Month: November 2016

The just concluded yielded a multi-billion stash of goodies for local residents.
The tour came at a crucial time when locals had started worrying that the president had neglected them despite him being from the area and instead concentrating more on other Cord strongholds of Coast, Wester and Nyanza regions.
On Tuesday, President Kenyatta wrote off Sh2 billion in debts owed by coffee farmers.
He said the government had released the cash to Cooperative Bank and told farmers who had secured their loans using title deeds to collect them.
 
In Kieni constituency, President  Kenyatta commissioned the Sh800 million Chaka market in the constituency.
read a statement from State House Spokesman Manoah Esipisu.
In Nyeri, the President launched the construction works on the Naromoru-Ngaringiru road.
The Naromoru-Ngaringiru road is to be constructed at a cost of Sh720million and is meant to ease transportation problems and link Laikipia to the neighbouring Nyeri County.
In Kirinyaga County, the president commissioned the construction of the 29 kilometres Kutus-Kianyaga-Kiamutugu-Githure-Kibugu Road.
The president oversaw the installation of modern medical equipment including emergency and referral facilities at the Kirinyaga Level 5 hospital.
In neighbouring Kirinyaga County, President Kenyatta along with Deputy President William Ruto launched the Kirinyaga-Makuruguathama and the Muranga’a-Gachare Road.

Fans of Chapecoense, the Brazilian football club enjoying a fairy tale season until almost wiped out in a plane crash, wept outside the stadium Tuesday.
All year, the once struggling, impoverished club had delighted the people of Chapeco, a city of about 200,000 in Santa Catarina state. Now, only grief remains.
Under fierce sunshine in the southern Brazilian state, fans in the team shirt congregated at the stadium where just last week their heroes had notched up another unlikely victory against San Lorenzo.
One of them, Carine Valer, sat with her face streaked in tears. Her husband Adriano Bittencourt, the club’s security chief, had been on the doomed plane.
“I didn’t go because I was trying to get my passport done and on Friday they told me it wouldn’t be ready in time,” Valer said.
“He told me he’d treat me like a queen and he did in all ways. But now I’ll never have that life again or him.”
Many came with flowers and black ribbons.
“I heard the news on television. We got up at once and came here,” Nelson Maguluche said, his voice cracking as he gave way to tears.
“I’ve always been a fan. I went to all their games.”
Chapecoense was the little club that could, an outfit that only a few years ago was struggling in the lower leagues but turned into a giant slayer.
Late Monday, they were flying to Colombia to take on Atletico Nacional in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana finals when the charter plane crashed in the mountains near Medellin, killing 71 people, with six miraculous survivors.
In a stroke the club that defied all the odds had been practically wiped out.
The mayor of Chapeco, Luciano Buligon, described the city’s despair on TV Globo.
“We have moved from a dream to a true nightmare,” he said.
The survivors included three players: defenders Helio Neto and Alan Ruschel and another goalkeeper, Jakson Follmann. The other known survivors were two crew members and a journalist.
The team’s goalkeeper Marcos Danilo Padilha, 31, died on the way to hospital, the civil aviation authority said. His last-minute save in the semi-final had ensured the team made it through to the Copa Sudamericana final.
A huge outpouring of solidarity from the footballing world followed.
Legends Pele and Maradona as well as current superstar Lionel Messi led tributes around the world.
Nacional quickly called for the Sudamericana title to be handed to its rivals “as a posthumous homage.”
In Brazil, big clubs including newly minted national league champions Palmeiras, Fluminense and Botafogo announced they would lend players free of charge to Chapecoense for the 2017 season.
“The clubs understand that this is a moment fo runity, support and help to Chapecoense,” they said in a statement, adding that other clubs would join the initiative.
The clubs also called on the Brazilian Football Confederation not to relegate Chapecoense to the second division during the next three years, to allow it time to rebuild, regardless of the results.
In a symbolic gesture, Palmeiras asked for permission to wear the stricken club’s shirt when it plays the final game of the year’s national league next month.
Many clubs depicted the Chapecoense club shield against a black background on their social media platforms.
For one of Chapecoense’s young fans, 18-year-old John Victor Carraro, the tragedy has deepened his love for the club.
“I will never abandon this club. My friend and I had promised to tattoo ourselves with the Chapecoense shield if they won the championship and I feel even stronger about it today,” he said.
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Gareth Southgate was appointed England’s new full-time manager on Wednesday and will lead the national team’s challenge for the 2018 World Cup and 2020 European Championship.
The 46-year-old, who has been in charge of the England squad for four games on a temporary basis, signed a four-year contract, the Football Assocation (FA) announced.
Southgate, capped 57 times by England and perhaps most famous for missing a penalty in the Euro ’96 semi-final shootout with eventual champions Germany, replaces Sam Allardyce, who was dismissed after just one game because of controversial remarks to undercover reporters.
“I am extremely proud to be appointed England manager. However, I’m also conscious that getting the job is one thing, now I want to do the job successfully,” said Southgate, whose four games in temporary charge yielded two victories and two draws.
“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed working with the players over these past four games and I think there’s huge potential.
“I’m determined to give everything I have to give the country a team that they’re proud of and one that they’re going to enjoy watching play and develop. For me, the hard work starts now.”
Martin Glenn, the FA chief executive, said Southgate’s previous experience as coach of the Under-21 side was invaluable.
“We are delighted to confirm Gareth as England manager. He’s obviously somebody we know well but it’s his understanding of international football and the development set-up at St. George’s Park (England’s training centre) that is important,” said Glenn.
“He performed extremely well during the four games he was in temporary charge and he impressed us during a tough interview process.
“Gareth is a great ambassador for what The FA stands for, he’s a very good football tactician and a leader but beneath that he’s a winner and that’s an important part of the job.”

Netflix said Wednesday it would allow offline viewing of streamed videos, a feature long sought by users who want to watch on a plane or to avoid data-connection charges.
A Netflix statement said that “many of your favorite streaming series and movies” would be available for download and offline viewing on mobile devices.
“While many members enjoy watching Netflix at home, we’ve often heard they also want to continue their ‘Stranger Things’ binge while on airplanes and other places where internet is expensive or limited,” said a blog post from product innovation chief Eddy Wu.
“Just click the download button on the details page for a film or TV series and you can watch it later without an internet connection.”
Netflix did not offer details on how much content would be available offline, noting that it was in discussion with copyright owners.
“Netflix is working with lots of partners globally to get downloading rights for the bulk of the content on our service,” a statement emailed to AFP said.
“This is an ongoing effort as we know consumers want this capability and we are working to provide it.”
Netflix, which is in a global push and has more than 86 million members, is facing increasing competition from rivals including Amazon, which also is in the midst of an international expansion of its streaming service.
Amazon already allows downloads of videos — noting that some content is restricted by copyright holders in terms of offline viewing.
Netflix users had been unable to download and view videos offline through its mobile application, but workarounds had been offered by third-party apps.

Riot police in Zimbabwe fired tear gas and beat up opposition protesters marching Wednesday through Harare against the new “bond note” currency, an AFP reporter said.
Zimbabwe’s central bank on Monday rolled out the “bond notes” — equivalent to the US dollar — to ease critical cash shortages, despite fears of a return to the hyperinflation that wiped out many people’s savings in 2009.
About 100 activists from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and the pressure group Tajamuka were chanting anti-government songs when police moved in to disperse them.
The protesters also carried placards denouncing the economic policies of President Robert Mugabe, 92, whose 36-year authoritarian rule has come under increasing public criticism this year.
“Bond notes = Toilet tissue” read one placard, as others declared “No To Bond Notes” and called Mugabe “a limping donkey”.
Police confronted the marchers with tear gas and water cannon, and beat up several of them with rubber truncheons.
Some shops in the capital’s central business district pulled down their shutters as police chased after the demonstrators.
“We are not going to embrace bond notes,” Hardlife Mudzingwa, a spokesman for Tajamuka, told AFP.
“They are being used to mop up the US dollars that people have in their accounts so that top government officials can import their personal goods.”
Many cash machines now disperse half US dollars and half bond notes.
Zimbabwe abandoned its own dollar currency in 2009 after hyperinflation hit 500 billion percent.
The adoption of foreign currencies like the US dollar and the South African rand brought relative economic stability.
But the gains were soon lost as the government pursued aggressive policies that scared off investors, including indigenisation laws forcing foreign-owned companies to sell majority stakes to locals.
The southern African country’s economic decline has worsened in recent months with banks running out of US dollar notes, forcing desperate depositors to sleep overnight outside bank entrances to try to withdraw money.
Many of the remaining businesses in Zimbabwe have ground to a halt, with unemployment at over 90 percent and the government repeatedly failing to pay soldiers and civil servants on time.
The proposal to introduce “bond notes” was a driving force behind series of anti-government street protests this year, but Mugabe’s ruthless police force have crushed the wave of dissent.
The new currency, which closely resembles the former Zimbabwe dollar, comes in $2 notes and $1 coins, while a $5 bond note is expected shortly.
The public reception has been mixed, with many Zimbabwe suspicious that the bond note will not hold its value to the US dollar, and others reluctantly accepting that the new notes give them some access to cash.
Some shops and fuel stations have been refusing payment in bond notes despite official orders.
The government said the new notes will be backed by a $200 million support facility provided by the Cairo-based Afreximbank (Africa Export-Import Bank).

