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1.	Kenya: ICC submits list of violence suspects
	Author: CISA, Nairobi	Date Written: 5 March 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, post election, violence, suspects, ICC,
	Summary & Comment: The International Criminal Court has submited a list of 20 individuals known to have fuelled post-election violence in 2007 to Pre-Trial Chamber judges. The ICC prosecutor stated, "They utilized their personal, government, business, and tribal networks to commit the crimes". The Kenya National Human Rights Commission believes justice will . . . [expand]
2.	Inconvenience of the rushed birth certificate policy
	Author: George Nyongesa	Date Written: 27 February 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Bunge la Mwananchi
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.bungelamwananchi.org
	Key Words: Kenya, birth certificate policy, statistics, inconvenience,
	Summary & Comment: Registration for primary schools and secondary schools requires a birth certificate. This article describes the congestion, delay, and hardship endured to obtain documentation in Nairobi and at district registration offices and calls for local access.DN
3.	Kenya: The Church calls for local resolution
	Author: CISA, Nairobi	Date Written: 19 February 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, coalition, church, bishops, conflicts,
	Summary & Comment: Kenya’s Catholic Bishops have called for home-grown solutions to Kenya's political problems. "We should avoid reaching out to the international community in the face of every crisis before exhausting internal conflict resolution mechanisms." This follows the impasse in government between the Prime Minister and the President. DH
4.	Kenya: Police brutality towards the Samburu
	Author: Cultural Survival	Date Written: 11 February 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Cultural Survival
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.culturalsurvival.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, Samburu, disarmament, police, violations,
	Summary & Comment: Police in northern Kenya have been using heavy-handed tactics to disarm the Samburu and their competing pastoralist tribes as part of a universal disarmament operation. Rape, beatings, burning, and theft accusations have been made against the police; and there is an appeal to the Kenyan government to withdraw the police. DH
5.	Kenya: Land expulsion condemned
	Author: CISA, Nairobi	Date Written: 9 February 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
	Key Words: Kenya, government, Endurois, land, rights,
	Summary & Comment: The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights condemns the land grab from the Endorois people by the Kenyan government. Violation of land rights remains one of the key unresolved issues in Kenya. DH
6.	USA suspends Kenya school funding
	Author: Correspondent	Date Written: 26 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: BBC News, UK
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
	Key Words: Kenya, USA, school funding,
	Summary & Comment: The USA has pushed for reform in Kenya since deadly violence swept the country after an election in 2007. The US has suspended $7m of funding for free primary schools in Kenya until fraud allegations are investigated. The UK government has also pulled out of the project. DN
7.	Tackling the crisis of urban poverty
	Author: IRIN, Nairobi	Date Written: 19 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, urban poverty, health, nutrition, risk,
	Summary & Comment: Nairobi has over 100 dense, unsanitary, and insecure slums where almost half of the city's population lives with little or inadequate access to safe water and sanitation. Because this urban population living in slums is expected to double in the next 15 years, urban poverty must be urgently addressed. DN