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Standard: Maternal deaths on the rise despite technology
At least 21 women die daily from childbirth-related complications adding up to about 7,700 families losing their mother, in the process of delivering a sibling or her first child.
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Standard: Furious nature unleashes floods and landslides
Once again, Kenya’s response to disasters and its preparedness has come into sharp focus, revealing the country’s inadequacies that cost its peoples lives and property.
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Standard: Somali pirates seize ship, hold 10 Kenyans
Somali pirates have taken hostage 10 Kenyan sailors aboard a Spanish owned fishing vessel in the latest series of pirate attacks in the Indian Ocean.
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Standard: Leaders unite on Sudan peace process
African leaders have concurred that a General Election and referendum in Sudan posed a serious challenge to the country’s fragile peace.
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Standard: MPs retreat that could herald dream for new law
It is so near, yet so far. That is how Kenya is so close to the dream for a new constitution, but still so far from it – given the row between coalition partners over contentious clauses.
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Standard: Mudavadi probed over cemetery saga
The Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission is fighting perception it has been chasing small fish, but it now has Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi on its to-probe-list.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - Speech By ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - Speech By President Mwai Kibaki during the 14th Extra-Ordinary Summit Of IGAD Assembly of Heads Of State And Government on the Sudan Peace Process.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - The government ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - The government was on Tuesday put on the spot to explain why a “senior Cabinet Minister” and City Mayor Geoffrey Majiwa were still in office.i
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CapitalFM: GENEVA, Mar 9 - The World Health ...
GENEVA, Mar 9 - The World Health Organisation unveiled Tuesday landmark new measures to counter the misuse of anti-malaria drugs.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, March 9 - The Nairobi ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 9 - The Nairobi City Council (NCC) is now blaming a lack of proper planning for the inconsistency that resulted in the purchase of a cemetery plot at Mavoko.
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CapitalFM: MOGADISHU, Mar 9 - Gunmen on Tuesday ...
MOGADISHU, Mar 9 - Gunmen on Tuesday killed a Somali Islamist military leader critical of his group\'s recent merger with the Al Qaeda-inspired Shebab movement.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - The 14th ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - The 14th Extra Ordinary Summit of the Inter-Governmental Authority (IGAD) Heads of State and Government has resolved to ensure democracy prevails in the Sudan.
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CapitalFM: HILDESHEIM, Mar 9 - A German court ...
HILDESHEIM, Mar 9 - A German court fined Princess Caroline of Monaco\'s husband, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Sh20 million on Tuesday for causing actual bodily harm to a Kenyan hotelier.
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CapitalFM: HARARE, Mar 9 - Lawyers for a ...
HARARE, Mar 9 - Lawyers for a top aide to Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday told his treason trial he had no case to answer.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - A medical ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 9 - A medical expert at the Ministry of Public Health has said there is need to enhance sex education to move away from the current debate over legalising abortion.
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CapitalFM: PARIS, Mar 9 - All four flash ...
PARIS, Mar 9 - All four flash determined smiles and boast high-profile jobs in President Nicolas Sarkozy\'s government, but a glitzy regional election campaign is floundering.
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Nation-: Cereals board owed Sh2bn
The National Cereals and Produce Board is facing a financial crisis due to debts owed by the government, a senior official has said.
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Nation-: Squatters evicted from ADC farm
The invaders claimed there was pact with State over land
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Nation-: Wamalwa to ignore calls to halt campaigns
An MP has vowed to continue campaigning ahead of the 2012 General Election despite opposition from a section of lawmakers from Western Province.
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Nation-: Leaders protest at ban on exam cheats
Two leaders have criticised a decision to slap a two-year ban on examination cheats.
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Nation-: Lack of funds locks schools out of fete
The Coast provincial drama festival kicked off on Tuesday with a low turn-out.
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CapitalFM: ZANZIBAR, Mar 9 - Electricity was restored ...
ZANZIBAR, Mar 9 - Electricity was restored to Tanzania\'s Zanzibar island after a three-months blackout in the idyllic Indian Ocean tourist spot, officials said.
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CapitalFM: BRUSSELS, Mar 8 - European naval forces ...
BRUSSELS, Mar 8 - European naval forces revealed two more pirate interceptions in waters off Somalia, raising the number of suspected pirates captured to more than 40.
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BBCKenya: Prince fined over Kenya assault
Princess Caroline of Monaco's husband is fined 200,000 euros for assaulting a hotel owner in Kenya in 2000.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - Prime Minister ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga has maintained that politicians and leaders implicated in corruption must be held to account for the government’s war against graft to succeed.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - President Mwai ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - President Mwai Kibaki held talks with the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Dominique Strauss Khan on Monday.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - As Kenya ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - As Kenya joined the rest of the world in marking the International Women’s Day on Monday.
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BBCKenya: Porn domain name plan resurrected
A plan to create a net domain for adult content could be revisited three years after it was rejected by regulators.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, March 8 - The government ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 8 - The government says Kenya will prioritise trade and investment as part of its economic recovery plan after the global meltdown.
