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Male circumcision : promoting unsafe sex or mocking traditions in Kenya ? Kenya Health Sexuality Health file Africa

Gidi — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:11:51 +0000

Peter Otieno, a 25-year-old taxi driver in Kisumu City, the capital of Kenya’s western Nyanza Province, is considering getting circumcised, he said

Sun, Safaris and Sex Tourism in Kenya

Gidi — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:54:54 +0000

It’s Saturday night at one of Nairobi’s trendiest expat clubs. The drinks are flowing, the house music is blaring and couples are either grinding on the dance floor or chatting at the bar. Some are hugged up together on the couchlike seating...

Deal: Govt in reverse gear?

Gidi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:29:30 +0000

The Government appeared to engage reverse gear that could take momentum off a speedy enactment of the National Accord and Reconciliation Bill 2008, even as MPs prepared to discuss the landmark peace deal tomorrow.

When Head of Civil Service Mr Francis Muthaura emerged to “make a clarification” on the structure of Government on Monay, citing what he described as concerns created by various media reports, he appeared to suggest that in spite of a power-sharing deal, the office of an all-powerful presidency remains intact.

In itself, the timing appeared to send the wrong signals hardly a fortnight after the signing of a brittle political settlement that hauled the country out of a crippling post election impasse, which left at least 1,000 people dead and half a million others huddled in IDP camps.

Panel to report to AU on progress of talks

Gidi — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:27:29 +0000

The mediation panel leaves for Addis Ababa today to table a report to the African Union (AU) on the progress of the reconciliation talks.

The panel will also brief the AU on the implementation of the power sharing deal signed between President Kibaki and ODM leader, Mr Raila Odinga.

The talks were postponed until tomorrow during a session where sentiments attributed to Head of Civil Service, Ambassador Francis Muthaura, on proposed government structures and portfolio, featured prominently.

Kenyan leaders unite to heal nation

Gidi — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:39:27 +0000

Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki and opposition chief Raila Odinga on Tuesday agreed to unite and heal the nation that was nearly destroyed by deadly post-election violence, the presidency said.

The pair held talks in the president’s downtown office for the first time since last Thursday’s signing of a power-sharing accord that ended two months of bloody turmoil.

They “agreed to work together towards uniting all Kenyans and accelerating the healing process by holding meetings with different communities with a view to ensuring that wananchi (citizens) live together peacefully,” Kibaki’s office said in a statement.