Month: October 2016

Bizarre tales of people being conned or robbed while in private and public vehicles are on the rise with each passing day.
However, it appears the thieves are choosing to use drugs more and are finding ingenious ways to drug their victims. Yesterday a woman escaped by a whisker from falling victim to one group of cons.
The lady had picked a flier from a supposed vendor on the street and immediately got dizzy, and fainted.
She was along Uhuru highway and luckily, police along the road saw her and helped her through the situation.
The supposed vendor was nowhere to be seen and police believe the flier was drugged to render the victim unconscious so that she could be robbed.
Her incident comes a few days after a matatu crew was exposed for targeting women by drugging them using syringes and robbing them.
Yesterday a gang of two men and a woman was caught on camera robbing from a lady in a daylight event. More incidents of motorist being targeted are being reported as the robbers get daring and callous in their methods.
The flier incident was reported by a Facebook user Sarah Njoki whose post went viral as the public become more suspicious and alarmed by the new crime wave on the highways.
This is what she posted online and the photos she provided
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

She treated her fans to a brace of new stunning bikini photos at a hotel swimming pool in Watamu, Mombasa. The lady who prefers keeping a low profile revealed that she is currently having some alone time in a stress free zone in one photo.
 
Murugi rocked a bare face and went for a bright multi colored bikini but opted to cover her hips with a purple-pink scarf. Murugi may not be as popular as her brother, but the siblings show unity when it comes down to family. In the past she has been spotted at Crème’s gigs and sometimes babysitting her big brother’s kids.
Below are the photos from her vacation in Mombasa.
 
 

The European Union on Thursday added 10 top Syrian officials to its sanctions blacklist for their role in the “violent repression” of the civilian population.
“The persons… include high-ranking military officials and senior figures linked to the regime,” it said in a statement.
EU leaders agreed last week to increase sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, citing devastating attacks on Syria’s second city of Aleppo.
Suggestions they might also sanction Russia, which has backed long-time ally Assad’s offensives against rebel forces and flown many of the missions against Aleppo, were dropped after sharp differences emerged.
The European Council of member states said the new Syrian sanctions would hit those “responsible for the violent repression against the civilian population in Syria, benefiting from or supporting the regime, and/or being associated with such persons”.
The decision brings to 217 the number of individuals hit with travel bans or asset freezes, it said.
Another 69 entities are affected by asset freezes while the EU also has in place other sanctions against Syria as a whole, including arms and oil embargoes plus investment restrictions.
These broader measures were extended in May and run through to June 1 next year.
The name of the 10 officials targeted Thursday will be released in due course.

The High Court in Belfast will rule Friday on Northern Ireland’s entitlement to veto the UK’s departure from the European Union — the first opinion by a UK judge on Brexit.
With other legal challenges under way in Britain, the outcome will be closely monitored by politicians and financial markets.
Ciaran O’Hare, a lawyer representing veteran victims’ rights campaigner Raymond McCord — one of a diverse group of individuals in the case — said the judge would give his ruling at 0900 GMT Friday, after three days of hearings earlier this month.
“We are delighted at such a quick turnaround but time is obviously of the essence,” O’Hare said.
He described the ongoing legal challenge as “a David versus Goliath battle” that would not end on Friday regardless of the outcome.
“Both sides will likely appeal to the Supreme Court but the ruling in Belfast is important because it would have to be taken into account,” he said.
The campaigners argue Brexit cannot be imposed on Northern Ireland because the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, an international treaty involving the neighbouring Republic of Ireland, gives Northern Ireland residents control over future constitutional change.
“The historical context is vital in our case: we believe the Good Friday Agreement gives us a veto,” O’Hare said.
In the June 23 referendum on EU membership, Northern Ireland voted 56 percent in favour of the UK staying in the bloc, while across the entire kingdom, 52 percent voted to leave.
McCord has joined a cross-party group of politicians and community activists taking the case, warning that the loss of EU funds could undermine the Northern Irish peace process, which is underpinned by the Good Friday Agreement.
“The EU has pledged funding until at least 2020 but the British government has given no undertaking it will continue to fund projects to bring the two communities together,” he told AFP at an earlier hearing.
Under the EU programme for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, the province will receive a total of 229 million euros ($257 million) in funding by 2020 for initiatives regarded as crucial for building bridges across the sectarian divide in the region.

Two top Al-Qaeda leaders in Afghanistan were killed in a US drone attack, the nation’s spy agency confirmed Thursday, in a major blow to the group as it seeks to re-establish safe havens in the country.
Washington said the strikes on Sunday targeted Farouq al-Qahtani, Al-Qaeda’s emir for northeastern Afghanistan, and his deputy Bilal al-Utabi, calling it the most significant attack against the group’s leadership in several years.
Multiple Hellfire missiles “levelled” two different compounds in Kunar province where the men were believed to be hiding, US officials said Wednesday, without confirming if the strikes were successful.
Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security offered confirmation of their death on Thursday, adding that a third senior member of the group had also been killed.
“The attack was carried out in coordination with NDS,” the spy agency said in a statement, without naming the third leader.
Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook had earlier said their demise would deal a blow to the militant group’s presence in Afghanistan.
“Eliminating these core leaders of Al-Qaeda will disrupt efforts to plot against the United States and our allies, reduce the threat to our Afghan partners, and assist their efforts to deny Al-Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan,” Cook said.
The Pentagon had been actively hunting Qahtani for four years. He had longstanding ties with Osama Bin Laden before his death in the 2011 US raid on his Pakistan compound.
Qahtani had operated in Afghanistan since at least 2009 and was responsible for planning attacks against US and coalition forces in the country, officials said.
“He was seeking to re-establish (Al-Qaeda’s) control in Afghanistan,” a US official said.
“He was charged with the requirement to establish AQ safe-havens throughout Kunar and Nuristan provinces.”
His deputy Utabi, was seen as the second- or third-most senior Al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan, the official said.
In October 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks, the US launched military operations to dislodge the Taliban from Afghanistan and capture or kill Al-Qaeda militants they were harbouring.
Their numbers have since been decimated, but the United States continues to target the remnants of the group.
In June, the White House restored the Pentagon’s authority to strike at insurgents.
The new authority has given the US-led NATO troops greater latitude to order air strikes against a web of militant groups in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, Islamic State jihadists and Al-Qaeda.
Qahtani and his deputies were in Hilgal village in Kunar’s Ghazi Abad district when they were attacked, US officials said.
They were in two separate buildings a few hundred metres (yards) apart and were targeted almost simultaneously by multiple missiles.
Provincial spokesman Abdul Ghani Mosamem told AFP at least 15 insurgents were killed, including two Arabs. A number of Pakistani Taliban fighters were also among the fatalities, he said.
An Afghan intelligence official in the province also confirmed two Arabs were killed in the strikes.
Qahtani and Utabi are well-known senior Al-Qaeda commanders in Kunar, and had been actively involved in recruiting young locals into the group.
Qahtani was born some time between 1979 and 1981 in Saudi Arabia and is a Qatari national.
In February, the US Department of the Treasury labelled Qahtani a specially designated global terrorist.
Qahtani “has a long history of directing deadly attacks against US forces… along with plotting Al-Qaeda terrorist operations in the United States and around the world,” Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin said at the time.

