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1.	Kenya: Women's liberation is dead
	Author: Opinion, Lucy Oriang	Date Written: 11 March 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: The Nation via Africa News Update
	Secondary Category: Gender	Source URL: http://www.afrika.no
	Key Words: Kenya, gender, empowerment, movement
	Summary & Comment: In this opinion piece the author analyses why the one day dedicated to women - March 8 - went by in such muted fashion in Kenya. She calls for the revival of the women’s movement that hitherto fought for real gender equality. HSEN
2.	Kenya: Ode to a beat generation
	Author: J.K.S. Makokha	Date Written: 11 March 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 473
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Contemporary Issues	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Kenya, poem, beat generation,
	Summary & Comment: A Kenyan poet, J.K.S. Makokha, dedicates his Ode to a beat generation to Kenyans born post-1969. DN
3.	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]
4.	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
5.	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
6.	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
7.	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