Tag Archives: Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Thirty-six people were killed and 11 injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision between a bus and a lorry on a road in central Kenya, police said. “The death toll is now 36,” said Rift Valley traffic police chief Zero Arome, explaining the initial …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenya’s telecom firm, Safaricom, has relaunched its Internet-enabled digital TV decoders in the market a year after it suspended sales to address technical malfunctions, according to Business Daily. The telco started selling the Safaricom Digital TV and Internet Box for Kshs 9,999 (Shs350, 000) at …

Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni and his host President Uhuru Kenyatta have today held talks that included a review of progress on the multi-billion dollar Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Project. Uganda and Kenyan officials are committed to a seamless connectivity of the SGR which will cost the …

Machakos, Kenya | AFP | Kenya won the Cecafa Challenge Cup on Sunday as they edged Zanzibar 3-2 in a penalty shootout following a 2-2 draw after extra time in the final in Machakos. Ovella Ochieng put hosts Kenya into a fifth-minute lead after bending in a long-range strike, but …

Justice Kasule’s decent proposal on presidential election petitions Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Two weeks after Kenya’s repeat election held on Oct.26, Justice Remmy Kasule of Uganda’s Constitution Court, bounced a novel idea off another distinguished legal brain in the region— Dr. Willy Mutunga, former chief justice of Kenya. Justice …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenyan security forces raped, beat and assaulted civilians during violence in recent elections, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. “There was widespread sexual violence against women and girls, and sexual attacks on men,” HRW said, in a report titled, “They were men in uniform.” The violence, …

Weighing economic, political ties and future relationships that could prove decisive for Africa COMMENT | HANNAH RYDER | Ask anyone with a basic knowledge of Africa which country is more poised for success – Zimbabwe or Kenya – and he or she will undoubtedly answer “Kenya.” Events of the last week …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Kenya’s opposition has postponed a ceremony to swear in its leader Raila Odinga as a parallel president after a controversial poll it boycotted, the party said Sunday. The National Super Alliance (NASA) had planned to inaugurate Odinga on Tuesday — Kenya’s independence day. The veteran …

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP |  Months of electoral upheaval, sporadic unrest and economic slowdown have hit young Kenyans hard, a nationwide youth survey found Thursday. The struggle to make ends meet has left them disillusioned, apathetic and angry, according to the annual survey of nearly 3,000 Kenyans aged 15-24 years …

Kenya government threatens opposition with ‘treason’ charge Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Kenya’s attorney general said Thursday that an opposition plan to have its leader Raila Odinga sworn in as an alternative president would amount to treason. Odinga challenged the result of August’s presidential election but then boycotted the court-ordered October …