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Kenya: JKI airport fugitive arrest saga a case of mistaken identity?

By Hudson Gumbihi| Nairobi, Kenya
THE man mistaken to be fugitive Yagnesh Mohanlal Devani has been paraded by police as the immigration department admitted the wanted businessman was still on the run.
The parading of Kalpesh Vasudev Mohanlal Devani came at the back off a storm between police and immigration departments. Immigration minister Otieno Kajwang’ had [...]

Kenya: Security stumble over the mystery man at JKI Airport

He fled the country in 2008 following a failure by Triton to deliver imported petroleum products worth 7.6 billion that led to a shortage of oil in the countr

Kenya: Majority of ordinary people wants a new constitution now

By Hudson Gumbihi| Nairobi, Kenya
Kenyans for the first time are more determined to have a new constitution than ever before.
The resolve can best be captured in the enthusiasm the YES campaign has received so far. On the contrary, the NO team seems to be walking into murky waters – apart from the church [...]

Rural women making a difference in the face of glaring poverty

By Roselynn Lwenya PhD
As the world economies shrink and the effects of the climate change bite deeper into livelihoods, women in sub-Saharan Africa continue to bear the brunt of the conditions poverty imposes on them. More than midway to 2015 deadline for the implementation of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Kenya’s prospects for [...]

A native grass destroys Water hyacinth in Lake Victoria East Africa

By John W. Gichuki (PhD)
Water hyacinth locally known as “FORD” (the weed appeared in the lake at the same time as the dawn of multiparty democracy and also when Forum for the Restoration of Democracy was born in the early 1990s), is a perennial water herb and a native of tropical America. It has been [...]

When Kisumu Streets comes to a halt due to mourning

By Grace K Amugune
In Kisumu city, Kenya, tuesday and friday are days which are surrounded with all bizarre almost comical happenings.
These is when relatives of the recently departed collect bodies of their loved ones from the morgue.
Ordinarily Kisumu is one city which does not suffer the gridlock traffic jam, but on these two [...]