Kalonzo, Wetang'ula gang up against Raila Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka (left) and Ford-Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula meet at the former's office in Nairobi on September 27, 2019 to discuss how they will campaign for Ford-Kenya's candidate in the Kibra by-election. Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka and his Ford-Kenya counterpart Moses Wetang’ula on Friday resolved to work together in the Kibra by-election in a move that will likely give the ODM candidate fresh headache. The resolve to gang up against the ODM candidate, Mr Imran Okoth, signals the deteriorating relations between Orange party leader Raila Odinga and his allies in the 2017 polls. Mr Musyoka announced that his party would support Ford-Kenya candidate Khamisi Butichi. According to Mr Musyoka, who hosted Mr Wetang’ula at the Wiper party offices in Nairobi, his move to back Mr Butichi is to reciprocate Ford-Kenya’s decision not to field a candidate in the Embakasi South by-election t...

' Set your ovaries free’: Tanzania’s president urges women to have more children John Magufuli claims higher population would 'build the economy' but critics warn it would worsen inequality and poverty Tanzania ’s president has urged his country’s women to “set your ovaries free” and have more children in a bid to boost the economy. John Magufuli  said a higher population could turn the East African nation into a regional powerhouse, but critics warned it would instead worsen inequality and poverty. Since taking office in 2015, the president has presided over a campaign of industrialisation that has helped buoy economic growth. But Mr Magufuli claimed a higher  birth rate  would stimulate faster progress “When you have a big population you build the economy. That’s why China’s economy is so huge,” he said, citing India and Nigeria as other examples of countries that gained from a demographic dividend. Speaking in his home town of Chato ...

  Kenyatta warns: Blue economy key to Kenya’s development Nairobi kenya Kenya’s President Kenyatta has said Kenya is prioritizing the implementation of sustainable blue economy programs because of the sector’s potential to accelerate the country’s development.  Kenyatta said the shrinking land-based resources won’t be adequate to sustain a rising world population in the long run hence the need for countries to factor the blue economy in their development planning.  “From the very onset, there was a very clear recognition for some of us those resources that were going to be available especially in this era of climatic change from land based resources, we were slowly and slowly depleting through increase in population growth, through desertification and so many other issues,” Uhuru said.  Kenyatta, who spoke during a meeting of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) held on the sidelines of the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New Yor...

Uganda: 10 leaders of opposition party FDC plus a journalist arrested KASESE, Uganda Police in Kasese are holding ten officials of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party for allegedly holding an illegal assembly. The officials were on Thursday evening picked from Kabirizi village in Lake Katwe sub-county where they were meant to hold a meeting with the party leadership of Lake Katwe and Kahokya sub counties. The FDC leaders under detention are; Ruth Kabugho, the Kasese district Secretary for Social services, Maliba sub county chairperson, Mr Abdu Saad, Sedrack Bakulirahi, Augustine Isemungimba, Abdallah Singyaholha, Joseph Kule, Augustine Kule Makuta, Jonard Makoma, Zeverio Baluku and Ronald Kabuku The officials were on Thursday evening picked from Kabirizi village in Lake Katwe sub-county where they were meant to hold a meeting with the party leadership of Lake Katwe and Kahokya sub counties. Maate said the NRM under the leadership of President Yoweri Museveni has been h...

Museveni has commended faith-based groups in the country for joining government in efforts and campaign to sensitise communities in wealth creation to eradicate household poverty in Uganda. “I am glad that more Christians are waking up to understand how to eradicate poverty at household level. What you gain should be from your sweat. It is a Biblical obligation. I am happy I have Pastors, like Jackson Senyonga, on my disciples in the nationwide campaign for wealth creation. Like the Biblical story of the seeds’ sower on different types of soil, Pastor Senyonga is one of the soils that were sown and flourished in my campaign message on wealth creation. I encourage him to continue the campaign,” Museveni said. Museveni spoke while addressing a congregation at Makerere-Kavule Christain Life Church, during which he officiated at the inaugural ceremony of Pastors Jackson and Eva Senyonga commissioning of regional and district coordinators to initiate them in the national campaig...

Police to enhance investigation capacity across country   The government will increase surveillance cameras in Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Eldoret, Nakuru and their metropolis in a move meant to increase security and enhance investigation capacity in the country. In the new National Police Service strategic plan, which runs from 2018-2022, forensic laboratory will be equipped and communication improved in north and eastern Kenya. Police will also develop an automated performance and knowledge management system and acquire assorted security equipment and kitting. REFORMS A National Police Service Referral Hospital will also be constructed, according to the strategic plan launched Friday. The reforms are part of the modernisation of the police service where the director of criminal investigation academy will also be upgraded to a regional centre of excellence on criminal investigations. The National Police Service border training campus will also be upgraded into a regional centr...

Why Kibra by-election is a test for the Uhuru-Raila handshake and BBI issue. watch their movement. Uhuru had initially kept off the Mariga debate amid claims he was reluctant to enter a political duel that would jeopardise his blossoming ties with Raila since the March 9, 2018 truce. President Uhuru Kenyatta's endorsement of Jubilee's McDonald Mariga for the Kibra by-election poses a litmus test for the longevity of his handshake with Raila Odinga. Uhuru had initially kept off the Mariga debate amid claims he was reluctant to enter into a political contest that would jeopardise his blossoming ties with Raila since the March 9, 2018 truce. Mariga, a political novice, had largely been seen as Deputy President William Ruto's pawn in his 2022 dress rehearsal with Raila.

Manifesto for the Kenya Revolutionary Front (KRF) miguna releasing his latest manifesto for 2022 election.Lets join our hero. Kenya Revolutionary Front (KRF) is a grassroots movement for the transformation, restructuring and fully democratizing Kenya, making it a merit based society governed by the rule of law, integrity in leadership, respect for the constitution and basic human rights. More than half a century after Kenya was freed from colonialism, the promised liberation, return of land that had been occupied by the British and dignity of the people remain vague illusions for the vast majority of its citizens. We are deeply divided by artificially choreographed ethnic rivalries and class stratifications; manipulated and exploited by rapacious elites who have looted most natural resources especially productive public and community land and who have hoarded an immense wealth acquired from the public purse for their personal benefits. Tens of millions of Kenyans are exposed t...