This week, we decided to dedicate it to figuring out a couple (uncomfortable) things that make our tribes special and unique.
We started yesterday with a little article on the Kikuyu peculiarities some of which are not as savory as you might expect. But then again, it’s the Kikuyu. One of the most vilified (and rightly so) tribes in Kenya.
As promised, we’re moving on to focusing on these other major tribes and who fits the bill better than the Luo? A loud, ostentatious community whose voice and groundbreaking exploits can be heard and seen from Space.
Luos are notoriously flashy , bombastic and annoyingly self-assured.
Also, they’ve historically been locked in some decades-long supremacy war with their arch-rivals the Kikuyu over an array of issues that include (and are it limited to) land, political supremacy and national leadership.
It’s a rivalry that no tribe seems to want to lose. And a war that just keeps getting thicker. And thicker.
But really, the Luo tribe has often being disparaged and called out for a couple things they’re (in)famous for. But they’ve always stood by their two feet – and refused to cower. Or tone down.
Even the Luo have things they ain’t sorry about. They can be vacuously irritating. And viscerally intimidating. As we see here.
Pffff. The Luo have class. We ain’t even going to apologize for that. We’ve been the classiest in the room for the longest time. We don’t settle for a beat, rundown Peugeot with a tattered body and faded color. We either show up in the best in town. Or we walk. Our suits and our tuxedos and our dresses to ooze nothing but class. We make calls on our iPhones. Not those bulky, Luthuli Avenue gadgets you guys are obsessed with. And if it ain’t the Samsungs or the SONYs,that ain’t entertainment to us. It’s either we make a classy statement or sit the hell at home. No mediocre.
Look at all the Professors in town. Across all top Campuses. It’s us. We are the masters of the brain. We’ve got the biggest titles across these streets. We’re surgeons and pilots and doctors and university dons. We’re just too mentally endowed. It’s maybe because we were brought up eating fish. Or maybe because, we’re just on our Albert Einstein. Superior IQ.
Say what you may, bimbos. We ain’t even gonna tone down what we feel about ourselves to accommodate your little, shaky personalities. We’re confident in who we are. And what we are. We could be the poorest villagers or we could be living in palaces. One thing doesn’t change – our sense of self worth. No one has more confidence in themselves than us. We walk tall and walk proud. Being from our community has never been a better moment. You call it pride, we call it confidence. No apologies.
Listen to yourselves talking. And then, listen to us. Now compare. Our language is downright sexy. I mean, we’re the only tribe that can successfully construct a fluent sentence in Luo, Swahili and English and it’s still perfect. It flows like the River Nile. Nothing’s as beautiful as hearing us speak. OK,the British accent is the greatest in the World. And then ours. Donge?
Hahaha. I heard the girls from the Mountainous province are gorgeous!? Oh really? Well, how about a sexy authentic African woman who can cook, protect her home, rock that body, guard herself and light up a fire in bed? That’s the Luo girl. Besides the curvaceous bodies our girls have, these girls can sure make excellent wives. And leave you sweating like a Roman warrior in bed.
Classy man /Courtesy
Walk around this city. Walk into any high-end party. Check out our Instagram. Attend any glitzy party in Hurlingham. You’ll find us, dressed to the nines. Killing it and rocking the freshest, flyest style. We don’t just throw on a random checked shirt and some pale, ruffian-style jeans. We invest in our look. We dress sharp. Have sharp haircuts and our shoes will be slaying from sunrise to sunset. We’re the Nigerians in this shit.
Don’t even trip, you know we can pull off the sleekest English presentation this side of the Sahara. Sure, English, as they say, But that’s not reason enough for the rest of you to fail to at least get it right and assimilate it in your systems. Dude, we can not only outspeak you in English we can beffudle you with the most complex, deep vocabularies off the top of our heads. There’s a meme going round that says, That perfectly applies to us. Just watch our Waheshimiwas in Parliament. We ace all debates like the linguists we are.
The Kikuyu may hog the Presidency… But it never comes easy. We’ve been on top of our political game for decades now. (Thanks Agwambo. ) We’ve rattled the political scene harder than a rattle snake. We’ve been in and out of the dungeons to bring you guys the freedom and space you enjoy today. Some of our brightest political stars are from our community. And we’re notoriously hardcore and ruffian. You just don’t shush us. Can’t shush us. We gave you Tom Mboya. And Jaramogi. And Raila. And Orengo. And Argwings Kodhek. And Obama. I could keep the list going and going but are you ready ready for it?
Can we leave this whole point at Lupita Nyong’o? Just that? Maybe not. No? Fine. We can carry on. Some of the biggest film and music stars are from our community. We made them. We rap like bush fire and are stars on the films. The biggest rap stars of 2016 as we speak are all luo. Khaligraph Jones. Octopizzo. Vicmass Luodollar. Rabbit. The biggest afro-fusion stars are from us. Heck, we gave you the legendary Suzanne Owiyo. Even the biggest TV stars are still ours. We’ve dominated the entertainment field like ants in a desert. Say what you may about Larry Madowo. But he’s proudly ours. I could go on. And on. But please…. I’ve already made my point.

Moscow on Thursday denied any involvement in bloody air strikes on a Syrian school as its relations with the West took another hit and the EU slapped more sanctions on its ally Damascus.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demanded an immediate probe into Wednesday’s attack on the school in rebel-held Idlib province that he said “may amount to a war crime”.
The tensions mounted a day after the United States and Britain said they expected an assault in the next few weeks to drive the Islamic State jihadist group out of Raqa, its de facto capital in Syria.
Syria’s conflict broke out in March 2011 with peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government but has evolved into a complex war involving regional and international powers.
One complication has been the involvement of Turkey, whose President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his country’s military operation supporting Syrian rebels will also target Raqa.
Russia, whose military intervened in Syria in September 2015, denied having any role in air strikes on the school that the UN children’s agency UNICEF said killed 22 students and six teachers.
“The Russian Federation has nothing to do with this terrible tragedy, with this attack,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, adding that Moscow demanded an immediate investigation.
Zakharova said claims Russian and Syrian warplanes had conducted the strikes were “a lie”.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor, “warplanes — either Russian or Syrian — had carried out six strikes” in the Idlib provincial village of Hass, including on the school complex.
Russia’s defence ministry also denied any involvement.
“On Wednesday, October 26, not one Russian warplane entered that area,” spokesman Igor Konashenkov said.
On a nearby front, the ministry said Syrian and Russian warplanes had not bombed the northern city of Aleppo in the past nine days.
A ceasefire meant to allow evacuations of the besieged rebel-held east of Aleppo ended at the weekend, with Moscow ruling out an extension of the unilateral measure for the time being.
Idlib province is controlled by the Army of Conquest, an alliance of rebel groups and jihadists including the Fateh al-Sham Front, which changed its name from Al-Nusra Front after breaking off ties with Al-Qaeda earlier this year.
Syrian and Russian warplanes regularly bomb Idlib, but air strikes have intensified in recent weeks, according to the Observatory.
Children were reportedly caught in the crossfire again Thursday, with state media saying at least six were killed and 15 wounded in rebel rocket attacks on the government-held west of Aleppo city.
The rocket fire hit two west Aleppo neighbourhoods, with one of the attacks striking a school, said the official SANA news agency.
Outside Damascus, meanwhile, a child was among eight people killed Thursday in government shelling on the rebel-held town of Douma, the Observatory said.
Douma is regularly targeted by government fire, and in recent months regime forces have waged an offensive in the area, which has also been under siege since 2013.
At a makeshift hospital in the town, an AFP photographer saw medics using a defibrillator on one man, his face speckled with blood.
On a stretcher nearby, a wounded man lay with his artificial leg detached and lying on top of him, smeared with his blood.
More than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began.
With nothing seemingly able to stop the bloodshed, the European Union on Thursday added 10 top Syrian officials to its sanctions blacklist for the role in the “violent repression” of civilians.
“The persons… include high-ranking military officials and senior figures linked to the regime,” it said.
EU leaders agreed last week to increase sanctions against Assad’s regime, citing devastating attacks on Aleppo, Syria’s second city and pre-war commercial hub.
Suggestions they might also sanction Russia, which has flown many of the missions against rebel-held east Aleppo, were dropped after sharp differences emerged.
The names of the 10 officials targeted Thursday are to be released at a later date.
The European Commission on Thursday said separately that attacks on schools in Syria were “totally unacceptable”, adding “those responsible should be brought to justice”.

German federal prosecutors said Thursday they had brought charges against a 19-year-old Syrian man accused of having scouted targets in Berlin for a potential attack by the Islamic State group.
The man identified only as Shaas Al-M. allegedly joined the jihadist group in 2013 and took part in various military operations in Syria, they said in a statement.
Prosecutors declined to tell AFP when and how the suspect entered Germany last year, which in 2015 took in nearly 900,000 asylum seekers, around 40 percent of them from war-ravaged Syria.
Once he arrived, “he inspected potential attack targets during stays in Berlin and arranged to send at least one person to Syria as a fighter”.
“In addition, he served as a contact man for potential attackers in Germany and indicated he was prepared to carry out an attack in Germany,” they added.
The suspect was arrested in March after prosecutors in Potsdam near Berlin laid criminal conspiracy charges.
He stands accused of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation as well as military weapons law violations.
Germany has so far been spared large-scale jihadist attacks.
But Europe’s biggest economic power has been shaken by two assaults claimed by IS and carried out by asylum seekers — an axe rampage on a train in Wuerzburg that injured five, and a suicide bombing in Ansbach in which 15 people were hurt.
Police said this month they had foiled an alleged plot by a Syrian refugee to bomb one of Berlin’s airports.

We have all believed twerking has reached its height with socialites, girls on Instagram, school girls and in clubs with ladies trying to grasp the attention of sponsors or any man within their reach. But now, this video circulating on social media brings a whole other light to twerking.
In the video that circulated yesterday, the girl is seen dangerously hanging from the door, with one hand holding on a seat. Mind you, the is on high speed. On her perky ass, lays hands which I can only assume they belong to a man clinching on her butt cheeks. Alongside her, another boy hangs on the While two other boys halfway hanging out of the windows encouraging the girl to twerk some more.While showcasing her prowess erotic skills in shaking her small ass, the video was recording by a passenger in another passing .
 
Many people, more so on Facebook were not thrilled about her twerking skills. With women asking what has become of our children, how millennials now put their lives in danger in more ways than one.
Play the video to see the dangerous explicitness 
But why are girls this obsessed with twerking? Why put your life in danger to just shake your butt?

