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Kenyan Foreign Minister Moses Wetengula has said that China’s cooperation with Africa is conducive to the economic development of African countries.
Speaking in an interview with Xinhua on Monday, the minister said that remarkable achievements had been made in the field of cooperation since the holding of the Beijing Summit of China-Africa Cooperation Forum in [...]
Written on October 29, 2009 | Posted in
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By Caroline K. Kwatemba
Men undergoes through the ritual of circumcision or getting a ‘cut’, at a young age as right of passage or initiation to manhood. Biblically the act is considered for the males only but among African societies, some communities extend this traditional practice to females. Recently undertook a random check to [...]
Written on October 28, 2009 | Posted in
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By Isaac Masidza
Hello folks. This column is back and will hopefully ran for a long time till another break. I have to indulge your apologies for being AWOL (absent without official leave) but I can explain that. You see I was sent to do some work for some organization in one of the many God [...]
Written on October 24, 2009 | Posted in
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By Carolyne Gichuki
A visit to any small and big markets or towns in western Kenya in the evening or on market days, one will notice a lot of activities at some corner that seem to specifically been apportioned to ready to eat fish processing or selling. In Kitale town, walking around one is taken in [...]
Written on October 21, 2009 | Posted in
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Source:Xinhua
Senior Chinese official Zhou Yongkang Tuesday pledged to promote friendly relations with Kenya.
Zhou, a member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, made the remarks when meeting with Musalia Mudavadi, a senior leader of Kenya’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) party.
Hailing the stable and healthy development [...]
Written on October 21, 2009 | Posted in
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By Hudson Gumbihi
THE faceless Mungiki sect is tightening its grip with members of the outlawed gang changing methods of operations each passing day.
Police seem to have become toothless against the outlawed sect with a penchant for extortion and bloody atrocities on victims. In Nairobi, Kenya, the sect has taken control of Public Service Vehicles targeting [...]
Written on October 18, 2009 | Posted in
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By Maurice Aluda
Generally speaking, this is has been a difficult year for our country’s economic output. If nothing changes, our agriculture-based economy is headed to the doldrums. Several factors have contributed to this year’s negative performance on our farms. These include; changing weather patterns, unreliable farm inputs, and presence of middlemen.
Today it is increasingly [...]
Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in
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By Maurice Aluda
In act 1 of Nikolai Vasilyevitch Gogol’s The Government Inspector the governor calls together the leading town officials to discuss strategies for covering up the extent of corruption, incompetence, and inadequacy in the town’s public institutions from the eyes of the government inspector — who is expected to arrive any day. The governor [...]
Written on October 14, 2009 | Posted in
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By Edmond Luchiri
Kenya’s western province’s schools have continued to dominate in both national and Eastern Africa Regional Inter-school Competitions year in year out, a success that our leaders should keenly take advantage of in and attempt to tap these achievements. Talents if natured well and developed will offer a lasting solution to the perennial joblessness [...]
Written on October 12, 2009 | Posted in
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Caroline K. Kwatemba
As the title implies, one wonders why some people do no not have a sense of respect for other people’s property. They thrive on stealing or vandalizing other people’s property: hence the old cliché says “reaping where they did not sow”! In the same vein simply put, they are referred to as petty [...]
Written on October 9, 2009 | Posted in
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