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The release of the Kroll report in 2007, about looting and corruption in Kenya, caught the world's attention.

Looking at Kiraitu beyond his politics Summary Njeri Rugeni might consider coming out with a series of ‘tell all’ conversations with senior Kenyan politicians like Kiraitu Murungi whose book was just launched last Monday at Serena Hotel ironically entitled Beyond Politics. This award-winning veteran political journalist knows most local politicians on a first-name basis after 25 years of covering them either as a Parliamentary reporter and editor, Coast Regional Bureau Chief, or Senior Cont...

NATIONAL Senior Counsel Philip Murgor during an interview with The Standard at his office in Nairobi, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. [David Njaaga, Standard] To understand Senior Counsel Philip Murgor, one must peel off countless layers of a man who is intensely motivated, devoted to his family and a public servant. You sense a little impatience in him, enough to declare he is no pushover. The son of former Provincial Commissioner Charles Murgor, by any measure the Lenana School old boy was raised wi...

The authors were members of the international election monitoring team convened by the Brenthurst Foundation, and were based in the Sahel region in eastern Somaliland. A dirty white, bullet-pocked house, without electricity and running water, does not merit a second glance in the town of Burao high in the east of Somaliland. Yet this former colonial governor’s residence shaded by a giant acacia was the site of the Grand Conference of the Northern Peoples in Burao, held over six weeks, conclud...

The people of Somaliland are voting Monday in parliamentary and local elections, highlighting progress in the semi-autonomous region of Somalia that over the years has avoided the destructive violence plaguing other parts of the Horn of Africa country.

More than one million register to cast their vote in parliamentary and local elections in the breakaway Somalia region.

Somaliland Sun Members of the Somaliland Elections Monitoring Mission 2021 at meeting with NEC in Hargeisa Somalilandsun: Members of the Somaliland Election Monitoring Mission (SEMM) have arrived in the capital, Hargeisa, for a week-long visit to monitor Parliamentary and Local Government elections which are scheduled for Monday, 31 May 2021. The Republic of Somaliland has held regular democratic elections since it declared its independence from Somalia in 1991, revoking a decision to join Soma...

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18th November 2016 Apart from that presidential broadside the event was a damp squib made noteworthy by the absence of two key invitees: John Githongo the anti-corruption czar in President Mwai Kibakis government who turned whistle-blower on the Anglo-Leasing scandal in 2004 and economist David Ndii who has persistently attacked the governments handling of funds from the KSh... Vol 57 No 18 |

Kenyatta legal team prepares challenge to ruling on constitutional changes High court nullifies constitutional amendment process critics say is partly designed to check ambitions of Kenyatta deputy, William Ruto 16 May 2021 - 19:58 Agency Staff Kenyas President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks at State House, in Nairobi, Kenya, May 4 2021. Picture: REUTERS/BAZ RATNER Nairobi — The legal team of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta met at the weekend to plan an appeal after the high co...