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has today signed a USD 120 million Line of Credit (LOC) with Tanzania’s CRDB Bank Plc (“CRDB”) for onward lending to support Infrastructure development and SMEs in East Africa.
The LoC extended will spur regional trade and promote regional integration through expanding capacity of Tanzania’s port and airport, which will also stimulate tourism in the region.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Mr. Gabriel Negatu, who was recently appointed the AfDB Director General, Eastern Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office (RDBDO), said poor infrastructure has been a major constraint for the region growth.
“Tanzania plays a key role in regional trade in terms of opening different countries to the world. This calls for faster development of its ports and airport to make East Africa more competitive in doing business,” Mr. Negatu said during the signing held at AfDB’s regional Headquarters in Nairobi.
 
Mr. Negatu added that the facility is also intended for onward lending to Small enterprises and women who have in the past been excluded from formal financial services.
This is in line with AfDB’s Hi-5 Priorities and 10-Year Strategy of deepening the financial markets and promoting inclusive growth.
Among the SMEs targetted includes those agriculture, construction, manufacturing, education and services sectors.CRDB, is Tanzania’s largest commercial bank with 120 branches in the country and footprint in Burundi.
It supports various sectors including power, manufacturing, agriculture and SMEs.
 
In 2008, AfDB provided a risk-sharing facility to CRDB aimed at promoting SMEs in the agriculture sector, through which more than 270 SMEs have benefited.

The Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) has launched investigations into allegations of police brutality during an operation to recover seven stolen firearms in Mumias, Kakamega County.
IPOA has asked mumias residents to file official complaints at Christian Growth Church in Shibale Township from Wednesday to Friday.
 
Members of the public who witnessed the alleged attacks or have information have been asked to come forward.
The independent Medico-Legal Unit have assured, accountability and justice for all the victims of the brutality will prevail.
IMLU said preliminary investigations indicated the operation was not only brutish, shameless, and careless but also one conducted outside the confines of the law.
 
As a result of the excessive force two people died, women were sexually assaulted, tens of residents were injured and private property destroyed.
The police launched the major operation after a gang of thugs raided Booker police post where they injured one officer on duty before stealing seven G3 riffles and 180 ammunitions, last Wednesday morning.
A contingent of General Service unit police was then sent to the area with a mission to recover the guns.
 
However the residents complained of torture and excessive force while the GSU officers were undertaking the recovery operation.
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Local and national leaders join the residents in condemning the police brutality, noting Kenya was a democratic country with a progressive constitution on matters of human rights, and respect for rule of law.
The office of Inspector general last week confirmed it had received complaints and directed respective institution to launch investigations on the allegations.

Kenya Airways has renewed and expanded its codeshare agreement with Vietnam Airlines as it seeks to meet the demand on the Asia’s route.
The national carrier has expanded its four year old codeshare agreement with the Asian carrier to include Kuala Lumpur.
KQ, yesterday said the new agreement will allow it more access to South East Asia destinations, which took effect this November.
The codeshare covers the Bangkok-Hanoi and Saigon, Nairobi–Hanoi, and Hanoi-Kuala Lumpur routes.
“,” Kenya Airways CEO Mbuvi Ngunze said as reported by Businessdaily.
KQ will now book clients in Kenya and fly them seamlessly to Kuala Lumpur international airport, Malaysia main airport.
 
Code-sharing agreement is a system which allows airlines to sell seats on their aircraft (marketing carrier) as if they were their own and passengers are later transferred onto a different aircraft (operating carrier) where the former lacks presence.
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Kenya airways and Vietnam airlines have since August 1, 2012, had a partnering agreement on the Bangkok (Thailand) to the Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Saigon.
The Nairobi – Hanoi code share agreement was introduced in March last year.
 
Vietnam Airlines will place its codeshare two flights on the Kenya airways flights operating on Monday Wednesday and Fridays.
On the Hanoi – Kuala Lumpur route, KQ will place its codeshare two flights on Vietnam Airlines flights enabling connectivity to Kuala Lumpur three times a week on the Nairobi – Hanoi direct flights.
Kenya Airway’s also signed a codeshare with India’s international airline, Jet Airways, to codeshare on domestic flights to enhance connectivity for passengers travelling from Kenya to domestic destinations in India.

Three former Air France employees on trial for ripping company executives’ shirts during a dispute over layoffs were found guilty on Wednesday in a case that highlighted the country’s fraught labour relations.
The trade unionists were given suspended prison sentences of three to four months over the attack in October 2015 that left one executive naked to the waist and another with his shirt and jacket in tatters.
Appearing in court in northeast Paris, two others who faced the same charges of “organised violence” were acquitted.
The company said the sentences “enable us to close this sad episode”, but lawyer Lilia Mhissen, acting on behalf of most of the defendants, said she would encourage them to appeal.
Images of furious activists chasing down the executives at the airline’s headquarters on the edge of Paris made front pages around the world when the confrontation took place.
The protests were led by the hard-left CGT, France’s largest union, over the airline’s plans to cut 2,900 jobs.
Ten other former and current employees from the company were fined 500 euros ($530) Wednesday for damaging the company’s property after they broke down a gate at the headquarters during the demonstration.
Pierre Plissonnier, director of long-haul operations at the airline, had told the court of his “humiliation” at seeing pictures of himself with a ripped shirt and jacket scrambling over a fence to escape the mob.
The court also viewed footage in which a worker can be heard threatening human resources boss Xavier Broseta before he was stripped to the waist in front of television cameras.
Prime Minister Manuel Valls had called for the defendants, whom he branded “rogues”, to be given stiff sentences.
The attack came to symbolise the often fraught relations between company executives and trade union representatives in France and led to questions about the limits of legitimate protest.
Incidents of so-called “boss-napping”, in which executives are held against their will during negotiations over job cuts, have spread in recent years.
In 2014, workers at a Goodyear tyre factory in northern France held two directors captive for close to 300 hours to try to prevent the closure of the plant.
The CGT has organised protests against the Air France trial and has accused the company and courts of criminalising union action.
“The justice system isn’t independent. It’s sided with the powerful,” Miguel Fortea, secretary general of the CGT branch at Air France, told AFP on Wednesday.
The airline returned to profit last year after seven years of losses, but faces stiff competition from Asian and Gulf airlines as well as new, low-cost long-haul alternatives.
It still faces tensions with its 55,000 employees, particularly pilots and flight crews who staged strikes in late July.
Chief executive Jean-Marc Janaillac said during a parliamentary hearing on Wednesday that unions threatened strikes too often and stoppages had cost the company 130 million euros in 2016.
“We need to change the relationship between the trade unions and the negotiators for the company,” he said.
The airline faces a downturn in bookings, notably by Japanese, Chinese and American customers, because of the string of jihadist attacks that have hit France over the past two years.
Vincent Martinez, one of the men convicted of violence on Wednesday, told AFP that the verdict was “not surprising” and that he would reflect on it before deciding whether to appeal.
Fired by the company like the others after the incident, he said that he “still wanted to be taken back by Air France.”
A legal case is underway.

Turkey on Wednesday detained eight people over a deadly fire at a dormitory for schoolgirls that left 12 people dead, as anger grew over possible negligence that caused the tragedy.
The blaze, which officials said was likely caused by an electrical fault, tore through the building’s wooden interior on Tuesday night as panicked youngsters tried to jump from windows to safety.
Some officials suggested many of the victims were killed on the top floors of the dormitory in the southern region of Adana after they were unable to open a fire door to flee the flames.
“We will learn lessons from this and we will do what needs to be done to ensure this never happens again,” said Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz, adding that an inspection in June had not uncovered any issues.
In Ankara, Turkish police used tear gas to disperse a protest outside the education ministry by activists angered that the devastated dormitory was managed by an influential religious sect.
Those detained as part of the investigation into accusations of “causing death by negligence” include the manager of the dormitory in the Aladag district of Adana, the Dogan news agency said.
Five people were detained initially while three other suspects were being treated for wounds in hospital. A total of 14 arrest warrants have been issued.
Dogan said most of the dead would be identified using DNA tests, in a sign that the victims were too badly burned to be identified visually.
Ten of those killed were schoolchildren aged up to 14, while the fire also claimed the life of a member of the teaching staff.
The four-year-old daughter of the dormitory manager being held by the police also died, Dogan said. Twenty-four people including 16 children were injured, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak told a press conference.
Officials said the fire was likely caused by an electrical fault which then spread rapidly due to the dormitory’s wooden structures and carpeted floors.
Adana governor Mahmut Demirtas said Tuesday some of the schoolgirls were injured after jumping out of windows to escape the flames. He added that none of those injured was in a serious condition.
Adana city mayor Huseyin Sozlu told Turkish television Tuesday that the dormitory’s fire door was locked and that most of the dead were recovered from near that exit.
But Kaynak said that according to initial findings, the door had been unlocked.
“There’s even a curtain hanging near the exit door undamaged,” he said, but added that the situation would become clearer after an investigation.
The building is assessed twice a year by the education ministry, Kaynak said, adding that it was last checked in June.
The Turkish government banned the broadcast of images of the catastrophe’s aftermath, a common measure after such disasters.
The head of the Egitim-Is education union Mehmet Balik said the dormitory belonged to a religious Sunni Muslim sect in Aladag known as the Suleymanci.
The girls had been sleeping there as the state-run dormitory had been demolished ahead of expansion works, Dogan reported.
Media reports said the Suleymanci accommodation was the girls’ only option in the area.
The Suleymanci is one of the biggest religious communities in Turkey and is renowned for having a major influence in politics.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) blamed the government for failing to properly fund education accommodation, forcing poor families to use accommodation run by religious communities.
“Such fires are not the first and will not be the last so long as the government’s policy and irresponsibility remain in place,” it said in a statement.
“It is a shame and crime to condemn our children to uncontrolled dorms and any form of abuse.”
But ruling party spokesman Yasin Aktay emphasised that “the fact the building belonged to a religious community” could not be accepted as the sole reason for the fire.
“It is too early now to make links but if there is such a scenario, if there is such neglect, it will not be ignored,” he said.

