Tanzania: Higher Crop Prices Bring Farmers No Joy
The six-foot tall corn stalks on Kastul Baha`s homestead are the envy of his pastoral village in northern Tanzania. Baha was one of the fortunate farmers this crop season with $35 to buy a package of fertilizer to apply over his half-hectare field. He expects to more than double output ...
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Kenya: Kenyan minister in quit challenge
Kenya`s under-fire Finance Minister Amos Kimunya has said he would only resign over the sale of a luxury hotel if the prime minister does so too. Correspondents say this challenge increases the strain on the power-sharing government formed to end weeks of election violence. Minister Charity Ngilu has said the ...
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Sudan: Rwandese Troops in Darfur Celebrate Rwanda Liberation Day
United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Deputy Joint Special Representative (DJRS), Henry Anyidoho, has stated that modest progress has been made in the work of the Mission. "Where we are today is not where we started from," he said. Anyidoho was speaking at the celebrations to mark the 14th ...
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Uganda: DP Rules Out FDC Alliance
The Democratic Party (DP) has ruled out an alliance with FDC or any other opposition political party in the 2011 elections. Party president Ssebaana Kizito said FDC`s decision to field a candidate in the Lubaga division by-election against theirs was a testimony that they were not willing to work with ...
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Kenya: Knives Out in Kitchen Cabinet
When President Mwai Kibaki summoned embattled Finance Minister Amos Kimunya to State House, Nairobi on Saturday afternoon, there was widespread anticipation that he was going to be asked to step aside to pave away for investigations into the raging Grand Regency Hotel saga. The fury of secret media briefings as ...
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Kenya: Lack of facilities hampering bid to halt black fever outbreak
ISIOLO, 7 July 2008 (IRIN) - A lack of laboratory facilities, transport and skilled medical workers is hampering efforts to tackle an outbreak of visceral leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease also known as kala azar or black fever, in northern Kenya’s Isiolo and Wajir districts, officials said. "We have a serious ...
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Kenya: Headlines |VP accuses ministers of breaking secrecy oath
VP accuses ministers of breaking secrecy oath Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Francis Ngige and VPPS Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka has criticised ministers for discussing Cabinet deliberations in public. At the same time, Kalonzo said it was the prerogative of President Kibaki to convene ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Kimunya: I’d rather die than resign
Kimunya: I’d rather die than resign Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Beauttah Omanga And Antony Gitonga I would rather die than resign: That was Finance Minister Amos Kimunya’s answer to those who have been clamouring for his resignation. The embattled minister came ...
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Kenya: Headlines |A bold new ‘Standard’ is about to unveil
A bold new ‘Standard’ is about to unveil Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am Today marks the last day of The Standard as you have come to know it. And it will never be the same again. This evening at a grand ceremony in Nairobi to ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Bidco scoops top Coya awards
Bidco scoops top Coya awards Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Macharia Kamau BIDCO Oil dominated this year’s Company of the Year Awards (Coya) ceremony, scooping four and its chief executive Vimal Shah voted the CEO of the year. The oil manufacturer was named the company ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Sh50m to be spent on IDPs
Sh50m to be spent on IDPs Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Stella Mwangi And Jane Akinyi The Government will spend about Sh50 million to resettle displaced people camping at the Nakuru showground. The Government expects to resettle more than 12,000 from the camp ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Kenya refuses to recognise Mugabe government
Kenya refuses to recognise Mugabe government Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Roselyne Obala Kenya has joined African countries that have declined to recognise the government of President Robert Mugabe. Foreign Affairs Minister Moses Wetangula said Kenya would not recognise Mugabe’s government as legitimate. ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Kenya is safe, France says
Kenya is safe, France says Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Philip Mwakio Kenya’s tourism got a major boost after France declared the country safe for its citizens and investors. In a letter to French tourists and investors, the French Ambassador to Kenya, Ms Elisabeth Barbier, ...
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Kenya: Headlines |EA mocks regional court’s role
EA mocks regional court’s role Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Nyakundi Nyamboga Member states of the East African Community appear bent on making decisions that ridicule the role of East African Court of Justice (EACJ) in deciding contentious issues on the community Treaty. ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Kenya hold Malawi in friendly match
Kenya hold Malawi in friendly match Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Standard Reporter Harambee Stars held Malawi to a barren draw during a friendly international match played in Blantyre. It was a highly balanced match but strikers in both teams were guilty of squandering ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Five Kenya ‘A’ players named in 15s squad
Five Kenya ‘A’ players named in 15s squad Published on July 7, 2008, 12:00 am By Samson Ateka The technical bench has elevated five Kenya A’ players into the main 15s team following last weekend’s mini trials. This follows a build up match between Kenya A’ and the ...
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Kenya: Kenya: Now Orengo Puts Kibaki On the Spot
Kenya`s chief executive was on Friday shoved to the centre of the irregular sale of Grand Regency Hotel. Lands Minister James Orengo and a government-owned human rights watchdog asked President Kibaki to act on the matter arguing that the buck stops with him. Mr Orengo asked the President to ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Graft claims: Eyes turn to Kibaki
Graft claims: Eyes turn to Kibaki Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Sunday Standard Team Three battles President Kibaki and his team fought between 2003 and last year could hold the answer to the strings of graft claims that have dogged him to the final term. ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Kimunya’s trail of grand goofs and gaffes
Kimunya’s trail of grand goofs and gaffes Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Gakuu Mathenge Finance Minister Amos Muhinga Kimunya on Wednesday got a rude message about what his peers in Parliament think about him. Though decent human beings would grudgingly still find some ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Pattni back with new fishing rod
Pattni back with new fishing rod Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am Like a leper of the old, but rich and pampered by two successive governments, all those who have touched him, no matter their stations in life, have ended up regretting the day they shook his ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Top runners fall during Olympic Games trials
Top runners fall during Olympic Games trials Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Mutwiri Mutuota The Nyayo National Stadium tartan track in Nairobi buried the Olympic dreams of favourites during the intensely competed trials. Africa 5,000m silver medallist, Isaac Songok, who displayed rich form at ...
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Kenya: Headlines |100 leaders support plan to crown Raila Kikuyu elder
100 leaders support plan to crown Raila Kikuyu elder Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Joseph Murimi The push to make Prime Minister Raila Odinga a Kikuyu elder got fresh impetus after more than 100 elders endorsed the move. But the Friday meeting at a ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Karua: Kimunya probe will be thorough
Karua: Kimunya probe will be thorough Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Standard Team Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Martha Karua has assured Kenyans that Finance Minister Amos Kimunya’s alleged impropriety in the controversial sale of Grand Regency Hotel would be investigated. She challenged ministers ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Games dreams wane at Nyayo Stadium
Games dreams wane at Nyayo Stadium Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Mutwiri Mutuota The Nyayo National Stadium tartan track buried the Olympic dreams of favourites during the intensely competed trials. Africa 5,000m silver medallist, Isaac Songok, who displayed rich form at the continental event to ...
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Kenya: Headlines |Why Thigo is on his way out of Gor Mahia
Why Thigo is on his way out of Gor Mahia Published on July 6, 2008, 12:00 am By Gilbert Wandera GOR Mahia coach Allan Thigo is on his way out. The club yesterday invited interested coaches to apply for the position in a move that meant Thigo is ...
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