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It’s  conundrum: do Kenya’s rich and powerful fly abroad for medical treatment because the country’s health system is so bad, or is Kenya’s health system left to rot because the country’s rich and powerful don’t have to use it? Former President Daniel arap Moi , now aged 93, flew back from Israel last week where […]

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AMBASSADOR’S TELEX REVEALS US ASSESSMENT OF KENYA’S CONTROVERSIAL 2007 POLL: ‘DID KIBAKI STEAL THE ELECTION?’  By Martin Minns The hotly disputed 2007 presidential elections in Kenya between Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga led to civil disorder and post election-violence (PEV) in which perhaps 1,300 people died and hundreds of thousands were displaced. To this day […]

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There was an increase in the number of executions reported worldwide in 2013, according to a report (‘Death Sentences and Executions 2013’) released by Amnesty International, a global movement of supporters, members and activists who campaign to end grave abuses of human rights. There was an increase of almost 15 percent in the number of […]

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For a moment it passed as a considerate move to the Kenyan taxpayer when President Kenyatta announced a week ago his government’s plans to slash salaries of top government officials in a bid to scale down the country’s ballooning wage bill, an announcement that was followed by a National Public Wage Bill Debate Forum at the […]

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  Will the report from the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) ever see the light of day? It is a curious case but not entirely for the reasons some commentators have suggested.The TJRC have completed their report but await an appointment to hand it over to President Uhuru Kenyatta, a date and time for […]

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