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Kenyan Environment Cabinet Secretary Judi Wakhungu has announced that plastic bags will stop being used in Kenya when the clock ticks September 01, 2017. "The ministry has banned the use, manufacture and importation of all plastic bags used for commercial and household packaging," Wakhungu said in a gazette notice dated February
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Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho was Monday morning put under house arrest as president Uhuru Kenyatta headed for the relaunch of Mtongwe Ferry. Earlier, police, officers from the Presidential Escort, the Flying squad and the General Service Unit had mounted a search at Nyali Bridge to net Joho who later abandoned his
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Raila Odinga, a leading opposition leader, has been discharged from hospital after he was treated for food poisoning on Wednesday. Odinga had been rushed to Karen Hospital after he complained of being unwell Wednesday morning. Local media have quoted his Dennis Onyango, his spokesperson, as confirming that the opposition kingpin had been
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Kenya’s ruling Jubilee Party has rubbished reports that elections body Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is unprepared for general polls scheduled for August. National Supper Alliance (Nasa) lawyer (also Siaya County Senator James Orengo) recently wrote to IEBC expressing fears that the commission was ill-prepared to hold free and fair
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The National Super Alliance (Nasa), a grouping of Kenya’s top opposition politicians, has dared the elections body the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to come tell the nation of their preparedness to hold general elections in August. Nasa principals’ comments follow after IEBC cancelled a tender for voter identification and
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As one of the measures to slash expenditure, the Kenyan government has banned state advertising in commercial media. Th, including tenders and job applications, in commercial media, in a move, it says, will help it save money. According to a memo dated February 8, 2017, the ban also includes tenders and
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As one of the measures to slash expenditure, the Kenyan government has banned state advertising in commercial media. According to a memo dated February 8, 2017, the ban also includes tenders and job applications. In the memo, head of Civil Service Joseph Kinyua warns accounting officers that they “will be forced
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