By a Special Correspondent In Kisumu City
INFORMATION emerging from corporate sources within Kisumu cIty say Raila Odinga’s company, the Spectre international has entered into a secret deal with the Kibios Sugar and Allied Industries and swabbed shares.
The Spectre International is the Odinga’s business flagship, which is currently managing the […] Continue Reading…
Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Sondu TOWN.
Five people are believed to have died following three days of fresh ethnic flare up along the boundaries of Nyanza and Rift Valley Provinces in Western Kenya.
Tension has remained high for the last two weeks when youth from the Kipsigis […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2014
Regina from Ongata Rongai, Kajiado County writes: Fr Beste I am not a catholic but like your homilies so much. I shared your homily on Ash Wednesday with my jirani here (neighbor), she is also not […] Continue Reading…
From: Shem Ochuodho
Friends,
Some of you will be aware that H.E. the President recently addressed Kenyan Diaspora in Kampala. Below, we are delighted to share with you summary of his remarks in Kampala from the Presidential Press Unit (PSCU). We appreciate H.E.’s apparent prioritization of Diaspora.
We were much delighted to […] Continue Reading…
From: Charles Banda
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated […] Continue Reading…
From: South Sudan Press
South Sudan’s rebels have on Tuesday accused Ugandan air force of carrying out aerial bombardments in Jonglei State.
In a press statement extended to the South Sudan News Agency, the head of the SPLM/A Delegation-in opposition to the Peace Talks in Ethiopia, General Taban Deng Gai, said […] Continue Reading…
From: South Sudan Press
Condemn Rights Violations, Support the Commission of Inquiry and Help Build A Culture of Human Rights in South Sudan
6 March 2014
Dear Sir or Madam,
March 6, 2014 (SSNA) — We, the undersigned South Sudanese civil society organizations, with support from organizations operating in Africa, write to request […] Continue Reading…
From: U.S. Department of State
Media Note
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
March 6, 2014
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The U.S. Department of State concluded an administrative settlement with Esterline Technologies Corporation of Bellevue, Washington, to resolve alleged violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) (22 U.S.C. § 2778) and the International Traffic in Arms […] Continue Reading…
Writes Leo Odera Omolo In Kisumu City
A Kisumu based investigative freelance journalist last week carjacked robbed, robbed of mobile phones and money before being abandoned in a disused Murom quarry, which is located four kilometers outside the City’s outskirts.
Shem Kosse who is a regular contributor to the popular WEEKLY […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
The question of whether corporate social responsibility is profitable and adds value to a company is important to the development community because the private sector has far greater resources than government aid programs. If the game-changing resources of the world’s largest corporations are put toward the tasks […] Continue Reading…
From: Yona Maro
The Security Sector Reform Resource Centre is looking for talented academics, practitioners, analysts and researchers to contribute to the Resource Centre’s dynamic blog. Blog entries should focus primarily on security sector reform, but related issues such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), transitional justice, and peace and […] Continue Reading…
From: Emmanuel Dennis
Are you passionate about the environment, climate, biodiversity and ecosystems?
Are you willing to spend three days in nature?
Do you want to learn about some of the practical skills on how you can protect the environment and become a climate change agent and model in your community?
This year’s […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2014
Gladys from Bungoma writes: “Fr Beste thanks for your homily on Ash Wednesday. I attended mass at our church here and I saw the priest blessing the ashes and pouring on oil. I could not understand this […] Continue Reading…
From: U.S. Department of State
03/05/2014 06:50 AM EST
Remarks With British Foreign Secretary William Hague, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia at Top of Tripartite Agreement Ministerial
Remarks
John Kerry
Secretary of State
Chief of Mission Residence
Paris, DC, France
March 5, 2014
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SECRETARY KERRY: Well, we’re glad to have our friends here from Ukraine and […] Continue Reading…
From: Abdalah Hamis
The government wants the Nile waters to shared by all countries it passes through.
The affirmation was made last week by President Jakaya Kikwete when having talks in Dar es Salaam with Egyptian Envoy to the president, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy who had been sent by Egyptian Interim […] Continue Reading…
From: U.S. Department of State
Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC
March 4, 2014
The United States welcomes the selection of Osaka, Japan as the Global Host City for International Jazz Day 2014, which will be celebrated April 30.　 Osaka’s jazz scene dates back to the 1920s and remains lively today, making it […] Continue Reading…
From: Charles Banda
By Hama Tuma
Sometimes solutions proposed by governments are worse than the very so-called problems being tackled.
Considering the pungent cocktail of weird laws decreed out of the blue by thumb-twiddling wannabe sophist parliamentarians who only see problems from the golden palaces, villas and powerful offices they occupy and […] Continue Reading…
From: Leila Abdul
Dear Lupita Nyong’o,
Thank you for showing the world what true talent and beauty looks like. Last night, I watched the 86th Academy Awards in awe of seeing a woman that looked like me and shared my story. When you accepted this coveted honor, tears rolled down my […] Continue Reading…
News analysis By Arum-Tidi Ogonglo, A Special Correspondent
The ODM leader Raila Odinga could have shot himself in the leg when he tried to look neutral and impartial telling the party followers and members that he had nobody whom he preferred to be elected in any position during the […] Continue Reading…
From: joachim omolo ouko
News Dispatch with Father Omolo Beste
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2014
Dennis from Nairobi writes: “Dear Father Beste, I find Kenyans interesting when one achieves like Lupita did we are proud but when it comes to leadership on the political scene like the late Okoth Owiro ( may his […] Continue Reading…