Capital News: Appeals by 4 Kenyans defective, argues Ocampo
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – The International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has urged the ICC’s Appeals Chamber to reject petitions by four Kenyans whose cases were committed to trial by the Pre-Trial Chamber II. In contesting the applications by Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta, former Head of Civil Service Francis Muthaura, Eldoret North [...]

Capital News: I’m my own man, asserts Mudavadi
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – Deputy Prime Minister Musalia Mudavadi has robustly denied that he is working for ‘outside forces’ in his bid to be elected the Orange Democratic Movement’s presidential flag bearer. Addressing over 250 ODM delegates at Sai Rock Beach Hotel in Mombasa, Mudavadi said he was determined in his quest and dismissed [...]

Capital News: Civilian police chief subject of intense debate
NAIROBI, Kenya Feb 6 – The controversial debate on the suitability of a civilian to head the police department dominated interviews for members of the national Police Service Commission that got underway on Monday at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC). Opinion was divided amongst candidates interviewed, with most of them insisting that it would [...]

Capital News: Law to clear air over eligibility for public office
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – The Ministry of Justice is in the process of formulating legislation on leadership requirements as stipulated under Chapter 6 of the Constitution. The ministry’s Deputy Chief Legal Officer John Tuta told stakeholders attending a workshop on leadership and integrity on Monday, that they already developed a draft on the principles [...]

Capital News: We are not sleeping on the job – DPP
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has strongly defended itself against accusations that it is lax in investigating cases involving high profile public officials. Speaking during the opening of a workshop for prosecutors in East Africa, Senior Deputy Public Prosecutor Dorcas Oduor said they had handled many high [...]

Capital News: Piling court injunctions infuriate Mutula
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo on Monday took issue with the ruling issued by the Court of Appeal, putting a stop to the process of vetting judges and magistrates, terming it ‘unfair.’ Speaking at a forum on leadership and integrity in Nairobi, the Justice Minister argued that the [...]

Capital News: Philippine quake kills 43
MANILA, Feb 6 – A 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the central Philippines on Monday, killing at least 43 people and causing widespread panic, officials said. The powerful quake hit in a narrow strait between the heavily populated island provinces of Negros and Cebu, causing buildings to collapse, cracking roads and bridges, and [...]

Capital News: Raila plays down Luo-Kikuyu rift
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – Prime Minister Raila Odinga is wooing voters from Central Province and says the perceived differences between the Kikuyu and Luo are not real but a creation of propaganda agents. The premier who spoke after a breakfast meeting with activists, students, clergy and former MPs from Central Kenya at a Nairobi [...]

Capital News: Synovate survey contradicts rival pollster on ICC
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 6 – A new opinion poll by Ipsos-Synovate sharply contradicts findings of another pollster released last week on the views Kenyans hold following the confirmation of charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against four individuals, for crimes against humanity. The Ipsos-Synovate poll shows that 60 percent of Kenyans are satisfied with [...]

Capital News: Majority of Kenyans satisfied with ICC ruling
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Capital News: Court ends inquest into Zimbabwe general’s death
HARARE, Feb 6 – A Zimbabwe court on Monday closed an inquest into the death last year of ex-army chief Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire, with the magistrate rejecting an application by his family to have his body exhumed. “This marks the end and closure of the inquiry,” magistrate Walter Chikwanha said after Mujuru’s [...]

Capital News: Senegal’s Wade shrugs off Western pressure
DAKAR, Feb 6 – Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade, whose reelection bid has drawn fierce criticism abroad, said in his opening campaign rally that France and the United States had no right to ask him to step aside. “I do not seek the interest of the toubabs (Westerners), but that of the Senegalese people,” the 85-year-old [...]

Capital News: Mass evacuation in Australia as flood waters rise
Australia, Feb 6 – Flood waters rose Monday in parts of Queensland but residents of a threatened town in the Australian state were thrown a lifeline with news that the levee on a swollen river might hold. Thousands of Australians have been forced to abandon their homes as a record deluge sweeps through areas still [...]

