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Displaced Kenyans at one of the Internally displaced people’s camps. When neighbour turned against neighbour after the 2007 general elections, blood flowed and 350,000 Kenyans were left homeless.

Farewell, the Promised Land?
When neighbour turned against neighbour, blood flowed to soak the land. Now the return trip for 350,000 internally displaced Kenyans back on their farms appears unlikely, write Anderson Ojwang and Peter Thatiah. ...Read More

.: In the headlines

Why home is such a long way off for IDPs
In the last few months, impostors have been streaming into the camps posing as victims so as to reap from the windfall in the compensation scheme.... Read more

Let’s talk to Mungiki, but what about?
Since the beginning of the year, the proscribed Mungiki sect has pulled several baffling stunts. ... Read more

Coalition’s litmus test in by-elections
In about a month, select parts of the counrty will be in a campaign mode as six by-elections get underway.... Read more

Why NEP residents aren’t celebrating over ministry
The recent creation of the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands elicited great excitement among the locals.... Read more

Titans now weighing in for a fight
The law says Kalonzo Musyoka is the Deputy principal to the President, the fomer’s powers delegated by the latter. But the VP doesn’t have independent authority like the ... Read more

.: Editorial

Dialogue with Mungiki bodes ill for Kenya
After the Electoral Commission of Kenya failed to convincingly determine who among the top three presidential candidates won the General Election, some citizens took the law in their own hands, robbing, looting and shooting. Read more

Gender Agenda

Maternity:Permission denied
Just before the Ninth Parliament wound up, the House passed a number of important laws. One of them is causing unease between employers and gender activists. The lawmakers commendably expanded maternity leave for employed mothers from two to three months. Riled by the new law, employers rushed to court to block the statute from getting the President’s assent so as to become law. Read more

Satire

Politicians forge ties that bind
Last week’s bonding session by politicians from the so-called political divides was the most honest display of their present and future intentions. Read more

Spectator

Return of the native son...and a belated burial for loved ones
As the sun rose in Kisumu on Saturday an atmosphere of revelry engulfed the lakeside city. A mixture of traditional and western songs, music and dance created a carnival mood, complemented by poems in praise of Prime Minister Raila Odinga. Kisumu was indeed in its highest glory – the capital of Nyanza, home of other great sons as Achieng’ Oneko, Argwings Kodhek, Robert Ouko, Tom Mboya, and of course Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, the doyen of Opposition politics in Kenya. Read more

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