French heavyweights Toulouse have signed highly regarded scrum-half Antoine Dupont from Castres, the record 19-time champions said on Wednesday.
The France under-20 international will join Toulouse next season, although the club has not yet revealed the length of his deal.
“Antoine is an explosive player capable of breaking through any defence but also leading the team tactically with his efficient kicking and accomplished passing game,” said Toulouse sporting director Fabien Pelous.
Dupont, who turned 20 earlier this month, moved to Castres in 2014 and has made 33 appearances in the domestic Top 14 while also playing in 10 European matches.

South Africa on Wednesday launched a major clinical trial of an experimental vaccine against the AIDS virus, which scientists hope could be the “final nail in the coffin” for the disease.
More than 30 years of efforts to develop an effective vaccine for HIV have not borne fruit, but for the first time since the virus was identified in 1983, scientists think they have found a promising candidate.
The new study, known as HVTN 702, will involve more than 5,400 sexually active men and women aged 18-35 in 15 areas around South Africa over four years.
It is one of the biggest clinical trials involving the disease ever undertaken and has revived hopes of a breakthrough in the battle against AIDS.
“If deployed alongside our current armoury of proven HIV prevention tools, a safe and effective vaccine could be the final nail in the coffin for HIV,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the US National institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is taking part in the study.
“Even a moderately effective vaccine would significantly decrease the burden of HIV disease over time in countries and populations with high rates of HIV infection, such as South Africa.”
Condoms are at the frontline of efforts to prevent the spread of HIV, which is mainly transferred through the sexual fluids and blood of infected individuals.
A small number of people, mainly in developed countries, use virus-suppressing drugs as a preventive aid, although the exact level of protection this offers is not clear.
But relying on existing prevention methods was not working, said Mmapule Raborife, one of HIV Vaccine Trials Network’s community advisors in the large township of Soshanguve, north of the administrative capital Pretoria.
“There are condoms everywhere in South Africa but people are just passing by as if there is nothing there,” she told AFP.
South Africa was not chosen by accident. The country has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world — 19.2 percent according to the UN AIDS agency — with more than seven million people living with the virus.
“A vaccine is critical for South Africa,” Glenda Gray, president of the country’s Medical Research Council, told AFP.
“Every day, one thousand people are getting infected and most of them are young women and men so we need to find a solution.”
The vaccine has been adapted for the HIV strain prevalent in southern Africa from one used in a trial of 16,000 people in Thailand in 2009, which reduced the risk of infection by more than 30 percent for three-and-a-half years after the first jab.
The safety of the “South African” vaccine has already been tested successfully over 18 months on 252 volunteers. The new study aims to test its effectiveness as a virus-killer.
Vaccines work by priming the body to respond with germ-fighting antibodies whenever a virus or bacteria invades. But the AIDS-causing virus is stealthy and quick to mutate to avoid being targeted.
“If we have a 50 percent efficacy rate, we would consider this an effective vaccine,” said Gray.
From there, it could take five to ten years to scale up production, “and we need money to take (it) to a world level,” she added.
Even if the new vaccine proves effective, experts warn it is vital to remain vigilant in the fight against HIV.
“A highly efficient vaccine would be a game-changer but the results of these trials will take years,” Lynn Morris, head of the HIV virology section at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), told AFP.
“We must continue to use other HIV prevention tools to reduce the number of new HIV infections, particularly in vulnerable populations such as young women.”
According to UNAIDS, half of the 36 million or so people with HIV around the world have access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), a figure that has doubled in five years.
Thanks to these treatments, which keep the virus in check and increase the lifespan of HIV-positive people without curing them, average life expectancy in South Africa has risen from 57.1 years to 62.9 since 2009.
“I know people who are HIV positive and I know people who died because of HIV — some of them are in my family,” one trial participant who declined to give her name told AFP.
“I want to make a difference in my community and in my country… there’s no cure yet, so we have to keep fighting.”
The new trial is being carried out by the US National Institutes of Health, the South African Medical Research Council, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.

A sombre mood engulfed residents of Suna East of Migori County after a student from the area died after drinking raw ethanol in order to get high instead of alcohol.
The candidate from Nyango Mixed Secondary School and three others are said to have drunk the chemical after sneaking it out of the examination room after writing their Chemistry practical paper.
The just concluded that have led to several students fail to make it to finish their last paper.
Earlier this week, lost his sight after drinking a lethal chemical meant for a Chemistry practical at the school.
The student was supposed to sit for Biology paper on Monday but was unable since apart from blindness, he could also neither eat nor speak.
 
The health officials however said the student was responding well to treatment and was given beer as an antidote to neutralise the ethanol he had taken.
They said the student was in stable condition and there was a high chance of him regaining his sight since he was already attended to by an eye specialist.
In October, a 17-year-old student from Nyeri who had lost his sight after consuming ethanol from his school’s laboratory regained his sight after being treated at an Othaya hospital.
The student from Kenyatta Mahiga High School is said to have taken the chemical after a chemistry session.
While in September, a Form Four student at Longewean Secondary School died on while another was left fighting for her life at Samburu

Turkish police tear gassed protesters who tried to rally in Ankara Wednesday after 12 people, mostly schoolgirls, were killed in a fire at a dormitory in southern Turkey, an AFP photographer said.
The blaze, which officials said was likely caused by an electrical fault, tore through the wooden interior of a dormitory in the southern region of Adana on Tuesday evening.
Riot police stopped around 150 protesters from different organisations including left-wing groups and women’s rights activists from demonstrating outside the education ministry in Ankara over allegations that negligence led to the blaze.
Police later detained an unknown number of demonstrators as they tried to run away, the photographer said.
They called for dormitories run by religious sects to be shut down after it emerged the facility belonged to an influential Sunni Muslim group, the photographer added.
Last month, the Ankara region banned all public gatherings and demonstrations until the end of November after receiving information about potential terror attacks.
Some officials suggested the victims were killed on the top floors after they were unable to open a fire door to flee the flames.
But Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak rejected this, saying that according to initial findings the door had been unlocked.
In Adana, police authorities on Wednesday detained eight people, including the manager of the dormitory in the Aladag district, as part of the investigation into accusations of “causing death by negligence”.

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday appointed deputy finance minister Maxim Oreshkin as economy minister, replacing Alexei Ulyukayev who was dismissed this month after being charged with taking a $2-million bribe.
“You haven’t been working long, but… you are working successfully,” Putin told Oreshkin at a meeting, quoted on the Kremlin website.
“I want to offer you the position of economic development minister.”
The new economy minister is just 34 years old and worked in the banking sector before joining the finance ministry in 2013. He was appointed deputy finance minister last year.
The finance and economic development ministries are two separate entities in Russia.
Putin commented on Oreshkin’s age saying that “you are a quite young person,” but praised him as “a mature, experienced specialist.”
Oreshkin has been tasked with pulling the country out of a two-year recession exacerbated by depressed prices for its key oil exports and Western sanctions over Ukraine.
He told Putin on Wednesday: “The worst is now over but the growth rates are still, of course, insufficient.”
“Therefore the main task for the next year is to prepare key measures that will remove structural obstacles to the Russian economy’s growth and let it move forward.”
His predecessor Ulyukayev, 60, is currently under house arrest after being slapped with bribe-taking charges that shocked the liberal wing of the government, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev saying his fall from grace was “beyond comprehension.”
The FSB security service dramatically detained Ulyukayev in the early hours of November 15 for allegedly accepting a bribe to greenlight state oil giant Rosneft’s acquisition of the state-owned majority stake in Russian oil company Bashneft for $5.2 billion.
He had served as economy minister since 2013.

The Kremlin on Wednesday demanded an explanation after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara intervened in Syria solely to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
Turkish forces are pressing on with a three month operation inside war-torn Syria in support of anti-Assad forces, while Russia is the chief ally of the Syrian president in the conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives since 2011.
Yet Turkey and Russia have also been working hard to improve relations after clinching a reconciliation deal in June to repair ties brought to a historic low by Turkey’s shooting down of a Russian jet in November 2015.
Erdogan had said Tuesday at a meeting in Istanbul in support of the Palestinians: “We went in there to put an end to the rule of the tyrant Assad who carries out state terror, not for anything else.”
His comments came as Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is due to meet Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu for talks in the Turkish resort of Alanya on Thursday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists he hoped that “clarification will come shortly from our Turkish partners”.
Peskov said Erdogan’s comment “really came as news,” adding that it “is not in harmony with previous statements” and “not in harmony with our understanding of the situation”.
Turkey is waging the operation inside Syria against Islamic State (IS) jihadists and also Kurdish militia to back pro-Ankara rebels, in an unprecedented military incursion.
There has so far been no indication of clashes with Assad’s forces in the operation or that Turkey plans any offensive against regime-held territory.
Russia has generally steered clear of any sharp criticism of the Turkish offensive.
But the Turkish army accused the Syrian regime last week of launching an airstrike that killed four Turkish soldiers in Syria, the first time it has made such a claim during the incursion.
Erdogan has repeatedly pushed for the ouster of Assad as the only solution to end the Syrian civil war and had, until recently, vehemently criticised Russia’s military support for his forces and even accused President Vladimir Putin of “war crimes”.
But since the deal to normalise ties between Turkey and Russia, Ankara has been remarkably muted in its criticism of Russia’s actions — in particular its backing for Assad forces in the battle for Aleppo.
Erdogan and Putin discussed the Syria conflict on Saturday by telephone for the second time in just over 24 hours.

