Monday, April 28th, 2008
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| • | Banking the Unbanked: Undoubtedly, Information Communication Technology (ICT) is a medium that has revolutionised banking and everyday operations in financial institutions at the click of a button.
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| • | ODM Wants ECK Locked Out of Poll: Orange Democratic Party (ODM) wants the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) disbanded before the by-elections for five constituencies on June 11.
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| • | President, PM Vow to Deal With Vicious Cycle of Ethnic Clashes: President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga completed their tour of the Rift Valley, vowing to find a lasting solution to recurrent ethnic clashes.
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| • | Safaricom Battle Shifts to NSE Trading Floor: The fate of investors who put up purchase bids for some 10 billion ordinary shares of profitable mobile phone firm, Safaricom in an Initial Public Offer (IPO) will be known on May 21, 2008 before the battle moves to the bourse.
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| • | Agricultural Work Demands Greater Expertise: At a time of international concern about the future of the world's food supply, it's a comment that gives pause for thought: "I teach university students agriculture and extension but many of them opt for other professions, especially in ICTs, because...
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| • | Teams Launch Assault On Continental Club Championship: Kenya Prisons and Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) will launch a twin-pronged assault on the women's African Clubs Championship Volleyball crown.
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| • | Six Stockbrokers Face Closure As CMA Watchlist Deadline Looms: Six stockbrokers have less than a month to rescue their businesses from closure by the Capital Markets Authority after they failed to satisfy basic requirements for licence renewal.
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| • | Unbeaten Sony, Hope Put Records On the Line: The only two unbeaten teams in the Kenyan Premier League, World Hope and Sony Sugar put their record on the line on a congested eight-match KPL league programme on Sunday that will have three matches held at one venue.
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| • | Country in Danger of Becoming a Failed State: Kenya is going to become dictatorship. We are going to have a dictator who abducts people at night and shoots them in Ngong Forest or "disappears" them - to the cheers of a population tired of massacres and political chaos.
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| • | Bankers Are Seeded Top in Cairo Show: Kenya Commercial Bank have been seeded top in the 23rd Africa Women's Volleyball Club Championship which starts on Sunday at the Abdalla El Faysal Hall in Cairo.
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| • | Refugees in Demo Ahead of Peace Tour: More than 1,000 internal refugees at the Kedong camp in Naivasha took to the streets on Saturday demanding to be addressed by President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.
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| • | Row Over Status Mars Rift Tour: A protocol war between Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Prime Minister Raila Odinga turned the much-awaited presidential tour of the North Rift into a circus. As a result, the future of the grand coalition government could depend on how this...
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| • | The Displaced Are a Test of Our Freedom: The term IDP encompasses three elements. "Internally" defines a geographical boundary. If it were not internal, it would be boundless. "Displaced" denotes an invasion that knocks the victims out of their positions.
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| • | Maanzo - I Am Mature and Wiser Now: Mr Daniel Maanzo's office on the third floor of Kencom House in Nairobi is a typical senior Kenyan civil servant's work station - a secretary at the reception, a computer, a telephone, a fax machine on the big desk in front, and a big cupboard with...
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| • | Raila, Kalonzo Play Down 'Protocol Row': As the grand coalition government finalised its peace tour of the Rift Valley province, two key players appeared to have finally crafted ways of handling the riddle of protocol.
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| • | Developers Eyeing City Park: One of Nairobi's oldest recreational parks is under threat from private developers.
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| • | Raila is Senior to Kalonzo, Says Njonjo: The Vice-President has no constitutional authority and his function is to carry out functions assigned to him by the president, Kenya's first Attorney-General Charles Njonjo said on Saturday, commenting on the protocol war in the grand coalition.
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| • | Track Coach Stays Optimistic As Team Off to Addis: As Kenya's national athletics team leaves on Sunday for this year's Africa Athletics Championship in Ethiopia, head coach, Julius Kirwa, is not a worried man.
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| • | Raila, Kalonzo Display Unfortunate: President Mwai Kibaki, Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka have spent three days in the volatile Rift Valley preaching peace. But clearly relations between Mr Musyoka and Mr Odinga are quite bad.
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| • | Classy Indiza Dominates KCB Pro-Am in Kisumu: Mumias Sugar's Dismas Indiza once again showed his class when he hauled seven birdies for a smart final round of six-under par 64 to win the second leg of the KCB PRO-Am Tour by seven shots at the Nyanza Golf Club on Saturday.
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