Kenya:Uhuru to Reverse Fuel Cost Rise, Says Raila As Pressure Mounts
ODM leader Raila Odinga has said President Uhuru Kenyatta will sign into law the amendments to the 16 per cent VAT on petroleum products passed by Parliament last week. Speaking in Kisumu where he was...
View ArticleKenya:Govt Wants China to Pay Half the Cost of Railway Extension to Kisumu
Kenya wants Beijing to foot half of the cost of extending the Standard Gauge Railway to Kisumu, in what could be the latest move by Nairobi to slow down on debt. During a bilateral meeting with China's...
View ArticleKenya:Relief As High Court Stops New Tax on Petroleum Products
The High Court in Bungoma on Thursday granted temporary orders stopping the levying of 16 per cent VAT on fuel products. The petitioners represented by Advocate Ken Amondi argued that the Treasury...
View ArticleKenya:Okoth Obado Records Statement On Sharon Otieno Murder
Migori Governor Okoth Obado has reported to Kisumu criminal investigations offices for questioning over the murder of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno. He arrived at the Kisumu regional police...
View ArticleKenya:Fuel Tax - Now ERC, Henry Rotich Sued for Contempt
A Kisumu lobby group that secured temporary orders stopping implementation of 16 percent VAT on fuel has now sued the Energy Regulatory Commission and Treasury for contempt. Justice Fred Ochieng of the...
View ArticleKenya:Another Fuel Price Rise Looms
The Energy Regulatory Commission is staring at a deep dilemma Friday as it readies to announce new pump prices amid the controversy over the 16 per cent value added tax on petroleum products. With the...
View ArticleKenya:Oversupply of Mall Space in Kenya - Report
Kenyan cities are faced with an oversupply of retail space, a real estate report has revealed. And many real estate developers, especially of malls, are already feeling the effect as slow uptake...
View ArticleUganda:Why Museveni Returned From China Without SGR Deal
Opinion among experts is divided on how fruitful President Yoweri Museveni's recent trip to the China-Africa forum was after it emerged he failed to ink a deal on funding for the the standard gauge...
View ArticleKenya:Kisumu Hospital Where Patients Sleep On Cold Floors
The biggest referral hospital in western Kenya is suffering the ignominy of forcing patients to sleep on cold hard floors due to lack of beds. The shame of Teaching and Referral Hospital was laid bare...
View ArticleKenya:Hassan Joho Gives Uhuru Kenyatta Free Advice On SGR
Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho has urged President Kenyatta to stop the construction of the second phase of the standard gauge railway to save Kenyan more debt pain. If all goes according to plan, it...
View ArticleThe 'roads' to a rich Uganda in 2030 are there - right here
The world is running out of fish. By last year, the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation , was estimating that 70 per cent of fish populations were fully used, overused, or in crisis as a result of...
View ArticleKenya:Governor Obado Fathered Sharon's Baby - DNA
Detectives and government scientists have finally confirmed, to the highest degree known to science, that the baby boy ripped from Ms Sharon Otieno's womb was Okoth Obado's, thus putting the Migori...
View ArticleKenya:Governors Call in Elders to Solve Border Conflicts
Governors under the Lake Region Economic Bloc have resolved to use traditional elders to resolve boundary disputes and forestall spats between members. Mr Wycliffe Oparanya, Kakamega Governor and LREB...
View ArticleKenya:Clues That Link Okoth Obado to Murder of Sharon Otieno
The State is treating Migori Governor Okoth Obado as the first accused in the murder of Rongo University student Sharon Otieno after reviewing a series of leads and confessions of suspects in custody...
View ArticleKenya:Stop Depending On Govt in Poverty Fight - Odinga
ODM leader Raila Odinga wants Nyanza residents to stop whining about marginalisation and wean themselves off overdependence on the national government. In what seems to be part of his continued change...
View ArticleKenya:Suspected Gor Fans Injure Three, Damage Kisumu Hotel
Suspected Gor Mahia fans left a trail of destruction in Kisumu town on Sunday, before the club's match against Mathare United. People wearing green K'Ogalo jerseys wreaked havoc at the popular Kakwacha...
View ArticleKenya bus crash kills 50 on way to Kisumu
At least 50 people were killed when a bus travelling from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to Kisumu, in the west, veered off the road, police say. Police said the driver lost control and the vehicle...
View ArticleAgonizing cries for help heard, 50 killed in Kenya bus crash
In a catastrophic incident that is set to haunt Kenya, a bus travelling from the country's capital of Nairobi to Kisumu city, plunged off a slope in the dead of the night. An official said that the bus...
View ArticleKenya:Kericho Bus Crash Driver Was 72 Years Old
It used to be that the only remarkable thing about Fort Ternan was that it marked the place where Dr Louis Leakey, in 1961, discovered the fossils of an early human called Kenyapithecus Wickeri,...
View ArticleKenya:How Killer Bus Owner Rose From Humble Beginnings to Amass Great Wealth
Cleophas Shimanyula, the owner of the bus that crashed in Kericho leaving at least 58 people dead, rose from a modest background to a politically well-connected businessman, who curved a niche for...
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