A peasants’ party that scored a surprise victory in Lithuania’s weekend election is the brainchild of a farming tycoon famous for transforming his village from a derelict Soviet-era state farm into a pastoral wonderland.
Ramunas Karbauskis, 46, who runs the centrist Lithuanian Peasants and Green Union party (LPGU) set to form the next government of the Baltic eurozone state, hails from tiny Naisiai.
Boasting an outdoor grass-covered amphitheatre able to accommodate an audience of 30,000, and public gardens dotted with statues of pagan-era Baltic gods, the northeastern village of 500 people has become the envy of rural communities across the country.
Its number one employer is Karbauskis’s own Agrokoncernas farm services and products group, which boasted sales worth 400 million euros ($433 million) last year.
“Everyone in Lithuania knows Naisiai,” Ieva Petronyte, a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of Vilnius University, told AFP.
“In opinion polls, respondents always mention Naisiai when they declare support for the LPGU.
“They think: if Karbauskis succeeded in Naisiai, why shouldn’t he repeat that success for Lithuania?” she said.
In 2008, he masterminded “Summer in Naisiai”, a prime-time television series about the romantic adventures and family life of a young woman that put the village in the national spotlight.
“The actors have become our guests and we have had to put our best foot forward every day,” Zukauskiene Rasa, head of the Naisiai residents’ association, told AFP.
Capitalising on the exposure, in 2010 the village launched a music festival at the amphitheatre which also was popular, thanks in part to a ban on alcohol.
The village’s newfound fame has made it a tourist magnet drawing excursions from across the country.
It is a far cry from the “kolkhoz”-type Soviet state farm run by Karbauskis’s father before Lithuania’s 1990-1 split from the USSR ushered in democracy and capitalism.
“Being from Naisiai has become prestigious,” said Vytautas Simkus, principal at the local school.
But success also has a downside: property prices have skyrocketed, forcing some to live in nearby villages where real estate is more affordable.
With Karbauskis footing much of the bill to develop local infrastructure, Petronyte is cautious about whether Naisiai’s success can be copied.
“It’s a semi-private initiative and there’s no guarantee it could succeed at the national level,” she told AFP.
After spending years on the margins of Lithuanian politics, the LPGU won Sunday’s election on promises to boost economic growth to curb a labour exodus and also thanks to the stellar popularity of Saulius Skvernelis, a corruption-fighting former national police chief who is its candidate for prime minister.
His squeaky-clean image turned him into Lithuania’s hottest political commodity virtually overnight.
Popular in the countryside, the LPGU wants to change a controversial new labour code that makes it easier to hire and fire employees, impose a state monopoly on alcohol sales, cut bureaucracy — and above all, halt mass emigration.
Wage growth and job creation were key election issues in the country of 2.9 million people that has been plagued by an exodus of workers seeking higher wages abroad, notably in Western Europe.
Over the last 15 years, the Baltic state’s population has fallen by 600,000.
Karbauskis, who so far has not made a bid for any top ministerial post in the future government, has raised the prospect of a “grand coalition” of all parties in parliament to create a technocratic government focused on the economy.
“Their proposal to put professionals in key ministerial posts attracted undecided voters looking for more competent people in politics,” Vilnius University analyst Mazvydas Jastramskis told AFP.
The LPGU is “neither left nor right”, he said, adding that “the party doesn’t really know how to brand itself.”
The LPGU opened coalition talks with parties from both the left and right on Monday vowing to forge a “rational” government with “transparent and responsible policies”.

The National Assembly’s Justice and Legal Affairs Committee have endorsed Judge Philomena Mwilu to be Kenya’s next Deputy Chief Justice.
Her name will now be forwarded to President Uhuru Kenyatta who will present it to the National Assembly should he approve.
If appointed, Mwilu will succeed Justice Kalpana Rawal who retired earlier this year and become the Supreme Court’s Vice President, deputising newly appointed Chief Justice David Maraga.
 
Justice Mwilu beat a crowded field of 15 other candidates to emerge as the Judicial Service Commission’s best pick.
She stirred controversy following her stand on the rights of gay people saying that they were protected under the constitution though same sex marriages are outlawed.
Justice Mwilu also had to fight off a petition challenging her suitability for the appointment.
Kandara MP Alice Wahome had filed a petition with the Justice and Legal Affairs committee, claiming that the judge was incompetent and corrupt.
Justice Mwilu refuted the claims and said the MP was engaging in a witch hunt against her.
 Justice Philomena Mbete Mwilu graduated from the University of Nairobi and was admitted as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya in 1984.
She practised law in the firms of Muthoga Gaturu & Company and later Mutunga & Company Advocates. She worked as company secretary and headed a state corporation before being appointed as Judge of the High Court in 2007.
Lady Justice Mwilu also served in the Commercial Division in Nairobi, at the Eldoret High Court and the Civil Appeals sub-division of the High Court, the murder section of the Criminal Division and later headed the Environment and Land Division of the High Court.

The Libyan navy said Thursday that almost 100 migrants were missing after their Europe-bound boat sank off the country’s coast, while 29 others were rescued.
“According to information received on Wednesday afternoon, 20 illegal immigrants of African nationalities have been rescued,” General Ayoub Qassem, a navy spokesman in Tripoli, told AFP.
“They were on an inflatable dinghy which tore and filled up with water,” he said.
Qassem quoted a survivor as telling his rescuers that the boat had set off with 126 migrants on boat from Garabulli, 70 kilometres (45 miles) east of Tripoli, and went down battered by high waves.
Three women and a child were among the 97 missing, he said.
The United Nations says the perilous journey across the Mediterranean for migrants desperate to reach Europe has so far this year claimed more than 3,800 lives, a record.
On Wednesday, French aid group Doctors without Borders (MSF) said it had found the bodies of 29 migrants who perished in a pool of fuel and seawater on a crowded dinghy off Libya, probably from suffocation, skin burns or drowning.

China’s ruling Communist Party declared its General Secretary Xi Jinping the “core” of its leadership on Thursday, elevating his already powerful status.
A communique issued by top party leaders after a four-day meeting in Beijing called on all its members to “closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core”, said the People’s Daily, the party’s official mouthpiece.
The announcement followed a gathering of 400 top party leaders in Beijing for a meeting known as the Sixth Plenum to discuss changes to party structure and discipline.
Scenes of the meeting shown on state broadcaster CCTV showed a relaxed but businesslike Xi, clad in a black windbreaker, lecturing a ballroom of rapt party members.
He has sought to bend the party to his will since taking its helm in 2012, and has already taken control of more levers of power than any leader since Mao Zedong.
Regional cadres began using the term “core” for Xi last December, but it then disappeared, suggesting that the Chinese president had encountered resistance to his efforts to further consolidate his power.
Analysts have speculated that Xi could seek to stay in power beyond the traditional 10-year term.
The declaration was “very significant”, Willy Lam, professor of politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told AFP, because in Chinese politics the “core” has traditionally denoted a degree of individual authority unconstrained by term limits.
“The core of leadership can last forever,” he said. “There’s no idea of tenure, retirement age associated with the core.”
China has a constitutional limit of two five-year terms for the national president, another of Xi’s titles, but no formal rule on tenure for the general secretary of the ruling party, the post from which he derives his power.
Deng Xiaoping, the economic reformer who was China?s paramount leader throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s, was referred to as the ?core? of the leadership.
But his successor Jiang Zemin was only called the core of the third generation of leaders, effectively limiting the duration of the description, Lam said. Xi’s immediate predecessor Hu Jintao never achieved the status.
“A core leader is critical for a nation, for a political party,” the People’s Daily said in an editorial published shortly after the meeting ended.
“Formally” anointing Xi “reflects the common aspirations of the whole party, the whole military, the whole country and all of its people,” it said.
The plenum confirmed that the Communist party will hold a congress late next year, when a new politburo standing committee, its most powerful body, will be selected, giving Xi an opportunity to promote favoured allies.
Xi’s elevation comes as he exerts increasing pressure on the party to clean up its act. Since coming to power, he has presided over an anti-corruption campaign that has punished more than one million officials in what some say resembles a political purge.
Casualties have included ranged from so-called “flies”, minor officials, to “tigers”, major figures including top generals in the People’s Liberation Army and seemingly invincible former security czar Zhou Yongkang.
The drive has eliminated potential rival bastions of power, but it has also laid waste to the party’s organisational chart, paralysing grassroots bureaucrats petrified of making a mistake, a problem compounded by unclear and contradictory signals on what policies to pursue.
While some had speculated the party might use the opportunity of this week’s conference to dial back its anti-graft campaign and give cadres some room to breathe, the communique suggested the opposite, calling for a “zero tolerance” attitude towards misbehaviour.
The party must “persevere in constructing a system where [party members] do not dare to be corrupt, cannot be corrupt and do not think about corruption,” it said.
To that end, the communique called for strengthening the party’s internal controls, including increasing ideological conformity and more strictly monitoring individual members’ behaviour, the People’s Daily said.
But it sought to allay concerns about overzealous implementation of the rules, allowing for forgiveness in the event that an error was made in the pursuit of “reform and innovation”.

Kenya’s government on Thursday announced a 60-day dusk to dawn curfew in the northeastern town of Mandera, hit by two deadly terrorist attacks in three weeks.
Interior minister Joseph Nkaissery issued the order two days after Shabaab militants killed 12 people at a hotel in Mandera town on Tuesday.
He said the curfew, from 6:30 pm to 6:30 am would begin on Thursday and remain in place until December 27.
It would be enforced along a 20 kilometre (12 mile) buffer zone of towns and territory reaching to the Somalia border.
This week’s attack was the second in Mandera in less than three weeks, with both claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab group.
The Shabaab has fought to overthrow the internationally-backed government in Mogadishu since 2007, but turned its sights on Kenya when the army was sent into Somalia in 2011 to fight the Islamic insurgents.
Since then the militants have targeted civilians in different parts of Kenya, including a dramatic assault on Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall in 2013 in which at least 67 people were killed.

