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Kenya: Two dead, 8 injured as police engage Nakuru residents in eviction row
At least two people were shot dead and several others injured on Wednesday in Nakuru town as police engaged rioting residents in street battles.Residents of Flamingo, Kaloleni, Kimathi, and Kivumbini Estates who occupy houses belonging to the Municipal Council of Nakuru were protesting an eviction notice requiring them to vacate ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Uganda: Nakawa-Naguru residents cry foul
Residents of Nakawa-Naguru housing estates have accused government of delaying the redevelopment of the housing estate. The tenants demanded to be part of a tribunal put in place by the local government ministry to over-see the relocation and display of tenants register. The chairman of the Nakawa Naguru ... Read Africa News article at The New Vision - Related articles
Kenya: Kisumu, neglected city
Flying into Kisumu after 7pm may completely turn off any prospective real estate investor. It is pitch dark as you drive out of the Kisumu International Airport towards the Kisumu-Busia Highway and branch right into the Central Business District (CBD).The script is similar when entering the lakeside city by road ... Read Africa News article at The Standard - Related articles
Kenya: Al-Shabaab tells of air raid fears
MOGADISHU, Wednesday Related Stories Somali radio station won"t take orders A senior officer of Al-Shabaab has today predicted air raids on Mogadishu.Briefing the media at Bakara market, the largest trading centre in Mogadishu, Sheikh Ali Mohamed Hussein, the Al-Shabaab governor in the Somali capital, asked for ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Kenya: Leaders want constituencies split
A day after the release of the 2009 census results, Members of Parliament have called for the splitting of constituencies to ensure efficient service delivery.Four MPs from Central Province have called for the delimitation of constituencies to be guided by the just released census.The legislators said it was clear from ... Read Africa News article at The Standard - Related articles
Uganda: Presidential nominations on October 25
Kiggundu showing journalists that the leader of opposition in Parliament, Ogenga Latigo, is registered too. This was at the EC headquarters yesterday By Catherine Bekunda THE nomination dates for presidential and parliamentary candidates for 2011 are October 25 and 26, the Electoral Commission said yesterday. ... Read Africa News article at The New Vision - Related articles
Kenya: How North Eastern figures went wrong
Planning minister Wycliffe Oparanya on Wednesday tried to explain how the Sh8 billion census arrived at results which showed that the number of people in one province had increased by 140 per cent in a decade. Related Stories Two Kenyan children born every minute Kenya"s population grows by ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Kenya: Africa"s mega-city tries to tame daredevil moto-taxi operators
LAGOS, Wednesday They swerve onto sidewalks, zip between traffic and dart up the wrong way, sometimes with entire families piled on top of their motorcycle taxis, adding to the chaos of this African mega-city.Now the government is saying not so fast to the estimated one million motorcycle taxi drivers in ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Kenya: Britain"s Blair recalls doomed French love
PARIS, WednesdayBritain"s ex-prime minister Tony Blair struggled as a reserved Englishman to relate to a former French sweetheart, he wrote in the French edition of his memoirs published Wednesday."One day I fell in love with a Frenchwoman. She was passionate and I was rather... English," Mr Blair wrote in a ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
Kenya: Ministry blamed for demolition of Police houses
The Public Works ministry was Wednesday blamed for the blunder that resulted in the demolition of two blocks of houses at the Central Police Station even before they had been occupied. The two blocks were pulled down in June to make way for the expansion of University Way, which is ... Read Africa News article at Daily Nation - Related articles
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