The Kenya Police have issued an alert after receiving intelligence reports that the terror group in the country ahead of the festive season.
Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said the reports indicated the Al-Shabaab militia were regrouping along the Kenya-Somalia border in readiness to carry out attacks.
He said the terror group along with ISIS, plan to target security personnel and establishments as well as public service vehicles (PSVs) plying on the border counties.
said Boinnet.
Boinett said the terror group had changed tact, said the police boss, and had split into smaller groups and infiltrated the country especially along the borders of Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and Lamu counties.
 
He further said the militants are known to take advantage of the ongoing rains to infiltrate the country through the general areas of Kolbio and close to Hulugho area in Garissa County.
The IG said that they were also aware to amass its militants in Jedahaley area in Somalia with intention of infiltrating into the country for attacks.
Some of them he said were hiding in small groups pretending to be herders around Hida and Dambala in Somalia while plotting to sneak into the country.
However he ensured Kenyans that security has been heightened in the country to avert any attacks, and to the public to continue cooperating with them and remain vigilant.

Incidences of paranormal activities have been on the rise of late; black magic is being used in all spheres of life.
A few weeks ago, a bachelor and a married woman engaging in illicit sex were paraded before the public after they got stuck at a lodge in Kisii. The lovebirds disengaged immediately a witch doctor did a reverse spell.
Then there was that incident where a man’s genitals were moved to another part of his body after he slept with someone’s wife.
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Even before the dust settled on the two abnormal cases of witchcraft, a man in Mbooni, Makueni County has shocked residents when he used black magic to recover a stolen motorbike.
Photos posted on Facebook by a certain Mobby Mae Yule Wetu show a swarm of bees flocking on one motorbike leaving others parked at the same spot.
 
The bees are said to have thronged the motorbike to prevent strangers from getting close to it until the owner arrived and took it home.
The motorbike’s owner is said to have consulted a witch doctor to get his bike back after he was robbed under unclear circumstances.
Residence scampered for safety when the bees surfaced at a center in Mbooni and landed on the specific motorbike.

Turkey is seeking multiple life sentences for nearly 70 suspects, including the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish political party, over a deadly bombing in Ankara this year blamed on Kurdish militants, state media said Wednesday.
Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih Muslim and several prominent Kurdish militants have been indicted over the February 17 attack on military vehicles that killed 29 people, the official news agency Anadolu said.
Ankara said the PYD and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), were responsible for the bombing.
However a radical splinter group of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK) — claimed the attack.
It said the suicide bombing was revenge for Turkish military operations in the Turkey’s southeast where violence has renewed since the collapse of a ceasefire last year.
The indictment says that TAK is “a unit established to undertake sensational actions” by the PKK, Hurriyet daily reported.
Ankara prosecutors are seeking 30 aggravated life sentences for each of 68 suspects in the attack, with one life term stemming from each victim killed and one additional for acting “against the state’s security”, Anadolu said.
According to Anadolu, prosecutors divided the accused between the alleged organisation leaders — including Muslim — and suspects who “participated” in the attack.
They charged that PKK senior leaders gave instructions for the attack that was then carried out by members and some non-members.
Fugitive PKK leaders Cemil Bayik, Murat Karayilan and Fehman Huseyin were also named in the indictment, Anadolu said.
Turkey views the PYD and YPG as terrorist organisations linked to the PKK, which has waged an insurgency inside the country since 1984.
The PKK is proscribed as a terror group by the United States and the European Union.
But Washington sees the PYD and YPG as the main allies on the ground in northern Syria fighting against the Islamic State group, causing friction with its NATO ally Turkey.
The indictment comes a week after Ankara issued an arrest warrant for Muslim and the other suspects.
The PYD leader, who last visited Turkey in 2015, had rubbished the warrant and said it should not be taken seriously.

Up to 500,000 civilians in Mosul are facing a “catastrophic” drinking water shortage, the UN warned on Wednesday, as Iraqi forces advance against the Islamic State group in the city.
Already suffering from a severe lack of food and electricity, civilians in Iraq’s second city are now also running out of drinkable water, said Lise Grande, UN humanitarian coordinator in Iraq.
“Nearly half a million civilians, already struggling to feed themselves day to day, are now without access to clean drinking water. The impact on children, women and families will be catastrophic,” Grande said.
Tens of thousands of Iraqi troops and allied forces launched an offensive last month to retake Mosul, which was seized by IS more than two years ago.
Weeks of fighting have seen the Iraqi forces surround the city and break into its eastern neighbourhoods, where there have been heavy street-to-street battles with the jihadists.
Operations to retake the city have damaged water pipes in recent days and residents in east Mosul say they have resorted to pumping water from wells.
“We don’t have water or electricity. We are drinking well water but that’s not enough,” said Mosul resident Mohamed Khalil, 25.
“Water is the most important thing. We aren’t washing. We are going to catch lice and our homes are filthy,” said Iman Baker, a 34-year-old mother of three who lives in an eastern neighbourhood recently retaken from IS.
Since the launch of the assault on October 17, more than 70,000 people have fled the fighting, but more than a million people are estimated to remain in the city, including around 600,000 in the eastern neighbourhoods.
Abdelkarim al-Obeidi, the secretary general of the local civil society organisation Mosul People Gathering, warned of a “humanitarian disaster” in the making.
“The government as well as aid organisations must step up and offer assistance to the people, especially those families forced to drink water from the wells that is not fit for drinking,” he said.
At a hospital in the village of Gogjali on the eastern outskirts of Mosul, a medical source said civilians were starting to arrive with “cases of diarrhoea and intestinal cramps, especially among children”.
Abu Ali, a resident of eastern Mosul, said he hoped running water would return before an outbreak of disease.
Some residents “will take water from the Tigris”, he said, referring to the river that divides the city.
While it was unclear what had caused the massive water shortage, some residents blamed the US-led coalition backing Iraqi forces in the assault, saying its warplanes had damaged the main pipeline bringing water from the western side of the city.
But Basma Basseem, an official with the Mosul municipality, suggested that IS may have intentionally stopped the flow.
“There are efforts to bring water tankers to neighbourhoods that have been retaken,” Basseem said.
Residents said that many were also running out of food supplies and relying on aid distributed by Iraqi forces.
“Some people had stocks of dried goods but food is starting to run out, and we have neither water, nor electricity, nor fuel for heating,” said 54-year-old Natiq, who was receiving food aid at a distribution centre in the eastern neighbourhood of Khadraa.
Iraqi commanders say around 40 percent of the eastern half of Mosul has been retaken in the offensive.
The forces have told civilians to stay at home in order to avoid massive displacement from the city.
The progress of Iraqi forces — who vastly outnumber the estimated 3,000 to 5,000 jihadists defending their last major bastion in Iraq — has been slowed by the presence of a large civilian population often used by IS as human shields.

The theme for this year is “.  According to the AIDs by the Numbers 2016 report from UNAIDS, 1.1 million people worldwide died of AIDS-related illnesses in 2015. By the end of the same year, an estimated 36.7 million people around the world were living with HIV.
 
Since 1996, when antiretroviral therapy (ART) became available, people with HIV have been living longer and healthier lives. However, as individuals with HIV age, they are more likely to be diagnosed with chronic illnesses. A growing body of evidence suggests cardiovascular disease in particular is a common occurrence in people over 40 living with HIV. Studies have shown that people living with HIV are 50 to 100 per cent more likely to develop cardiovascular disease (including heart attack and stroke) than individuals without HIV. As people living with HIV (PLWHIV) survive longer, thanks to the massive role out of ART programmes, the HIV population grows older and are developing cardiovascular diseases as new causes of death and disability amongst PLWHIV.
A number of factors combine to put people with HIV at increased risk for cardiovascular disease including . The virus causes chronic inflammation, which leads to plaque build-up and eventual blockage in the arteries that can cause cardiovascular disease.  Additionally, used to treat HIV can raise the risk for heart disease by causing insulin resistance which may lead to diabetes; and researchers have revealed that some kinds of HIV drugs such as protease inhibitors are associated with development of high levels of fat in the blood including cholesterol and triglycerides. Both of these may lead to blockage of blood vessel in the various parts of the body.
If left untreated, this heightens the risk of heart, gall bladder, and pancreatitis diseases. Also the rates of some such as smoking, are also higher among people with HIV. HIV and cardiovascular disease also share common behavior al risk factors which makes people who develop HIV to also be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease.
 
