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Created by dipity on Aug 4, 2009
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...middle distance running legend who heads the organising committee of next year's Olympics, was full of praise for the Kenyan athletes. "It's great that Kenya will be coming to England early to train in Bristol, and it's great that (the world athlete of the...
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...of every single Kenyan. Kenya's image is the collective perception others hold as a result of the various touch points on Kenya. We create these touch points daily in what we do or say. The politicians, the media, the citizens, the public servants, the state...
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...Abel Kirui crosses the finish line to win gold during the Men's Marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2011. Photo: Anja Niedringhaus / AP Kenya's Abel Kirui crosses the finish line to...
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San Antonio Express
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...is again in the middle of an economic storm. The combined impact of the drought in North Eastern Kenya, high food and fuel prices and a weakening currency, has led some to question the soundness of economic policies. In addition, the quality of Kenya’s institutions...
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...their national brands and thereafter smuggle to foreign markets earning their countries foreign excahnge that could have been kenyan. For instance in June this year Mohamed Hossein Khosh-Amadi the Iranian chargé d'affaires told the Star in an interview there...
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Kenyan consumers see better economic times in the New Year with the arrival of rains and regular power supply, a new consumer confidence survey suggests, with improved political climate and a rebound of the global economy being the icing on the recovery
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AllAfrica.com
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Kenya is among two African countries that have been offered an opportunity to be a co-sponsor of next year's World Cup by South Africa's Local Organising Committee.
The proposal from the LOC was presented to Kenya recently in South Africa, though it req
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Goal.com
http://www.goal.com/en/news/89/africa/2009/12/22/1702512/kenya-given-chance-to-co-sponsor-the-world-cup
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...U.S. believes Rwanda genocide suspect still in Kenya * Washington wants government to hand him over NAIROBI, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The United States wants Kenya to hand over a Rwanda genocide suspect it believes the east African nation has been harbouring...
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LG71075.htm
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...community is divided over the causes of melting ice caps in Africa. But many experts believe the retreating snow on Mt. Kenya is one of the continent's clearest examples of climate change and global warming. The 17,057-foot mountain, located along the equator,...
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Los Angeles Times
http://feeds.latimes.com/~r/latimes/news/nationworld/world/~3/I2cQ1DemWc8/la-fg-climate-mtkenya10-2009nov10,0,3451662.story
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Kenya and South Africa will next week set up a joint secretariat to ease trade between them, giving local investors easier access to the Johannesburg market.
Sisanda Mtwazi, the Economic Counsellor at the South African High Commission in Nairobi, said
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AllAfrica.com
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The Kibaki administration is ruffled by the United States Government latest actions on Kenya and it has nothing to do with travel bans. Money is at stake and the soft underbelly of the regime is exposed. Although it touts itself as financially
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Pambazuka
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* Clinton will press Kenya's leaders on reforms
* Strong anti-corruption message at trade meeting
NAIROBI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will deliver a blunt message to Kenya's leaders to implement delayed reforms and make
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N04129726.htm
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Early this
morning, we (along with others) noted that the purported
Obama birth certificate posted
by WorldNetDaily says that it was issued by the "Republic
of Kenya" on February 17, 1964,
but that Kenya
did not become a republic until December 12, 1964
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Media Matters for America
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair/~3/6y4BtDWUhHk/200908030044
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President Mwai Kibaki
Prime Minister Raila Odinga
The Director, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
RE: IT IS EITHER GRABBING THE WATER CATCHMENTS OR WAR
Sad as it is, corruption in Kenya has taken on the most dreadful and awful dimension. The
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Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/58074
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Botswana will reap rich from a code-sharing arrangement with Kenya Airways which will start flying to Gaborone on September 4, officials said on Friday.
Speaking at a media briefing to announce the re-launch, officials from Kenya Airways and Air
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AllAfrica.com
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The Partnership for Change is of the considered view that over the last 17 months the citizens of Kenya have exhausted the mechanisms available to us under the national Accord Agreement to cause the Grand Coalition Government to implement the National
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Pambazuka
http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=1018
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Nairobi — MANY KENYANS ARE disappointed that "our son", President Barack Obama, did not choose to come "home" on his first official trip to Africa.
