violence in 2007.

Boom Town Baby: African stock markets see big gains; Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria ...
Fox News
NAIROBI, Kenya – African financial analysts say the continent's economies are growing quickly and offer excellent investment opportunities. Aly-Khan Satchu, a Kenya-based financial manager, says there is a growing sentiment among investors: If you're ...
'Boom Town Baby': African stock markets see gainsMiamiHerald.com

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Kenya Tana Clashes Sparked by Natural Resources Row, Panel Says
Bloomberg
The deadly clashes in Kenya's Tana River region last year were sparked by competition over natural resources and the perpetrators must be punished, according to a government-appointed panel investigating the violence. The government imposed a ...

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Kenya's president received a long-awaited Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission report that names the president and his deputy as being among those suspected of planning and financing Kenya's 2007-08 ...

Polio cases found in Kenya and Somalia, WHO says
MiamiHerald.com
NAIROBI, Kenya -- The World Health Organization says the Horn of Africa is experiencing an outbreak of polio with cases confirmed in Kenya and Somalia. WHO said Wednesday that a 4-year-old girl near the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and two of her ...

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Daily Nation
Telkom Kenya wants share of Google earnings
Daily Nation
However, in an interview with the Daily Nation, Safaricom's head of corporate affairs, Mr Nzioka Waita, said the argument is premature for the Kenyan market given that telecom operators continue to rely heavily on content providers such as Google and ...
Mobile Operators Seek Revenue Share With GoogleAllAfrica.com

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The weighted average yield on Kenyan 20-year Treasury bond fell to 12.981 percent at auction from 13.694 percent at its last sale in January, the central bank said on Wednesday. The central bank said it received bids worth a total 25.88 billion shillings for the 20-year bond. It had offered a 10 billion shillings and accepted 10.13 billion shillings. The bank said it plans to ...

Business Daily
WTO chief lauds Kenya on ICT, infrastructure
Business Daily
Kenya has received special attention across the globe following the country's massive undertaking of development projects to expand its economy, the outgoing World Trade Organisation (WTO) director-general Pascal Lamy has said. The remarks put Kenya ...