HIV itself can further increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Untreated HIV with its highviral loads has been linked to heart diseases and experts now recommend starting treatment earlier to avoid cardiovascular damage that is caused by active viral reproduction. However, many of the drugs used to treat HIV can also contribute to cardiovascular disease, notably by  raising    cholesterol and triglyceride levels.
Not only does HIV related inflammation damage the immune and other organ systems, it also accelerates the ageing of blood vessels. The use of ART greatly decreases HIV related inflammation. Indeed, studies have found that people who stop taking ART have a greatly increased risk for heart attacks and stroke. Nevertheless, even in the setting of low, or un-detectable viral load, low-level inflammation triggered by HIV infection may continue to slowly affect organs and blood vessels, but at a much lower level than before. Over the long-term, this inflammation may heighten the risk for cardiovascular disease in HIV-positive people.
The good news is that many steps can be taken to help prevent and manage cardiovascular disease. Decades of research involving HIV-negative and HIV-positive people, have repeatedly shown that lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise and quitting smoking can greatly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. When lifestyle changes are not enough, a number of effective medications and other medical approaches are available. It is also important to take cardiovascular risk factors into account when making crucial HIV treatment decisions, such as when to start, or switch treatment and which medications to use.
But the benefits of ART have been shown to greatly outweigh the dangers and researchers warn against stopping HIV drugs to protect the heart. In fact, current research shows that stopping and starting HIV medications can make heart disease worse while putting patients in danger of more serious complications by allowing HIV to reproduce in their bodies.
Regular monitoring of the levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood and other cardiovascular risk factors in the HIV treatment factors and a adoption of prevention, early detection and control can help to control the problem.
Researchers are currently pursuing ways to address the problem of cardiovascular disease among people living with HIV. For example, a current large scale study with several research sites is testing whether statin medications which have been proven safe and effective in reducing cardiovascular disease risk in the general population, can also reduce that risk in patients with HIV.
Scientists also say that newer antiretroviral drugs may be easier on your heart. It is also very important for patients to ask their healthcare provider what they can do to decrease their risk and to find the best HIV medications.
Maintaining a healthy and low cholesterol  diet, engaging in adequate physical activity regularly, quitting smoking, screening for cardiovascular risk factors, staying adherent to HIV medications and keeping viral load low/undetectable can reduce cardiovascular diseases.

President-elect Donald Trump named Wall Street veteran Steven Mnuchin for Treasury secretary Wednesday, filling key slots on his economic team even as he announced plans to leave his businesses to avoid any conflict of interest.
Mnuchin and billionaire Wilbur Ross were asked in a television interview with CNBC if they could confirm reports they had been named to lead the US Treasury and Commerce departments, respectively.
“We can, indeed,” said Mnuchin. “We’re thrilled to be here and we’re thrilled to work for the president-elect and honored to have these positions.”
Mnuchin, 53, is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was Trump’s campaign chairman and Ross is an investor who has made billions turning around distressed companies.
With his appointment, Mnuchin is now being rewarded for taking Trump’s side at a time when the Republican Party’s major political donors, such as the billionaire Koch brothers, had avoided him.
Trump’s picks, although not yet confirmed by his White House transition team, would be the first major nominations to his economic policy team.
They came as the president-elect announced he will be leaving his private businesses to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest while in the White House, while insisting he was not legally bound to do so.
In a series of Tweets, Trump said he would unveil his plans at a December 15 news conference in New York with his children.
He said he would “discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“While I am not mandated to do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses.”
The billionaire real-estate mogul has yet to explain in detail how he intends to separate himself from his complex business empire while president.
US presidents typically put their assets in blind trusts managed without their input.
But Trump has said he wants to leave the management of his extensive business interests to his children.
At the same time, he has reportedly looked into getting a security clearance for his son-in-law Jared Kushner so he could continue as a special adviser.
Mnuchin has an unusual resume: he studied at Yale University and was a partner in Goldman Sachs, before he launched an investment fund backed by Democratic Party supporter George Soros and financed Hollywood blockbusters like “Avatar” and “Suicide Squad.”
Now the Wall Street veteran has to help deliver on the campaign pledges that took Trump to the White House amid modest growth and economic anxiety.
Trump has vowed to cut corporate taxes, as a bid to encourage multinational companies to repatriate their earnings, and to scrap the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, which was enacted to protect consumers and the financial system from Wall Street excesses that caused the financial crisis.
Ross is a billionaire investor known for taking over ailing steel and coal companies, and then selling them for a big profit.
He will oversee many of the trade disputes with countries like China, many of which are complaints about dumping of cheaply-produced steel and aluminum into the US market.
Ross, whose fortune is estimated at $2.9 billion, has advocated steep tariffs on Chinese imports.

As far as dressing goes, 2016 has offered enough in from all extremes to keep up us busy playing fashion cops.
We have had the totally on point, the scandalous, the outrageous and the downright poor.
Here is an outlook of the 10 fashion pieces that stirred up a huge buzz and became part of our pastime stories, memes and reference points.
Larry Madowo has pulled up a couple of stunts on Live TV most which reveal he is sure the blue eyed boy and golden eggs layer at NTV. 
His recent act of doing a live interview on prime time news in a pair of shorts was on a whole new level. Thankfully the TV viewer was kept in the dark seeing only Larry’s coat and tie as he spoke to Government spokesman Eric Kiraithe.
He would later clarify the incident saying he was in a boot camp that he needed to rush to hence the choice of wardrobe.
It actually wasn’t not bad, but you would not put it past Larry to milk such a situation for the attention and
 
Easily the most talked about couple just ahead of DJ Mo and Size 8, they pulled one of the two love birds gave us one moment to savor this year in their dress choice.
It borders on the humors and the almost on point. They chose to step out in matching basketball outfits and even had a shot with a donkey.
Whatever Eric had in mind, he turned a blissful romantic moment with his skinny legs protruding from baggy shorts.
Leg day is important Eric… However, we all admired the lovely legs and assets Chantal placed on display as we pitied the huger stricken horse.
 
Early this year Uhuruto were on a retreat out of town in Naivasha. Given the occasion the whole team tried stepping out in casual wear.
Tried because at some age in life I guess men decide only a tie or the lack of it defines what is formal and what is casual. The president and his deputy however decided to defy that proving they are really youthful.
That is only up to the point when you spot the iron lines on Ruto’s jeans spoiling an otherwise sharp look. It happened twice!
Why would anyone set up the scion of Samoei like that? Santa also needs to get Uhuru Kenyatta a pair of sneakers or even golf shoes and another pair of jeans…he really needs that.
 
 
Yes, we just had to get a socialite on this list. Yes and just after the presidency.
Corazon has had a number of skimpy clothes in the past…she and others of a similar mindset actually created a whole industry and careers out of skimpy dressing.
However, those previous ones were ratchet, eye assaulting images. This year everyone stepped up the game and now you get served up the luscious tones of flesh smooth and elegantly like a Picasso piece.
This two pieces she was showcasing from her store capture the new essence of socialites flashing flesh.
 
 
When you are going to lord over other people’s fashion choices, you need to have quite a cultured taste yourself.
Unfortunately for Citizen’s Fashion watch crew of four, only the good pastor preaches water and sticks to it…the rest with an impunity to rival that of a Kenyan politician use phrases such as freedom, self-expression, open mindedness and just not giving a damn of anyone’s opinion to rather defend their dubious and questionable attires.
Thus year, Kenyan’s fed it to them straight and they went for a break. Here is a couple of their ‘best hits’.
 
She has been in the business for a while but then she came to Kenya and we got a redefinition of what a succulent derriere really is.
For someone who doesn’t dare shy away from showcasing her thunder thighs and drum sized buns, she chose an outfit in one of her days that left little to imagination but we imagined still.
 
2016 has been quite a year for Mombasa’s governor Ali Hassan Joho.
Like a flame of fire amidst smoke he rose from just a regional leader to easily become the most influential governor taking on the head of state, the deputy head of state and any other comers.
He dared the Coast commissioner Marwa and CS for security Nkaiserry to arrest him and take away his guns and they all tucked in their tails and hushed in a whimper like smacked dogs.
After winning the balls war he went on to flaunt his riches and influence. One thing he did win without a fight is the ladies hearts and news making ability.
With dresses such as the one below, it is easy to understand why. He may just get an Aladdin carpet and a genie for good measure
 
With a body like hers, any attire would be dripping with hotness so when she posted a number of bikini photos while at the coast, everyone got hooked the ladies and the men.
Then she posted one and made the error of relating it to the rather sensitive Safaricom mobile company and a storm was born.
which only served to make the photo viral and send thousands of curious and thirst trapped Kenyans on her blog and social media pages. Here is the photo savor it once more
 
To these day she adamantly blames it to the work of Photoshop by forces wishing to disparage her name.
Kenyans on the other hand have refused to buy that and given her sexy outfits over the past they passed their jury and she became conversation fodder.
For a lady seeking public office in such a judgmental and publicly conservative society like Kenya, this was a big miscalculation on her part.
 
The amount of heat and hate traded both ways in this instance places this case on top of the list.
Akothee stepped out in Lodwar to perform clad in fuschia bodysuit with embellishment details, paired with pantyhose, (Phew! Thank you Google) and shared her photos.
It was quite a self-caricaturing move that left her hundreds of fans disappointed and they let her know straight up.
The self-styled Madam Boos came back with a venomous reply bringing in panties to the discussion and pools. Not to be bullied her fans replied and even threatened not to vote for her.
Here is the most controversial dress outfit of 2016
 
 

But the perfect smokescreen was shattered by a scandal that rocked the couple very recently.
This was after disclosed that the couple’s marriage had hit a snag after Bishop Kiuna allegedly cheated.
 
