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Drivers are advised not to use the new by-pass road between Langata Road and Ngong Road in the southwestern part of the city following two recent armed carjacking attempts involving large Toyota cars....
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Finance minister resigns over Grand Regency sale.
The fate of Nairobi's most expensive hotel, the Grand Regency, hangs in the balance after the resignation of finance minister Amos Kimunya of President Mwai Kibaki
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Street lighting has returned to the town of Ruiru on Thika Road 16 km northeast of Nairobi after the local council cleared an outstanding bill of $1,500, local sources report. Local residents had been...
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Plane crash investigation underway.
Kenyans are awaiting the outcome of an investigation into the cause of the plane crash that killed a cabinet minister, an assistant minister, a security officer and the German pilot on 10 June. The ac...
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Grand Regency controversy deepens.
The grand coalition government of president Mwai Kibaki and prime minister Raila Odinga is faced with its biggest financial scandal since it was formed four months ago.
The controversy concerns the r...
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Car theft in Nairobi on the rise.
Police have warned of an upsurge in motor vehicle thefts in Nairobi in the period March-May and the increased incidence of hijacking of heavy commercial vehicles carrying valuable goods,
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Safaricom IPO applicants await refund.
There is frustration among participants in the recent Safaricom initial public offering (IPO) as stockbrokers continue to withhold repayment after the share issue was heavily oversubscribed.
In Marc...
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Kenya by-elections results announced.
The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) of prime minister Raila Odinga took three seats and the Party of National Unity (PNU) of president Mwai Kibaki took two seats in the parliamentary by-elections on...
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Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) recovered more then 1,200 illegal hunting trophies including skins, ivory, rhino horns and live animals and arrested 2,134 people in 2007 in connection with wildlife-rela...
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Leading corporate internet services provider (ISP) AccessKenya has extended its national coverage to the towns of Kisumu, Eldoret and Nakuru in western Kenya ahead of the launch of a new broadband res...
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Kenyans pin hope on Barack Obama.
US senator Barack Obama is on his way to becoming a nationl hero in Kenya following his recent victory over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary elections in the United States.
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Nairobi set for transformation.
Nairobi is headed for a major transformation under the new minister for Nairobi metropolitan development Mutula Kilonzo.
The former lawyer of ex president Daniel arap Moi and secretary general of Ora...
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Kenya has the sixth highest mobile phone penetration in Africa in absolute terms according to the International Telecommunications Union.
The number of subscribers in the east African country stands...
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East African Legislative Assembly meets in Nairobi.
Lawmakers from the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) are meeting in Nairobi from 12-23 May to promote ambitious plans to form a customs and monetary union and political federation similar to th...
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Faces of Kenyan IDPs exhibition.
Photographers and photojournalists are invited to submit entries for an exhibition portraying the reality of people displaced by the recent post-election violence in Kenya. The selected photos will go...
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Kenya by-elections to be held in June.
Kenyans return to the polls on 11 June for by-elections in five parliamentary constituencies across the country, less than six months after disputed elections in December 2007 led to nearly two months...
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Kenya-Uganda railway to get overhaul.
Rail travel in Kenya could be about to change thanks to an ambitious KSh80 billion plan to turn the loss-making Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC)
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Peace and healing race in Nairobi.
Top Kenyan athletes and residents of the poor areas of Kibera and Dagoretti west of Nairobi city centre will be running side by side on 27 April to promote reconciliation and healing following the rec...
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New Nairobi metropolitan development minister appointed.
Nairobi will go down in history as the first city in the world to have a full-fledged ministry created specifically to take care of its affairs.
The ministry of Nairobi metropolitan development (NMD)...
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The Nairobi National Museum has reopened to the public after an extensive restructuring and expansion project lasting two years. The renovated museum boasts new exhibition space and additional facilit...
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The new unity government of Kenya has been sworn in at a special ceremony presided over by president Mwai Kibaki of the Party of National Unity (PNU).
With 40 ministers and over 50 deputies, the new...
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The Langata Link branch office at Karen Connection on Karen Road is now offering full bureau services including photocopying, fax, secretarial, postbox management and account management. The Career Li...
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Police in Kenya have launched a crackdown on members of the outlawed Mungiki sect after two days of unrest and clashes with police in which at least 14 people are known to have died. Internal security...