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K24: Roads destroyed by rains in Utawala estate
The heavy rains that have continued to pound the country has left many residents counting huge losses after the rains destroyed their homes, and access roads. Some residents of Utawala estate in Nairobi now can't access their homes...
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K24: Floods cause havoc in Samburu
Floods continue to cause havoc in Samburu north sweeping away everything in its way causing massive destruction. A total of ten tourists were evacuated from both Serena and Samburu game lodges using helicopters as River Ewaso Nyiro broke...
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K24: Kakuma's prostitutes
Picture this, you live in a foreign land, you have children but no family, no money, nothing to fall back on. What would you do to survive? 19-year old jane, not her real name, fled her home in...
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - The number ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 8 - The number of people who have died as a result of the ongoing heavy rains in parts of the country has risen to nine.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar, 8 - It has ...
NAIROBI, Kenya, Mar, 8 - It has now emerged that several workers presented fake documents during the ongoing Nairobi City Council (NCC) headcount.
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CapitalFM: BERLIN, Mar 8 - Germany\'s justice minister ...
BERLIN, Mar 8 - Germany\'s justice minister hit out at the Vatican over a child sex abuse scandal engulfing the country\'s Roman Catholic Church.
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CapitalFM: KAMPALA, Mar 8 - Uganda plans to ...
KAMPALA, Mar 8 - Uganda plans to resettle at least 500,000 people living in mountainous areas over fears that last week\'s deadly landslide could happen again.
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CapitalFM: WASHINGTON, Mar 8 - Washington will allow ...
WASHINGTON, Mar 8 - Washington will allow technology companies to export Internet services to Iran, Cuba and Sudan in a bid to exploit their libertarian potential.
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CapitalFM: ANKARA, Mar 8 - At least 51 ...
ANKARA, Mar 8 - At least 51 people were killed in a powerful earthquake that struck eastern Turkey early on Monday, a local official said.
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Standard: Kibaki suspends PS, 12 others over Sh260m cemetery scandal
The cemetery land scandal at City Hall has claimed Local Government PS Sammy Kirui and senior 12 officials.
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Standard: PNU tells off Raila’s party on coalition hierarchy
President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity is contesting claims by Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement that its leader and the Head of State are equals before the National Accord.
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Standard: CoE ‘operating illegally’ as contract expired
The Committee of Experts on the constitutional review process has been operating illegally for the past two weeks, The Standard has learnt.
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Standard: Secret war behind Cabinet travel ban
The prospect of a showdown in Parliament over amendments to Revised Harmonised Draft Constitution tabled last week has led to suspension of overseas trips by ministers and their assistants.
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BBCKenya: Uganda to 'move half a million'
People living in Uganda's mountainous areas are at risk from mudslides and must be relocated, the government says.
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Standard-: Should the proposed constitution allow any clause that legalises abortion?
Debate over abortion has been raging with Christians threatening to campaign against the Proposed Constitution come the referendum if it allows any clause on abortion. Stephen Makabila and Vitalis Kimutai interviewed Kimilili MP Dr Eseli Simiyu and his Sotik counterpart...
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Standard-: Power: Parties take no chances ahead of 2012
Held together in a political marriage of convenience under the Grand Coalition Government umbrella, the country’s two political blocks are already in a state of unrest, as schemes and counter schemes for the 2012 contest take shape.
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Standard: IMF warns of hurdles in Kenya’s recovery path
Kenya’s road to economic recovery is paved with numerous roadblocks and the Government must craft strategies to overcome them, International Monetary Fund has said.
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Standard: Affirmative action yet to be achieved despite efforts
Women still lag behind in leadership positions despite President Kibaki’s decree of 30 per cent representation.
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CapitalFM: NAIROBI, Kenya. Mar 8 - The Japanese ...
NAIROBI, Kenya. Mar 8 - The Japanese government has expressed it satisfaction with how Kenya has utilised development funds allocated to it.
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Nation-: Birth papers to be issued in schools
Registration of births is to be conducted in schools and colleges to ease the burden on parents
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Nation-: Basketballer, 20, proves her father wrong on disability
Two decades ago, her father walked out on the family because of her disability; today she is independent and takes care of her grandparents, proving him wrong against all odds.
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Nation-: Council boss reinstated as poll is nullified
A court has nullified a county council election and reinstated a former chairman.
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CapitalFM: CHITUNGWIZA, Mar 8 - Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister ...
CHITUNGWIZA, Mar 8 - Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called for an African Union and regional peacekeeping force to ensure that general elections will be peaceful.
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BBCKenya: France seizes 35 Somali 'pirates'
The French navy captures 35 Somali suspected pirates in three days - calling it the biggest seizure since 2008.
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K24: Fighting drug abuse among the youth
Mediamax Networks Limited Managing Director Rose Kimotho is calling on parents to be in the front line in the fight against drug abuse among othe vices affecting the youth. She was speaking during the launch of a...
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K24: Life in Kakuma refugee camp
Kakuma refugee camp, one the largest refugee camps in North Eastern Kenya located in Turkana District was established in 1992 to serve refugees from Somalia, Ethiopia among other countries. According to UNHCR, the camp population stands at 61,285...
