Its tabloid time … welcome!, By DAVID MATENDE Are Kenya newpaper publishers changing their game? Both The Standard and the Nation groups, the two top publishers, seem to have made up their mind that tabloid, or downmarket, is the way to go.
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‘Interests’ is a network Business rivalry hardly translates to bad blood. Even brothers may run competing business. Former President Daniel arap Moi and his protégé Uhuru Kenyatta are ages apart, but in regard to political and business interests, they’re soul mates.
Duale’s vundamentalsThese are the people. These are my people. These are our people. These are the vundamentals!
RIVALS: Parties’ fierce battle for Kenya’s soul By Alfred Anangwe Anyway, Kenya’s history has been immensely shaped by fierce rivalry between and among political parties. Some parties have survived much longer than others. What the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) is going through, and which threatens to split it up, has been experienced by others in the past. KANU and KADU
In interviews with MPs and parliamentary staff, one gets the view that fraud is entrenched, considered normal By ALFAROUK MAALIM For the first time in the history of Kenya’s Parliament, a senior member of the sanctum sanctorum of the august House has blown the whistle regarding the rampant corruption that pervades the corridors of power.
Dis-CORD? Knives are out in the Orange party and the coalition BY TIMAN MNYIKA Two likely by-elections in Luo Nyanza have provoked a fresh round of bickering in the Orange Democratic Movement and Cord coalition. At the centre of this wrangling is ODM leader Raila Odinga’s waning influence both in his party and the Opposition alliance.
Developers target Machakos prison Six developers have grabbed part of prison, constructed buildings on it and rented the same to prison officers, according to the Office of the Ombudsman. According to A Prison Imprisoned, an investigation by the Office of the Ombudsman (Commission on Administrative Justice (CAJ)) into the encroachment on the Machakos G.K. Prison’s land, the high security sensitive institution would be equally sharing its land with private developers had the government not revoked 13 illegal land title deeds in November 2010.
AFRICA , TWENTY YEARS LATERFrance and Rwanda’s genocide: a long waitLast month, Rwanda observed 20 years since the slaughter of about one million citizens. The trial of a uspected genocidaire in Paris highlights the complex political bond between Rwanda and France.By ANDREW WALLIS
AFRICAWill polls offer real choices for SA?, By Steven FriedmanOn one level, the question seems ridiculous. All elections offer choices and all of us are allowed to vote. So many parties are likely to appear on the ballot paper that the Independent Electoral Commission might face a serious printing challenge. Isn’t the fact that we can all choose who will govern us from a wide array of parties one of the great achievements of the fight against apartheid?
Vice President Mwai Kibaki released a news statement in which he condemned foreigners who planned to overthrow President Moi. “The plot by foreigners to impose a leader on Kenyans is … an insult to our human dignity. Our answer is one and the only one. We remain united behind our beloved president Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, and in unity we challenge the foreign powers involved and their Kenyan traitors to come out in the open and to fight it out in the open.”