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1 hr ago | Government Executive

How Mobile Payments Might Be the Global Money-Laundering Machine Criminals Have Dreamed About

Customers make money transfers at an M-Pesa counter in Nairobi, Kenya. A mobile banking service, M-Pesa allows people without a bank account to transfer money between phones instantly.

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6 hrs ago | AllAfrica.com

Kenya: I Didn't Kill Mercy, Says Businessman

Wycliffe Lugwiri told the public inquest into the death of the University of Nairobi post-graduate student that he did not kill or dump her body on Waiyaki way two years ago as alleged.

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10 hrs ago | SciDev.Net

Carbon projects for smallholder farmers can 'reduce poverty'

But smallholder carbon projects face serious management and policy challenges, including management complexity and the high cost of project development.

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Mon Jun 17, 2013

AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Kimaiyo Defies Kavuludi Over County Cops

POLICE Inspector General David Kimaiyo yesterday defied National Police Service Commission chairman Johnstone Kavuludi by releasing a list of 47 county commanders without consulting.

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BBC News

Jambo pesa

The cars jolted fairly steadily over the holes in the road; the place had the air of a rather provincial city: nice climate, nice people, a dark underside of criminality, but a bit slow.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Relief As ERC Cuts Petrol Price By Five Shillings

Kenyan motorists will have some relief for the next one month after the Energy Regulatory Commission announced a Sh5.06 cut in the price of super petrol in its latest price review.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: President Uhuru Moves to Enhance Efficiency At KPA

President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered all government departments involved in the running of the Port of Mombasa to streamline and synergise their operations in order to enhance efficiency.

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Reuters

Kenyan police kill suspected militant in raid, seize arms

Kenyan police said on Monday they had shot dead a suspected supporter of the Somali militant group al Shabaab during a gunfight and said he had been plotting attacks in the country.

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Examiner.com

'Nairobbery' transitioning back into Nairobi with embracing of tourism

Kenya's capital city of Nairobi has been an epicentre of scams, robbery and other crimes for visiting tourists, who are heading to East Africa's safari parks and Indian Ocean beaches.

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Basketball in Africa

Warriors arrest terrorists at Nyayo

Ulinzi Warriors had an easy time when they faced University of Nairobi 'Terrorists' in the Kenya Basketball Federation Premier League.

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The Daily Beast

If You Give A Girl A Solar Lamp...

Livelyhoods, the brain child of two 26-year-old activists, takes Kenya's girls off the streets and transforms them into eco-friendly entrepreneurs.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Safaricom Launches "Vumaonline" to Offer Free Wifi in Matatus

As we had exclusively revealed earlier, Safaricom today announced the launch of Vuma Online, which will see commuters access WiFi in public transport vehicles.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Global Voices Online

Association for World's Mobile Operators Opens Africa Office

The GSMA, the global association for the world's mobile operators, opens an African office in Nairobi, White African reports : Back in 2010 when the iHub first opened, we had some of their staff who were in Kenya working out of the iHub and using the space for different meetings.

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Medical Daily

Teaching Girls Self-Defense Radically Reduces Rape In Kenya

For a cost of only $1.75 per student, a self-defense training in an impoverished area of Kenya cut rapes among adolescent girls from nearly one in four to fewer than one in 10. A short and simple self-defense class for girls who live in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, dramatically reduced the number of rapes.

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Basketball in Africa

Lions maul Co-op as Eagle Wings consolidate lead

Defending champions Co-operative Bank suffered a huge setback in its campaign this season after going down 53-61 to Lions in a national classic league match played at the Nyayo National Stadium gymnasium on Saturday.

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AllAfrica.com

Zimbabwe: Chaos in Warriors Camp

Zimbabwe might be forced to field two goalkeepers in tonight's World Cup qualifier against Guinea after failing to secure enough seats for the 14 players who made it to Senegal en route Conakry.

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Sat Jun 15, 2013

Ghanamma.com

Prezzo parts with wife

BBA housemate, Prezzo, may have finally gotten his wish as the long battle between him and his embattled wife, Daisy Jematia Kiplagat, in court finally reached a resolve last week.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Farmers Fault Budget Proposal for the Agriculture Sector

Farmers in Rift Valley have faulted the government for allocating less resources to the agriculture sector.

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AllAfrica.com

Kenya: Citizens Mobilise Against Taxing the Poor

On a side street in Nairobi's bustling neighbourhood of Shauri Moyo, Faisal Ngila shouts to street vendors, motorbike taxi drivers and pedestrians.

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Virginian-Pilot

Virginia Zoo flips for flop art

Forget sea glass and bottled messages; flip-flops are the flotsam washing up by the thousands on Kenya's beaches.

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