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Kisumu residents turn out in large numbers to protest Insecurity in their County

Hundreds Kisumu residents today Friday 21st August turned out in large numbers in a peaceful demonstration to petition the County Police Commander and The Governor of Kisumu to take action against an increase in crime rate in the Lakeside city of Kisumu.

North Eastern residents take to the streets over education crisis

Hundreds of residents in the three counties of the North Eastern Province today took to the streets protesting against the worsening situation in the education sector in the region. Led by civil society groups in the region, the placard waving students, parents and angry residents presented their grievances to the local education offices. Education in the region came down to its knees after non-local teachers fled the region following increased terror threats climaxed by the Garissa University attack on April 2 in which 147 people most of the students lost their lives.

Kenyans need to carry Identity Cards at all times

Boniface Mwangi, a photojournalist and activist was this week arrested by prison warders patrolling the streets of Nairobi for not having an identity card (ID). He actually had the requisite document but refused to show it to them because...

Nakuru PWD’s accuse government of sidelining them in NYS jobs

By Lorna Abuga. Persons living with disabilities (PWD's) in Nakuru County feel sidelined in the ongoing community projects in which the government is engaging youth through the National Youth Service (NYS) programme. The NYS community projects include road construction, dam construction,...

Patrick Safari aka ‘Modern Corps’ arrested and charged for ‘annoying tweet’

Prison officer Patrick Safari popularly known as modern corps, @moderncorps on Twitter was on Monday arraigned in a Lamu court and charged with the infamous section 29 of the Kenya Information and Communications Act 'misuse of licensed telecommunications system'...

1998 Bomb blast victims eye compensation as Obama visits site

Victims of the 1998 bomb blast at the United States Embassy on cooperative house building in Nairobi are optimistic that the visit by US President Barack Obama and his Kenyan counterpart Uhuru Kenyatta will bear fruit in having them...

Nakuru residents enlightened on internet and the law

 The Bloggers Association of Kenya (BAKE) held a training on internet and the law in Nakuru last Saturday, July 24. The training which was conducted by Mugambi Laibuta, an Advocate of the High Court and Riva Jalipa of Article 19...

Nakuru muslim cleric convicted of child sex tourism files appeal

By Lorna Abuga. A Muslim cleric who was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for child sex tourism by a Nakuru court has filed for an appeal. Through his lawyer Lawrence Karanja, Ali Samoja who was convicted and sentenced by on July...

Stay safe online despite heightened cyber surveillance

If you have been following the news lately, you may have come across the recent expose of the Hacking Group on wikileaks where confidential files from the company were exposed. Kenya is one of the nations that was in...

Witnesses testify in Naivasha ‘Vampire’ case

By Lorna Abuga The case in which a former Naivasha street boy is accused of kidnapping and torturing two women was heard in a Nakuru court on Monday July 21. Geoffrey Njoroge Matheri alias Fongo is said to have drained...

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