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Thursday, June 12th, 2008 | ||
| • | Budget Was Spot On, Now It's Time to Walk the Talk: In its recognition of the key challenges facing our country and the proposals it made to fix them, Finance minister Amos Kimunya's Budget speech was truly ingenuous. | |
| • | The Work Awaiting Next U.S. President: Just as Kenyan newspapers were saturated with stories about Senator Barack Obama last week following his victory over Senator Hillary Clinton, Australians were engaged in serious discussions about the prospects of his electoral success and what it... | |
| • | Donors Should Support Country's Farming Plan: The food crisis has several causes, including high energy prices, diversion of food grains to bio-fuels, climate change, and low grain reserves on the global market - the lowest it has been in several years. | |
| • | We Need New Deal for Global Food Policy: As financial markets have tumbled, food prices have soared. Since 2005, the prices of staples have jumped 80 per cent. Last month, the real price of rice hit a 19-year high; the real price of wheat rose to a 28-year high and almost twice the average... | |
| • | Poll Outcome Reveals Parties' Power Rivalry: Power rifts between ODM and PNU, the two partners in the Grand Coalition Government, deepened further with battle lines drawn as the results of the Wednesday by-elections came through. | |
| • | Budget Looks to Reconstruction: Kenya's Finance minister Amos Wako has listed tough new measures to streamline operations of road contractors and stock brokers as part of a strategy to drive Kenya's reconstruction following the post-election violence. | |
| • | Results Deepens Rift Between Coalition Partners: Power rifts between ODM and PNU, the two partners in the Grand Coalition Government, deepened further with battle lines drawn following the results of the Wednesday by-elections came through. | |
| • | Food Crisis Prompts Diet Changes: A 50 percent rise in food prices in Kenya since the start of 2008 has led many people to drastically reduce their daily diets, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). | |
| • | By-Elections - ODM Wins Three Seats, PNU Takes Two: The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) has won three of the five parliamentary seats contested in Wednesday's by-elections with the balance as good as taken by its political rival, the Party of National Unity (PNU). | |
| • | Kibaki Congratulates By-Election Winners: President Kibaki has congratulated the five new members of parliament who were elected in Wednesday's by-elections. | |
| • | Kenyan Fuel Firm Denies Business Links With Kabuga: élicien Kabuga. | |
| • | Golf - Home Star Ainley Takes Early Initiative in Nakuru: Home professional, Richard Ainley, got off to a flying start firing two under par 70 to set up a two-shot lead, as the fourth leg of this year's KCB Pro-Am Tour got underway at the par 73 Nakuru Golf Club course Wednesday. | |
| • | Crack Unit Sent to Fight Gangs: Special Crime Prevention Unit officers have been sent to Gusii after an upsurge of crimes in the region. | |
| • | Information Industry Hopes for Incentives: The Information, Communication and Technology industry has great expectations in Thursday's Budget speech. | |
| • | Group's Findings 'Could Have Prevented Crash': The air crash that killed two ministers on Tuesday might have been avoided if the Government implemented recommendations from the commission investigating the 2003 Busia air crash. | |
| • | Villagers 'Stole From Ministers': The four bodies of the plane crash victims were recovered from the scene by the police alongside the public. | |
| • | 10 Skip Mention of Clashes Case: A Mombasa court has issued a warrant of arrest for 10 people who were charged with post-election violence related offences early this year. | |
| • | State Moves to Buy Fuel From National Oil: Government institutions will soon be tied to procuring their fuel from the National Oil Corporation of Kenya. | |
| • | Five Face Fresh Murder Charge Over Ex-Embakasi MP's Death: Five suspects accused of having violently robbed and killed former Embakasi MP Mellitus Were Wednesday had the charges against them dropped. | |
| • | For Agriculture, Larger Budget Allocation Vital: Agriculture- the mainstay of the economy experienced a downturn last year, and many will be keenly watching what Finance minister, Amos Kimunya will do to resuscitate the goose that lays the golden egg. | |
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