Mixed reaction over counties ranking poll

Machakos County Governor Dr Alfred Mutua addresses a press conference outside his office on April 29,2015 after the county was ranked as best performing countrywide in a survey by Infotrack. PHOTO |COURTESY | MACHAKOS COUNTY. 

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• He thanked the people of Machakos, his team and the County Assembly for supporting him to develop the county.
• He said Kakamega is an expansive county and has many challenges.

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A poll that ranked governors on perceptions of service delivery was met with mixed reaction by leaders across the country.

WHO: 266,000 women die from cervical cancer annually 1

Head of Molecular Applications lab at the KAVI Institute of Clinical Research (KAVI -ICR) at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Lucy Macharia explaining how a hybrid capture system machine for early detection of cervical cancer is used on March 17, 2015. PHOTO | JENNIFER MUIRURI | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

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• According to a statement sent to newsrooms by the African Press Organisation (APO), cervical cancer deaths are likely to hit 416,000 by 2035 if no interventions are put in place.
• In 2012, over half a million new cases of the disease were diagnosed worldwide with one in five being in sub-Saharan Africa.
• Mr Jiwa said cervical cancer is preventable with immunisation and screening but treatment remains the best strategy to rapidly reduce the burden of the disease.

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By ARTHUR SITUMA
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An estimated 266,000 women die every year from cervical cancer, a survey by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed.

What the condition of #KOT tells us about the state of dear Mother Africa

Until other Africans caught on, Kenyans were the second most active users of Twitter in Africa. AFP FILE PHOTO 

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• Following Kenyans on Twitter, or #KOT as they are more popularly known, the last year has been very different. On the whole, after the 2013 election, #KOT have, actually, become less angry. However, they have become more divided.
• Secondly, it considerably deradicalised electoral politics, with the result that though the 2013 vote seemed to have been bungled more than the December 2007 one that resulted in violence, it ended up in the court, not on the streets being settled with machetes and crossbars.
• The government was assailed for sleeping on the job. A trenchant narrative about State failure took hold, and an equally boisterous and outspoken narrative in defence of the State emerged. The middle ground collapsed.

By CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO
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Give Kenyans things digital, and they will make a feast. M-Pesa was taken up with such zeal, nearly half of all mobile money transactions take place in Kenya. Until other Africans caught on, Kenyans were the second most active users of Twitter in Africa.

Police release photos of terrorists planning attack at the coast

WANTED: (L-R) Issa Abdala Kauni, Hussein Said Omar, aka Babli, Abulkadir Abubakar Abdulkadir and Ahmed Said Omar, aka Dogo. PHOTOS | COURTESY 

In Summary

• Also wanted is Issa Abdallah Kauni who went missing from his parents’ home in Mombasa last year, prompting his family to publish posters of “missing person.”
• A dispatch by government described the four as “armed and dangerous,” and appealed for public assistance in arresting them.
• Security agencies have increased surveillance since April 2, when Al-Shabaab terrorists raided Garissa University College and killed 142 students.

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The government has released the photographs of four men after intelligence reports linked them to Al-Shabaab and warned they were planning terror attacks this weekend.

Inflation rises to eight-month high in April

The cost of living in Kenya rose to an eight-month high in April, nearly breaching the government’s upper limit of 7.5 per cent due to a significant rise in the cost of food. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP 

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The cost of living in Kenya rose to an eight-month high in April, nearly breaching the government’s upper limit of 7.5 per cent due to a significant rise in the cost of food.

Mixed reaction in Senate to Uhuru parastatal jobs names

President Uhuru Kenyatta. His appointments to State corporations received mixed reactions among senators on April 29, 2015. AFP FILE PHOTO | ANDREW COWIE 

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• Some members of the Senate Committee on Finance said the President should have waited until both Houses adopted a new law.
• Majority Leader Moses Wetang’ula (Bungoma, Ford-Kenya) said the President should have waited for the National Assembly and the Senate to adopt new rules governing the running of parastatals.
• Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo Jr said the “President acted as if the regulations were in place yet they are not”.

By JEREMIAH KIPLANG'AT
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President Uhuru Kenyatta’s appointments to State corporations received mixed reactions among senators on Wednesday.

Yes, you can turn your weakness into strength

Boxer Floyd Mayweather. PHOTO | ERIC JAMISON | NATION MEDIA GROUP  AFP

In Summary

• The two are very different. Pacquiao humble, Mayweather arrogant. Pacquiao in pursuit of glorifying God’s name, the other in pursuit of glorifying his own name.
• Mayweather unbeaten in 47 pro fights, the other knows all too well the pain of defeat – five in his career.
• Which of these two will conquer? Pacquiao might be the underdog, but so was David.

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This Sunday at around 5:30am, millions of viewers are expected to be glued to their TV screens watching the Mayweather/Pacquiao fight.