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Picture of the Day: Three gorgeous gals! |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 31 March 2009 09:04 |
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Three gorgeous gals! Watoto wa Nyayo. Click on image to enlarge. 
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 31 March 2009 22:24 )
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Kenyan refugees or con artists? |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 20:00 |
Milwaukee, USA: A married Near North Side couple claiming to be Kenyan refugees whose lives were in danger managed to scam more than $800,000 from an order of Carmelite sisters in Wisconsin, federal agents allege.
Angela Purity Martin-Mulu, 35, and Edward Bosire, 39, also took nearly $20,000 from a Carmelite monastery in Des Plaines, according to an FBI affidavit filed in Milwaukee.
The two are being held in the federal lockup in Chicago on a mail fraud charge and are due in court in Chicago on Friday. They are awaiting a hearing on facing the charges in Milwaukee.
The husband-and-wife team posed as brother and sister, accepting meals, gas for their car, cash and other aid even though one Illinois bank account held by Martin-Mulu registered $582,831 in deposits from 2003 to 2008, according to the affidavit. At least $24,000 was spent in casinos. MORE>>>
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Irish celebrate St. Patrick's Day |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 15:26 |
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 Huge celebrations are under-way in the Republic of Ireland to mark St. Patrick's day Tuesday.
Across the country, there are huge crowds watching parades with people of all ages donning the green coloured items of clothing. The St. Patrick's day, which falls on the 17th of March is a public holiday in Ireland and is marked in memory of the Patron saint. Here are some of the photos we captured showing the huge crowds that gathered in Drogheda town, north of the capital city, Dublin. 
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for over a thousand years. On St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 March 2009 15:42 )
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US govt slaps travel ban on Kenyan government official |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 19:24 |
 | | Caption: US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger said the ban could extend to affect the spouse and children of the official |
The US government has slapped a travel ban on a senior government official it says is involved in graft. Speaking from his residence in Muthaiga Tuesday, US ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger said the ban could extend to affect the spouse and children of the official as a measure of fighting corruption and impunity in the grand coalition government even as details of the affected official remained scanty. " Under the provisions of U.S Presidential Proclamation 7750, the United States Government reserves the right to suspend the entry into the United States of any non-American person "engaged in or benefiting from public official corruption." " We also note that the authorities of the Proclamation can be used to extend ineligibility to the spouses and children of those found ineligible." The name of the affected person could not be released for legal reasons but the Ambassador acknowledged that recent events involving grand corruption in the maize and oil scandals are being investigated with a view to invoking travel bans on those found to be engaging in graft. " ...due to U.S regulations regarding protection of privacy, we will not name the person. The person will soon be notified regarding the ineligibility. The United States has previously invoked this Proclamation on multiple occasions to bar the issuance of Visa to Kenyan nationals." He said. The US government has issued travel bans more than six times to Kenyan officials believed to have engaged in corruption and maintains it will continue to monitor acts of corruption and invoke visa authority against those implicated. Source: KBC |
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Kenya becoming Africa's hottest destination for 2009 |
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Written by Team Gacimi
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Sunday, 15 March 2009 10:40 |
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Kenya is fast becoming Africa's hottest destination for 2009, with tourists returning in increasing numbers to a country that seems to have shaken off its troubled image of last year, when elections led to riots throughout the country. To lure visitors back, airlines and hoteliers are aggressively undercutting prices in other African destinations, and it seems to be working. "In recent weeks we have been able to offer savings of up to 50% and prices for safari and beach holidays have dropped by almost 14% since last year," says Neil Alobaidi of Hayes and Jarvis (0871 200 2211; hayesandjarvis.co.uk). MORE>>> |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 15 March 2009 10:43 )
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