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KPCU: Receivership lifted
The high court in Nairobi has temporarily lifted the veil of receivership from coffee marketing giant, the Kenya Planters Co-operative Union. This effectively allows the organisation to resume normal operations, including receiving coffee from member - farmers. A hearing date for the case in which KCB had placed KPCU under receivership over a 700 million - shilling debt has been slated for the 16th of February.
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Heavy storm hit Nairobi
A heavy storm wreaked havoc in Nairobi this evening, leaving at least three people dead and scores of others trapped under debris. Buildings and cars were destroyed, trees were uprooted and roads blocked when the skies opened up with fury shortly after 4.00 pm this evening. Kenya Power and Lighting Company reported power blackouts in several city estates occasioned by the heavy downpour. as at the time of going on air, traffic on roads leading out of the city centre was at a standstill as ...
Maina Njenga views wife body
Aliyekuwa kiongozi wa kundi haramu la mungiki Maina Njenga mapema leo adhuhuri alizuru chumba cha kuhifadhia maiti cha Umash kuuona mwili wa mkewe marehemu Virginia Nyakio aliyeuwawa zaidi ya mwaka mmoja na nusu uliyopita . Miili ya mkewe na dereva wake George Njoroge ilipatikana ikiwa imetupwa katika msitu wa Gakoe eneo la Gatundu siku mmoja baada ya wao kutekwa nyara. ni mara ya kwanza kwa Njenga kuiona maiti ya jama wake tangu aachiliwe huru na mahakama mjini Nyeri na sasa anaomba msaada ...
Commonwealth button update
258 athletes from 15 disciplines are expected to represent the country at the next commonwealth games in New Delhi, India next year. This was revealed as the country awaits the arrival of the queens baton over christmas and will be received by president Kibaki on boxing day in Mombasa. Kenya is the 16th nation out of 71 countries in the relay to host the baton.
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Troubled Waters p.3
While trouble may be simmering in Vanga and Jimbo villages along the coast over border territories, ironically another village has devised a way of keeping itself out of trouble from Tanzanian custom officials altogether though fishermen in Jasini village which literally stands between the Kenyan and Tanzanian borders are not the victims of a looming territorial dispute, they say they feel hard pressed to fish in Tanzanian waters to survive. In our final part of ktns continuing series ...
JKIA: Flight crisis
Kenya airways is set to resume night operations following what it terms the restoration of the runway lighting system at the Jomo Kenyatta international airport. This after the airline suspended all its flights last night owing to problems with the circuits on the runways lighting system. Yet with the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority and Kenya Airports Authority now claiming that the notice which triggered the suspension was simply standard procedure; not reason to withdraw flights, questions ...
