by Hope Media | Jan 24, 2017 | news
Australia and New Zealand have said they hope to salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian countries to sign up, after President Donald Trump formally pulled the US out of the huge trade deal. The agreement, the biggest trade...
by Hope Media | Jan 24, 2017 | news
The electoral agency has said more than 128,000 people share identification details in the voters’ register. In their first press briefing since taking office last week, Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) officials, led by chairman Wafula...
by Hope Media | Jan 24, 2017 | news
Cord leader Raila Odinga has asked the IEBC to stop its “mischief” after finding a second person registered using his ID number. Raila said he realised this when he went to register at a polling station in Mtwapa, Kilifi county, on Tuesday. “During...
by Hope Media | Jan 24, 2017 | news
Gambian President Adama Barrow’s newly appointed vice president, Fatoumata Tambajang, is a former United Nations Development Program staffer who was instrumental in uniting Gambia’s opposition parties against Jammeh. Tambajang became a controversial figure...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | news
New Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission chairman Eliud Wabukala has officially taken charge after taking the oath office. The former head of the Anglican Church in Kenya was sworn in by Judiciary Chief Registrar Anne Amadi in a brief ceremony witnessed by Chief...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | news
The President’s directive to the National Registration Bureau to issue Identity Cards within three days of application should be implemented across the country. Amani National Congress Leader Musalia Mudavadi said the order was not just for Jubilee dominated...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | BUSINESS NEWS, news
Five passenger trains are scheduled to arrive in Kenya in February ahead of the launch of the Standard Gauge Railway in June 2017. Also arriving with the locomotives will be forty passenger coaches with each coach having a capacity of 118 passengers for the economy...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | news
President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed chiefs across the country to distribute Identity Cards that remain uncollected. This comes as it emerge that hundreds of thousands of national ID cards are still lying uncollected at various offices of the National Registration...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | sports
Gabon became only the fourth hosts to exit the Africa Cup of Nations at the group stage after a 0-0 draw with Cameroon, who reach the quarter-finals. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang missed a great chance for Gabon early on when he bundled the ball wide from two yards. His...
by Hope Media | Jan 23, 2017 | sports
Tunisia need just a point from their final Group B clash with Zimbabwe in Libreville on Monday to advance to the quarterfinals of the 2017 African Nations Cup finals and at the same time knock out North African rivals Algeria. Tunisia are second in the pool with three...
