Lack of safe water killing 2000 everyday-report

Every day 2,000 children die due to diarrhoea brought about by a lack of safe water and inadequate sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, a new report shows.

This is the biggest cause of deaths of children under the age of five in the region. Four out of ten people don’t have access to safe water, while seven out of ten people don’t have access to adequate sanitation.

The report titled Off-track, off-target, released by the international charity WaterAid shows that there are more people in the world today lacking adequate sanitation services than in 1990.

Harun Mwau is not a drug Baron, Kenya parliament told

Finally Kilome MP Harun Mwau has won the battle against allegations that he is a drug baron.This is after years of trying to set the record straight.

All along Mr Mwau has maintained his innocence and declared that his wealth is clean despite what some people within and without Kenya want to believe.

On Wednesday Kenya’s Parliament publicly cleared Mr Mwau and another MP of the allegations of drug trafficking made in a US dossier early this year. The duo were cleared the heinous crime that is responsible for several deaths in Kenya and agony among youths, especially in the Kenyan coast.

Muammar Gaddafi’s last formal speech-what a bitter man

In the name of Allah, the beneficent, the merciful…

For 40 years, or was it longer, I can’t remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food.

I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.

World Press Trends: Newspapers Still Reach More Than Internet

Newspaper circulation declined in print world-wide last year but was more than made up by an increase in digital audiences, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said Thursday in its annual update of world press trends.

“Circulation is like the sun. It continues to rise in the East and decline in the West,” said Christoph Riess, CEO of WAN-IFRA, who presented the annual survey Thursday at the World Newspaper Congress and World Editors Forum in Vienna, Austria.

The survey found:

CIO 100 awards grow bigger as Rwanda, Ethiopia join

Two more countries, Rwanda and Ethiopia, have joined the annual CIO 100 awards bringing the total number of participating countries to five.
The new entrants mean the number of companies to be surveyed this year would increase to over 500 up from 350 in 2010.

Harry Hare Director CIO 100. Reach him via harry.hare@cio.co.ke

The 350 participants in 2010 were drawn from from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
The increase in the number of participants also crops from introduction of new awards that include Leadership, Green Edge, Security and CIO of the Year Award, recognising the best CEO in embracing IT.

Kenya has a new neighbor as South Sudan joins club of nations

By James Ratemo in Nairobi
East Africa has a new baby. South Sudan is now the sixth East African country and President Salva Kiir is at helm.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and African leaders like Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki, his Prime Minister Raila Odinga, President Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Jakaya Kiwete of Tanzania were in attendance under a blazing sun as South Sudan President Salva Kiir hosted the noon-hour ceremony.
As reported by Kenya’s Sunday Nation President Salva Kiir Mayardit used the historic occasion of the entry of South Sudan into the world’s community of states to tell his people that they would never again wilfully return to war.
“This is a day that will be forever engraved in our hearts. Citizens in every village and county of South Sudan are celebrating. “We give praise to the Almighty God for making it possible for us to witness this day which we have waited for more than 56 years,” he said.

Osama’s death excites Kenya too

Nairobi, Monday He had cheated death for long but finally he is gone with the wind. The terror mastermind and feared leazder of Al-Qaeda link, Osama Bin Laden is no more. He has been brough down by US forces and already buried at Sea. Word of Osama bin Laden’s death rocketed through the Internet in rapid-fire Twitter messages, Facebook updates, and YouTube video clips.

Quotes from our Leaders:

“There is no dignity in begging. Kenyans are a proud people who want to use their talents to prosper,” -Raila Odinga in New York, Monday

“Those who think they have a big voice through the media, western embassies and their allies should know that the only important voice is that of Kenyans and the voice of the people is the voice of God, and they have seen that today…We are here to ask you to be together so that we bring peace because no European will do so,” -Uhuru Kenyatta at Uhuru Park, Monday

To be a journalist, you need a thick skin

Please do not interfere…

Journalism is fun. You are always on top of news, people respect you and think you wield a lot of power but little do they know the intrigues involved. True, some journalists, especially in Africa are poorly paid. This makes some of them to be vulnerable to corruption and misdemeanor.

Kenya 2010/2011 budget full of errors-Mars Group

Mars Group claims parliament has approved the 2010/2011 budget with a lot of inaccuracies and errors.
The budget includes what Mars Group considers to be a deliberately deflated budget deficit, double entries regarding Appropriation in Aid and Grants, miscalculated aggregates besides erroneous figures of revenue anticipated from key state corporations and parastatals.