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East Africa embassy bombings: Kenya police make fresh arrests

As Kenyans commemorate the 10th anniversary of the US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the Standard newspaper is reporting that fresh arrests have been made in Garrisa in connection with one the organizers of the bombings, Msallam Saleh Mahdi. The Kenyan police intercepted a call from the couple to the wanted fugitive.

Kenyan implicated in mortgage scam in the UK

An unnamed Kenyan has been caught in a mortgage scam dragnet in the UK. The scam involves multiple shell companies that certified unqualified people for UK mortgages. The brainchild behind this particular scam is a Ghanaian, San Norre, who used a yet unnamed Kenyan to front for one of his several shell companies.
BBC

Al-Qaeda-linked Nairobi bombing suspect narrowly escapes police dragnet

Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the leading suspect in both the 1998 Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam embassy bombings the failed missile attack on an Israeli El Al plane taking off from Mombasa and the suicide bombing that followed 12 minutes after at the Paradise Beach Resort, frequented by Israelis in Kikambala, narrowly escaped police capture over the weekend in [...]

41 year old Kenyan woman wins 10K

 
Edith Masai, 41, won the 10K Beach to Beacon race in Maine yesterday clocking in at 31:55. Masai was a late-blooming runner and it is impressive to see her still going strong at 41.
Ed Muge, also of Kenya, won the Mens’ 10K with a time of 27:52 while another Kenyan, Kiplimo Kimutai, was third clocking in [...]

Kenya government seeks to re-route TEAMS undersea cable

With the laying of The East African Marine System (TEAMs) undersea cable slated to begin in Decemeber, the Kenyan government is looking for an alternative routing around Somali as the cable makes it’s way from Mombasa on the coast of Kenya and terminates in Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates.
The Kenya ICT Board deputy CEO, [...]

High food prices forcing Ugandan parents to send their kids to boarding school or to the countryside

The global commodity crisis is hitting families from North America to Africa with higher than normal food prices and people are finding novel ways to cope.
In Uganda, parents are discovering that it is cheaper to have their children in school because the school fees often includes not only tuition and accomodation, but the meals as [...]

Summer friends

These boys met and made friends at a Vacation Bible School in Dallas.
source: baptiststandard.com

Yesterday was a sad day

I know that my blog is all about hard news and does not have the upclose and personal feel that a lot of blogs do. This post might come across as strange for anyone who has been following the blog since December 31st, 2007 and gotten used to it’s format, so here is a little [...]

Business briefs: Shilling loses ground against dollar – latest scandal a factor

The Grand Regency saga factors into the shilling’s value today against the dollar
The shilling lost ground today against the dollar and negative sentiments surrounding the Grand Regency saga currently playing out in Kenya. This sentiment when the Finance minister comes out amid calls of resigning and says that he will not quit because he did [...]