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Kenyan couple's children in care as police hunt husband |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:03 |
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An international man-hunt has begun after the body of a dead Kenyan man and a "badly injured" woman were found in a house in New Zealand.  The house where Lydiah Muthoni Munene lived with her husband until she moved out a month ago. Photo / Simon Baker Jealousy over a new relationship might have prompted an attack that has left a man dead, a woman in an induced coma and sparked an international manhunt. The dead man, Kenyan Stephen Mwangi Maina, 38, suffered "significant injuries" when attacked in the early hours of Saturday morning at a house in Avonhead, Christchurch in Canterbury, New Zealand. Lydiah Muthoni Munene, 34, also a Kenyan, suffered serious head injuries and may remain in the coma over the next couple of days according to reports carried in the New Zealand Herald. MORE>>> |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 16 September 2009 23:11 )
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EA Fibre Optic Cable. The baby is here but the diapers are not! |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Monday, 07 September 2009 11:02 |
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 East Africa may have received the first undersea fibre optic cable a month ago but it is emerging there is no requisite infrastructure to enable Seacom go deeper into the hinterland.
This truly beggars belief, to imagine that the arrival of the undersea fibre optic cable is not something that just happened over-night. We knew for many months that the arrival was imminent so why did someone not plan to have the infrastructure ready in the hinterland to take advantage of the fibre optic cable benefits as soon as the cable landed? Would we be sympathetic to the parents who knew the mother-to-be was pregnant and the baby was due but did not have some nappies, baby clothes, towels etc? To have such an infrastructure reaching the destination only to find the required tertiary infrastructure is missing is something that should be raising a heated debate as to what went wrong and what urgent steps should be taken to address it. This happening at a time when there are significant efforts at trying to market countries such as Kenya as a viable location for call centres and technology hubs in preference to countries such as India should not be allowed to happen. Kenya has good English speakers and personnel with very good technical skills IT wise and international companies would be longing to out source the services to such a location. But as a result of poor planning or some sort of short sightedness, this kind of jobs continue to fly past. East Africans, wake up and smell the coffee! |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 September 2009 11:24 )
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Millions face starvation in East African drought |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Monday, 07 September 2009 11:25 |
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A sweeping drought across East Africa has left millions of people at risk of starvation, in a region plagued by increasingly erratic rainfall, humanitarian organisations and officials warn. Huge food shortages and loss of livelihood have left 6.2 million Ethiopians needing relief aid, while about 3.8 million in Kenya's arid areas, where livestock is being decimated, have also been affected, UN agencies say. War-ravaged Somalia, meanwhile, is witnessing its worst humanitarian crisis since civil unrest erupted there two decades ago, with a third of its 10 million people in need of food assistance and one in every five children acutely malnourished. For Kenya, "this is the worst (drought) in nearly a decade. One in ten Kenyans are in need of food assistance," said Marcus Prior, a World Food Programme spokesman in Nairobi. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 September 2009 11:34 )
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World's Oldest Pupil Buried |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:48 |
 The world’s oldest pupil, Stephen Kimani Maruge, 89, was on Monday buried, 10 days after succumbing to cancer.
Though a cloud of grief briefly hung over Arashi farm in Subukia, Nakuru North District, it was soon dispersed by the legacy left by Mr Maruge, who entered the Guinness World of Records for enrolling in primary school at 84. “He shall be remembered as an icon of inspiration,” said a eulogy, aptly summing up the feelings of mourners. And leaders were generous in their praise, with President Kibaki saying he was “the champion of free primary education.” Maruge came to the limelight in 2003 when he joined Standard One at Eldoret’s Kapkenduiywo Primary School after the new Narc Government introduced free primary schooling. MORE>>> |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 25 August 2009 10:51 )
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