5/3/08

UN chief pushes Kenya deal
The Times – Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
GENEVA – United Nations (UN) chief Ban Ki-moon has urged Kenya’s leaders to follow through on a power-sharing deal reached last week after mediation by Kofi …
www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=720326

What Future Awaits the Children of Kenya?
By Cassandra Clifford
Echoes of Rwanda have filled our minds as Kenya became engulfed in the flames of ethnic violence and war this #### , the tensions have taken much of the spotlight off Sudan who still lingers in the grey shadows of genocide. …
children.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2008/03/04/
what-future-awaits-the-children-of-kenya/

Kenya poised to make history on continent, says Raila
Daily Nation – Nairobi,Kenya
Orange Democratic Movement leader Raila Odinga Tuesday said Kenya will become a leader in Africa by becoming the first country to have a Prime Minister and …
www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgconte
ntentry.asp?category_id=2&newsid=118306

4/3/08

Kenya: Strong Institutions Will Save this Country
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
If President Kibaki and Raila Odinga thought they were simply saving Kenya from political chaos and that in Abraham Lincoln’s words; “The World will little …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041153.html

Kenya: Country Needs Law to Protect Bankrupt Companies
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Arguably Kenya’s biggest bankruptcy in recent times has been that of Uchumi Supermarkets Limited. The main cause of the company’s financial woes was an…
allafrica.com/stories/200803041154.html

Kenya: Chinese Company Plans to Open Tannery
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
A Chinese leather company is planning to open a tannery in Kenya ahead of a major shake-up in the global trade in animal hides. Under pressure to clean up …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041162.html

DTB Kenya profit hits Sh1bn
Daily Nation – Nairobi,Kenya
Diamond Trust Bank Kenya Tuesday announced a 54 per cent increase in pre-tax profit for the year ended December 2007, pushing it past the magical Sh1 …
www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontent
entry.asp?category_id=3&newsid=118275

Kenya: Top-Level Talks Augur Well
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
President Kibaki and ODM leader Raila Odinga on Monday met and set up a team of six to draw up plans for implementing the grand coalition deal they signed …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041270.html

Kenya: Country Unaffected By Recall of Anti-Malaria Drug
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
This has allayed fears that the recall of the malaria drug might hamper the fight against the killer disease in Kenya. “We stopped selling the drug in…
allafrica.com/stories/200803041151.html

Kenya: Reports Paint Gloomy Picture of Food Situation
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
“Continued conflict has affected production centres, the impact of which is likely to carry on upto June 2009,” the February Kenya Food Security update…
allafrica.com/stories/200803041155.html

Kenya: Onus is On Kibaki On Deal
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Had Kibaki not stolen the December poll, Kenya could have been spared unnecessary deaths of more than 1500 people and the displacement of hundreds of …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041078.html

Kenya: Diamond Trust Bank Profits Up 54 Per Cent
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Diamond Trust Bank Kenya pre-tax profit for last year rose by 54 per cent to Sh1.06 billion, up from Sh685 million reported in 2006. …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041137.html

Kenya: Choppers Pursue Mt Elgon Militia
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The fighting sparked off by the militia over the controversial Chebyuk settlement scheme, has, according to the Western Kenya Human Rights Watch,…
allafrica.com/stories/200803041132.html

Kenya: Join Opposition, Lawyers Ask Kalonzo
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) Chairman, Mr Okong’o Omogeni, and East Africa Law Society (EALS) President, Mr Tom Ojienda, said Kalonzo should be in the …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041125.html

Kenya: Imam MP to Back Muslims
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
ODM nominated MP and Muslim preacher, Sheikh Mohamed Dor, will become the first Imam in Kenya’s Parliament. Dor and Ms Safia Abdi were selected by the …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041134.html

Kenya: Schools Hit At Council Over KCSE Tallying
AllAfrica.com – Washington,USA
Schools in Western, Nyanza and Rift Valley provinces, the most affected, took the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to task after individual marks …
allafrica.com/stories/200803041129.html

Reporting Kenya
By richard@sambrook.org.uk
The report comes on the heels of the announcement of power-sharing between Kenya’s political parties. It suggests Kenya’s media have been low-key, even timid in their reporting of the country’s political crisis.
sambrook.typepad.com/sacredfacts/2008/03/reporting-kenya.html

KENYA: 3 Killed in Attack in Western Kenya
By warvictims
3 Killed in Attack in Western Kenya By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY The Associated Press NAIROBI, Kenya — Thirteen people were burned alive or hacked to death Monday in an attack blamed on a land dispute, the first major eruption of violence …
warvictims.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/
kenya-3-killed-in-attack-in-western-kenya/

Experimental political solution forged in Kenya
The International Red Cross in South Africa says the humanitarian impact of Kenya’s upheaval is being felt throughout the region and it’s not yet over. Catherine Genre was speaking at the Centre for International Policy Studies. …
www.702.co.za/news/news.asp#82529