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Maternal mortality still remains a big concern as far as healthcare in Kenya goes. Under the Millennium Development Goals for Health, the government aims to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three quarters(75%) between 1990 and 2015.This currently stands at 488 per 100,000 live births, according to the last Demographic Health Survey of 2008/2009. The […]

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It could be significant: with opinion polls showing the leading candidates for Kenya’s presidency running almost neck-and-neck, a survey by Consumer Insight suggests that 34 per cent of TV viewers may have been influenced to change their choice of presidential candidate after watching the Great Presidential Debate 2013. Meanwhile social media trends paint a slightly […]

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Here are comments on last night’s presidential candidates’ debate made by Kenya Forum readers via Facebook and email. For the Forum’s review of the debate and more comments, scroll down to today’s earlier posting or go to this link. Just two questions for Kenya Forum readers: did the presidential debate change your intention as to […]

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Well Kenya’s Great Presidential Debate 2013 may have mimicked the US presidential debates but it was done in true Kenyan style – two candidates had to be fitted in at the last minute, the programme’s agreed format seemed to have been ignored, and the two-hour show ran on for three-and-a-half hours! MUITE AND DIDA JOIN […]

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It will be covered live on eight television channels and 34 radio stations in Kenya; Google will stream the event online and the international media agencies CNN and Reuters will relay it in full. It’s a first for Kenya and a first for Africa: all is in place for tonight’s “Presidential Debate 2013”. SIX CANDIDATES […]

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