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Kenyans warned over aflatoxin maize

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
Kenyans have been warned that they risk dying in 24 hours if they consume maize contaminated with aflatoxin, Public Health Minister Beth Mugo has said.

Yes lead drops but Kenyans still keen on proposed law

Daily Nation - ‎18 hours ago‎
By SATURDAY NATION Team Support for the proposed constitution has declined since April, but the majority of Kenyans still intend to vote for it in the August 4 referendum.
New poll on Kenyan law generates controversy Kenya Broadcasting Corporation

Israeli navy peacefully takes control of aid ship

Sydney Morning Herald - Steve Weizman - ‎7 minutes ago‎
Israeli forces on Saturday boarded the Rachel Corrie after it ignored orders not to head for Gaza, but there was no repetition of the bloody violence that erupted when commandos stormed an aid boat earlier in the week.

Obama Backs Law Review

AngolaPress - ‎3 hours ago‎
Nairobi - US President Barack Obama has sent the strongest indication yet that he wants to see Kenya's constitutional review process successfully concluded.

Kenya's commitment to work with ICC queried

The Standard - Patrick Mathangani - ‎19 hours ago‎
Kenya's commitment to assist in investigations has been questioned at the International Criminal Court review conference in Uganda, only a day after the Government was accused of attempting to frustrate the court.

New city water board sent home

Daily Nation - ‎18 hours ago‎
By SATURDAY NATION Correspondent The two-day old Nairobi Water and Sewerage Company board has been suspended and a fresh investigation launched in connection with graft allegations.

Something should be done about mess in water firms

Daily Nation - ‎21 hours ago‎
The dissolution of the Nairobi Water Company board on Thursday after weeks of wrangles epitomised the confusion that defines the water reform agenda.

India-SAfrica ICT, media, cooperation boosted by Zuma's visit

Business Standard - ‎5 hours ago‎
PTI / Johannesburg June 05, 2010, 14:15 IST The largest ever business contingent from South Africa that accompanied President Jacob Zuma on his maiden visit to any Asian country as president of the coutry would result in emergence of new areas of ...

Several arrested for Congo activist's death

The Associated Press - ‎33 minutes ago‎
KINSHASA, Congo - A police commander in Congo's capital says several police officers have been arrested in connection to the killing this week of a leading Congolese human rights activist.

South Africa's Zuma faces another family scandal

Reuters - Thomas Mukoya, Ed Cropley - ‎38 minutes ago‎
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma attends the 20th World Economic Forum on Africa in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, May 7, 2010.
Zuma's fury over sex slur Independent Online

Environmental protection is key to fighting poverty

The Standard - ‎18 hours ago‎
By Lillian Aluanga Restoration of the world's ecosystems could provide the key to reducing poverty, creating jobs and improving food security.

Divided loyalties

BBC News - Jonathan Head - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Israeli commando raid on a Turkish ship carrying aid to Gaza has seen Turkey in the role of mouthpiece for the fury of the Muslim world.

Obama Says Gulf Communities Will Be 'Made Whole' After Spill

BusinessWeek - Nicholas Johnston - ‎31 minutes ago‎
June 5 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said communities along the Gulf Coast suffering because of the oil spill will be “made whole” with payments from BP Plc and aid from the government.

Don't run airlines, African governments told

The Citizen Daily - ‎7 hours ago‎
By Damas Kanyabwoya, Nairobi African governments have been advised to stop running airlines and leave the business to private operators.

Delight as new ferry is offloaded amid hope of booming business

The Standard - Patrick Beja - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
The ferry was Thursday offloaded in a record four hours from the ship that brought it on Wednesday. Hundreds of Mombasa residents and Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) workers watched marine engineers from Beluga Projects lower Mv Likoni from ...

G-20 Seeks To End Uncertainty With New Pledge On Bank Reforms

Wall Street Journal - Nathalie Boschat - ‎21 minutes ago‎
BUSAN, South Korea (Dow Jones)--The world's biggest economies sought Saturday to end market uncertainty over repairing battered banking systems, by sticking with targets for new capital rules but signaling ...

Nairobi Greenline to save the National Park

Kenya Broadcasting Corporation - ‎53 minutes ago‎
In efforts towards marking the World Environment Day the Nairobi Greenline initiative planted over 50000 trees in a bid to save the Nairobi National Park from further encroachment and environmental degradation caused by urbanization.