The blog went on to spill the tea that Allan had allegedly fathered a child with the woman he is said to have cheated on Kathy with.
A situation that allegedly forced Kathy to go into self- exile in South Africa so that she could take a breather and clear her head after this damning scandal .
However, the Bishop said that no such thing went on as he was a man of honour”
Bishop Kiuna told Tuko.
His wife also made sure they maintained a united front by posting:

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Thankfully, the couple has put the scandal behind them and seem more loved up than ever. The Bishop got all mushy after sharing a photo of his wife captioned and Kathy replied with
A public display of affection that left their followers, fans and congregation comforted in knowing that the couple was still very much in love.
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It has been one year since the young boy left his family but the ghetto kids still remember him in so many ways. Today morning they gathered to commemorate their fallen comrade who was more of a brother to them.
 
They held a memorial service at St Agness Church in Makindye which was attracted close family and friends as reported by Bigeye.
The Sitya loss family then visited the late dancer’s village to hold prayers in his memory. The Ghetto kids manager gave a moving speech that left many tearing up.
 
 “I can’t believe it’s now one year without you. You will always be in our heart and in our prayers. We will forever miss you. May you rest in eternal peace,” the manager said.
The young boy was laid to rest at his ancestral home in Kibibi, Mpigi district a few days after he was involved in a terrible bicycle accident that saw him die on the spot.

A report investigating how funds were mismanaged by National Olympic Committee of Kenya (Nock) and Ministry of Sports officials reveal shocking details of how Sh88 million was embezzled.
The report recommends action to be taken on the officials responsible for the mismanagement of Team Kenya at the as well as the return of all unaccounted funds and a fresh audit of all the transactions involved.
It further recommends for a thorough audit on the process followed by the Ministry of Sports to award Green Bay Travel Ltd the tender to supply tickets at what it terms as exorbitant price.
The Greenbay Travel Ltd had a flight ticket price offer of Sh154 million while that of the national flying carrier was Sh65million equating to a difference Sh88 million.
The Chef De Mission Stephen Soi earned Sh4.2 million in allowances while Sports Principal Secretary, Richard Ekai, NOCK chairman Kipchoge Keino and F.K Paul who were paid Sh2,772,000.
 
At least 16 joyriders with no business travelling to Rio Olympic Games who included relatives of Olympic officials, excess medical personnel, and members of the Olympics steering committee costed the taxpayer more than Sh10 million.
The report further points out a number of people were paid full allowances yet they never travelled to Rio. They include Boniface Mweresa (Sh761,833), Kiprono Koskei (Sh761,833) and Thomas Longosiwa (Sh761,833).
n total, the Ministry of Sports spent Sh130,983,026 on preparations, training and qualification of teams and athletes, Sh95,3777, 800 on airfare for 89 athletes and 88 officials, Sh163,023,000 on overseas allowances and Sh109,497,600 on other expenses.

Animal lovers have been fighting a losing battle to stop some cultural practices in China; including the slaughter of dogs, cats and other endangered species.
Anyone travelling to China should be advised to exercise caution when eating meat, or strictly maintain a vegetarian diet if possible for the duration of visit.
The reason for this free advice is simply because it can be hard to differentiate between dog meat and cow meat when served at a restaurant. Not unless someone gives you prior warning.
A sample of Chinese cuisine reveals the horrible and nerve-racking food that is being consumed in the world’s most populous nation.
Sickening images of butchered dogs, cats and even monkeys greet your face when you sample some of the foods being consumed in China.
If you are the kind that gets disgusted by the idea of people eating pets and apes, then you will be emotionally disturbed to find out that creepy insects like cockroaches, bugs and even centipedes are a delicacy in China.
 
Below are photos of animals and insects that are consumed as food in China:

More than 2,000 residents have been displaced from their homes in Kapedo, following fresh outbreak of clashes.
The more than 2000 residents, have fled their homes following attacks on the border of Baringo and Turkana counties.
The residents are in dire need of humanitarian aid and have asked the government to quickly intervene.
Violence broke out in Lomelo, Pulpusion and Kamuge villages between the Turkana and Pokot communities on Friday, unconfirmed reports indicate more than 20 people have reportedly been murdered, in the ongoing attacks among armed pastoral communities along Kerio Valley and Kapedo.
Lomelo chief Christopher Achuka told the Star on the phone yesterday.
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Achuka has said the attackers drove away an unknown number of livestock towards Turkana South.

according to the area chief, Turkana raiders were trying to confront the Pokot herders to drive away their animals at Lomuge, border of Baringo and Turkana.
local leaders, have warned that the number could be even higher especially in Lomelo, Pulpusion and Kamuge villages which was hard hit by the clashes.
Government officials are yet to give official information on the number of people killed and displaced in the Kerio Valley and Kapedo attacks.
 
Baringo county police commander Peter Ndung’u said the tension on the ground is hampering movement of humanitarian agencies and reporters.
he said as quoted by the star.
The police commander has attributed the reemergence of the fresh violence to the migrating pastoralists looking for water and pasture for their animals.

Plenty entertainment awaits GOgetters on GOtv Plus on the exciting range of local and international channels. This December, catch riveting movies, series and showbiz programming including Guardian of the Throne on 31st December at 19:00 CAT on Africa Magic Epic on channel 9, weekday viewing of on Africa Magic World and on Africa Magic Family. M-Net Movie Zone (channel 3) will delight viewers with Hollywood blockbusters like 26th December @ 18:00 CAT and 29th December at 18:15 CAT while little ones and the young at heart can catch on Nickelodeon.
This December, E! Entertainment (GOtv channel 26) will add a touch of glamour to TV screens with on Friday, December 30th at 9pm CAT, the 8-part documentary of Mariah Carey’s on Sundays at 8pm from 11 December and The 12 K’s of Christmas, a binge-watch viewing of Seasons 1 to 12, all day from December 19th through to 30th!
Young minds will also be entertained and educated through GOtv’s wide array of kiddies programming this including Mondays to Fridays at 11:00 CAT from 5th December on Disney Jnr channel 60, Mondays at 14:45 CAT from the 12th of December & a triple bill of the TV show at 09:35 CAT on Nickelodeon CH 62 while on channel 61 will bring everyday at 12:00 CAT.
Football fans can also look forward to an exciting festive season as the world’s top football teams vie to scoop the trophies of the best leagues. GOtv sports fans can catch selected matches of the Premier League including on 31st December at 17:00 CAT on SuperSport Select 2, GOtv channel 32, the UEFA Champions League on SuperSport Select, GOtv channel 31 and local football and sporting events on SuperSport 9.
says GOtv GM, Felix Kyengo.
The exciting price decrease offer will enable customers to access 44 channels including; Telemundo, FOX life, Zee World, Eva Plus, Nat Geo Wild, SuperSport 9, Disney Junior, Nickelodeon, MTV Base, plus local channels; KBC 1, NTV, KTN, Citizen and KTN News.

US President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he will be “leaving his business” to avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest while in the White House, insisting he was not legally bound to do so.
In a series of Tweets, Trump said he would unveil his plans at a December 15 news conference in New York with his children.
He said he would “discuss the fact that I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
“While I am not mandated to do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses.”

This was in Billy Eichner’s show ‘Billy on the Street’ . In an episode titled ‘Bring the Pain’ Lupita recites some lurid and vulgar jokes from stand-up-comedians like Bob Saget, Andrew Dice Clay, and Daniel Tosh to some random people on the street.  Much to the chagrin of those listening.
 
she said to one lady.
Shockingly enough the woman at the receiving end of this joke maintained her composure and replied with a simple ”
Watch what she had to say to other passerbys below:
 
 
 

The singer who is said to have invited close friends and relatives of the family was in a good mood to celebrate his beautiful wife’s new year. The posh party had cake and champagne that definitely kept the visitors entertained all through the celebrations.
 
Anyway, just like last year when KRG gifted his wife with a new ride, Dodge Nitro, this time he went out of his way to purchase a brand new Jeep wrangler Sahara for the mother of his son, who he also refers to as his best friends.
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The most basic model of the luxury vehicle starts at 3 million with the price rapidly climbing based upon specifications.
The photos shared on social media show how excited KRG’s wife was after her husband finally unveiled the gift he had for her.  At some point the couple was photographed making out after the cake session.
 
Since champagne was in plenty the artist felt the need to shower his guests who seem to have enjoyed each second. Below are a few photos courtesy of KRG.
 
 