Capital News: Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years on throne
United Kingdom, Feb 6 – Queen Elizabeth II marks 60 years as monarch on Monday with a deliberately low-key programme of visits to eastern England, kicking off five months of diamond jubilee celebrations. The queen will visit the town hall in King’s Lynn and then a nearby school, six decades to the day since she [...]

Capital News: Abbas to head interim govt: Palestinian official
DOHA, Feb 6 – Rival Palestinian factions have agreed to name president Mahmoud Abbas as head of an interim government that will oversee preparations for presidential and legislative elections, a Palestinian official said on Monday. “An agreement was reached on appointing Mahmoud Abbas as prime minister until elections are held,” the official, who is participating [...]

Capital News: US seeks ‘clarification’ on Egypt activist trials
WASHINGTON, Feb 6 – The United States demanded “clarification” Sunday over Cairo’s apparent plans to put dozens of pro-democracy activists, including 19 Americans, on trial over charges of illegal funding of aid groups. US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Washington was “deeply concerned” over the developments, which threatened to further strain ties with Egypt’s [...]

Capital News: More than 300 dead in Europe cold snap
KIEV, Feb 6 – The deadly cold snap that has gripped Europe for more than a week wrought more havoc across the continent Sunday, straining emergency services, grounding flights and pushing the death toll past 300. The homeless population has borne the brunt of the suffering, with dozens of transients freezing to death in unheated [...]

Capital News: Prostitution is still illegal – Mayor
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 5 – Nairobi Mayor George Aladwa announced Sunday that the council will continue carrying out a crackdown on prostitutes as it awaits recommendations of a committee formed on Friday to look into their grievances. Aladwa said the committee looking into grievances of the commercial sex workers has two weeks to submit its [...]

Capital News: Police commission interviews to resume
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 5 – A panel set up to interview candidates seeking to become members of the National Police Service Commission will begin the process afresh on Monday. The exercise was suspended last month on expiry of the terms of the panel’s chairman Hassan Omar Hassan who had been nominated by the Kenya National [...]

Capital News: Homosexuals seek refuge in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya, Febry 5 – Until a new anti-homosexuality bill caused a wave of homophobia in Uganda, John and Paul could hold hands in the streets of the capital Kampala and kiss in night clubs. Then the nightmare started — people began insulting and then assaulting them, and then they had to run away to [...]

Capital News: 6.0-magnitude quake hits off Philippines
MANILA, February 4, 2012 (AFP) – A 6.0-magnitude quake struck off the eastern coast of the Philippines on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued. The quake hit at 9:09 pm local time (1309 GMT) off the island of Samar, at a depth of 60 kilometres (38 miles) around [...]

Capital News: Don’t impose leaders on Kenyans, Hague told
NAIROBI, Kenya, February 4 – Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta says no foreigner should tell Kenyans who to choose as their leader and that everybody should be left to make their own choices. Speaking at Karisa Maitha stadium during a prayer meeting in Malindi on Saturday, the Deputy Premier stated that leadership should only be [...]

Capital News: Legalising prostitution just a proposal – Mayor clarifies
NAIROBI Kenya, February 4 – Nairobi mayor George Aladwa now says his statement on legalizing prostitution was just a proposal in response to demands by the call girls. In a statement, the Nairobi Mayor said he was just airing his views and the matter was subject to debate by the public. The issue of legalising [...]

Capital News: Each constituency needs ambulance – Taskforce
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – The government has been asked to set up the Kenya National Ambulance Services within each county and a central coordinating office at the national level within the next two years. A taskforce set up to look into the issue of strengthening health service delivery following a doctors’ strike in December [...]

Capital News: Uhuru, Ruto allies critisise UK’s Hague
NAIROBI, Kenya, Feb 4 – Members of Parliament allied to Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta and Eldoret North MP William Ruto have taken issue with a statement by the UK Foreign Minister William Hague suggesting that Kenya’s international standing and reputation would be soiled if Kenyans decided to elect individuals indicted by the International Criminal [...]