The general feeling is that Obama is "punishing" the Kenya Government for its slow pace of reforms and
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AllAfrica.com
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THE PRESIDENT: (Trumpet plays.) I like this. Thank you. Thank you. I think Congress needs one of those horns. (Laughter.) That sounds pretty good. Sounds like Louis Armstrong back there. (Laughter.)
Good afternoon, everybody. It is a great honor for me
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Real Clear Politics
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/07/11/a_new_moment_of_promise_in_africa_97408.html
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Nairobi — Prime Minister Raila Odinga has said Kenya is keen on hosting next year's World Economic Forum.
Mr Odinga revealed this during a breakfast meeting attended by ministers, permanent secretaries, parastatal chiefs and private sector to discuss
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While acknowledging that Kenya's Grand Coalition Government (GCG) has given rise to much debate and commentary, Zaya Yeebo argues that civil society's ability to influence change without violence is often ignored. Though other African countries see
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AllAfrica.com
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The 4th edition of the annual Lola Kenya Screen audiovisual media festival for children and youth in eastern Africa will be held at Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya, August 10-15, 2009.
The only festival in Africa EXCLUSIVELY designed for children and
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Pambazuka
http://75.127.72.207/lola_kenya_childrens_screen_2009_confirms_festival_dates
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The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Philip Alston, presented his detailed report on Kenya at the recent 11th Session of the UN Human Rights Council. In an extraordinary week of political
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Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/57391
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That there are historical injustices in Kenya is not a myth, or some conspiracy theory. It is truth and a reality whose continued denial, sidestepping, and deflection of its victims' perceptions to imaginary enemies in the name of other ethnic groups
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Pambazuka
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Kenya is at a crossroads of history. A lot has been written and said about the effectiveness of the African Union-led coalition government. Undoubtedly, the success or otherwise of the Grand Coalition Government (GCG) will determine where Kenya goes
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Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/57383
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Nairobi — Kenya on Sunday retained the Tusker Safari Sevens title with a 40-19 win over the Emerging Boks of South Africa at the Rugby Football Union of East Africa grounds.
Collins Injera was the toast of the Kenya side with four tries. Ian Simiyu
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LAST FRIDAY was a historic day for Kenya’s nascent technology sector but Paul Kukubo, chief executive of Kenya’s ICT Board, wasn’t celebrating in Mombasa.
The reason for celebration was the landing of the East Africa Marine System (Teams)
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Irish Times
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With Kenya still in the throes of an entrenched crisis, Korir Sing'Oei considers the broader history behind the deficiencies of the country's political system.
Arguing that there are clear similarities to be drawn between events such as the state's
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Throughout the past
year, conservative media figures have advanced various versions of the
discredited myth that Barack Obama has not produced a valid birth certificate,
is not a natural-born U.S. citizen, and is not eligible to
be president. For
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Media Matters for America
http://feeds.mediamatters.org/~r/mediamatters/latest/~3/qGffkp9Rsak/200906180015
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June 2nd 2009
Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Managing Director
The International Monetary Fund
700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20431
For the attention of the Board of Directors
Through W. Scott Rogers, IMF Resident Representative to Kenya.
Dear Sir,
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Pambazuka
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'It is a practical impossibility to have in place in Kenya a good constitution with the current breed of leaders, because most of them are tainted with corruption and do not have any value for human lives" Kenyans Eyes From The Diaspora Group has said
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The longtime Africa correspondent discusses the Kenyan whistleblower who risked his life to end corruption, why she rejects Dambisa Moyo’s thesis about democracy, and how she learned to love Paul Wolfowitz.
On February 6, 2005, John Githongo appeared
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Guernica
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When a political race in Africa becomes fierce, then the card that politicians will play is the ethnic card.
It would be wrong to say that the colonial administration invented tribalism. But what crept in under colonialism is that so many of your life
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Guernica
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Kenya's 2,000 lions are at grave risk from repeated drought and a poisonous pesticide that wildlife officials on Thursday blamed for at least 76 deaths since 2001.
