- Raila mourns death of Jerry Okungu
- Embobut squatters evicted from forest
- Manchester United make official £35million offer for Chelsea’s Juan Mata
- South Sudan Conflict is not tribal, says envoy
- Man jumps to his death escaping anti-terror police
- South Sudan rebels say govt stalling peace talks
- 8-year-old boy rescues 6 relatives from fire, dies trying to save 7th
- Wayne Rooney lined up by Real Madrid for £25 million summer move from Manchester United
- Samsung 'infringed' Apple's auto-complete text patent
- Unions can meet employers halfway
- Use underground lakes to make Turkana food secure
The Mint countries: Are these the world’s next economic giants?
In 2001, the world began talking about the Bric countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — as potential powerhouses of the world economy.
- The Mint countries: Are these the world’s next economic giants?
- Agency cautions on row between senators, MPs
- Most Kenyans use phones for banking – study
- Camac to start oil drilling after initial tests
- Start turkey farming with Sh10,000 and gobble up profits as demand grows
- Phoenix Publishers CEO underscores perseverance for business success
- State edges closer to cutting ‘difficult’ relationship with India’s Essar Energy
- Black hole into which billions of shillings disappear
- She toils, but he dictates the sale
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-0.05 last 18.05Journalist Jerry Okungu dies after long illness
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Veteran journalist Jerry Okungu, 61, has died after a long battle with cancer.
- Man jumps to his death escaping anti-terror police
- Uhuru lauds Equity’s scholarship programme as 2,000 benefit
- 67 hospitalised after consuming infected meat
- Insecurity tops list of investors’ concerns
- Kenyan lawyers lack training in mining sector, says LSK
- Thousands to lose jobs as counties reject staff
- Court stops police commission from sacking senior officer
- Experts warn of faulty vessels at Mombasa port
- Payroll hitches to delay county workers’ salaries
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Nuclear officers 'cheated in exam'
The Air Force said a small number of staff had been texting answers to the routine tests to others, while others had known but failed to report it.
- Day Kenyatta hinted at partial ban on miniskirts
- Celebrating four decades of free primary education policy
- Robert Wangila: Famed boxer who went down fighting
- Bitter reward of 40-year ban for Mau Mau revolt
- Pre-independent pioneers of roasting savoury mutton
- Did you know that witchcraft attracts 10-year jail term?
- The old boys club that made up independence Cabinet
- Chesire’s impact on agriculture remains an immense legacy
- How Njonjo barred Africanisation of the judiciary
Mudavadi: I will vie for top seat in 2017 and keep trying till I win it
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Former Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi speaks on issues of governance, his political plans and rating of Jubilee Government performance ten months down the line
- Kimemia demands apology from Raila over rigging claims
- Governor, senator unity praised
- ODM split widens as Kakamega County leadership divided ahead of polls
- ODM claims URP losing ground in North and South rift
- Kambi challenged to prove his academic qualification
- Kalonzo must go for top job in 2017, say leaders
- CORD’s strategy to counter ‘tyranny of numbers’ in 2017
- IEBC refutes ‘military rigging’ claims
- Ngilu kicks out ministry officials
Novartis to boost healthcare in Kenya
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The President of Novartis Pharma for Asia/pacific, Middle East and African countries Mr Rainer Boehm on Monday promised to increase his company’s presence in Kenya by scaling up product offerings and recruiting talented new associates.
- Link between IUDs and late pregnancies
- Where traditional birth attendants rule
- Proper diet can cure diabetes, study shows
- Concern over drug-resistant HIV strains
- Stolen mosquito nets leave families exposed
- Alcohol and decision not to breastfeed blamed on rise of cancer
- Rare condition that covers man's skin in tumours which have left him blind
- Smoker numbers edge close to one billion
- Over 1,000 born with clubbed feet annually
Embobut squatters evicted from forest
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Humanitarian crisis looms in Embobut forest, Elgeyo-Marakwet County after the government embarked on an eviction exercise to remove the squatters from the conservancy.
- Proposed potato Bill to curb exploitation of farmers
- County governments yet to receive employees’ details from national government
- Four people killed as matatu rams trailer
- Veterinary experts take insemination dispute to court
- Mineral-rich counties accused of interfering with industry
- Cattle thieves kill herder in Taita-Taveta
- Act now to save lives, counties told
- Mob torches houses to avenge killing
- Officers deployed to controversial settlement scheme
Nigeria's Lagos state passes smoking ban
MPs in Lagos state, Nigeria's economic hub, have passed a bill banning smoking in public places, including restaurants and on public transport.