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K24: Jaboya: Sex in exchange for fish
Competition for fish in some kenyan fishing communities is so stiff that female sellers are developing sexual relationships with fishermen and middlemen in exchange of fish. The practise known as 'jaboya' is exposing a new generation to HIV...
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Standard: Google maps out Kenya on the web
The Kenya ICT Board has partnered with Google to push more local content to the Internet and see Kenya inch closer to becoming a knowledge and information economy.
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Standard: Clerics told to seek solution to gay marriages
An NGO has asked Christians and Muslims to stop using holy books to condemn gay marriages.
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Standard: Women’s Fund facing collapse
Kenyan women celebrate the International Women’s Day today amid reports of near collapse of the multi-million Women Enterprise Fund.
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Standard: Lake Naivasha Report: Flower farms redeemed
Unusual environmental patterns caused the sudden death of fish in Lake Naivasha recently, an interim report has revealed.
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Standard: Kiraitu: How we plan to use PDM in 2012
Progressive Democratic Movement interim Chairman Kiraitu Murungi calls the launch of new political outfit shadowing Orange Party the ‘sharpening of punches’ ahead of 2012 elections’ showdown.
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Standard: ODM’s fury with Kibaki
President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have not met over Cabinet ministers Ruto or Ongeri. Cabinet too hasn’t met. Now Raila’s party’s anger with Kibaki’s unilateral actions is rising
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Nation-: Lamu to host 20,000 Muslims
Lamu Island expects a tourism boom this week when more than 20,000 Muslims congregate for the Maulidi celebrations starting Monday.
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K24: Fighting for human rights
In the first ruling by an international tribunal that found a violation of the right to development, the commission found that this eviction with minimal compensation, violated the Endorois community's rights as an indigenous people to prosperity, health, culture, religion...
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K24: Gitari speaks out
Retired Archbishop Dr. David Gitari is a man remembered by many Kenyans for his devotion to fight for a second liberation in the country. during former President Daniel Arap Moi's regime. As the debate on the new constitution rages...
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K24: Mwakwere's trying his Luck, again!!
Former cabinet minister Ali Chirau Mwakwere has hit the road with early minute campaigns in attempts to recapture his Matuga parliamentary seat. Mwakwere has been transversing the constituency for days now trying to woe the locals to accord him...
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K24: Parliamentary Committees hailed for their job
The quest for a new constitution went a notch higher Sunday, with members of the National Civil Society Congress (NCSC) appealing to Kenyans to support the process in order for them to finally realize the long awaited constitution. The...
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K24: Former Kenya Labour minister dies in a Nairobi Hospital
Former Cabinet Minister in the Ministry of Labour, Newton Kulundu died early Sunday morning at the Nairobi Hospital, at age 52. Dr Kulundu was admitted at the Hospital almost a month ago following a long illness. He served Lulambi constituency...
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BBCKenya: Kenyan runner wins half marathon
Thousands of people line the streets of Bath to cheer on those taking part in the city's 29th half marathon.
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Standard-: Why Kalonzo is the man to watch in new movement
The creation of People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) as the rallying point for PNU and its affiliates has potential to propel political fortunes of some of the party’s leading lights, and dim others.
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Standard-: PDM dilemma as it tries to forge elusive unity
Whether or not the new kid on the block, the Progressive Democratic Movement (PDM), can be nurtured into a formidable movement ahead of the 2012 General Election is debatable.
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K24: Women as agents of peace
Women are always left out of many peace building initiatives mostly in the Horn of Africa. Coalition for Peace in Africa is currently training women to ensure they have the capacity to promote peace in the region.
The training brings...
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K24: Infotrak report on Women
The International Women's Day marked on 8th March celebrates the economic, political and social achievement of women in the past, present and future.
Ahead of the day's celebration in Kenya, an Infotrak Harris Poll conducted to garner insight on Kenyan...
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Standard: You can now kiss sexy massage parlours bye
"Honey, I’m going for a full body massage." Normally, such a statement would be met with wrath from partners and is therefore better not uttered.
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Standard: PNU determined to keep Annan off
The Party of National Unity has waged a fierce diplomatic campaign to disband former UN chief Kofi Annan-led mediation team, but it is coming up against strong resistance from the international community that fears the country will descend into chaos...
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K24: Give it up for the Placenta Party of Kenya
A third force, the Placenta Party of Kenya, which will give ODM and PNU a run for their money at least according to former television personality Esther Arunga and her political mentor, Joseph Hellon has now been officially launched.
The...
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Standard: Why Kenyans don’t get birth certificates
For weeks now, parents seeking birth certificates to have their children registered for national examinations have swamped Sheria House.
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Standard: Women can’t trust their own in politics, shows report
Majority of Kenyan women would rather have a male president than one of their own, a new report has revealed.
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Standard: Ten reasons that could make House rebel
About ten selfishly and jealously guarded interests of Members of Parliament stand in the way of a realisation of a new constitution and their place in the books of history.
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Standard: Raila is not taking chances
Recent political realignments, including the perception by other presidential aspirants that Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the man to beat, have propelled him into action.
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