A male lion of approximately three and a half years-old sits on a boulder in
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I am going to take you on a research expedition to Mount Kenya, where we will hike from a base camp known as Met Station at 3050 m above mean sea level (MSL) on the southwestern slopes of the mountain and wind up at a site known as the Rangers Post at 4
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GLOBE Chief Scientist's Blog
http://www.globe.gov/fsl/scientistsblog/2009/05/28/research-at-mount-kenya/
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The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) has urged the ACHPR to adopt a resolution to address the Kenyan government on its obligations to protect and promote the rights of all people and its duty to hold violators to account through criminal
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AllAfrica.com
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Kenya is the home of magnificent safaris, amazing wildlife and stunning sceneries that surround visitors with every turn. But perhaps less well known is that Kenya is fast becoming a top golfing destination and was recently awarded the ‘Undiscovered
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A bubble of blame is rising in Kenya and quickly becoming the currency of public political discourse, but it only belies the decay of a modern state that for a long time held much promise as the exceptional African example.
Public criticism and
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Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/56114
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April 23: Somali men suspected of piracy sit in the dock as charges against them are read out, in a court in Mombassa, Kenya.
MOMBASSA, Kenya Shabbily dressed and solemn, 18 Somali men nabbed at sea and hauled ashore by European navies crowded into
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FOX News
http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/world/~3/piHEpFHzrtQ/0,2933,517629,00.html
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Villagers in central Kenya clashed with an outlawed criminal gang using machetes, axes and clubs, killing at least 29 people and leaving streets stained with blood, police said Tuesday.
Zacariah Ndegu, left, and Joseph Moridu, both injured
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Apr. 16: The USS Bainbridge, carrying Captain Richard Phillips, enters the harbor of Mombasa, Kenya.
Apr. 16: The USS Bainbridge, carrying Captain Richard Phillips, enters the harbor of Mombasa, Kenya.
The sea captain held hostage for five days by
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MOMBASA, Kenya – The American sea captain held hostage for five days by Somali pirates reached land Thursday, with the U.S. destroyer that rescued him docking to the strains of "Sweet Home Alabama" hours after his crew reunited with their families back
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AP Photo - As Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, right, looks on, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton talks about the pirate attack during a news conference with Australian Foreign Minister and his delegation at the State Department in
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Kentucky.com
http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/757968.html
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Attending a conference on Kenya's national dialogue and reconciliation in Geneva, Yash Tandon, notes that the issues of power sharing, ethnicity, and governance overshadow matters related to economics and welfare.
He also ponders why, other than the 50
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200904100147.html
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Geneva — I am glad to welcome you to Geneva and to this lessons learned meeting on the Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation process. A very warm Karibu sana [big welcome] to all.
Almost all of us in this room were, one way or another, part of the
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903301452.html
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Hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in Kenya
face abuse by corrupt and violent police and a rapidly growing humanitarian emergency in the world's largest refugee settlement, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Kenya should
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Reuters Alert Net
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HRW/e8cabff4d4156e527a02083b8d64da03.htm
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It was the 24th day of March in 1996, when Daniel arap Moi’s State assassinated our dear Karimi Nduthu.
Karimi Nduthu had just finalized an investigative report into the state sponsored ethnic clashes of 1992 and 1993 which targeted targeting ethnic
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Pambazuka
http://blog.marsgroupkenya.org/?p=665
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UNICEF Executive Board President H.E. Omar Daou, Permanent Representative of Mali to the UN, congratulates Halima Osman on the birth of her son at the Garissa Provincial General Hospital in Kenya's North Eastern Province.
NAIROBI, Kenya, 13 March 2009
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http://www.unicef.org/rsstracker/news/infobycountry/kenya_48660.rhtml
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An explosive book about Kenya’s December 2007 bungled election has been launched in Stockholm. The book, Raila Odinga’s Stolen Presidency: Consequences and The Future of Kenya written by Mr. Okoth Osewe, a Kenyan author, takes the position that the
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Pambazuka
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/books/54780
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Statistics on disappearances, petty corruption and killings all point to a Kenyan police force in need of reform, the Mars Group contends. Emphasising events during the 2007-08 post-election violence together with the fact that perpetrators have yet to
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903091176.html
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The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), in partnership with Royal Media Services, has embarked on a seven-week media blitz consisting of television, radio and print publicity beginning 24 February 2008.
The campaign is built on the platform of the
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200903091175.html
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