- Reporter being dogged by an impostor
- Vatican cleric charged with money-laundering
- South Sudan President Salva Kiir hits out at UN
- Thailand imposes state of emergency over Bangkok unrest
- How Komla Dumor became the face of Africa
- S Sudan crisis to dominate AU summit - Uhuru, Kagame
- 4 of the craziest things people asked Martin Luther King
- Why John Kerry gave Russia's foreign minister potatoes
- Catherine Samba-Panza elected Central African Republic’s interim president
- Negotiating with Riek Machar will boost impunity
- Maternal deaths in NE Kenya worse than terrorism
- ODM badly in need of fresh ideas, leadership
- Editorial Cartoon 21.01.2013
- Devolution has failed to bring services closer to people
- Police chief has poor communication skills
- New technology best way to give sugar sector teeth
- Editorial Cartoon 20.01.2013
- In patriotic fete, we shred and wear the flag
Manchester United make official £35million offer for Chelsea’s Juan Mata
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Manchester United have made a bid in the region of £35m for Chelsea midfielder Juan Mata.
- Reality check for Gor: New club officials face tough task to lead K’Ogalo
- In-depth cup preps: Commitment to training helps Orange rule continental show
- Jerome Champagne launches Fifa presidential bid
- City stroll in to final by brushing aside hapless West Ham
- David Moyes must pay £40m to end Juan Mata's Chelsea hell
- Wayne Rooney lined up by Real Madrid for £25 million summer move from Manchester United
- Football: Leopards, Gor make Kenya Power Charity Cup
- Set for Europe move: Kahata signs a six-month deal with Albanian side FK Tirana
- Top guns out: Bouchard, Li cross into Australian Open semi-finals
Thabo Mbeki in the shadow of Mandela
With the glowing tributes paid to Nelson Mandela by various world leaders during his memorial and his stature being compared to godlike figures like Martin Luther King Junior and Mahatma Gandhi, the narrative of the supremacy battles the iconic leader engaged with his successor Thabo Mbeki sounds un-Madibalike.
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During the post-election violence of 2007/2008, a police officer was captured on camera gunning down...
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Six capital offenders were killed in the wee hours of the morning during a daring jailbreak at kingo...
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Now to our Thursday series, frontier and tonight we focus on refugees. Whenever they flee their coun...
Ruto did not want to back Raila, says ICC witness
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The ninth prosecution witness at The Hague narrated how the Kalenjin community forced Deputy President William Ruto to support the candidature of CORD leader Raila Odinga in the 2007 presidential race.
- Kalenjins in PNU were attacked, ICC judges told
- Politicians skip Ruto’s case in The Hague
- Ruto jets out to Hague as his trial resumes
- Bensouda vows to fight Ruto’s excusal from court sittings
- ICC judge passes on
- Ruto/Sang case: 9th prosecution witness takes the stand
- Ruto, Sang ICC trial resumes Thursday
- Rafik Hariri murder trial to begin at The Hague
- Victims frustrated by Bensouda’s trial remarks
Lifestyle
- Unilever donates Sh2m to buy blind learners braille
- Do not get married if you cannot agree to this one thing!
- Man who doesn't want marriage keeps attracting women who do
- Shattering moment I discovered my husband had another wife... and six children
- Sh852,000 of Viagra stolen from military stocks
- "I promise I won't die": Tragic rave teenager pledge to mum before collapsing
- 7 of the Worst Ways to Dump a Man
- Love without kids: When you and your husband have nothing to talk about
- 10 Romantic Movies That May Make You Text an Ex
- State has two weeks to end pay row, say university staff unions
Columnists
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Kenya’s problems rooted in our national amnesia Pravin Bowry On matters of grave concern to the country — in diverse fields such as taxation, law enforcement, corporate criminality and crime detection and many others — there is a distinct Kenyan trait of forgetfulness and total disregard by the citizenry and the law enforcement agencies to bring to closure issues which come into the public domain from time to time.
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Quota system, private schooling and unintended consequences XN Iraki The ministry of Education argues that with no quota system, all the places in good national schools would be taken by private schools. While that is true, one could ask why the children from private and public schools sit for the same exam then
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Why Raila must nurture competition in ODM Dominic Odipo The Macmillan English dictionary defines the word charade as an attempt to pretend that a situation is good or satisfactory, when in fact it is not. Is the political situation within the Orange Party good and satisfactory?
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The French connection affirms art of romancing without finance Peter Kimani French President Francois Hollande’s flagging popularity has received a slight boost following reports that he has been having a fling with, to use the term currently in vogue, a sex siren named Julie Gayet.
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The taxing matter of turning chicks into vegetable Peter Kimani I totally agree some county governments are out to “finish” some communities with unreasonable taxes.
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