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The International Criminal Court prosecutor, Louis Moreno Ocampo, left Kenyans with a clear message - that The Hague process had officially begun. During his three-day visit, the ICC prosecutor ensured that the government understood what was to happen next as the ICC president in The Hague had appointed a three-judge bench to determine the fate of masterminds of the post-election violence. (AllAfrica)

Zanzibar President Amani Abeid Karume's meeting with (AllAfrica)

Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The report, released late yesterday, reveals ongoing and systematic abuses against civilians in Darfur and provides detailed evidence of violations of the embargo and related Security Council resolutions by the Government of Sudan and other belligerents. (AllAfrica)

One of the men in police custody over cheating in the current Form Four examinations was a government spy, Saturday Nation can reveal. A police investigation shows the man used to work for the Kenya National Examinations Council (Knec) as a secret informer on examination irregularities. (AllAfrica)

International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo leaves on Saturday morning with the fate of Kenya's post-election violence suspects resting with judges at The Hague. (AllAfrica)

The Buganda Lukiiko meets this Monday to take a final stand on the now stalled talks between Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi and President Museveni, Saturday Monitor has leant. (AllAfrica)

The Catholic Church yesterday denounced domestic violence and vowed to fight it from the village level. (AllAfrica)

Having an independent regulator, improving the procurement process and good political will can help stem corruption in the water and sanitation sector, the Ministry of Water and Environment has suggested. (AllAfrica)

Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today. (AllAfrica)

Smuggling notes into exam rooms or scratching them on the skin used to be the customary ways of cheating in tests. Some candidates would leave notes in the toilets and would walk out and take a peek before returning to the exam room to reproduce them. (AllAfrica)

Journalists were on Friday harassed by security officers as they tried to interview International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. Mr Moreno-Ocampo spent the better part of the day at the Nairobi National Park, but security officers would not allow journalists to speak to him. (AllAfrica)

Learning was on Friday paralysed in most schools in Marakwet after teachers took to the streets to protest over the degazettement of the region as a hardship area. (AllAfrica)

Acrimony and name calling marred a public hearing in Nakuru by the Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission. (AllAfrica)

A friend thought it was a fulfilling experience. But I would hesitate to cast the just-concluded edition of the Kenya International Film Festival (KIFF) in such a positive light, given the numerous shortcomings. This doesn't mean there were no glorious moments, however. Hollywood actor Giancarlo Esposito was in town and so was Jean Pierre Bekolo, a Cameroonian filmmaker. (AllAfrica)

Kenya is set to have 13 more public universities, President Kibaki announced on Friday. This will increase the number of public universities to 20, resulting in a huge rise in the number of students being admitted for degree courses. (AllAfrica)

A lobby group has linked the controversial purchase of 120 Passat cars to a government debt dating way back in 2003. The Mars Group told the Parliamentary Accounts Committee on Friday that CMC Holdings lent the government Sh18 billion in 2003. (AllAfrica)

The chief justice of a European country is among candidates eyeing the post of Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission director, the Saturday Nation has learnt. (AllAfrica)

The Saturday Nation interviewed the chairman of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Advisory Board, Mr Okong'o O'mogeni, on the challenges facing the board. Below are the excerpts: (AllAfrica)

Music lovers the world over will be elated to hear this: Veteran Congolese artiste Tabu Ley, or Pascal Rochereau, who has been hospitalised in Europe for the greater part of this year, is recovering and in high spirits. Speaking exclusively to REVIEW on three separate days in the past one week from his daughter's Paris home, he said he was gradually getting better. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Encouraging the use of traditional African herbal medicines could prevent some of the one million malarial deaths on the continent, according to specialists attending a conference www.mimalaria.org/pamc in Nairobi. Many poor communities, especially in rural settings, cannot afford modern malarial drugs and many people die due to inaccessibility of treatment. (IRIN)

NAIROBI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Authorities in central Kenya have ordered hundreds of people to evacuate after a girl was killed when a mudslide destroyed her home following heavy rains. (IRIN)

NANYUKI Wednesday, November 04, 2009 (IRIN) - Two years after violence forced Samuel Mwangi off his farm in the Kiambogo location of Nakuru District in Rift Valley Province, the father of seven is still struggling to rebuild his life and educate his children. Rift Valley, one of Kenya's grain baskets, was the worst-affected by the violence and food security has yet to recover. (IRIN)

DAR ES SALAAM Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - An outbreak of cholera in northern Tanzania has continued to spread, claiming 59 lives over the past two months. Health ministry officials reported 60 new cases last week. (IRIN)

NAIROBI Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a grouping of UN and non-UN organizations that since 1992 has worked to harmonize humanitarian best practice, is conducting a review of its various policy statements, guidelines and manuals. (IRIN)

KAMPALA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With increasing natural disasters, including floods, storms and droughts, hitting the continent, more people in Africa are likely to be displaced, creating a challenge for governments, the UN warns. (IRIN)

GOZ BEIDA Thursday, October 22, 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency is colour-coding villages red, yellow and green in eastern Chad marking how safe it is for internally displaced persons to return home: people from areas classified as green – “safe” – will no longer be considered as IDPs, but can remain in the camps. (IRIN)

SANAA Sunday, November 01, 2009 (IRIN) - The past 10 months saw the highest number of Africans reaching Yemeni shores over figures for the same period in 2008 and 2007, when large numbers began travelling to Yemen by boat, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). (IRIN)

NAIROBI Thursday, October 29, 2009 (IRIN) - Flash floods caused by four days of torrential rains have displaced more than 15,000 people in the southwestern town of El-Waq near the Kenyan border and submerged most homes and businesses, say locals (IRIN)

HARGEISA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - Immigration officials in the self-declared republic of Somaliland have expressed concern over the increase in the number of illegal Ethiopian migrants entering the region, with claims that up to 90 people are arriving daily, against 50 in 2008. (IRIN)

ADDIS ABABA Friday, October 23, 2009 (IRIN) - With non-skilled jobs in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, paying as little as US$16 per month, the financial incentives to engage in commercial sex work are overwhelming - earning 30 times a domestic worker’s salary. (IRIN)

NAIROBI Wednesday, October 21, 2009 (IRIN) - Humanitarian agencies should move from Nairobi to "relatively safe" areas of Somalia to be able to better serve more than 1.5 million internally displaced people (IDPs) caught up in a "deepening" humanitarian crisis, Walter Kälin, Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the Human Rights of IDPs, said on 21 October. (IRIN)