Germany?s Angelique Kerber continued her unbeaten run at the WTA Finals on Thursday, steamrolling rising American Madison Keys 6-3 6-3 to charge into the semi-finals of the season-ending championship .
Still on a high after winning the US Open last month, the newly crowned world number one made it three wins on the trot at Singapore?s Indoor Stadium to finish at the top of the Red Group standings after the round-robin phase.
?It’s a great feeling because it’s the first time I’m in the semis at the WTA Finals. That was my first goal,? Kerber said.
?It was important to go out there to win the match and win all three matches, that gives me a lot more confidence.?
Kerber was joined in the semis by Slovakia’s Dominika Cibulkova, who claimed her first victory of the tournament by defeating Simona Halep of Romania 6-3 7-6 (7-5), to finish as the group runner-up.
Beaten in her first two matches, the 27-year-old Cibulkova needed to see off Halep in straight sets then rely on Kerber defeating Keys in straight sets to advance, but scraped through when everything she needed went to plan.
?This win is really, really big for me,? Cibulkova said. ?I feel relieved. I’m really happy about my win, about the way I played and the way I handled the situation and the pressure.
?It seems like I’m playing my best tennis under the biggest pressure. It’s just a great feeling to beat Simona in two sets knowing that if I want to go further in the tournament I have to beat her in two sets. That made me even stronger in the second set.?
Cibulkova will play Svetlana Kuznetsova in Saturday?s semis after the Russian finished top of the White Group. Kerber will meet either the defending champion, Agnieszka Radwanska, or US Open finalist Karolina Pliskova, who meet on Friday to decide the last available spot.
Both Keys and Halep would have advanced ahead of Cibulkova if either had won a set on Thursday but both women were outgunned by their opponents.
Admitting to feeling some nerves in her first appearance at the WTA Finals, the big-hitting Keys had her serve broken six times by Kerber and contributed to her own downfall with 31 unforced errors.
?This is my first experience at a setting like this and I think my nerves got the best of me,? Keys said.
?I think that happens to everyone and it?s just something I need to work on. It?s not a bad thing, it happens to a lot of people.?
Halep, a runner-up at the elite eight-player event two years ago, was philosophical about her defeat, saying she was pleased just to make the tournament after a slow start to the year.
?This tournament was a bonus for me,? she said. ?I gave it everything I had. I didn’t have enough to qualify in the semis, but it was a good experience again, my third year in a row, so it’s a good thing.
?I’m not sad that I lost. Of course it’s tough, but nothing changes.?

President Uhuru Kenyatta attended the secret wedding of his son which was said to have been held at a secret location.
 
Jomo’s wife is called Achola Fiona Ngobi; she has been seen in company of the President’s son one too many time but her whereabouts remained a hush hush till now.
Below are 5 interesting things about Achola Fiona Ngobi:
Jomo Kenyatta didn’t bump into Ngobi in the streets of Kibera; The Star reports that Ngobi comes from a family of William Odongo Omamo (her grandfather) who was a minister in Jomo Kenyatta’s (Kenya’s first President) cabinet.
Odongo was also appointed by retired President Moi to chair a commission in the late 1980’s.
Even though she is known to be from Luo Nyanza, Achola is of mixed Kenyan and Ugandan heritage. Her father hails from Uganda while her mother is from Bondo, Siaya County.
Achola’s maternal grandfather, William Odongo Omamo, was a political rival to Jaramogi Odinga Oginga. Both Kenyatta and Moi’s regime used him make inroads into Luo Nyanza politics.
Achola’s grandfather represented Bondo and Muhoroni constituencies during his life as a politician.
Achola’s mother, Ruth Theddesia Ngobi, is sister to Raychelle Omamo who’s the Cabinet Secretary for Defence.
Theddesia and Raychelle are both daughters of William Odongo Omamo who had two wives, Joyce Acholla and Anne Audia.
Jomo’s wife pursued high education at a university in South Africa. She studied at St Anne’s Diocesan College; an expensive private girls’ boarding school situated in the small town of Hilton in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa.
St Anne’s Diocesan College’s website shows the soon to be Mrs Kenyatta was a bright all rounded student who won numerous academic awards and served as Vice-Captain for the netball team.
See photos of Achola in the gallery below:
 
 

Her outfit is on point, but sadly her breasts look like they are trying hit the floor. Having chosen an outfit that cannot be worn with a normal bra or a strapless bra the reality TV star literally stepped out without putting on a bra.
 
Her fancy stylists may have forgotten to use the “boob tape” trick often done by most celebrities when trying low cut shirts. Her wardrobe malfunction has left most fashion police talking but looking at the brighter her saggy boobs have confirmed she is all natural giving her fans more than they bargained for.
One lady on Facebook went ham on Juddie Jay as she trolled her for the saggy boobs that are not pleasing to stare at. she wrote to say,
Juddie Jay is however among the fashionable ladies in the entertainment industry. In the past we have seen her step out in fancy outfits that suggest she shops for expensive and unique attires. Her jumpsuit may have been a fail but lets assume that the lass will sure the “tape boob” method in the near future.
 
 

The United States on Thursday reassured its key Asian allies Japan and South Korea that its policy seeking North Korea’s nuclear disarmament remains unchanged, after its intelligence chief called it a “lost cause”.
Washington has always maintained it cannot accept North Korea as a nuclear state and, under President Barack Obama, has made any talks with Pyongyang conditional on the country first making some tangible commitment towards denuclearisation.
But in remarks to a think-tank earlier this week, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper suggested that such a policy was based on wishful thinking, saying: “The notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearise is probably a lost cause.”
US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken took issue with that view in Tokyo after a trilateral meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts.
“Our policy has not changed,” he told reporters at a joint news conference.
“We will not accept North Korea as a nuclear state, we will not accept North Korea’s possession of nuclear weapons. Period.”
The threat from North Korea is growing “more acute by the day” as the country ramps up its missile and nuclear tests, he added.
“We are focused on increasing the pressure on North Korea with one purpose: To bring it back to the table to negotiate in good faith denuclearisation. That is the objective,” he said.
Agreeing with Blinken, Japanese vice foreign minister Shinsuke Sugiyama said the three countries “are closely cooperating” to implement existing UN Security Council sanction resolutions on Pyongyang and adopt a new sanction “that is meaningful.”
The Security Council is currently discussing a new resolution to punish North Korea over its fifth nuclear test in September — having already imposed tough economic measures after a fourth test in January.
Clapper’s comment reflected an opinion widely held among North Korea experts but one only expressed in private by senior US administration officials who feel a policy change is overdue.
State Department spokesman John Kirby has already rebuffed Clapper’s position, stressing that “nothing has changed” with the Obama administration’s policy of pushing the North — through a toughened sanction regime — to give up its nuclear weapons.

Unfortunately, the situation did not last and the two broke up, but have managed to co-parent peacefully.
Paul Ndichu who has a lucrative job at one of Kenya’s leading Telecommunications Company as the Lead Consultant at Little Cabs now has a new beau.
 
There is this beautiful lady known simply as Miss Momanyi who he has been flaunting on social media. And as we all know, men rarely put up picture of a lady unless they are completely in love with by them or at least serious with them.
 
And this young lady has been popping up on his TL under the hashtag #WCW plus he was also his plus one to sister Tabitha Ndichu’s wedding. And as we all know, you just don’t drag anybody to a family wedding, unless they are special.
 

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that the military operation supporting Syrian opposition fighters in northern Syria will target the IS-held city of Raqa.
Erdogan said the rebels were now advancing on the important city of Al Bab to clear Islamic State group elements. After retaking the city, they will target Manbij, captured by Syrian Kurdish militia in August, and “then we will go towards Raqa”.

The European Union has begun training the Libyan coast guard as part of efforts to curb the growing influx of irregular migrants from North Africa, EU foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said Thursday.
“Today we are starting the training of the Libyan coast guard in Operation Sophia which is a very important step,” Mogherini said as she arrived for a meeting with NATO defence ministers in Brussels.
“I think cooperation also in that respect with NATO would be important and we welcome that very much,” she said.
The EU and NATO have been discussing increased overall cooperation in the face of new security challenges, such as in Ukraine and Syria.
“We are together here because a stronger Europe means a stronger NATO,” alliance head Jens Stoltenberg said in opening remarks.
Stoltenberg said NATO had just launched its own Operation Sea Guardian in the Mediterranean to help support Operation Sophia.
“Today we will discuss how to deepen NATO-EU cooperation and partnership further … including in areas of countering hybrid threats, cyber defence, exercises,” he added.
The EU launched Operation Sophia last year after hundreds of migrants died when their rickety boats sank off southern Italy, sparking popular outrage at their plight.
The central Mediterranean route has seen more migrants risk their lives in recent months after the EU reached an accord with Turkey in March to halt an influx of more than a million refugees who crossed the Aegean Sea to reach Europe last year.
A separate NATO mission in the Aegean will meanwhile continue, at least until the end of the year, German Defence Minister Ursula Von der Leyen said.
Diplomatic sources said the future of this operation was uncertain given that key ally Turkey was unhappy at seeing NATO in waters so close to home and which are in some cases disputed with traditional rival Greece.
Operation Sophia is restricted to international waters in the Mediterranean so the engagement with the UN-backed administration in Libya represents an important step.
Sophia currently comprises five vessels and three helicopters charged with intercepting smugglers’ boats and destroying them.

