February 2011

World

Kazakh leader announces snap vote in April

ASTANA, Feb 4 – Kazakhstan\’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday signed an order to hold snap presidential elections on April 3 after rejecting a...

February 4, 2011

World

Hunger stunts Philippine children

MANILA, Feb 4 – A third of Philippine school children are stunted because poverty has forced them to eat too little food for years,...

February 4, 2011

World

Mubarak wants to quit but fears chaos

WASHINGTON, Feb 4 – Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has said in a US television interview that he wants to leave office, but fears there...

February 4, 2011

Kenya

Raila blasts absentee ministers

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – Prime Minster Raila Odinga on Friday refused to sign performance contracts for ministries whose Cabinet Ministers failed to show...

LABAN WANAMBISIFebruary 4, 2011

Kenya

100 Kenyans due from Egypt Saturday

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – Nearly 100 Kenyans fleeing violent protests in Egypt are expected to arrive in Nairobi on Saturday. Foreign Affairs Assistant...

February 4, 2011

Kenya

Kibaki meets Speaker over nominees row

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – President Mwai Kibaki has met the Speaker of the National Assembly Kenneth Marende as efforts to save the current...

ANTHONY KAGIRIFebruary 4, 2011

Kenya

Court will not stop MPs from nominees task

The Speaker of the National Assembly, Kenneth Marende, has said that the two parliamentary committees will continue discussing and analysing the controversial judicial nominations...

Sarah WambuiFebruary 4, 2011

Kenya

Court ruling blocking nominees praised

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – The Kenyan Chapter of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has welcomed the High Court\’s decision declaring the recent...

February 4, 2011

Kenya

Living positively with cancer

NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – Most people equate cancer to a death sentence. But Dolly who was first diagnosed with the disease in September...

WAMBUI NDONGAFebruary 4, 2011

Africa

Somali lawmakers extend their mandate

MOGADISHU, Feb 3 – Somalia\’s transitional parliament Thursday extended its own mandate by three years, speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan said. The mandate of...

February 3, 2011