The Star
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:50
THE Senate is apparently about to discuss a motion to permit Kenya troops to go to South Sudan as peacekeepers. Yet there is no peace to keep in South Sudan. Fighting flared up in the key oil town of Bentiu yesterday.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 07:19
Controversial Muslim cleric Sheikh Abubakar Sharif alias Makaburi was killed in controversial circumstances last evening, days after reiterating public support for al Shabaab and defending the Westgate terror attack.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 09:51
In the aftermath of the Westgate massacre, it was revealed that the four perpetrators and their supporting cast, had travelled to Kenya from deep inside Somalia, using forged Kenyan papers.
Monday, March 31, 2014 - 09:17
POLICE officers have orders to use their firearms to fight terrorist and criminals in accordance with the laws of Kenya, Deputy President William Ruto has said.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:29
Another attack by heavily armed bandits in Turkana yesterday left four people dead, in the continued violence that has rocked Northern Kenya.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 10:10
ANTI Terror Police officers yesterday seized two most wanted terror suspects and recovered a number of explosive devices packed in a Toyota Surf car at Changamwe, Mombasa. Izak Noor and Abdiaziz Abdi were planning to detonate explosives targeting unspecific buildings in Mombasa county.
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 - 08:34
Suspected Islamic militants set fire to locked dormitory, shot and slit the throats of students who tried to escape. At least 58 killed.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 07:48
Ogaden refugees living in Kenya have called on the government to protect them.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 07:24
UNDER the 2011 Political Parties Act, Sh200 million per year will be shared among political parties.
To qualify for funding, political parties have to get at least five percent of the vote in the national election.
And in 2013 only three parties crossed that threshold- TNA with 30 percent, ODM with 26 percent and URP with 9 percent. Those three parties will share the cash on their own.
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 - 07:57
The landmark trial of a former Rwandan army captain charged with complicity in the 1994 genocide that left 800,000 dead opened Tuesday in Paris, the first of its kind in France. - See more at: http://www.the-star.co.ke/news/article-153757/landmark-rwanda-genocide-trial-opens-france#sthash.wgxZcHzw.dpuf