Armed with high-vis jackets, a ladder and a half-inch spanner, Tony Bennett and Derek Norman are the footsoldiers of Brexit, waging a slow but successful battle against metrication, one street at a time.
As the setting sun casts an orange glow on the high street in Thaxted, a small town in southeast England, Bennett carefully sticks a plastic card onto a street sign so it gives distances in yards, not metres.
“They were such nice signs, it was a shame to alter them,” Norman, the 82-year-old chairman of Active Resistance to Metrication (ARM), told AFP.
Speaking at his home in Huntingdon, eastern England, after the Thaxted job, he said imperial measurements are “part of our culture” that need defending.
Britain first began introducing the metric system in the 1960s, and the move was accelerated by the need to harmonise measurements across the European Union.
But the government has stepped back from ditching imperial measures altogether due to public opposition, driven by activists such as Norman and Bennett — both supporters of the anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP).
Today, while most public business and packaged food use metric units, traffic signs are in miles and yards and beer, cider and milk are sold in pints.
In the confusion, local authorities and businesses continue to install signs in metres — which Norman and Bennett, ARM’s secretary, feel they have a duty to amend.
“When we took down the first sign my heart was beating in fear that we would be arrested,” said Bennett. “After you do it a few times, you lose the fear.”
They see their campaign as a crucial part in harnessing support for Britain to leave the European Union, which culminated in the June vote for Brexit.
ARM’s 15-year campaign is testament to the authority of the high-vis jacket — often they are left alone to amend or remove signs, with passers-by and even police assuming they are working for a local authority.
In jobs ranging from Stansted Airport to the Tower of London, Bennett insists they are only taking down illegal signs and are therefore doing nothing wrong.
The 69-year-old says that more often than not local authorities admit their mistake and amend the signs themselves, with more than 3,000 signs taken down nationwide as a result.
However, he has been arrested seven times and in 2002 was convicted of criminal damage and theft, although the latter conviction was overturned.
On the wall in Norman’s sitting room is a cartoon of greengrocer Stephen Thoburn, one of the “Metric Martyrs” who was prosecuted for failing to adhere to the new rules on metric weights and measures.
“I have felt that I’m a rebel. but I also feel that there’s really a lot of people who feel like me and they’re rebels as well,” said Norman, sipping a cup of tea.
At its peak, ARM was made up of about 100 activists, including Norman’s wife Kay, who acted as a look-out.
Her codename was “half-pint”, while Norman’s was “wun-tun”.
Bennett opted for “hundredweight”, because, he explained, “it’s a quirky measure — 112 pounds — that summarises our weights and measures system. It’s completely daft but we like it.”
A former Royal Air Force radio engineer, Norman accepts that the metric system is here to stay for many areas of public life.
But he says: “Most people measure their height in feet and inches, most people want to lose a pound or a stone in weight — and that’s nationwide. Why do we need to change?”
He adds: “It was our own system of measurements that brought about the industrial revolution and put the great into Great Britain.”
For Derek Pollard, the secretary of the UK Metric Association, however, the current system is unsustainable.
“There are already many areas of metric usage in the UK economy, from construction and manufacturing, science, medicine and mapping, and for these, there is no going back,” he told AFP.
He sees no benefit in prosecuting people like ARM through the courts, however, saying: “Time will prove the folly of their activities.”

Mahmud Abbas addresses his Fatah party’s first congress since 2009 on Wednesday as he contends with internal dissent and grim prospects for advancing his decades-long goal of achieving a Palestinian state.
The 81-year-old leader was re-elected head of Fatah as the congress opened on Tuesday, but speculation has mounted over who will eventually succeed him as Palestinian president. He has not publicly supported a successor.
His speech is expected at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) before some 1,400 delegates in Ramallah.
It comes with Palestinians facing continued Jewish settlement building in the occupied West Bank and an incoming Donald Trump administration in the United States seen as far more friendly to Israel.
More than 600,000 Israeli settlers now live in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as their future capital.
The United States, European Union and others have warned that continued settlement building is eating away at prospects for a two-state solution to the conflict, the basis of years of negotiations.
A controversial Israeli bill to legalise some 4,000 settler homes in the West Bank had been due to come up for a first reading in parliament on Wednesday, but there were suggestions it was being delayed as further discussions occurred.
The international community considers all Israeli settlements in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem and the West Bank to be illegal, whether they are authorised by the government or not.
The Israeli government differentiates between those it has approved and those it has not.
The progress of the bill, approved earlier by a committee of ministers on behalf of the government, has demonstrated the power of the settler movement in Israel.
Fatah’s five-day congress is expected to discuss whether to seek to introduce a UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements.
Abbas, head of Fatah, the Palestine Liberation Organisation and the Palestinian Authority since Yasser Arafat’s death in 2004, has consistently called for a negotiated solution and opposed another violent insurrection.
But he has grown unpopular, with polls showing most Palestinians want him to resign, and many have lost faith in the so-called peace process spelled out in the Oslo accords of the 1990s that he helped negotiate.
Some analysts see the congress as an attempt by Abbas to marginalise political opponents, including longtime rival Mohammed Dahlan, currently in exile in the United Arab Emirates.
Observers have seen the reduced number of officials to vote — down from more than 2,000 in 2009 — as part of a move to exclude Dahlan supporters.
The election of members of Fatah’s parliament and its central committee will signal the direction the oldest Palestinian party will take.
The congress also comes with Fatah and its Islamist rival Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip, still deeply divided. Fatah dominates the Palestinian Authority, which runs the West Bank.
However, a letter from exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, in which he said he was “ready to cooperate with Fatah,” was read at the opening of the congress on Tuesday.
Abbas and Meshaal recently met in Qatar for the first time in two years.
On Tuesday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that hopes for a two-state solution were fading fast, decrying settlement building and home demolitions by Israel.
But he also criticised the Palestinians’ “paralysing lack of unity”.

At least 10,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh in recent weeks after fleeing violence in neighbouring Myanmar, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
An estimated 30,000 Rohingya, a Muslim minority living mostly in Myanmar, have been forced to leave their homes since a bloody crackdown by the army in the western state of Rakhine.
Bangladesh has stepped up patrols on the border to try to stop them from entering, but last week it said thousands had flooded into the country, many with nothing but the clothes they were wearing.
“Based on reports by various humanitarian agencies, we estimate that there could be 10,000 new arrivals in recent weeks,” said Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency in Bangkok.
“The situation is fast changing and the actual number could be much higher.”
Those interviewed by AFP inside Bangladesh had horrifying stories of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Myanmar’s security forces.
Analysis of satellite images by Human Rights Watch found hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages have been razed.
Myanmar has denied allegations of abuse, but has also banned foreign journalists and independent investigators from accessing the area to investigate.
Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel peace laureate, has faced a growing international backlash for what a UN official has said amounts to a campaign of ethnic cleansing.
On Wednesday she vowed to work for “peace and national reconciliation”, saying her country faced many challenges, but did not mention the violence in Rakhine state.
Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh said another 3,000 displaced Rohingya were stranded on an island in the Naf river that divides the two countries, attempting to enter Bangladesh.
“They have been stuck in the island for almost a week without sufficient food and clothes,” Abu Ghalib told AFP.
But a spokesman for the Bangladesh border guards said the claims could not be verified as the island was not Bangladeshi territory.
Bangladesh has reinforced its border posts and deployed coast guard ships in an effort to prevent a fresh influx of refugees.
In the past two weeks, Bangladeshi border guards have prevented hundreds of boats packed with Rohingya women and children from entering the country.
Nevertheless Rohingya leaders in Bangladesh said the number of arrivals had risen this week.
But so far little or no aid has been provided for the new arrivals with Bangladeshi authorities fearing food, medicine and shelter will encourage more to cross the border.
Shinji Kubo, who heads the UN refugee agency in Bangladesh, said the new arrivals needed “urgent” help.
“Obviously these people have come from Myanmar after terrible experiences and without any belongings. The winter is approaching. So everyone is really worried about their wellbeing,” he said.
More than 230,000 Rohingya are already living in Bangladesh, most of them illegally, although around 32,000 are formally registered as refugees.
Tan said the UN was urging the Bangladesh government to allow the Rohingya safe haven.
“We are ready to support the government to provide effective humanitarian assistance for these individuals in need of international protection,” she said.
Violence in Rakhine — home to the stateless ethnic group loathed by many of Myanmar’s Buddhist majority — has surged in the last month after security forces poured into the area.
It followed a series of attacks on police posts blamed on local militants.

Newly crowned Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg said Wednesday his relationship with rival and Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton would “always be difficult” after a fierce title battle.
Rosberg claimed his maiden world title with a second-place finish in Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix despite Hamilton claiming a fourth straight race victory.
But the German conceded relations with Hamilton “will always remain difficult”.
“We’re rivals. But the fact we’ve known each other since childhood helps in the difficult periods,” Rosberg told reporters in his hometown of Wiesbaden.
He was asked several times about Hamilton’s tactics, with the Briton slowing down towards the end of the race while blocking Rosberg in the hope two other drivers — Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen — could catch and overtake him.
“I find it a shame that we’re talking about that so much. I can also understand Lewis, he’s a fighter, the world title was at stake. One can understand sometimes overstepping the limits when you’re fighting for the world title.”
Rosberg also refused to expand on how he would have reacted had he been in Hamilton’s place, with the Briton needing to win and see his rival finish off the podium to snatch the title.
“It’s too hypothetical. For me, there’s no sense in talking about this story,” Rosberg said.

Syrian government artillery fire killed 21 civilians, including two children, in an eastern district of Aleppo early Wednesday, a monitoring group said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least eight of those killed were civilians who had fled from elsewhere in the east as government forces advance, and sought refuge in rebel-held Jubb al-Qubbeh.
The Britain-based monitor said dozens more were wounded in the “fierce” shelling, and many people were stuck under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Tens of thousands of people have poured out of the rebel-held northeast in recent days, with some crossing into territory held by either the government or Kurdish forces, but others moving south into remaining rebel-held territory.
The White Helmets rescue group published photos of the aftermath of the attacks, showing an apocalyptic scene with bodies and parts of flesh strewn on a street among the rubble of surrounding buildings.
In one image, a young man appeared to weep next to two bodies, their top halves obscured by blankets.
The feet of one body were clad in pink socks, the other wore red boots done up with white laces.
Suitcases and plastic bags were strewn among the bodies, which the White Helmet workers carefully transferred into orange body bags.
Some of the displaced have been sleeping in streets after arriving in remaining rebel-held territory, with others seeking refuge in abandoned buildings left behind by earlier waves of fleeing residents.
East Aleppo has seen some of the worst violence of the conflict that began in March 2011 with anti-government protests before spiralling into a civil war after a regime crackdown.
The government announced in September that it planned to retake all of the city, and on November 15 launched a new operation, pounding the east with air strikes, barrel bomb attacks and artillery fire.
The operation has killed nearly 300 civilians in east Aleppo, including more than 30 children, the Observatory has said.
Rebels have also fired rockets into western Aleppo, killing nearly 50 people since the latest assault began, according to the monitor.
Syrian state news agency SANA on Wednesday said that eight civilians including two children had been killed in rebel rocket fire on the west of the city.
Another seven people were wounded, the agency said, citing a police source in Aleppo.
Government forces now hold at least a third of eastern Aleppo, and are pressing ahead with an assault that could deal rebels their worst blow since the conflict began.
More than 300,000 people have been killed and millions forced to flee their homes since Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with protests calling for Assad’s ouster.

