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Rwandan pastor jailed for life for genocide crimes

The Rwanda High Court handed Jean Bosco Uwinkindi, Pentecostal Church pastor, a life sentence Wednesday for genocide crimes in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis. PHOTO | CYRIL NDEGEYA 

By Johnson Kanamugire

The Rwanda High Court handed Jean Bosco Uwinkindi, Pentecostal Church pastor, a life sentence Wednesday for genocide crimes in the 1994 Genocide against Tutsis.

US rebukes Ethiopia over jailed journalists

US President Barack Obama (L) speaks during a joint press conference with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn at the National Palace in Addis Ababa on July 27, 2015. PHOTO | SAUL LOEB |  AFP

By AFP

The White House demanded that Ethiopia stop using its controversial anti-terror law to jail journalists Wednesday, in an unusually stark rebuke for a key US ally in Africa.

Kenyan carrier eyes rebound with McKinsey turn-around plan

The airline will have its work cut out in the New Year. PHOTO | FILE |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

By MUGAMBI MUTEGI

In Summary

• The airline is barely meeting its financial obligations on expensive loans, is selling off its assets (planes and land) and is also set to initiate a fresh round of job cuts.
• The plan includes review of prices, revenue management, sales, cost reduction and cash and financial optimisation among other elements.

Kenya Airways (KQ) will be hoping to calm headwinds that pummelled its business as it seeks to rebound from record losses and turn around a negative equity position that saw the Senate call for the sacking of its top managers.

Kenyan carrier eyes rebound with McKinsey turn-around plan

The airline will have its work cut out in the New Year. PHOTO | FILE |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

By MUGAMBI MUTEGI

In Summary

• The airline is barely meeting its financial obligations on expensive loans, is selling off its assets (planes and land) and is also set to initiate a fresh round of job cuts.
• The plan includes review of prices, revenue management, sales, cost reduction and cash and financial optimisation among other elements.

Kenya Airways (KQ) will be hoping to calm headwinds that pummelled its business as it seeks to rebound from record losses and turn around a negative equity position that saw the Senate call for the sacking of its top managers.

King of Mandela's clan jailed for 12 years in South Africa

King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, pictured on July 4, 2013, was found guilty of torching dwellings that housed some of his subjects and tenants who had resisted eviction. PHOTO | AFP 

By AFP

Posted  Thursday, December 31  2015 at  16:51

In Summary

• He was sentenced to 15 years in 2009, but in October the Supreme Court dropped the manslaughter charge and reduced his sentence to 12 years on appeal.
• The 51-year-old king, a self-confessed marijuana smoker, was found guilty of torching dwellings that housed some of his subjects and tenants who had resisted eviction.
• Dalindyebo became king of the Thembu, a Xhosa ethnic group that boasted Mandela as its most prominent clan member, in 1989.

A South African traditional king from Nelson Mandela's Thembu ethnic group began a 12-year prison sentence Thursday for arson, kidnap and assault of his subjects, after a long battle to stay out of jail.

Kenyan economy ends year on high note boosted by agriculture, real estate sectors

National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich. The CS has exuded optimism of a better year ahead for the economy insisting it will exhibit resilience in the face of global shocks. Latest government data released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) shows the country’s economy expanded by 5.8 per cent during the third quarter of 2015 compared to 5.2 per cent recorded during a similar period of 2014. PHOTO | SALATON NJAU |  NATION MEDIA GROUP

In Summary

• Provisional estimates of Gross Domestic Product released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, (KNBS) on Tuesday showed that growth was mainly supported by agriculture, construction, financial and insurance sectors as well as wholesale, retail trade, transport and storage.
• The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the National Treasury had late this year all trimmed Kenya’s 2015 growth forecast due to the volatile shilling, weak revenues and sluggish exports.
• However according to the KNBS statistics, the construction industry recorded the fastest growth of 14.1 per cent followed by mining and quarrying, electricity supply and financial and insurance with growths of 12.5 per cent, 11.0 per cent and 10.1 per cent, respectively.

By BRIAN NGUGI
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The Kenyan economy has capped the end of 2015 on a high note with latest government data showing the country’s economy expanded by 5.8 per cent during the third quarter of 2015 compared to 5.2 per cent recorded during a similar period in 2014.