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Archives for August 2012

Miguna Miguna: A nationalist or a man with a bloated ego and reeking vengeance

August 31, 2012 1 Comment

BY LONE FELIX first posted on  July 20, 2012 at http://lonefelix.wordpress.com/about/ I have completed reading Miguna Miguna’s book: Peeling back the Mask; a quest for Justice in Kenya a second time, coincidentally, it is barely a week after I completing my training on editing and writing. Among the many lessons I acquired, one was, show […]

Filed Under: Opinion Tagged With: kibaki, miguna

Jeffrey Sachs fast-tracks new Millennium Village Project in Ghana

August 31, 2012 1 Comment

After criticism of projects elsewhere, a new site in northern Ghana will be independently assessed as the organisers attempt to prove the low cost of lifting people out of poverty BY: Afua Hirsch, west Africa correspondent for the guardian.co.uk, Friday 31 August 2012 12.22 BST In front of the blackboard in a classroom in Nabari […]

Filed Under: Global

South African miners charged with murder of colleagues killed by police

August 31, 2012 1 Comment

  Former ANC youth leader calls for ‘revolution in the mining sector’ after charges brought under obscure apartheid-era law Politician Julius Malema called for nationalisation of South African resources, including all iron, platinum and zinc. BY: David Batty and agencies  for the guardian.co.uk, Friday 31 August 2012 01.12 BST The 270 miners arrested during violent […]

Filed Under: Global Tagged With: Lonmin massacre

Congratulations Cyprian Nyamwamu on your wedding day!

August 31, 2012 1 Comment

Filed Under: Pictures

Mitt Romney’s Acceptance Speech

August 31, 2012 1 Comment

  By Kenya Today Presidential candidate Mitt Romney formally accepted his nomination at the Republican Convention in Tampa. In his acceptance speech, Romney asked for support of the voters and that it’s a great honour to be nominated. Watch Mitt Romney’s Acceptance Speech (full version):

Filed Under: Politics

US soldiers face death penalty for murder charges related to militia group

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

Three serving members of US military accused of setting up group that stockpiled weapons for plot to assassinate Obama BY: Ed Pilkingtonin New York and agencies for the guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 August 2012 23.13 BST Three serving soldiers who allegedly set up a militia group within the US army, which plotted to overthrow the government […]

Filed Under: Global

Football transfer rumours: Manchester City’s Edin Dzeko to Arsenal?

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

Is Edin Dzeko off to Arsenal? Maybe. Stranger things, like Gervinho playing well, have happened BY: Ian McCourt for the guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 August 2012 09.17 BST The Mill has never been one for those awkward bars where over-sozzled men in contrast collar and cuffs shove notes into the impossibly skimpy underwear of girls the […]

Filed Under: Sports

Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov undergoing medical at Fulham

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

Manchester United’s Dimitar Berbatov is set to complete a move to Fulham after rejecting Fiorentina. Bulgarian previously worked with Martin Jol at Spurs BY: Press Association for the guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30 August 2012 15.22 BST Manchester United‘s Dimitar Berbatov is undergoing a medical at Fulham ahead of completing a £4m move, their manager Martin Jol […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: manchester

Champions League draw: group stages

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

 Manchester City were given a tough draw in Monaco, pitted against Real Madrid, Ajax and Borussia Dortmund Champions League groups A-H Group A: Porto, Dynamo Kiev, Paris St-Germain, Dinamo Zagreb Group B: Arsenal, Schalke, Olympiakos, Montpellier Group C: Milan, Zenit St Petersburg, Anderlecht, Malaga Group D: Real Madrid, Manchester City, Ajax, Borussia Dortmund Group E: […]