Nokia rolls out pedal-powered charger

Financial Times - Andrew Ward - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
Mobile phone manufacturers have been struggling for years to find ways for users to keep their handsets charged while on the move.

Scientists begin 520-day Mars mission simulation

The Associated Press - Vladimir Isachenkov - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
MOSCOW - An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space crews of the future cope with confinement, stress and fatigue of ...

Microsoft's New Video Game Box: Who Needs It?

BusinessWeek - Peter Burrows, Dina Bass - ‎Jun 3, 2010‎
On June 15, at a video game convention in Los Angeles, Microsoft (MSFT) will unveil a little box of outsize importance. Code-named Project Natal, the device will be an add-on to Microsoft's ...

Eccentric wine maker followed his dream to make a veritable fortune

Daily Nation - Kamau Mutunga - ‎18 hours ago‎
Youths carry the casket with the body of businessman Fai Amario during his burial in Naivasha on May 29,2010.Inset Amario and former wife Bernice Njeri embrace when she went to visit him at Kamiti Prison.

Another snub for stingy Kenyans as jazz great Kenny G heads to Kampala

Daily Nation - John Kariuki - ‎18 hours ago‎
Smooth jazz saxophonist Kenny G will perform in Kampala later in the year. It will not be the first time for international tours to overfly Kenya on their way to Uganda or Tanzania, the last big name being R. Kelly's concert in Kampala in February.

Rajneeti Takes Us To The World Of Politics

Coastweek - Frank Oz's - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
The Hindi film at the NYALI CINEMAX this week is a Prakash Jha's (Apharan, Gangaajal) worldwide release, Rajneeti. A hugely powerful film, as all his other films, Rajneeti delves into the dirty dirty world of politics and king-makers.

Titanic Errors

The Atlantic - ‎22 hours ago‎
James Cameron, director of Titanic and Avatar, says unspecified people at BP are "morons" after the company declined his advice on stopping the gulf oil spill.

Call up for professional rugby

Coastweek - ‎8 hours ago‎
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Sydney Ashioya and Nondescripts hooker Benedict Nyambu have been named in the 12-man Kenyan squad for the International Safaricom rugby Sevens tournament which starts on Friday in Nairobi.

Cops now all out to arrest tormentors

Daily Nation - ‎17 hours ago‎
Telkom Kenya Head of Corporate Communications Angela Mumo and the Telkom Orange ladies hockey team coach, Jos Openda, lead the team in celebration when the company announced a Sh9 million sponsorship for the 2010 season.

Stage set for COPA championships

Capital FM - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
NAIROBI, Kenya, June 4 - A contingent of 14 teams representing 19 countries is gearing up to participate at the 2010 Africa COPA Coca-Cola Championship in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Nadal wants title rather than revenge or ranking

Reuters Canada - Martyn Herman - ‎1 hour ago‎
PARIS (Reuters) - Forget revenge or number one rankings, all Rafael Nadal will care about on Sunday against Sweden's Robin Soderling will be reclaiming his French Open title.
Clay-court replay for final Montreal Gazette

TB patient with high drug resistance dies

Daily Nation - ‎18 hours ago‎
By SATURDAY NATION Correspondent The patient, whose identity hospital authorities could not divulge, died on Thursday at 9.27 am, barely 24 hours before a group of fund-raisers for the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria toured Kenyatta National ...

Take a walk to fight hunger

Joburg - ‎Jun 4, 2010‎
About a billion people do not get enough food; join Walk the World at Joburg Zoo to help fight starvation. WORLD hunger will be highlighted and funds raised to feed starving children in some of the world's poorest countries at the End Hunger: Walk the ...

A Year After Its Emergence, H1N1 Swine Flu Lingers

BusinessWeek - Amanda Gardner - ‎37 minutes ago‎
FRIDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) -- A year ago, global alarm over the emergence of an unpredictable new strain of H1N1 pandemic flu was in full swing.

World's Largest Maternal Health Conference To Push Donors Toward USD12b Fund Raise

Africa Science News Service - ‎4 hours ago‎
The world's largest conference on women's health and empowerment in more than a decade opens on Monday, June 7, with a call to increase funding commitments for maternal, reproductive, and newborn health by US$12 billion each year.
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