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Kenya NewsScarred by Strife After Election, Kenya Begins to HealFor the first time since Kenya’s disputed election erupted in crisis in December, the government has started a large-scale operation to resettle thousands of people violently driven off their land.Read Full Article World Briefing | Africa: Kenya: Raises for Striking Jail GuardsThe government announced that it was raising the salaries of jail guards to end a strike in which the guards had threatened to release hard-core inmates if their demands were not met.Read Full Article World Briefing | Africa: Kenya: Opposition Leader Takes Oath as New Prime MinisterThe top opposition leader, Raila Odinga, left, who claims to have won the presidential vote in December, was sworn into office as prime minister, fulfilling a main step in a power-sharing deal aimed at ending the violent political crisis that followed the deeply flawed election. More than 1,000 people died in fighting between allies of Mr. Odinga and President Mwai Kibaki, who was declared the winner. They agreed in February to share power but then wrangled over how to allocate cabinet posts. On Thursday, 40 cabinet ministers took up their positions, 20 from each camp. Mr. Kibaki’s party retained the finance and security ministries; Mr. Odinga’s allies will head up agriculture and oversee local government. The entire government, including Mr. Odinga, swore an oath of loyalty to the president.Read Full Article Kenya: Fears of violence snarl transportThe death toll in street clashes between police in Kenya and members of an outlawed gang protesting the imprisonment of their leader has reached 13.Read Full Article 4 Teachers Are Killed in Raid by Islamists on Somali SchoolWitnesses said four teachers, one of them a Briton and two others Kenyans, were killed by Islamist insurgents during a midnight raid on an English-language school.Read Full Article External News for: kenyaCentum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit Plunges - BloombergReuters South AfricaCentum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit PlungesBloomberg20 (Bloomberg) -- Centum Investment Co., Kenya's largest public investment company, fell after it said first-half profit plunged 79 percent as investment ...Kenyan Centum H1 pretax profit slidesReutersKenya may revise terms of new infrastructure bond trancheReuters South AfricaKenya's 91-day T-bill yield slips to 7.198 pctInteractive Investorall 18 news articles »Centum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit Plunges - BloombergReuters South AfricaCentum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit PlungesBloomberg20 (Bloomberg) -- Centum Investment Co., Kenya's largest public investment company, fell after it said first-half profit plunged 79 percent as investment ...Kenyan Centum H1 pretax profit slidesReutersKenya may revise terms of new infrastructure bond trancheReuters South AfricaKenya's 91-day T-bill yield slips to 7.198 pctInteractive Investorall 18 news articles »Ship is pirate target again - Philadelphia InquirerTimes LIVEShip is pirate target againPhiladelphia InquirerAP NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalian pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama yesterday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted this ...Pirates Attack Maersk Alabama AgainNew York TimesUS ship repels pirates with guns and sound blastsThe Associated PressJohnny Depp vanishes off coast of Kenya in pirating mishapWine and Excrement (satire)guardian.co.uk -Examiner.com -Toronto Starall 1,658 news articles »Centum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit Plunges - BloombergReuters South AfricaCentum Investment Kenya Falls After First-Half Profit PlungesBloomberg20 (Bloomberg) -- Centum Investment Co., Kenya's largest public investment company, fell after it said first-half profit plunged 79 percent as investment ...Kenyan Centum H1 pretax profit slidesReutersKenya may revise terms of new infrastructure bond trancheReuters South AfricaKenya's 91-day T-bill yield slips to 7.198 pctInteractive Investorall 18 news articles »Ship is pirate target again - Philadelphia InquirerTimes LIVEShip is pirate target againPhiladelphia InquirerAP NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalian pirates attacked the Maersk Alabama yesterday for the second time in seven months and were thwarted this ...Pirates Attack Maersk Alabama AgainNew York TimesUS ship repels pirates with guns and sound blastsThe Associated PressJohnny Depp vanishes off coast of Kenya in pirating mishapWine and Excrement (satire)guardian.co.uk -Examiner.com -Toronto Starall 1,658 news articles »Kenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violence - The Associated PressDaily NationKenya unveils constitution to avoid vote violenceThe Associated PressNAIROBI, Kenya — A government-appointed panel this week unveiled a draft constitution that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political ...Read the Constitution, Kenyan President advisesCapital FMFACTBOX-Kenya's draft new constitutionReutersKenya bid to cut president powersBBC NewsDaily Nation -AFP -AllAfrica.comall 222 news articles » |
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