Kenya : News

[Capital FM]Nairobi -Seventeen protestors who staged the 'Occupy Parliament' demonstration using 31 live pigs last Tuesday have been charged with cruelty to animals. (AllAfrica)

[IRIN]Garissa-Nairobi -The presence of foreign militias in parts of northeastern Kenya, and their collusion with security officials and business people there, may be to blame for a rise in insecurity in the region, where multiple gun and grenade attacks have been reported over the past two years. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A major event that grabbed headlines this week was the civil society's protest against plans by MPs to have their salaries increased. Different people have reacted differently to the demonstrators' expression of displeasure with the legislators' agitation for higher salaries. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Kenya is like no other country in the world.Everything that happens in this country is uniquely Kenyan. What we do cannot be replicated anywhere else. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]President Uhuru Kenyatta now wants his case on alleged crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court to start in January next year. (AllAfrica)

[Sabahi]A suspected terrorist and his wife were shot dead and six police officers were injured during a security operation in Nairobi that lasted 12 hours and came to an end Sunday (May 19th), Kenya's Capital FM reported. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A major security operation is underway at the Kenya-Tanzania border to curb illegal firearms and criminal gangs. This follows recent's killing of five people in Naikarra after bandits believed to be from Sonjos community in Tanzania attacked them. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Three suspected violent robbers who last Friday hacked an administration police officer to death and cut six residents with axes at Mbeere South have been arrested, (AllAfrica)

[The Star]National Assembly departmental committees are expected to conduct elections for their chairpersons and deputies today. MPs interested in the committee leadership had by yesterday evening intensified their lobbying ahead of today's voting. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]The government has been asked to establish a rehab center for rescuing teenage mothers back to school. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Waata communities in Isiolo yesterday raised concern that they have been locked out of all elective positions and county appointments in the area. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A senior AP officer was on Saturday evening shot dead by unknown assailants in Wajir town in another incident of insecurity in Northeastern province. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A rare species of antelope in the country is facing extinction, a conservation group has warned. The World Wide Fund has warned that the Sable antelope, only found at Shimba Hills National Reserve will be extinct if no action is taken. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]WHEAT farmers in Uasin Gishu County have started shifting to other crops due to poor prices of the commodity offered by the government. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Three more people have been killed in Mandera only hours after President Uhuru read the riot act to his security chiefs to end the run-away crime. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]The appointment of Cabinet Secretaries was a complex jig-saw puzzle for President Uhuru and his deputy William Ruto. Power, a function of ordinance and intelligence was at play in this exercise. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A section of Bishops in Rift Valley have supported suggestions to have the UNited Nations Security Council terminate ICC cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy William Ruto. (AllAfrica)

[Nigeria First]President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has told Kenya's Deputy President and Special Envoy of President Uhuru Kenyatta, Mr. William Ruto, that Nigeria was concerned about the activities of terrorists in Somalia and other places in Africa, and the attendant negative effects on peace and development in the continent. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Long approval processes at the Nairobi Securities Exchange are delaying the listing of small firms at the bourse despite the existence of the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (Gems). (AllAfrica)

[The Star]THE Jubilee Coalition has taken charge of two departmental committees in the National Assembly. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]THE case over the controversial death of a British aristocrat who died in police cells took a new twist after his father wrote to President Uhuru Kenyatta demanding that those responsible for his death be brought to book. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]County representatives in Bomet have refused to approve the county supplementary budget for a second time over a stalemate on the county assembly allocation. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]THE National Authority for Campaign against Alcohol and Drug Abuse has raised an alarm over increasing rate of bhang abuse in Nyanza. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Lamu Governor Issa Timamy has ordered provincial administrators to stop illegal allocations of government land saying they will be prosecuted. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Investment firm Centum is set to kick off the development of the high-end 100 acre project in Gigiri near the United Nations complex. The company is now seeking contractors for the Two Rivers urban development project. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]THE office of the Director of Public Prosecution yesterday called for the cancellation of a Sh1 million bond for a Swedish facing charges of benefitting from prostitution. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]KENYANS will have to wait up to August before their land problems will begin to be effectively tackled, the National Land Commission chairman has said. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]A special needs lobby group in Busia has demanded the nullification of their ODM nominee.The people with disability network chairman Dickson Pekol said Monica Mung'ala who was nominated to represent PWDs is an able person. (AllAfrica)

[Capital FM]Nairobi -Two terror suspects were on Sunday morning shot and killed in Nairobi's Githurai Kimbo estate. (AllAfrica)

[Sabahi]Kenya's ruling Jubilee coalition took control of two key parliamentary committees Friday (May 17th), with Majority Coalition Leader Aden Duale saying they expect to assume control of other committees when the remaining 22 committee chairs are elected next week, Kenya's Capital FM reported. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI 15 April 2008 (IRIN) - Les organisations humanitaires ont besoin de 189 millions de dollars américains pour venir en aide aux personnes déplacées à l’intérieur de leur propre pays (PDIP) et aux autres victimes des violences post-électorales qui ont secoué le Kenya en janvier et février, mais aussi aux populations des régions touchées par la sécheresse. (irinnews.org)