The International Olympic Committee on Thursday stripped three Kazakh weightlifters of gold medals won at the London 2012 Games for doping.
Zulfiya Chinshanlo, Maiya Maneza and Svetlana Podobedova were all caught in new testing of hundreds of samples from the London and 2008 Beijing Olympics.
A weightlifter from Belarus who won a bronze medal was also disqualified by the IOC. Russian weightlifter Besik Kudokov who won a silver in London also failed a doping test but the medal was not taken away because he died in 2013.
Chinshanlo, now 30, Maneza, 30, and Podobedova, 29, all tested positive for the steroid stanozol. Chinshanlo was also found to have taken oxandrolone, another steroid. Both substances promote muscle growth.
Chinshanlo won the 53kg category in London, Maneza won the 63kg gold and Podobedova the 75kg contest.
Marina Shkermankova of Belarus who took bronze in the women’s 69kg category was also among eight new doping cheats announced by the IOC.
The IOC has said that at least 98 competitors failed drug tests from Beijing and London after a new analysis was carried out on more than 1,240 samples using improved equipment.
About 10 gold medalists from London have now lost their titles or are at risk of losing them because of doping – four are athletes from Belarus.
Three Chinese weightlifting gold medal winners from Beijing have been stripped of their titles because of doping.
The doping scandal is a new blow to weightlifting. The International Weightlifting Federation has said it wants to ban Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and other nations for 12 months over doping.
But the scandal also heightens the stakes as the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) pursues its investigation into alleged state-sponsored doping in Russia.
More than 110 Russians were banned from taking part in the Rio Olympics after an inquiry by Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren gave details of the Russia scandal.
McLaren announced on Wednesday that the final part of his report would be released in early December.
IOC leader Thomas Bach has called for a major reform of WADA and the anti-doping system. WADA is to discuss proposals on who should carry out tests and sanctions at a meeting in Glasgow, Scotland on November 20.

Belgium announced a breakthrough Thursday to save a landmark EU-Canada free trade deal, winning over domestic holdouts who threatened to torpedo the agreement and further damage Europe’s international credibility.
But news of the intra-Belgian agreement came too late for EU leaders and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to sign as planned — while Canada’s Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland cautioned there was more work ahead.
“There is still work to do. Additional steps remain before signing,” she said in Ottawa, adding: “Canada remains ready to sign this important agreement when Europe is ready.”
The deal was originally supposed to have been signed in Brussels on Thursday, but talks last week failed to persuade Belgium’s fractious French-speaking communities to back the agreement.
Talks continued nonetheless this week, and finally bore fruit Thursday.
“This is an important agreement that is on the table,” Prime Minister Charles Michel told a press conference after marathon talks to win over Belgium’s francophone Wallonia region.
Under complex constitutional arrangements, Michel needed all of Belgium’s regional governments to back the deal before he could sign up.
The holdout regions had effectively blocked the accord — which requires the approval of all 28 EU members — raising fears that seven years of trade negotiations were to go to waste.
Confirmation of the agreement came swiftly from Paul Magnette, head of the southern French-speaking Wallonia region, who has led objections to the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA).
The stakes have been high as Belgium had become a lighting rod for warnings that the EU’s international standing, already battered by Britain’s shock June Brexit vote, would suffer further if the huge, long-planned deal with Canada got scuppered.
Hinging on CETA’s outcome are complex EU trade negotiations with other countries, including an even bigger and more controversial deal with the United States.
Canada’s Foreign Minister Stephane Dion hailed the move to break the logjam.
“If it materialises, it’s excellent news,” he said during a visit to Paris, adding he was “cautiously optimistic”.
Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, hailed the “good news”, while French Prime Minister Manuel Valls hailed it as a “decisive step” that would allow Europe to sign the “win-win deal” as quickly as possible.
The accord must be vetted by the remaining 27 EU member states and institutions, as well as by Wallonia and other regional governments which, Michel said, have pledged to give their answer before midnight (2200 GMT) Friday.
EU ambassadors reached an informal agreement on the Belgian documents and have asked their capitals to confirm by midnight Friday, according to Belgian, French and Luxembourg officials.
But a European source told AFP there was no new date set yet for the deal itself to be signed.
A European source told AFP on condition of anonymity that the summit deadline had been more a “tool” to apply pressure for an agreement than a must-have event.
Around 100 demonstrators banging pots protested on Thursday outside the headquarters of the European Commission, the EU executive. Similar protests are held regularly by opponents of the EU-US talks known as TTIP.

The CETA pact would link the EU’s single market of 500 million people — the world’s biggest — with Canada’s 10th largest global economy in what would be the most ambitious tie-up of its kind.
In almost a week of drawn-out talks, leaders of Wallonia, a 3.5 million-strong region south of Brussels, had demanded guarantees that CETA would not harm local farming and other interests.
Magnette particularly opposed terms of the deal intended to protect international investors which critics say could force governments to change laws against the wishes of the people.
With the remaining political hurdles hopefully cleared, Tusk may be free to phone Trudeau on Saturday to discuss the next steps, including possibly a signing ceremony, an EU source told AFP.
Once the treaty is signed, it will be applied provisionally pending ratification by all EU member state parliaments, a process that could take years.
The Canadian trade minister downplayed Thursday a provision that would allow Wallonia to still back out of the deal during an interim period.
“Let me say one thing on the escape clause — every trade agreement, including as Britain has demonstrated (by voting to withdraw its) membership in the EU, has exit provisions,” said Freeland.
“Trade agreements must be structured that way to permit national sovereignty, and that is also the case with CETA,” she said.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was on Thursday charged with misconduct over comments he made about the referee in charge of this month’s Liverpool game, the Football Association has announced.
United’s outspoken Portuguese boss faces a disciplinary hearing after questioning referee Anthony Taylor’s suitability to take charge of the October 17 game at Anfield.
The Altrincham-based official’s appointment for the Premier League derby had led former English top flight referee Keith Hackett to claim the appointment would place undue pressure on Taylor.
And when those comments were put to Mourinho ahead of the match, the United boss said: “I think Mr Taylor is a very good referee but I think somebody with intention is putting such a pressure on him that I feel that it will be difficult for him to have a very good performance.”
Mourinho was contacted by the FA for his observations on the comments and the body has now charged him with misconduct.
The clash between the arch rivals resulted in a drab goalless draw.

The Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) emerged as the biggest winner during Wednesday’s county assembly elections held across the country.
ODM scooped assembly seats in Turkana, Kisii and Kajiado counties as the recently formed Jubilee Party won the only other ward seat in Tana River County.
The most tightly contested elections were in Mosiro ward, Kajiado where ODM’s Peter Ntimoye Kuseyo garnered 1079 votes against 1046 votes of Jubilee’s Jonathan Koilekan across seven stations with an impressive turnout of 91 per cent.
In Kisii, ODM’s Naftal Onkoba is the new Nyacheki MCA after he garnered 2,216 votes against his closet rival, Maxwell Magoma of Jubilee Party who managed 1,173 votes.
 
Caleb Onguti of Kenya National Congress (KNC) came third with 979 votes, while Isaac Areba of Wiper had 17.
A total of 6,738 votes were cast representing a 62 percent voter turnout.
ODM also won the Kalokol ward in Turkana County, where its candidate Josephat Ekeno beat Jubilee’s Nangiro Ekai with 1715 votes to 1336 votes respectively.
The win represented 53.16 percent of total votes cast across 21 polling stations compared to Jubilee’s 41.41 per cent.
Ekeno’s two children were shot on Tuesday night when goons attacked his home.
One of the children was rushed to Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret where she is undergoing specialised treatment.
Jubilee’s only victory of the day came in Sala ward, Tana River County, where Fauzia Sadik emerged the winner with 1,184 votes against his closest rival Safina’s Ibrahim Ware who managed 210 votes.

End month is the most dreaded yet most awaited part of the month! With lots of mixed emotions around it, from salaries being paid to almost ¾’s of the salary dedicated to bills waiting for you. But this end month, things will be different. If for nothing else considered, but being alive and having the most awaited party waiting for you.
 
Courtesy of top entertainment spot Cubano, party will be held on Friday the 28 of October, 2016 with Dj Mfame on the decks. The party is strictly adults only and will be an 8hr party plus you’ll get to witness the largest fireworks display to ever touch Kenya skies.
Tell a friend to tell a friend, tag a neighbor along as well, the prices are very affordable and security will be as usual very tight, you have nothing to worry about.
So, we meet up at Cubano, Greenspan Mall, Friday night and party like we just won a jackpot.
 

Hong Kong bookies had to return US$16 million in bets when a garden rake jammed starting barriers at the Happy Valley racecourse, causing what is thought to be the city’s first ever no-race.
The rake, left leaning against the barriers at the downtown track, seems to have become accidentally caught in the starting mechanism, the South China Morning Post said, delaying the opening of all but four stalls.
The Class Four sprint was quickly declared void and the Hong Kong Jockey Club, the city’s betting monopoly, handed back HK$126 million (US$16.2 million) to punters, the Post said.
“Given the number of horses which had their chances prejudiced, we felt it was appropriate to declare the race void,” chief steward Kim Kelly was quoted as saying.
Veteran trainer John Moore also told the newspaper: “I’ve been here as long as most, over 40 years, and I’ve never seen a no-race in Hong Kong.”

The popular socialite flaunted her new ride through her social media handles. She said that this was the one thing she could think of getting herself as she turned 33years. She was seen picking the new ride on Wednesday 26 October in Beverly Hills before she took it for a test drive.
The reality TV star also mentioned that her BFF Blac Chyna was her inspiration for purchasing a Rolls-Royce. Blac Chyna drives a purple with white interior Rolls-Royce worth $400,000.
Blac  Chyna and Amber Rose are today’s Marilyn Monroe as they inspire all socialites in the world. The likes of Huddah Monroe and Vera Sidika look up to these ladies and as far as we know they attempt to have the same life styles.
 
 

Huddah recently purchased a Pink Range Rover worth Ksh 5 Million while Vera bought Ksh 16Million 2015 Range Rover.
As much as these socialites are criticized and bashed for their ‘immoral’ lifestyles, their bank statements keep escalating.  