Kakamega senator, Boni Khalwale has added his voice on the ugly fight between ‘the waheshimiwa’ over the weekend.
The fight between Homa Bay Town MP Peter Kaluma and his rival Washington Ogaga was stupid, Khalwale has said.
Kaluma, a vocal opposition lawmaker and frequent House debater, was kicked, punched and wrestled to the ground by Ogaga, a parliamentary aspirant in the 2017 poll.
Through his twitter page, the senator lambasted the normally quiet and reserve, hon. Kaluma terming him stupid for engaging in the fight in the the first place.
 
Kenyans on the social media, also shamed the MP and condemned the violence.

One, Langat Kiprop termed the politicians “boys who will never lead a country where sober men live”.
 
Others opted to be cheeky and poke fun on the whole shameful fight.

 
Kaluma yesterday while in parliament told fellow lawmaker that his life is in danger following the attack
The MP said as he called for tight security ahead of the 2017 general election.
As usual Majority leader, Aden Duale could not afford to miss the moment to add his voice on the matter, stating hooliganism was synonymous with the ODM party.
The Garissa town MP told parliament yesterday.
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ODM officials have said the party will take stern action against all those responsible for the chaos that marred its rally in Homa Bay last Sunday.
Chief Executive Officer Oduor Ong’wen and national chairman John Mbadi said eight culprits have already been identified and investigations are ongoing.

The trio released the new song a few days and judging from the comments left on their YouTube channel, the new song is quite something.
has a touch of African beats that makes this song unique. The Luhya vibe (still in the beats) makes one feel the need of shaking their shoulders when this song comes on.  The outfits won by the Sarakasi dancers and the group are a clear indication that the singers were aiming to deliver an African vibe, which they successfully did.
The lyrics are well composed and clearly arranged to tell a story without having to use a lot of words. However, as much as many will find the song interesting it is also obvious that this song cannot be compared to which they featured Ugandan sensation musician Jose Chameleone.
This time around Elani might have been a bit reluctant in terms of releasing a song that will not only wow Kenyans but East Africa and Africa as a whole.
  could have been delivered better, but hey Elani knows what is best for their crowd at the end of the day.
The audio was produced By Teddy B  while the high quality and eye catchy video was directed by X Antonio.
 
 

He is undoubtedly one of the biggest if not the most influential radio personalities in the country and he has spread his influence to the rest of East Africa.
For local and regional artistes if you want your song to ‘pop’, the go to man is more often than not Mzazi Tuva. Using his radio show and TV show Mzazi has managed to promote many artistes  in the East African region.
Now the radio and TV god is embarking on a new venture, he is expanding and re branding into
The show will provide some competition to by airing music sourced from different parts of our beautiful continent.
Big shots like Yemi Alade, Wizkid, Nyashinski, Diamond and even Kiss Daniel will be a popular fixture in the new show that will be airing on Citizen TV.
Mzazi announced his somewhat new show with this post:
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An impeachment vote against South Korea’s scandal-hit president will be postponed by at least a week, lawmakers said Wednesday, after Park Geun-Hye announced she was willing to stand down early.
Lawmakers from Park’s own party had backed moves to impeach her this Friday, but now want the issue discussed in parliament before holding a vote, likely to be scheduled a week later.
The presidential Blue House also said Park would cooperate with a new round of investigations into the scandal, submitting herself to face-to-face interrogations by a freshly appointed special prosecutor.
Park said Tuesday she would let parliament decide her fate following accusations that she colluded with Choi Soon-Sil — a secretive confidante dubbed “Korea’s Rasputin” — to coerce firms to “donate” tens of millions of dollars to foundations which were used for Choi’s personal gain.
Park has been named as a suspect in the investigation, making her the first sitting president to be subject to a criminal probe while in office.
“Once lawmakers come up with measures to transfer power in a way that minimises any power vacuum and chaos in governance, I will step down,” she said in a live video address.
Critics said the statement was a calculated bid to delay impeachment, by splitting opinion on her fate among her own party and the three opposition parties.
The speech appeared to convince some from Park’s Saenuri party, creating a roadblock for the opposition which requires a two-thirds majority in the national assembly to pass an impeachment motion.
About 30 Saenuri lawmakers who had initially backed removing the president from office were wavering following her address, the Moonhwa Ilbo daily reported.
The opposition insists Park must step down immediately and unconditionally, while loyalists call for an “orderly departure”.
While she retains the presidency, Park cannot be charged with a criminal offence except insurrection or treason, but she could be charged once she steps down.
Massive weekly protests have been intensifying over the past month, with up to 1.5 million people braving freezing temperatures in Seoul Saturday to demand Park’s resignation, according to organisers.
Activists called for a sixth weekly protest on Saturday in central Seoul, despite Park’s statement that she would be willing to cede power.
“This weekend protest is crucial in deciding the future direction of the political course of this country”, Professor Lee Yeon-Ho of Yonsei University told AFP.
“The ongoing political game over Park’s departure will be seriously affected by the size and intensity of this protest,” he said.
Park on Wednesday endorsed a lawyer recommended by the opposition-controlled parliament as an independent prosecutor to carry out a new probe into the scandal.
The special prosecutor will interview Park and be given 120 days to develop on the findings of state investigators.
The president had backtracked on earlier promises to make herself available for questioning in a judicial probe.

A British woman, Michala Pyke, and her boyfriend, John Rytting, have been charged for both physical and emotional abuse of 4-year-old Poppy Widdison (Pyke’s daughter).
Pyke and Rytting were sedating Poppy with drugs before they had sex; prosecution discovered that the two had been lacing the child’s food with drugs to make her sleep so that they could have undisturbed sex.
 
Poppy’s lifeless body was found on a sofa in 2013; paramedics discovered her body was turning blue. The prosecution has been working tirelessly to have Pyke and Rytting convicted for murder or manslaughter, but so far no conclusive evidence has been gathered to slap the two with capital offense.
 
Tests carried out after the child died found that she had ingested a variety of drugs for a period of up to six months before her death. The substances found in her body included sedatives, heroin, methadone and ketamine.
 
The prosecution however hasn’t convinced the jury that Pyke and her lover Rytting directly gave the child the drugs found in her system, even though they have a text message of Pyke asking Rytting to come with drugs so that they could give the youngster to make her sleep before they could enjoy themselves.
The two suspects have so far been charged with child cruelty as the prosecution try to have capital offense added to their charge.
 

CIA director John Brennan warned Wednesday that tearing up the Iran nuclear deal, as US President-elect Donald Trump promised during his election campaign, would be “disastrous”.
“I think it would be the height of folly if the next administration were to tear up that agreement,” Brennan told the BBC, adding: “It would be disastrous, it really would.”
He said it would be “almost unprecedented” for one administration to tear up an agreement made by a previous one.
Brennan warned “it could lead to a weapons programme inside of Iran that could lead other states in the region to embark on their own programmes, with military conflict”.
Since his election, Trump has been more circumspect, not publicly discussing the international deal with Tehran aimed at preventing the Islamic republic from developing nuclear weapons.
But his pick to succeed Brennan as head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike Pompeo, is a strident critic of the agreement.
In the BBC interview, Brennan also expressed hope there would be an improvement in relations between Washington and Moscow.
But he warned: “I think President-elect Trump and the new administration need to be wary of Russian promises. Russian promises in my mind have not given us what it is they had pledged.”
Trump had said he might authorise the torture of detainees, including waterboarding, to gain information, but has since said he had received advice that made him rethink his approach.
“I would counsel my successor not to go down that road any more,” Brennan said.
“Without a doubt the CIA really took some body blows as a result of its experiences in the detention interrogation programme…. I think the overwhelming majority of CIA officers would not want to get back into that business.”

Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a call for “responsible behaviour” to prevent the spread of AIDS without specifying whether that included wearing condoms.
The pontiff also issued a fresh call for every sufferer, no matter how poor, to have access to treatment.
In a message ahead of World AIDS Day on Thursday the Argentinian pontiff said millions were living with the disease and “only half of them have access to lifesaving treatment”.
He added: “I ask you to pray for them and their loved ones and promote solidarity so that even the poorest can benefit from diagnosis and adequate treatment.
“And finally I call on everyone to adopt responsible behaviour to prevent the further spread of this disease.”
Francis’s comments are likely to be interpreted as a fresh signal of the Church’s easing of its opposition to the use of condoms in response to AIDS.
His predecessor Benedict XVI said in 2010 that it was acceptable to use prophylactics if the sole intention was to reduce the risk of AIDS infection.
Francis’s comments could however also be seen as a call for carriers of the HIV virus, that can lead to AIDS, to refrain from having sex.
He has previously said that the issue poses a “perplexing” question for Church teaching, which maintains that contraception interferes with the creation of life, and should therefore be forbidden. Benedict acknowledged that this position was problematic if contraception was being used to avoid the risk of death.