From: Human Rights Watch
June 5, 2014
THE WEEK IN RIGHTS
Newsweek, along with many other news organizations, had rented a room in the Beijing Hotel, a high-rise building that looked over Tiananmen Square, to watch the protests. After the crackdown, we couldn’t get back to that hotel – authorities had cordoned […] Continue Reading…
Historical feature By Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu CITY.
It was indeed an historical evening that many people would wish to forget as fast as it happened more than fifty years ago.
This was a day in 1965. The place was at the D.C.’s house in Homa-Bay town in what used […] Continue Reading…
Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu CITY
Joseph Olita, the Kenyan whose body structure and features resembles the former despotic rule of UGANDA field Marshall Idi Amin Dada, and the man who played the leading role in the famous film ,”The Rise and Fall of Idi Amin has […] Continue Reading…
From: Nizar Visram
By Marc and Craig Kielburger
The Star phoenix May 27, 2014
If only Sylvester Stallone, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were actually Rambo, Mad Max and Han Solo. Then those aging, action flick superstars could actually go out and rescue the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped in […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
WHAT is a tweet worth? Not a lot, but it stacks up. Twitter, which has yet to turn a profit, was valued at an eye-watering $18.1 billion when it made its stock market debut last week – far more than many tried and tested companies.
What underpins this […] Continue Reading…
Writes Leo Odera Omolo.
The Homa-Bay governor Cyprian Otieno Await has earned a lot of praise by the residents of the region for his tireless and concerted effort to empower the youth and women living in the region economically.
The lavish praise for the governor came as a result […] Continue Reading…
Writes Leo Odera Omolo.
Newspaper reports emerging from the Kenya’s Eastern Province says that a man has died while nine others were admitted to the Embu Level Five hospital for medical treatment after the residents of Embu, Muranga and Machakos counties feasted on the carcass of a dead hippo suspected […] Continue Reading…
Reports Leo Odera Omolo
Phares Oluoch Kanindo a one time two terms KANU MP for the larger Homa-Bay constituency has died at the Agakha Hospital Kisumu after along but undisclosed illness. He was 72. He had served briefly In the KANU government as an Assistant Minister for education. […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2014
Pope Francis has just arrived in Holy Land with a call for urgent steps to end Syria’s three-year-old civil war. His Middle East trip is also aimed at bringing hope to the region’s dwindling Christian population.
More […] Continue Reading…
From: Charles Banda
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of his Inauguration as fifth President of the Republic of South Africa Union Buildings, Pretoria
Your Majesties Kings and Queens,
Your Excellencies Heads of State and Government,
Former President Thabo Mbeki and your best half
Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Mrs […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
Having a decent job is widely recognised as the best way out of poverty. The private sector provides some 90 per cent of jobs in developing countries, and is thus an essential partner in the fight against poverty. It is also needed as an investor in sustainable […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 2014
Vivian from Kipchimchim, Kericho, Kenya writes: “Fr Beste you really know Kenyan politics. You had said that President Uhuru Kenyatta had the power to dictate what he wishes and no one can bar him from doing so. […] Continue Reading…
From: Abdalah Hamis
Tanzania and Burundi have moved steps closer towards being the first countries in the East African Community (EAC) to operationalize the One Stop Border Post (OSBP) concept at Kabanga/Kobero .
The pilot operation is scheduled to commence in June of this year following completion of temporary structures on […] Continue Reading…
From: News Release – African Press Organization (APO)
PRESS RELEASE
African Ministers Responsible for Meteorology Seek to Increase Community Resilience
Climate change is exacerbating multiple stresses such as food insecurity and spread of diseases in Africa
HARARE, Zimbabwe, May 22, 2014/ — Climate change occasioned by severe weather and extreme climate events is […] Continue Reading…
From: Abdalah Hamis
Since the start of Boko Haram’s insurgency in Northern Nigeria, no single act of violence committed by the group has succeeded in provoking such an intense degree of revulsion worldwide as the now well-documented Chibok kidnappings.
These have served to focus attention on numerous earlier attacks carried […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
LBJ “Great Society” Speech (ORIGINAL)
President Hatcher, Governor Romney, Senators McNamara and Hart, Congressmen Meader and Staebler, and other members of the fine Michigan delegation, members of the graduating class, my fellow Americans:
It is a great pleasure to be here today. This university has been coeducational since […] Continue Reading…
Writes Leo Odera Omolo.
A prominent Homa-Bay politician-cum-businessman is back in the country and immediately declared that he has rejoined the ODM and would work hard with other party luminaries to promote the party activities in the region order to make it the most popular vehicles for the 2017 presidential […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014
John from Narok writes: “Fr Beste thank you for this good work you are doing to educate Kenyans through your news blog. In one of your articles you said corruption cannot end in Kenya as yet. Why […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
An analysis of responses to an Afrobarometer poll conducted among adult Malawians six to eight weeks ahead of the country’s May 20 elections.
http://allafrica.com/download/resource/main/main/idatcs/00081588:5aa54c443da34f597c00066605544804.pdf
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Yona Fares Maro
Institut d’études de sécurité – SA
From: U.S. Department of State
Press Statement
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
May 19, 2014
On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the people of Cameroon as you celebrate your national day on May 20.
The United States and Cameroon have enjoyed a productive relationship since we first established diplomatic […] Continue Reading…