Archive | January 13, 2012

Opinion divided over poll date ruling

By Admin NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 13 – Kenyans hold divergent opinions following Friday’s High Court ruling that set the next general elections for 2013 unless the coalition government collapses to warrant an earlier poll. The constitutional division of the court ruled that the general elections will be held within 60 days after the expiry of [...]

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205,000 pupils to miss secondary school places

By Admin NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 13 – At least 205,000 pupils who sat the 2011 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCSE) Examinations will miss places in secondary schools. This figure however represents a significant decrease from those who missed places last year whose number stood at 260,000. Speaking during the launch of the 2012 form [...]

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Kenya’s polls in 2013 unless coalition fails – court

By Admin Kenya voted for a new constitution endorsed in 2010/FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 13 – Kenya will hold general elections by March 2013, unless the coalition government is dissolved before then, the High Court ruled on Friday in the controversial dispute. The date of the general elections, the first since deadly post-poll violence four [...]

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Somali Islamists parade Kenyan hostages

By Admin MOGADISHU, Jan 13 – Somalia’s Islamist Shabaab insurgents on Friday paraded two Kenyan hostages kidnapped in revenge for Nairobi’s troop deployment against the Al-Qaeda-linked group, rebels and witnesses said. Heavily armed Shabaab fighters drove the pair on a pickup truck around the streets of Bardhere in the southern Somalia’s Gedo region chanting “God [...]

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