Residents in Eldoret town and its environs have been experiencing water shortages from January this year.
Eldoret Mayor Samwel Ruto said, this has been caused by indiscriminate cutting of trees around water catchment areas affecting the Shebare dam which supplies water to Eldoret Water and Sanitation Company.
He cited areas like Kapchemtwa, Kikere, Kimonoro and the [...]
A report on global trade in narcotics has revealed that Kenya is a major transit route for hard drugs from Afghanistan destined for the US and Europe.According to the report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2008, a significant amount of heroin is finding its way into the local market. The report singles out [...]
Vice president kalonzo Musyoka says that constant dialogue between students and teachers is the only way to prevent cases of school unrest. Addressing Kenya School Heads Association Coast branch officials,
Musyoka called on the country’s school head teachers to initiate open forum in schools that will enable them deliberate on critical issues affecting students openly.
He said [...]
President Mwai Kibaki is concluding his Western province tour today. While in Lwanda area this morning, the president officially opened an alternative bridge linking Kenya and Uganda and also launched a campaign to revive cotton ginneries in the area. Concerning the controversial ownership of the Migingi Island, Kibaki stated that his government will not engage [...]
We take you to kakamega for the latest where students of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology today took to the streets to protest against alleged embezzlement of funds at the institution.
The students claim that student money was misappropriated by the governing council. They also demand that money paid for learning trips be accounted [...]
With preparations started for this planting season, farmers are complaining that they have not been paid their money after issuing wheat and maize to the Kenya cereals and produce board.
Kipkorir Menjo a farmer in Eldoret lamented that the government has been going slow on their payment while claiming it wants to deal with food shortage. [...]
Resettlement of Internally Displaced People should be done first before the country can go to the polls.
Efforts should instead be directed at community and government peace building, according to Catholic diocese of Eldoret Bishop Cornelius Korir.
Bishop Korir added that the relocation of IDPs to various farms in their provinces of origin is not a solution [...]
Eldoret Mayor Samuel Ruto says that persons living with disability should not be discriminated upon in the society saying they too have rights.
Speaking when he received the Nairobi wheelchair basketball peace tour team who paid him a courtesy call, mayor Ruto suggested that the council puts up a department that will deal with persons with [...]
The Nairobi wheelchair basketball peace tour team is in Eldoret with a mission to preach peace to residents through a tournament.
The team, led by Elijah Mwandini and Joseph Ochieng the chairmen from Nairobi and Eldoret respectively said that they chose Eldoret because its one of the areas that was badly affected by the post election [...]
Residents of Namanjalala Location, Trans nzoia East have been advised to find a long term solution to domestic violence by visiting guiding and counseling departments.
Speaking in Kitale Tuesday, Chief Jacob Walubengo who referred to an incident where a 28 year old man committed suicide using a rope Monday night following a family row said there [...]