Author: NLM Editor

Jesus entered the temple and ate bread meant for worship. He also said, in response to a question by teachers of the law that the Sabbath was made for man not man for Sabbath. Afterwards, he healed a man on the Sabbath at a time when people were forbidden from doing any work during the Sabbath. When the Pharisees pointed it out he answered by wondering whether it is lawful, on the Sabbath, to do good or evil, to save a life or destroy it? Thus was born the maxim – the law is made for man, not man for…

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Antony Mutunga Relations between China and all African countries were established and have been promoted based on sincerity, and growing Africa-China ties are just what the African continent needs for development – Moussa Faki, AU Chair Nowadays, the Chinese communities are in every African country: The plan is to take some of its population and put them in Africa, while Africans just look on and African leaders hold fruitless meetings – The late Muammar Gaddafi Ever since the colonial period, Africa has been at the mercy of West as the continent has been heavily reliant on the region in terms…

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Prof Kembo Sure There have been interesting but very dishonest statements intended to glorify President Uhuru Kenyatta by dissociating him or his person from what is going on in the Jubilee government. Some people, including those in NASA, have tried to make us believe that Uhuru is a good man, a good president surrounded by bad guys. Some have even gone further and identified William Ruto as the source of all evil in the UhuRuto government. To the latter claim, I think, the jubilee government has correctly seen the hand of their enemies trying to create division in the inner…

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NLM Writer Long ago, the Jubilee government decided that Justice Mohamed Warsame of the Court of Appeal should never be allowed to serve a second term in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC). In government circles, Justice Warsame is too independent-minded as judge and is seen as anti-establishment, who has little time for the interests and needs of government. With looming changes in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, the government put in place an elaborate scheme to effectuate its plan and ensure that a more pliable representative is elected to the JSC. The present fight over whether the…

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Republicans on the House Intelligence committee released their report on the Russian meddling in the 2016 election concluding that while provocateurs had interfered there had been no collusion with the Trump campaign. Robert Mueller, the special counsel is still investigating China’s rubber stamp parliament the National People’s Congress removed the 2 term presidential limit allowing Xi Jingping to remain in office for life. It also announced the reorganization of more than 2 dozen ministries and departments. 44African countries have signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) framework agreement which commits countries to removing tariffs on 90% of goods and…

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F ifty Africans countries last month signed one of the three proposed legal instruments which are set to open the borders to make the continent the largest trading bloc in the world. Leaders from 44 of 55 African Union member states signed into existence the Continental Free Trade area (AfCFTA) agreement, which makes it, when it comes into effect, the second-biggest bloc after WTO in international trade. President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger, who is has been hailed as the champion of the free trade deal across the continent, was the first to sign on behalf of his country, followed by President Paul…

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Before the Court of Appeal elections early last month, Attorney General Kihara Kariuki’s swearing in was delayed because State House wanted to make sure he voted for their preferred candidate to secure his job. That failed and Kariuki had to be sworn in anyway, as government trained its sights on the position of the Court’s representative to the JSC. It is understood that the government fought fiercely in vain to prevent the re-election of Justice Mohamed Warsame. When that battle too failed, State mercenaries began looking for a loophole to have Warsame vetted afresh, drawing the ire of legal practitioners…

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Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe, has criticised his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa, for turning against him. Mugabe told the South African broadcaster SABC that although he had “nurtured and brought Mnangagwa into government, and … we must undo this disgrace”, adding that Mnangagwa was only able to achieve power with the aid of the military. Mugabe’s belated sense of morality is the source of amusement to many, who consider his ousted government one of the most repressive and corrupt in Africa. Said Mugabe in reference to Mnangagwa, “He whom I nurtured and brought into government and whose life I…

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President Kenyatta and Raila Odinga made up with each other publicly, and that is just about the story we know. Promised that “comprehensive details” of the deal would be made known soon, the country is yet to learn exactly what the pact entails, and how the two propose to actualise it. However, a source reveals that one of the things that Raila was very particular about was that the crackdown on the Judiciary had to stop, and particularly the targeting of CJ David Maraga and other judges of the Supreme Court. According to Raila, the CJ had done nothing to…

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On March 17, 2018, the Know Your World Initiative and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Associated Schools Project held the Sustainable Development Goals Challenge-UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network Partnership at the Starehe Boys’ Centre. This was a follow-up event following the Launch of the SDG Challenge held at the United Nations Office in Nairobi in 2017. Among others, the event offered students a chance to show how much progress they had made with SDG related Projects they had been carrying out in their schools. Projects The chemistry club at Pangani Girls presented a clean water project…

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