Turkish authorities ordered the detention of 73 air force pilots as part of the probe into the group blamed for July’s failed coup, state media reported Thursday.
At least 45 had already been detained after police operations began Thursday across the country including the central Konya province and the capital Ankara, the official Anadolu news agency said.
The pilots are suspected of links to the group led by Fethullah Gulen, a US-based Muslim preacher whom Turkey accuses of ordering the July 15 putsch attempt.
Gulen, living in self-exile in Pennsylvania, strongly denies the allegations.
The accusations listed in the warrants for the pilots include “violating the constitution”, being part of “an armed rebellion against the Turkish Republic” as well as “acting on behalf of the (Gulen) organisation”, Dogan news agency reported.
Searches continued for some of the pilots at the Konya 3rd Main Jet Base Command where dozens have been detained in connection with the group since July, Anadolu said.
Last week, Turkish media said 47 military officers stationed at the base were detained for alleged links to the movement. Dogan reported 29 of the 47 officers were later placed under arrest.
Over 35,000 people have been arrested since July as part of the investigation into the group while nearly 26,000 have been released into “judicial control”.
In total, Turkey says it has investigated 82,000 people in connection with the coup bid.
Tens of thousands of people in the judiciary, military, education sector and media have also been suspended or sacked for alleged links to the Gulen movement.
The purges and arrests have caused concern in the West over their extent and speed, with many European leaders urging Ankara to act within the rule of law.
Turkey insists it is doing so while stressing that it is dealing with an extraordinary threat which requires emergency measures.

Strikes at German low-cost airlines Eurowings and Germanwings led to the cancellation of nearly 400 flights Thursday, stranding some 40,000 passengers, a spokesman for the two companies said.
The airlines, owned by flag carrier Lufthansa, are locked in disputes with the Ufo flight attendants union.
Eurowings staff are calling for salary increases and improved working conditions while Germanwings personnel are unhappy with terms for part-time employees.
Cabin crew stayed away from midnight in Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne, Dortmund, Hanover and Stuttgart in what is to be a 24-hour strike, forcing around 400 out of 550 planned flights to be axed.
The largest hubs in Frankfurt and Munich were spared, along with all long-haul flights.
Nicoley Baublies of Ufo defended the decision to hit the two airlines at once with strikes.
“At the end of the day both have the same targets and the same management,” he told public broadcaster ZDF.
Another Ufo representative, Daniel Flohr, threatened to extend the strikes next week if the talks failed to make headway.
“We will strike on two days if management doesn’t budge,” he told AFP, without specifying a timetable.

RMS has dropped the axe on more than 20 employees including prominent persons like Kirigo Ng’arua, and Terryanne Chebet.
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Elizabeth Omolo, the mother of former television personality, Louis Otieno, was also among RMS employees who were fired.
Omolo was the head of Ramongi FM; she also doubled up as a presenter at the vernacular radio station which is under the umbrella of RMS.
 
Ms Omolo’s firing comes as a double tragedy for Louis Otieno who has been living with her since troubles befell him.
Louis has been fighting in the corridors of justice to prove he had no hand in the murder of Careen Chepchumba, whom he had romantic relationship with.
His health has deteriorated ever since he was linked to the murder of Careen Chepchumba; he now lives with his mother who has been struggling to see her only son gets well again.
His appearance in public after a long time in the dark shocked many as he had significantly lost weight; he looked sickly when he appeared in Kibera Law Courts during an inquest into the death of Careen Chepchumba.
 
With his mother shown the door at Ramogi FM, Louis’ quandary has only taken a new twist.
 

West Ham United said Thursday that up to 200 people faced banning orders after violence marred their English League Cup tie at home to London rivals Chelsea.
Skirmishes broke out towards the end of the Hammers’ 2-1 win on Wednesday, with police and stewards battling to keep supporters apart as coins, bottles and plastic seats were thrown.
There was a heavy police presence in place at the London Stadium, formerly the Olympic Stadium, which has seen repeated violence involving West Ham fans since they moved into their new home at the start of the season.
Both clubs condemned the violence soon after the match and on Thursday a joint statement issued by West Ham and the London Stadium revealed the number of spectators at risk of a stadium ban after officials had studied closed circuit television footage of the disorder.
“West Ham United and London Stadium are finalising the identification of 200 individuals who will receive stadium bans having been involved in incidents of disorder during West Ham’s EFL cup victory over Chelsea,” the statement said.
“Banning notifications will be issued for offences ranging from the use of abusive and offensive language to missile throwing. In line with our zero tolerance policy, all those involved will receive a seasonal or lifetime ban depending on the severity of the offence.”
Having intially said Thursday there had been seven arrests for public order offences, London’s Metropolitan Police later corrected that figure to six.
Of those six, three have now been charged, with one fan alone facing charges of common assault, assault on police and possession of class A drugs.
Earlier, Tracey Crouch, Britain’s sports minister, was among those calling for anyone involved in the violence to be given a life-ban.
“No-one wants to see a return to the dark days of the late ’70s and ’80s,” said Crouch in a reference to the years when English football hooliganism was considered to be at its height.
“It is completely right that strong action is taken and that anyone involved in last night’s trouble is banned for life,” added Crouch, a qualified Football Association coach.
Meanwhile Crouch’s fellow Conservative lawmaker Mark Field said West Ham should play behind closed doors if there was a repeat of Wednesday’s disorder.
The police said 30 people were stopped from attending the game prior to the match between the two London sides.
Chelsea supporter Paul Streeter said he and his eight-year-old daughter were pelted with coins while sitting in the disabled supporters’ section of the ground.
“My daughter was hit with seven coins all over her body,” he told BBC radio. “Other kids were hit, it was not just my daughter.
“She’s never experienced violence like this before or the aggression we have had to suffer. We want to take this matter further. It is disgusting.”
West Ham said they would request “severe banning orders” for supporters involved in the violence.
A Chelsea spokesman said the Blues were “extremely disappointed” by the disturbances and the club condemned such behaviour.
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic also condemned the violence, which overshadowed a fine performance by his side.
“We are totally against it as a club,” said the former Croatia defender, whose team will visit Manchester United in the quarter-finals.
“For those kind of things to happen, especially in England, is unacceptable.”
Chelsea manager Antonio Conte added: “I don’t like this type of situation. Above all in England, we are used to see the right atmosphere. This country is fantastic in this aspect.”
Separately, West Ham have announced an investigation after flyers with graphic homophobic content were distributed to fans before the match.
The flyers called for a homophobic song to be chanted at Chelsea captain John Terry.

A United States law allowing victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia could have “serious implications” for shared US-Gulf interests, a top Obama administration official said Thursday.
US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew made the comments at the opening of a meeting with finance ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, whose most powerful member is Saudi Arabia.
The US Congress voted overwhelmingly in September to override President Barack Obama’s veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA).
Fifteen of the 19 Al-Qaeda hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people were Saudi, but Riyadh denies any ties to the plotters.
JASTA allows attack survivors and relatives of terrorism victims to pursue cases against foreign governments in US federal court and to demand compensation if those governments are proven to bear some responsibility for attacks on US soil.
Lew said JASTA “would enact broad changes in long-standing international law regarding sovereign immunity that, if applied globally, could have serious implications for our shared interests.”
He said the Obama administration has proven its determination to hold people responsible when they commit “horrendous acts”, but “there are ways to do that without undermining important international legal principles.”
In opposing the law, Obama said it would harm US interests by opening up the US to private lawsuits over its military missions abroad.
Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have also expressed concern about erosion of sovereign immunity, a principle sacrosanct in international relations.
But the potential implications go far beyond the Gulf.
Some British, French and Dutch lawmakers have threatened retaliatory legislation to allow their courts to pursue US officials, threatening a global legal domino effect.
Riyadh and Washington have a decades-old relationship based on the exchange of American security for Saudi oil.
Later Thursday, Lew was to meet King Salman, Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, and Saudi economic officials.

Sky World Lounge diversifies its night entertainment, having different themed night’s everyday of the week. Tonight, they host rhumba night this coming weekend, with re-known rocking it on the discs.
The joint, since its inception last year, has only hosted contemporary musicians such as Lady Maureen, and emerging various artists and deejays for its growing cosmopolitan audiences.
 
According to the organizers, the rhumba fiesta is scheduled for tonight plus every other Wednesday in the next coming weeks. Sky World has changed the entertainment scene by introducing variety but still keeping standards of the urbanite and mature crowds that frequent the joint.
Tonight’s audiences should expect a mixture of old popular and new tunes freshly released by rhumba artists in DRC and France, an entertaining night that will warm you the audience.
The themed night starts at 7pm till late, it is a strictly adults only affair. Sky World is located on Tom Mboya.

