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Each formation has clearly separated operational mandates: AP covering homeland security while regular police deal with law breakers. Perhaps the need lies in the title "Kenya Police": why not change it that leaves it neutral? In a growing economy, the need for a diversified security apparatus cant ...

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Road to East African unity has too many obstacles

East African Community’s (EAC) plan to have a Monetary Union by 2012 and ultimately a political federation seems an unre ... Read More

New Constitution can borrow leaf from Germany

Proponents of a presidential system of governance give the impression the way forward in Constitution making is mere app ... Read More

Marriage not the philosophers’ stone for Catholic clergy

The Catholic Church has known turbulent times since its beginnings over 2,000 years ago. Having been the first Christian ... Read More

Can Parliament handle its oversight duties?

Questions are being raised over the 10th Parliament’s effectiveness in its core oversight duties. ... Read More

palaver

Give it to President Barack Obama; he has a way with words. If he were to go by the Kenyan side of him, he would have eu ... Read More

House must seal loopholes to avoid sneaking of questionable laws

If anyone needed more persuasion to do away with the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill practice, then the atte ... Read More

Good news for people with disabilities but not time to celebrate

Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta put a smile on the face of many Kenyans with disabilities. In the Budget Speech, the min ... Read More

Babysitting legislators to pass Bill a sad affair

Our leaders have forgotten lessons from the post-election skirmishes. Innocent blood was shed, property destroyed, relat ... Read More

Britain has moral duty to allow Mau Mau case to proceed

Since the 1950s, Mau Mau has often been synonymous with atavistic savagery. It was a grassroots movement that sought ... Read More

Democracy taking a beating in Africa due to rights abuses

So the African voting group at the United Nations has asked the Human Rights Council to rein in special rapporteurs. The ... Read More

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In Kenya, Police reforms need more than a change of guard

Only incremental reforms can guarantee a new Constitution

Miguna should understand negative ethnicity better to properly advise PM

Committee of Experts overlooked key issues in review

Of Keter’s skills and why the First Lady’s tongue-lashing is necessary

Human rights should not be sacrificed at the altar of political expedience

Let church rethink policy on celibacy and spare children from rogue priests

Lies on sex will never live to be old

UK working with Kenya for a more sustainable future

Africa needs change of strategy, not donor support

‘Umpires of taste’ have role in national cohesion agenda

Day care facility in company a definite plus

Parliament exceeding its powers and acting illegally

Palaver

Budget portrays real devolution in the making

Koigi’s arguments on negative ethnicity missed the point

Danger in transforming legislators into managers of development

Now everybody loves Uhuru, and only a fool will lose his seat

All talk and no money for reform agenda

The four classes of politicians and why they have failed in leadership

Kenya needs national cohesion, not envoys running as peace advocates

Diplomats expected to do more in post-Cold War world

Despite no tax cuts, a thumbs up

One can be reinstated if unfairly dismissed

Give the starving cash, not food aid

Business

Tap private sector’s cash, bankers tell African states
Public-Private Partnerships are a source of infrastructure development in Africa in the wake of shrinking donor aid....more

Investors in Teams fibre optic cable have two weeks to pay arrears

Court rejects KRA plea in Sh153m tender row

Blame game starts as sugar shortage looms

Court halts board’s bid to import fertilizer

Sports News

Kenyan athletes light up Norwegian capital
Collins Cheboi, Ruth Bosibori, and Richard Bartale were on song at the Bislett Games in Oslo on a night where Commonwealth ch...more