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May 30, 2005 Letter to the Editor Daily Nation - International Criminal Court ... 1 October 28, 2003 Speech by Ms. Leslie Rowe, Charge D'affaires, U.S. Embassy, Nairobi, at the launch of The National Strategy on Blood Donor Mobilization and Kenyatta Day blood donation week ... [Read More]
Kenya
There was no action taken against members of the security forces in the July 2001 killing of seven suspected bank robbers, and the July 2001 killing of a primary school teacher during a fight between Kisii and Maasai youths.The following cases were pending at year's end: The trial of a police officer in the 1997 killing of Catholic lay brother Larry Timmons; the trial of two police officers charged with manslaughter in 2001 for the May 2000 killings of two suspected carjackers; an inquest into the March 2000 killings of eight suspected carjackers; and an investigation into the January 2000 killing of 5-year-old Chesortich. Hundreds of prisoners died in custody due to life-threatening prison conditions, including inadequate food and medical treatment (see Section 1.c.). The Government recorded 536 deaths in prisons during the year, and the chief causes of death were attributed to pulmonary tuberculosis, gastroenteri ... [Read More]
Kenya
On the whole, the print media remained candid and independent. The mainstream print media include four daily newspapers that report on national politics. The largest newspaper, the Nation, is independent and often publishes articles critical of government policies. The second largest newspaper, the East African Standard, is controlled by an investment group with close ties to the Government and the ruling KANU party. It is generally, although not automatically, supportive of the Government. The third daily newspaper, The People, formerly a weekly, is owned by an opposition politician and is highly critical of the Government. The fourth daily, the Kenya Times, which has a small circulation, reflects KANU party views. Two former weekly newspapers, The Post and the Kenyan Star, did not publish regularly during the year. There also are numerous independent tabloid or "gutter" periodicals, which appear irregularly and are critical highly of th ... [Read More]
Kenya
Kenya is a republic dominated by a strong presidency. President Daniel Arap Moi, who has led the ruling Kenya African National Union (KANU) and served as President since 1978, was reelected most recently in 1997 in the country's second general election since the restoration of multiparty politics in 1991. Since independence in 1963, no president ever has left because of an electoral loss, and KANU has controlled both the presidency and the national legislature continuously, although other parties were illegal only from 1982 to 1991. KANU won a majority of the popular vote and a narrow majority of parliamentary seats in the 1997 general elections. While there were numerous flaws in the 1997 elections, observers concluded that the vot ... [Read More]
Kenya
The Government broadly interpreted existing laws to restrict freedom of expression. Both the Constitutional prohibition of debates on issues under consideration by the courts and the ruling by the Speaker of the House against parliamentary debate of certain aspects of Presidential conduct limited the scope of deliberation on a number of political issues. During the year, the three police officers fired in 2002 for reportedly holding a private political discussion were reinstated in the police department. Charges against M.P. David Manyara, who was arrested in April 2001 and charged with "incitement" after a speech he gave at an opposition rally, were pending at year's end; Manyara was arrested on separate charges during the year (see Section 1.a.). In general, the print media remained candid and independent. The mainstream print media included four daily newspapers t ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
On the whole, the print media is candid and independent. The mainstream print media include four daily newspapers that report on national politics. The largest newspaper, The Daily Nation, is politically independent and often publishes articles critical of government policies. An investment group with close ties to the former government (the KANU party) controls the second largest newspaper, the East African Standard. It is generally critical of the current government. The third daily, The People, is owned by an opposition politician and is highly critical of the government. The fourth daily, The Kenya Times, which has a small circulation, reflects KANU party news. Usually the daily newspapers provide some coverage of international affairs, mainly through Reuters, AP and AFP (Agence France Presse). ... [Read More]
Kenya
In general, the media remained candid and independent. The mainstream print media included four daily newspapers that reported on national politics: The Nation, an independent daily that has long published articles generally critical of government policies; the East African Standard, which previously reflected KANU party views, but became more independent after the December 2002 elections; the People Daily, owned by an opposition politician and highly critical of the Government; and the Kenya Times, which generally reflected opposition KANU party views. There also were numerous independent tabloid periodicals, which appeared irregularly and were highly critical of the Government. Reporting in these tabloids ranged from revealing insider reports to unsubstantiated rumor mongering. ... [Read More]
Unfettered Press: The Center for ForeignJournalists
Winship is one of the trio of founders of the center and nowserves as chairman of its board. The other two are James D.Ewing, a former publisher of small-town daily and weeklynewspapers and vice-chairman of the group, and George A. Krimsky,a former foreign correspondent and editor for the AssociatedPress worldwide news service, currently president of CFJ. To helpthem carry out the mission of the center, they have tapped anadvisory board of top-notch journalists from around the world,including George Mbugguss, former group managing editor of theNation Newspapers in Kenya; Cheong Yip Seng, editor-in-chief ofSingapore's Straits Times; Harold Hoyte, editor-in-chiefof The Nation in Barbados; and Katharine Graham, chairmanof the Washington Post Company in the United States. ... [Read More]
Daily Press Briefing for December 30 - Transcript
MR. REEKER: Welcome back, everybody, to the State Department for this, our final planned briefing for the calendar year of 2002. So, in advance, let me wish you all a very happy, healthy and safe New Year celebration and we will reconvene here next year. Let me start off, though, with an unfortunate statement regarding the attack on the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen. [Read More]
Daily Press Briefing for June 20 -- Transcript
As you know, the Security Council, that is, the United Nations Security Council, has been considering the issue. Since the International Atomic Energy Agency reported the matter to the Council in February, we have been continuing to have discussions with other Council members. We have been exploring the possibility of a presidential statement, as a means to convey authoritatively and unequivocally, the international community's concern to Pyongyang. ... So it is of great concern to us. We have been sharing those concerns with the international community for some time and we are seeing that the international community is sharing some of our concerns. And that is why we've expressed our support, welcomed the report from the Board of Governors of the IAEA, and said that we will continue to support the IAEA in their efforts to pursue the recommendations that were made. ... [Read More]
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