Nation: Speakers to get pay rise in new proposal
17 May 2012 - House Speaker Kenneth Marende, his deputy and four temporary Speakers stand to earn more money if Parliament passes a new Bill that seeks to revise MPs’ allowances.

Nation: Probe team clears 1,450 chaos cases
17 May 2012 - Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko is to rule on the fate of 1,450 post-election violence suspects after a team reviewing the cases completed the first batch.

Nation: Relief for public workers over poll
17 May 2012 - Scores of public servants who plan to plunge into politics during the next General Election may not have to resign by August if MPs pass new amendments proposed by Attorney-General Githu Muigai.

Nation: Leaders demand fresh audit of IDPs’. payment
17 May 2012 - A Cabinet minister and a member of Parliament have called for fresh vetting of internally displaced people who benefited from the government’s compensation scheme.

Nation: Activists oppose county bosses
17 May 2012 - Civil society activists have challenged President Kibaki’s appointment of county commissioners in

Nation: Miraa vendor charged with city church blast
17 May 2012 - A 24-year-old miraa vendor has been charged with last months’ city church grenade attack, which left one person dead and scores injured.

Nation: Push claims through insurers, says Raila
17 May 2012 - Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday warned that the push for compensation for disasters using public funds “had been taken too far” to an extent that it had become “irresponsible”.

Nation: Dockworkers union boss calls off strike
17 May 2012 - The much-publicised strike called by the port workers’ union has sensationally flopped.

Nation: Ethiopia to hand over stolen guns and uniforms
17 May 2012 - Ethiopia has finalised plans to hand over guns and uniforms recovered from bandits who raided a police camp in Turkana County and killed three policemen.

Nation: MPs’ probe finds shocking details on NHIF scheme
17 May 2012 - A parliamentary committee investigating the national health insurer’s medical scheme scandal starts compiling its report on Thursday

Nation: Man arrested over grenade attack
17 May 2012 - Police are holding a man suspected to have taken part in the grenade attack on a Mombasa nightclub which killed one person and injured five others.

Nation: Militia attack on lorry leaves three injured
17 May 2012 - Three people were seriously injured on Wednesday in an attack by Toposa militiamen on a construction firm lorry that was on route to Kibich Army base in Turkana County.

Nation: MP calls for scrapping of the Traffic Department
17 May 2012 - Parliament on Wednesday began debate on proposed amendments to the Traffic Act that are expected to abolish the Traffic Department.

Nation: Kalonzo sets up team to end land row
17 May 2012 - Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka on Wednesday set up a taskforce to end the land ownership dispute in Mlolongo and Syokimau

Nation: Alarm raised over threat to maize yields
17 May 2012 - The Agriculture ministry has sounded the alarm over a maize disease in the South Rift that could threaten food security.

Nation: Explain fuel price rise, Kibaki and Raila told
17 May 2012 - President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have been asked to explain the recent rise in fuel prices.

Nation: Audit reveals ‘tribalism’ in key parastatal
17 May 2012 - More than 60 per cent of employees at Kenya Seed Company belong to one tribe, an audit of the State parastatal has revealed.

Nation: KAA, firm lock horns over duty free shops
17 May 2012 - The World Duty Free Company does not hold exclusive rights to operate shops in Kenyan airports, a court was told on Wednesday.

Nation: Orders blocking police reform team extended
17 May 2012 - Orders stopping the appointment of nominees to the National Police Service Commission have been extended.

Nation: Bold new start as Anglican Church Archbishop weds
17 May 2012 - It was a bold new start for Kenya’s top Anglican cleric when he exchanged wedding vows at a private ceremony at the Coast.

Nation: Budget cut threatens Tobiko’s devolution plans
17 May 2012 - A reduction in the budget of the Directorate of Public Prosecution from Sh3.3 billion to Sh1 billion threatens plans to devolve to the counties.

Nation: AG withdraws draft law on MPs' pay
17 May 2012 - Attorney General Githu Muigai has withdrawn the controversial draft law that seeks to raise the perks for MPs owing to queries over the constitutionality of the amendments

Nation: 25 Kenyans apply to join regional assembly
17 May 2012 - Twenty five Kenyans interested in joining the East African parliament have put forward their applications ahead of Thursday's deadline.

Nation: Mauritania: Death sentence upheld for Qaeda assassin
17 May 2012 - A Mauritanian court upholds a death sentence handed to an Al-Qaeda assassin found guilty of gunning down an American in 2009.

Nation: Mozambique: Anti-piracy drive paying off
17 May 2012 - Mozambique has said joint efforts with neighbouring countries to fight piracy in its waters are paying off.

Nation: Spain refuses ETA talks, demands break-up
17 May 2012 - The Spanish government insists Basque separatist group ETA must disband unconditionally

Nation: Now High Court blocks Matemu
17 May 2012 - A court has blocked the appointment of Mumo Matemu as the chairman of Kenya's anti-graft agency.

Nation: Cameron says eurozone must shape up or ship out
17 May 2012 - British Prime Minister David Cameron tells eurozone leaders to sort out their debt problems soon

Nation: Jihadists threaten to kill Spanish hostage
17 May 2012 - A west African Al-Qaeda splinter group has threatened to kill a Spanish hostage kidnapped in western Algeria last year

Nation: New French cabinet to be unveiled
17 May 2012 - The new French government line-up under Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault will be unveiled late on Wednesday

Nation: County Commissioners saga moves to court
17 May 2012 - Two civil society lobbyists have filed a suit challenging President Kibaki’s appointment of County Commissioners.

Nation: Taylor says prosecutors paid witnesses
17 May 2012 - Convicted Liberian warlord Charles Taylor accuses prosecutors of paying and intimidating witnesses

Nation: Kibaki calls for Unep upgrade
17 May 2012 - The upgrade of the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) in Nairobi will help tackle emerging environmental challenges, President Kibaki has said.

Nation: Poll: Kenyans wary of tribal groupings
17 May 2012 - The majority of Kenyans are opposed to the re-emergence of ethnic based alliances ahead of the General Election, a new opinion poll shows.

Nation: Bosnia war crimes trial of Mladic opens
17 May 2012 - The trial of wartime Bosnian Serb army chief Ratko Mladic opened before a UN court Wednesday, where he faces charges for some of the worst atrocities committed in Europe since World War II.

Nation: Police probe Mombasa grenade attack
17 May 2012 - A grenade attack at a popular Mombasa night spot left one dead and four others injured as police launched a massive manhunt for those behind the blast.

Nation: Police manhunt for Mombasa grenade attackers
16 May 2012 - Police have launched a massive manhunt for those behind a grenade attack at a night club in Mombasa on Wednesday that left a security guard dead and four others injured.

Nation: Muthaura and Ruto to skip Hague meeting
16 May 2012 - Eldoret North MP William Ruto and former Civil Service head Francis Muthaura will skip next month’s meeting at The Hague to set ground rules for their trial.

Nation: Higher food prices and job losses spell bleak year ahead for Kenyans
16 May 2012 - Florence Agero and her son, Nicodemus Ogwari, fishmongers at Nairobi’s City Market, have had a rough two years.

Nation: Global Fund makes U-turn and pledges to give grants
16 May 2012 - The Global Fund resumes disbursing grants in September, five months after it announced it would not support new initiatives until 2014 because of lack of funds.