20100819
africanews

Close to five hundred Kenyan women held a peaceful procession to the nation's Parliament, urging Members of Parliament to increase budgetary allocations to the health sector to 15% of the national budget, in accordance with commitments made in Abuja in 2001 and at the recently concluded African Union summit in Kampala, Uganda.

20100816
africanews

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki appointed Chirau Ali Mwakwere trade minister on Monday, moving the incumbent Amos Kimunya to the Transport Ministry and shuffling five other ministers around.

20100816
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tourist arrivals rose to 483,000 in the first half of 2010, officials said on Monday, beating for the first time the record numbers posted in 2007.

20100814
Nation

New York — President Barack Obama's special envoy for Sudan may soon be nominated to replace Michael Ranneberger as US ambassador to Kenya, a Washington-based blogger reported on Friday.

20100809
reuters

Nairobi — The new Constitution will be promulgated on the 27th of this month at a public ceremony to be held at Uhuru Park in Nairobi

20100806
Nation

Relaxed and jovial, Mr Odinga used the period before the formal interview to talk candidly about the period leading up to the head operation that sidelined him from the campaign trail.

20100803
reuters

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's electoral authority said voting in Wednesday's referendum on a new constitution would be more transparent than the country's 2007 national election, when claims the poll was rigged triggered violence.

20100803
africanews

Kenyans are preparing feverishly to participate in the first ever referendum after the post election violence that hit the Eastern African nation. Reports indicate that all is set for Wednesday's referendum. Kenya's electoral body has dispatched ballot boxes and papers to all the centres for the vote.

20100802
Nation

Nairobi — Eighty per cent of the constituencies will convey their results using the new Electronic Voter Tallying system.

20100802
Nairobi Star

Nairobi — The Yes and No teams held their final landmark rallies in the city and appealed to the electorate to vote on Wednesday.

President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga exuded confidence when they told a packed Uhuru Park rally that they were assured of victory on Wednesday.

20100801
reuters

BURNT FOREST Kenya (Reuters) - Naomi Kamau, her three children and another woman faced a group of screaming armed men wielding machetes within minutes of President Mwai Kibaki being declared winner of a disputed 2007 election.

20100731
RFI

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's push for an endorsement of a new constitution has received a major boost this weekend. Prime Minister Raila Odinga hit the campaign trail again after a month out because of health problems.

20100730
allafrica

Nairobi — Sixty eight per cent of Kenyans will vote for the proposed Constitution, according to a survey released just five days to the referendum.

20100730
allafrica

Saboti — With only days to the constitutional referendum in Kenya, the issue of land - ownership, quantity and usage - remains the most controversial, with proponents and opponents suggesting different interpretations of land rights detailed in the draft.

20100730
allafrica

With just five days to Kenya's landmark referendum on a new constitution, the country's most well-known reform cleric Reverend Timothy Njoya, attacks Christian Church leaders for campaigning against the draft constitution in the vote next Wednesday.

20100727
allafrica

Nairobi — HIV-positive people on treatment will be switched from regimens containing the antiretroviral Stavudine to less toxic combinations in line with UN World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines, according to a senior official.

NAIROBI, July 26 (Xinhua) -- A Kenya Airways in-flight crew delivered a baby girl on board a flight that had just landed from Muscat, Oman in Nairobi late last week.

20100723
africanews

NAIROBI (Reuters) - A majority of Kenyans intend to vote for a new constitution next month, although land remains a divisive issue in the province that bore the brunt of post-election violence in 2008, opinion polls showed on Friday.

20100720
reuters

ISIOLO Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan security forces clashed along the border on Tuesday with gunmen from the Somali rebel group that was behind deadly suicide bombings in Uganda this month, an official and residents said.

20100717
allafrica

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Almost two-thirds of Kenyans intend to vote for a new constitution next month although just as many say it will need some amendments, an independent poll has found.