Europe is not slipping into the same dark tunnel of hate and nationalism that it did in the 1930s, one of the continent’s leading historians told AFP.
Despite the rise of populist and extreme right-wing parties across the continent, Professor Ian Kershaw — the acclaimed biographer of Hitler — insisted that drawing parallels with the rise of fascism was off the mark.
In fact, it is thanks to a “liberal and peaceful” Germany, which unlike some of its neighbours, is “very clear-eyed about its past”, that Europe is far more able to resist “a slide into barbarism”, he argued.
However, the historian, whose new book “To Hell and Back” spans the period from World War I to the outbreak of the Cold War, warned that “democracy has deteriorated on every level across the continent since 2014, and not just with (the return of a belligerent, authoritarian) Russia.
“This was a very upsetting book to write in so many ways,” he added.
“Like everyone else I am worried about what is happening now,” said the British academic, whose two-part biography of Hitler, “Hubris” and “Nemesis”, was a huge international bestseller.
“Brexit, the rise of the far right, xenophobia and racism… are all extremely worrying to say the least, and naturally make one think back to pre-war period,” he said.
“But I don’t think we are returning to the dark ages of the 1930s because there are big differences as well as superficial similarities,” Kershaw insisted.
The biggest difference between then and now, he said, was that Germany is now a rich and stable beacon of social democratic values rather than an economic basket case “looking for revenge for (the Treaty of) Versailles. It is now probably the most pacific nation in the whole of Europe,” he said.
“Second, we now have a continent of democracies, admittedly flaky in parts when you look at Hungary and Poland,” Kershaw said. “While in the 1930s there were lots of authoritarian states and democracy was very much a contested system.”
Europe has also experienced a major shift from “militaristic to civilians societies. Just look at the balance between military and social welfare spending of then and now,” he added.
And despite its current travails, Kershaw credited the EU with keeping the peace. “For all its weaknesses, the EU has got Europeans working through cooperation and talking rather than immediately resorting to threats,” he said.
“Those patterns of doing things through negotiation developed by the EU have put us in a better place to withstand the sort of pressures Europe experienced in the 1930s,” Kershaw added.
“To Hell and Back” — which the New York Times declared “should be required reading in every chancellery” — is the first of two books in which Kershaw will plot the history of Europe to the present day.
The historian, who is revered in Germany, said that the new populism “is different to that of the 1930s but of course it has echoes of it… with antipathy towards outsiders now directed at Islam and migrants arriving from beyond Europe”.
The big shift towards identity politics also made it easier to blame a faraway Brussels “for problems whose roots are much closer to home”, he argued.
Although personally “appalled” by Brexit, having voted to remain in Europe, the author said Britain was never emotionally committed to the concept.
“Britain joined in 1973 purely out of economic self-interest, there was no idealism at all involved. Trade with the Commonwealth countries (of its former empire) had collapsed and we needed Europe to essentially rescue Britain, which it did.
“Germans for their part cannot see why the British are so hung up on sovereignty given it lost its (own) completely in the defeat of 1945 and recovered through pooling its sovereignty,” Kershaw said.
He said the second, as yet untitled, instalment of his overview of Europe’s century is likely to be published in 2018.

Migrants left behind after the demolition of France’s notorious “Jungle” faced a day of reckoning Friday after spending the night, with official blessing, in a disused part of the camp.
Around 100 migrants, including minors, wound up being allowed under police escort to sleep in shelters that remained standing in the former southern section of the slum that was mostly razed in March, a prelude to this week’s clearance operation.
After thousands were bussed out over the past two days, the camp next to the northern port of Calais was virtually deserted on Thursday.
This allowed demolition crews to make faster work of tearing down the makeshift dwellings that had served as a launchpad for migrants seeking to reach Britain by sneaking onto lorries or trains heading across the Channel.
But scores of lost souls were still looking for shelter — or refusing to leave the squalid settlement that has become one of the most visible symbols of Europe’s migrant crisis.
“You can’t say the operation is over when there are people left,” fumed Anne-Louise Coury, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) coordinator in Calais. “The state still has a serious obligation towards migrants who are minors.”
La Vie Active, a government-linked charity, said about one-third of the camp had been razed by the end of Thursday, and top local official Fabienne Buccio said demolition operations would end Monday.
In sections that were still awaiting demolition, youths and some charity workers gathered over coal fires, preferring the more rustic conditions in what remained of the Jungle to the stringent rules inside the container camp reserved for minors.
A giant teddy bear lay face down in the sand, while flowers still sprouted from planters, a reminder of a community that had insisted on enjoying basic pleasures while awaiting its fate.
“They spend their time fleeing and waiting,” said 78-year-old volunteer Michel Van Parys, surveying the bleak landscape of charred tents and shacks gutted by fires deliberately set Wednesday by departing migrants.
The interior ministry said Wednesday that nearly 5,600 migrants had been distributed around France or accepted into Britain in the three-day clearance operation — out of the 6,400 estimated to have been living in the camp up until this week.
Immigration authorities said a further 226 adults and 16 minors left Thursday aboard eight buses for accommodation around France.
But aid groups estimated that between 2,000 and 3,000 fled the scene even before the evacuation began, melting into the region or finding hideaways in Paris.
The fate of several dozen children remained of concern late Thursday as the container camp for unaccompanied minors stayed filled to beyond its 1,500 capacity.
Around 200 minors had slept rough the previous night, along with dozens of adults still clinging to hopes of sneaking to Britain.
A spokesman for Britain’s interior ministry said Home Secretary Amber Rudd had spoken with her French counterpart Bernard Cazeneuve to “stress the need for children who remain in Calais to be properly protected.”
Most of the migrants hoping to reach Britain have fled conflict, poverty or persecution in countries such as Eritrea, Sudan and Afghanistan, and the authorities have said those who agree to be moved can seek asylum in France.
“The government thinks the programme (of distributing migrants to shelters around France) is attracting people from other places like Belgium and Germany,” said Coury, the MSF coordinator. “It sucks them in.”
Calais has been a magnet for migrants hoping to sneak across the Channel for over a decade, and many locals fear new settlements will simply spring up in the area after the Jungle is razed.
Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart said claims of the Jungle’s demise were “premature” and demanded “guarantees” that it would not spring up again, once the police had left.
As far as Afghan 16-year-old Jawid Tor was concerned, he was waiting for his next “truck try” — which he said he attempted practically every day.

Many do not know what led to her death but , a blog ran by Robert Alai (Makosewe’s friend)  is  speculating about what led to the unexpected demise of Makosewe.
An excerpt from the reads
The blog then goes on to claim  that her drinking problem was also the reason that she and Edward Kwach lost their jobs at Urban Radio.
another excerpt read.

South Africa captain Faf du Plessis and opener Dean Elgar plundered centuries in a run rampage during their final tour game Thursday before next week’s first Test against Australia.
Du Plessis (102 retired), opener Dean Elgar (117 retired) and Quinton de Kock (99) hit out against a South Australian XI on the opening day of the two-day match in Adelaide.
The Proteas were dismissed for 489 on the penultimate ball of the day against the second-string South Australians.
The one notable failure was opener Stephen Cook, who failed for the third time in as many innings on the Australian tour.
Cook was dismissed for a duck, following his scores of five and 12 against a Cricket Australia XI last weekend in a pink-ball day-night match.
But du Plessis, Elgar and de Kock — who made a century against the CA XI at the Adelaide Oval — spent valuable time in the middle ahead of the first Test against Australia starting in Perth on November 3.
Du Plessis and Elgar shared in a 179-run partnership for the fourth wicket after the Proteas lost three early wickets.
Hashim Amla (nine) and Rilee Roussow (22) failed to get among the runs. But the two centurions and de Kock made the most of their opportunities.
Du Plessis, who hit 16 fours off 112 balls, was the first to reach triple figures with his second six of the innings.
Elgar, who struck 12 fours and four sixes, got his runs off 143 balls.
De Kock tore into the local bowling attack, hammering his runs off just 94 balls with 13 fours and a six.

A UN rights committee said Thursday it will study a petition filed by Brazil’s embattled former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva claiming the country’s courts violated his rights over a huge corruption scandal.
“I can confirm that the UN Human Rights Committee has formally registered a petition submitted by the former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,” said Elizabeth Throssell, a spokeswoman at the United Nations human rights office.
She added that the committee “will begin its consideration of the complaint’s admissibility,” once it has received a formal reply from Brazil.
Lula, 71, faces three corruption-related court cases over a vast graft scheme that flourished during his time in office at the state flagship company Petrobras.
He has claimed that both prosecutors and a judge breached his rights, using the legal system to wage a political attack against him.
He petitioned the UN rights committee over the matter in July. The complaint was registered on Wednesday, Throssell said.
Registration “does not entail any expression or decision by the Committee on the admissibility or the merits of a complaint,” she said in an email to AFP.
Once Brazil replies to Lula’s claims, the committee will then decide whether to launch a full inquiry, but that decision could take up two years.
An actual ruling on the merits of the allegations could take up to five years, Throssell said.

It is reported that the lady had a heated argument with his son before things got physical. Fortunately Monica was rushed to a local hospital in Laikipia District before she was transferred to Kenyatta National Hospital where specialists managed to save her life.  Ng’arua, Laikipia West District
 
Residences from Ng’arua, Laikipia District are still shocked by this unfortunate event and are hoping the assailant will be arrested and charged for attempt murder. It is not clear what led to this argument that escalated to the bizarre incident.
 
 
This comes a few months after another lady suffered the same fate. Fatuma Ibrahim was stabbed on the face with a knife that was left stuck in her skull by her husband. She managed to walk out of this alive, but she bares a scar that will remind her of this event for the rest of her life.
 
Domestic violence is on the rise in the country. Most local chiefs and police are “struggling to cope” with the number of domestic-abuse allegations they receive.
 

