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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 | ||
| • | Malaria Expedition Reaches Mombasa: A GRAND expedition across Africa by road to raise awareness in the fight against malaria has reached Mombasa. | |
| • | Outlawed Sect's Chairman Shot Dead: The chairman of Mungiki's political wing was gunned down near Nairobi on Monday. | |
| • | Minister Rules Out Amnesty: There will be no amnesty for those involved in post-election violence. | |
| • | Lurching From Crisis to Crisis Ill-Advised: The Government was yesterday compelled to accede to demands by prison warders, despite hardline stand adopted earlier by Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka and Prisons Commissioner Gilbert Omondi. | |
| • | Mediated Talks to Resume: Mediated talks aimed to resolve the country's political crisis will resume on Tuesday. | |
| • | Govt Loses Territory to Islamist Fighters: In the past 24 hours, Islamists led by the Union of Islamic Courts and its more radical youth wing, Al-Shabaab, have gained substantial territorial control in south and central Somalia. | |
| • | Farmers Plant Commercial Trees: For 66 years, retired teacher Joseph Atonga has tilled his 40-acre shamba in Magunga, Suba District, for subsistence crops. | |
| • | Land Grabbers Put On Notice: Lands minister James Orengo on Monday said he will forcibly repossess grabbed land where evidence of graft has been cited. | |
| • | Prisoners Die in Protests: Gunshots were fired inside the Kamiti Maximum Prison as warders tried to contain a near-riot on day four of the crisis in jails. | |
| • | Odinga's Role Put to Test: Prime Minister Raila Odinga's first task as a supervisor, at which he invited Cabinet ministers, Permanent Secretaries and senior civil servants at his Treasury office, ignited the powder keg of divided loyalties, The Standard has learnt. | |
| • | UN Promotes Peacebuilding in Kenya After Election Crisis: United Nations Volunteers (UNV) and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have brought together 120 national leaders from around Kenya for a peacebuilding workshop following the violence and unrest that broke out after the country's recent election. | |
| • | Top Prisons Bosses in Court Over Strike: Nine senior Prisons officers were on Monday charged with inciting their juniors to boycott work even as the Government yielded to most of the demands of striking warders. | |
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