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Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) has withdrawn its members from all Parliamentary Committees until it gets Chairmanship and Majority members in key watchdog committees. Cord demands that Jubilee cedes ground on majority membership of the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee. Kilifi North MP Gideon Mungaro also [...]

The stalemate over leadership at the senate committee on Finance, Commerce and Economic Affairs seem not to be over after a solution over its leadership row was not reached. This is after the Jubilee coalition through the majority leader at the senate  majority leaderi withdrew the name of Kakamega senator [...]

African Population and Health Research has come up with an initiative that gives slum dwellers incentives in order for them to get screening for cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Samuel Oti a researcher with APHRC says the organization has partnered with Provide International to give medical vouchers to individuals who are at [...]

Crime rate in Mathare area in Nairobi has recorded a decline thanks to community policing. District Officer Mathare slums Jerald Omoke says restructuring the Community Policing Committee has created confidence in the residents who are now volunteering criminal information to the authorities. Speaking to Ghetto Radio News, Omoke said the [...]

The International Criminal Court has postponed the date of the trials of Deputy President William Ruto and former radio journalist Arap Sang that was scheduled for May 28. The chamber has however convened a public status conference next week to set up a new date for the hearing. A statement [...]

Nairobi Region IEBC voter educators on Monday expressed displeasure over the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission’s failure to pay them their dues. The voter educators accused IEBC of playing hide and seek game with them two months after they had completed their jobs. Michael Mahuya a voter educator based in [...]

Governors have been assured that the ongoing supremacy tussles between the county governments and the national government will be solved soon. According to the Chairperson Transition Authority Kinuthia Mwangi, the two centers of power are currently in talks to resolve the matter. Speaking to journalists in Nairobi, Mwangi has also [...]

Disability Focus Africa now wants the 11th parliament to waive off duties charged on the mobility aids in the next budget. The organization’s CEO Dan Omollo says this will enable persons with disability afford the mobility aids such as wheel chairs and walking canes. Speaking to Ghetto Radio News, Omollo [...]

The public has until Tuesday to challenge the suitability of those nominated to the Cabinet by President Uhuru Kenyatta. This is to allow for the complaints presented to be processed before the official vetting begins this week on Thursday. The complaints will then be forwarded to Parliament’s Committee on Appointments [...]

More than 60 houses were on Friday destroyed when fire broke out in Mathare’s Mlango Kubwa Estate. The fire which started at around 7 am this morning is said to have been caused by a cooking stove which exploded in one of the houses. Josephine Nyambura one of the victims [...]