Milkayo Obura, 42, did not survive the raging torrents of river Kuja, in what local administration personnel describe as a freak accident.

According to eyewitnesses, Obura had spent the better part of the day tending his livestock and as is the norm, had supper with his family before retiring to bed.

The father of two, was then spotted by a neighbour around 11.30pm heading towards the river.

“I saw him pass me. atemo loso kode to okodwoka (I tried to address him but he did not reply),” recalls Gilbert Odera, 32 a family friend to the deceased.

What Gilbert did not realize, was that Obura, a father of two, was sleep walking.

It was moments after the encounter that Obura plunged into the river, and despite Odera’s efforts he could not get to him in time.

Our source in Ranen informs us that the late Milkayo Obura had a history of sleepwalking.

We could not reach the area police boss for comments regarding this sad incident.

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Please Join us in fundraising to help the family send her to her final resting place in Kenya.

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Time: 5:30 Pm
Date: November 7th 2009

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Consequently the AG is seeking legal advice as to whether he can sue the United States government for revoking his travel visa.

Speaking at a packed news conference today, Wako, for the first time acknowledged receiving a travel ban, putting to rest a week-long chorus of speculation and guessing regarding the identity of the high ranking official banned for “blocking reforms” .

American officials said Wako had blocked reform and had contributed to a culture of impunity for not acting against perpetrators of postelection violence in Kenya in 2007.

In his defence, Wako termed the accusations false saying that as attorney general he could not investigate crimes, but only prosecute cases that are presented to him.

The U.S. has issued 13 warning letters to Kenyan officials with word on the streets suggesting that further Visa revocations are on the way.

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Launching the program, Prime Minister Raila Odinga said each of the targeted families will be allocated a monthly food subsidy of Sh1,500.

The money will be disbursed through mobile phone transfer or other electronic card systems.

The government says the project will run on an initial pilot phase in Nairobi before rolling out to the other urban centres in Kenya.

“A comprehensive information management system has been put in place to assess the efficiency of the programme and provide the necessary checks and balances for the effective implementation of the programme,” he said.

The PM Minister spoke minutes after receiving the interim report of the task-force on the development of a comprehensive well targeted food scheme in Kenya.

“Careful consideration has been made by the task-force to ensure that it is cost effective,” he added. “Of the total cost of the piloting programme (Sh600 million) only ten percent will go towards administrative cost while the balance 90 percent will go directly into supporting the real needy people.”

Over the past five months, the taskforce has prepared a report on the efficiency of the current targeted subsidy schemes which includes school feeding programmes, cash transfers to orphans and vulnerable children and the emergency food relief programme in addressing food security in Kenya.

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39% of Kenyan women have been physically and/or sexually abused.

This somber statistic has been captured in a report released today by the Ministry of planning and National development.

The report, titled ‘A demographic health survey’ further indicated that more and more women are choosing contraceptives even as the country’s fertility rate plummets.

The 2008/2009, 5th demographic and health survey conducted in 10,000 households across the country, reveals that the desire to have children amongst women has gone down.

However rural women still lead the way in child bearing where they outshine their urban counterparts by a ratio of 5 to 2.

The report also indicates the growing awareness for the use of family planning methods and contraceptive which stands at 46 per cent.

According to the report infant and child mortality rate has also reduced standing at 52 deaths per 1000 children as opposed to the last survey in 2003 which was 77 deaths per 1000 births.

Interestingly, the report reveals that in their lifetime, Kenyan men are likely to have THREE times the number of sexual partners as compared to women.

photo by: redwerewolf

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Map Kibera to shed new light on details of troubled slum for public use

Nairobi, Kenya - October 24, 2009 – This November, motivated young Kenyans will create the first
public digital map of Kibera, widely known as Africa’s largest slum. Map Kibera is a collaborative
project lead by Mikel Maron of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and supported by JumpStart
International. Partners include Jubal Harpster of WhereCampAfrica, the Social Development Network
(Sodnet), Pamoja Trust, Hands on Kenya, Carolina for Kibera and others.
Kibera remains a blank spot on the Kenyan map, though it holds as many as one million inhabitants
according to UN-HABITAT. Its limited health and water resources, traffic patterns, and housing
layouts remain largely invisible to the outside world and to residents themselves. Though many
organizations have collected data on Kibera, the information is not yet shared as a resource for all to
use.

Map Kibera will fill in this gap by producing free, open-source digital map data using the
techniques of OpenStreetMap, a user-edited map of the world. The resulting information will be freely
available to residents, NGOs, private companies, and others interested in working with and for Kibera.

Twelve young residents of Kibera will first be trained on current mapping techniques during a two-day
workshop. Individuals from the growing Nairobi technology scene will help train and network with the
larger community.

The group will then map all of Kibera over a two-week period in mid-November and
share the results through OpenStreetMap, joining a growing global community of tech-savvy grassroots
mapmakers. “The project will provide open-source data that will help illustrate the living conditions in
Kibera. Without basic knowledge of the geography of Kibera it is impossible to have an informed
discussion on how to improve the lives of residents of Kibera,” said Mikel Maron.

Following the completion of the map, raw data will be made available at no charge to upload into
collaborative mapping platforms. A workshop with local interested civic organizations will introduce
them to the final map, and spark follow-up initiatives.

The new group of mappers will share the information with their own communities by distributing paper maps, and will be able to keep information current as conditions change in Kibera.
For more information, please visit www.mapkibera.org.

OpenStreetMap, http://www.openstreetmap.org is a web project to create a free and open map of the
entire world, built entirely by volunteer map-makers.

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team,
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team applies the principles and techniques of

OpenStreetMap towards humanitarian response and economic development.

JumpStart International, http://www.jumpstartinternational.org promotes sustainable economic
development and self-sufficiency through active projects that focus on building livelihoods and
rebuilding communities to overcome effects of conflict, disaster, and systemic poverty.

Media Contact:
Erica Hagen
erica.hagen@gmail.com
+254 0711 232 011
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The company’s managing director said an overload at the Embakasi power station caused the outage.

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Yet for Staff Benda Bilili, the sky was the limit despite all the odds stacked against them. Local “successful” musicians shunned them and the rest of Kinshasa did not think much of them until a Belgian documentary filmmaker, Vincent Kenis, “discovered” them in the streets of Kinshasa  à la Konono No.1, another street band he successfully brought into the limelight 5 years ago.

Stricken with polio for most of their lives, the band members, most of them in their 50s, often congregated at the Kinshasa  zoo grounds and where their audience consisted of street kids and homeless people. They did not complain. They did not change to fit in. They just did their thing. And they jammed and jammed.

Today, Staff Benda Bilili (”look beyond appearances” in Lingala) has a long European tour lined up to follow up on their well-received first album, Très Très Fort.

I don’t know about you, but when I listen to their music, I feel so connected to it. “Agiropa, Agirole” was a common rugby stomp line back during my high school days in Nairobi. I had no idea who coined the phrase or what it meant. We just used it to psyche ourselves before, during and after a rugby match.

So when I heard one of the musicians on Staff’s “Na Lingui Yo” video use the same phrase to pull and nudge the song backwards and forward, I was pleasantly surprised at the connection.

There’s but just a whiff of lingala, a little bit of Fela and a sprinkling of James Brown…….it’s great…..sounds just like all the music I listened to as a kid masterfully mashed together.

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