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: manchester

Kibaki in Mombasa, Raila blames outsiders for the killing of Sheikh Rogo

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

BY Isaack Nyakundi Prime Minister Raila Odinga has blamed the violence in Mombasa on enemies who are keen on plunging the country into chaos by creating religious animosity between Christians and Muslims. The PM has been in Mombasa since Tuesday night to meet Christian and Muslim leaders, he condemned Sheikh Rogo’s killing and termed it […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aboud rogo, kibaki, Mombasa, Mwai Kibaki, Raila Odinga

Barack Obama surprises internet with Ask Me Anything session on Reddit

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

For a little while Wednesday afternoon, the commander-in-chief commanded the internet’s notoriously fickle attention In Reddit chat, president bypasses media to answer wide-ranging questions put forth by surprised internet users Posted by Katie Rogers Wednesday 29 August 2012 23.16 BST guardian.co.uk While a tropical storm batters the Gulf coast and Republicans make their case for […]

Filed Under: Global Tagged With: Barack Obama, obama, us elections 2012

Black Republican activists strive to recruit African Americans to GOP cause

August 30, 2012 1 Comment

Conservative groups insist that the dream of winning over African Americans from the Democratic party is not a lost cause

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Article, Barack Obama, Democrats, Florida, Mitt Romney, News, Paul Harris, Race issues, Republican national convention 2012, Republicans, United States, us elections 2012, US politics, World news

Police officers injured as supporters of Sheik Rogo use grenades in attacks

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

  BY: Isaack Nyakundi Fresh violence has erupted in the port city of Mombasa; four police officers were seriously injured after a man threw a grenade at a police vehicle along the city’s Kenyatta Avenue. The four police officers were in a group of seven officers attached to the Makupa police station, they were patrolling […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aboud rogo, kibaki

Internal Security: President Kibaki has failed us!

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

  By:  William O. Makora The coalition government is in its sunset years of governance. For the past four years, it has wobbled from one crisis to another leaving Kenyans to wonder as to who is in-charge. The third President of Kenya, Mr. Stanley Emilio Mwai Kibaki, with his trademark of hands-off style of leadership […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: kibaki, Mwai Kibaki

Blogger Dennis Itumbi in court over JetLink email leaks

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

BY: Isaack Nyakundi and Jackal Bosire in Nairobi. Blogger Dennis Itumbi has been charged by a Nairobi court with a count of intercepting data in a computer system without consent contrary to section 83(1) (b) (2) and publishing a depraving electronic material contrary to section 84D of the Kenya Communications (Amendment) Act No. 1 of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Dennis Itumbi

France opens murder inquiry into Yasser Arafat’s death

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

Public prosecutor will try to establish if Arafat was poisoned with polonium-210

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Angelique Chrisafis, Article, Europe, France, International, Main section, Middle East and North Africa, News, Palestinian territories, The Guardian, World news, Yasser Arafat

Mitt Romney becomes official GOP candidate at last

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

Ann Romney makes Tampa convention pitch to women while Chris Christie invokes a GOP-led ‘second American century’

Filed Under: Global Tagged With: Article, Ewen MacAskill, Mitt Romney, News, Republican national convention 2012, Republican presidential nomination 2012, Republicans, United States, us elections 2012, US politics, World news

Infographic: History of Kenya at the Olympics

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

By Kenya Today For a lot of Kenyans, the Olympics of 2012 didn’t bring what they hoped for. But we still have this infograpic to marvel about Kenya’s succesfull olympic history!  

Filed Under: Sports

The slain Sheik Aboad Rogo’s supporters kill a police officer in Mombasa

August 29, 2012 1 Comment

  BY: Kenya Today team A prison service officer became the latest victim of the violence that has rocked Mombasa town. The officer was killed when a group of youths protesting the killing of Sheik Aboud Rogo Mohammed hurled a grenade at the truck that was carrying the officers. Thirteen other prison warders were rushed […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aboud rogo, Alshabaab, Mombasa

PCEA Church, Kisauni Mombasa after it was vandalized today.

August 28, 2012 1 Comment

Filed Under: Pictures Tagged With: Mombasa

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