The United States said Thursday up to 900 Islamic State group jihadists have been killed in the offensive to retake Iraq’s Mosul, as camps around the city filled with fleeing civilians.
Iraqis who fled their homes expressed joy at escaping IS’s brutal rule as they were given shelter and assistance, in some cases reuniting with relatives they had not seen in more than two years.
The offensive, launched on October 17, is seeing tens of thousands of Iraqi fighters advancing on Mosul from the south, east and north in a bid to retake the last major Iraqi city under IS control.
Backed with air and ground support from a US-led coalition, federal forces allied with Kurdish peshmerga fighters have taken a string of towns and villages in a cautious but steady advance.
General Joseph Votel, who heads the US military’s Central Command, told AFP the offensive was inflicting a heavy toll on the jihadists.
“Just in the operations over the last week and a half associated with Mosul, we estimate they’ve probably killed about 800-900 Islamic State fighters,” Votel said in an interview.
There are between 3,500 and 5,000 IS jihadists in Mosul and up to another 2,000 in the broader area, according to US estimates.
Votel also said he had spoken with Iraqi military leaders late Tuesday who told him that as of that time, 57 members of the Iraqi security forces had been killed and another 255 or so wounded.
For the Kurdish regional peshmerga forces, numbers were lower, with about 30 killed and between 70 and 100 wounded.
The offensive has so far been concentrated in towns and villages around Mosul, with Iraqi forces later expected to breach city limits and engage the jihadists in street-to-street fighting.
Aid workers have warned of a major humanitarian crisis when fighting begins in earnest for Mosul, which is home to more than a million people, but thousands have already been fleeing surrounding areas.
The International Organisation for Migration said Thursday that 15,804 people have been displaced since the operation began, the vast majority from Nineveh province, of which Mosul is the capital.
“There’s been quite a dramatic upturn in the last few days. As the Iraqi troops get closer to Mosul, more people are getting displaced, there are more populated areas,” said Karl Schembri, regional media adviser for the Norwegian Refugee Council.
At a camp in Khazir, about mid-way between Mosul and the Iraqi Kurdish capital Arbil, Massud Ismail Hassan peered through a chainlink fence, looking for family members as peshmerga fighters registered the displaced.
“Once all these procedures are finished we will be able to give them food and drink and blankets we brought with us,” he said.
Other families had already found each other, and tearful relatives clutched hands through the links of the fence.
Saddam Dahham, who lived under IS control in a village near Mosul for more than two years, fled to Khazir with his wife and their three children.
“We were not allowed to smoke, to use phones, not allowed to watch TV and we had to let our beards grow long,” the 36-year-old said.
One of the first things he did after arriving at the camp was joyfully shave the “heavy thing dangling from my chin,” Dahham said.
“I’m finally going to resume a normal life,” the former truck driver said.
Schembri said the Norwegian Refugee Council, other aid agencies and the United Nations were planning for 200,000 people to be displaced in the next few days, though it may not reach that figure.
If anything close to 200,000 people are displaced in the immediate future, there would be a major shortage of places in camps.
“In terms of… camp facilities, there are only spaces available for 60,000” people, Schembri said.
After seizing control of large parts of Iraq and neighbouring Syria in mid-2014, IS declared a cross-border “caliphate”, imposed its harsh interpretation of Islamic law and committed widespread atrocities.
Its rule was especially harsh for religious minorities.
On Thursday two Yazidi women activists who survived a nightmare ordeal at the hands of IS won the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov human rights prize.
Nadia Murad and Lamia Haji Bashar have become figureheads for the effort to protect the Yazidis, against whom IS pursued a brutal campaign of massacres as well as enslavement and rape.
Murad hailed the prize as a “profound message to the (IS) terrorist group that their criminal inhumanity is condemned and their victims are honoured by the free world”.

Italy on Thursday vowed to rebuild every home destroyed after two powerful earthquakes that forced thousands to flee in terror but “miraculously” did not cause any fatalities.
Two months after tremors in the same area left nearly 300 dead, the twin quakes ripped through a mountainous, sparsely-populated part of central Italy on Wednesday evening.
Despite numerous building collapses, no deaths were reported in the aftermath of the 5.5 and 6.1 magnitude tremors.
“Given the strength of the shocks, the absence of any deaths or serious injuries is miraculous,” Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said, while Prime Minister Matteo Renzi headed to the scene to help oversee rescue efforts.
At least 4,000 people will not be able to return to their homes in the immediate term, according to civil protection officials.
The government announced the release of 40 million euros ($44 million) and extended a state of emergency declared after the deadly August quake.
“We will rebuild everything, 100 percent, that is the government’s commitment,” said Vasco Errani, the reconstruction supremo appointed after the August disaster.
More than 200 aftershocks rattled the area through the night and into Thursday after the initial two were felt in Rome, some 175 kilometres (110 miles) away from the epicentres.
Many people spent Wednesday night in their cars, battered by driving rain. The sun came out on Thursday, but the scale of the task will only become clear in days and weeks to come.
Marco Rinaldi, mayor of the village of Ussita, described “apocalyptic” scenes. “People were in the streets screaming. Many houses have collapsed. Our town is finished,” he said.
“I’ve felt a lot of earthquakes but that was the strongest I’ve ever felt. Fortunately everyone had already left their homes after the first quake so I don’t think anyone was hurt.”
Geologist Mario Tozzi told AFP the damage was caused by a new earthquake, rather than, as first thought, aftershocks from the August one.
Tozzi said the twin tremors were consistent with a pattern of seismic “double strikes” in the central Appenines.
Even in Rome, some people took to the streets as a precautionary measure, underlining lingering jitters after the summer disaster.
Wednesday’s tremors struck an area just to the north of Amatrice, the mountain town which was partially razed by the August quake and suffered the bulk of the fatalities.
The epicentres were near the village of Visso, located on the edge of the region of Marche close to the border with Umbria.
“Not a single house is usable,” whether because they were totally destroyed, suffered cracks or were just rendered unstable, said Visso mayor Giulio Pazzaglini, talking to villagers in a Red Cross reception centre.
The civil protection agency reopened tent camps set up after the August earthquake but officials warned they could only be a temporary solution as winter approaches.
Many mountain villages in the area are located at an altitude of over 600 metres (2,000 feet) and overnight temperatures will soon be falling below freezing.
“You can’t imagine spending winter in a tent. We shouldn’t even put up camps,” Renzi told a meeting of emergency officials in the town of Camerino.
Visso’s historic centre was taped off on Thursday, barring pensioner Massimo Testa from going back to what remains of the 15th century house he and his wife had lovingly renovated.
“We only just had enough time to get out after the second shock before the house collapsed,” he told AFP with tears in his eyes.
“My wife was petrified, she could see masonry falling around her. Thank God we are still alive, that is the most important thing.”
August’s disaster caused an estimated four billion euros ($4.5 billion) of damage and some 1,400 people made homeless are still living in temporary accommodation.
The impact of that quake was magnified because it took place at the height of the summer holiday season, when many normally barely-occupied villages were packed with tourists and families returning to ancestral homes.

President Uhuru Kenyatta celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, October 26; the head of state just turned 55.
Kenyans from all walks of life flooded Baba Ngina with birthday messages on social media, even making the President trend on twitter.
5 other prominent persons across the world were also celebrating their birthdays on October 26;
Potential would-be US first female President was also cutting her birthday cut yesterday. Unlike our President who turned 55, the Democratic flag bearer turned 69.
But there was no mega birthday party for Hillary, she was on her campaign trail as usual; only 11 days are left since Americans go to the poll to decide who will be their next commander-in-chief.
 
Popular American wrestler also shares a birthday with President Uhuru. Phillip Jack “Phil” Brooks, better known by the ring name CM Punk turned 38.
 
Janet Mbugua’s son also shares a birthday with President Uhuru; but what made his birthday special was not the fact that he shares birthday with commander-in-chief, unveiling of his face was what made tongues talk about Janet’s son.
And even more interesting, there is a possibility Janet’s son was named after President Uhuru; he’s called Ethan ‘Huru’ Ndichu. ‘Huru’ and ‘Uhuru’ only letter ‘U’ is missing. Janet’s son turned one yesterday.
American hip hop recording artist Schoolboy Q also shares birthday with Uhuru Kenyatta. Schoolboy Q is known for hits like ‘Studio’ among others. He turned 30 yesterday.
 
Georges Danton was a leading figure of the French Revolution which toppled French monarchy and sparked radical restructuring of the Roman Catholic Church. Georges Danton was born on the same date as President Uhuru.
 
 
 

Ian Mutuku was a 19 year old athlete who died on Monday this week after collapsing in the Machakos hospital where he had been admitted.
Ian Mutuku had been in the hospital since October 21st after being admitted for Kidney failure. His feet were swollen on the fateful day he developed difficulty in breathing.
Now his coach Peter Muia has alluded that the use of health supplements could have been the cause.
Speaking as news broke out of his young trainee’s death Peter Muia wants the AK to launch an investigation and proper controlling of the supplements be established as several Kenyan athletes are beginning to misuse them.
 
The coach is quoted in Athletics.co.ke, Muia revealed that Ian could have been the 8th athlete to die of supplements use.
“We have to look at the supplements our athletes are use by them self,
“As a coach, I know that many of our athletes confuse things that they do not have knowledge to ingest supplements. We have lost eight athletes in the country because of this and we must address the problem now,”
“Previously we have not had this problem. Now we need to ascertain what they can use and what they can not use,”
Ian mutual had a promising future as a 400 meters sprinter.
Mutuku is the 2013 400 meters national youth champion and also a silver medalist in the 2014 Africa youth games. He came fourth in the 2013 IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine and 2014 Youth Olympics Games.
 
The latest revelation by the coach adds another stain on athletics in Kenya after doping allegations and corruption scandals that have bogged the sport in the recent past.
For now the sport mourns the loss of a young talent with much promise.