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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Kenya category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Kenya articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

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

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