- Deaf and blind but they are determined to achieve their lifetime dreams "The story of Brian Resource Center that has transformed lives of deafblinds in Kenya" By FRANCIS LUCHIVYA They are deaf and blind but they are not daunted to make a rosy economically productive future for themselves despite their double physical disabilities. They have revolutionised and continue to put to shame the negative perceptions of the society on people with disabilities by achieving a wide range of sterling self empowerment economic feats – despite their double or more physical and psychological challenges. Feats that millions of able bodied youths in the country without any disability…

A couple in Kenya have cried foul after they were denied access to the Iranian leader during his visit to that country. Esther Wanjiku Flynn and William Terence Flynn who claim they initiated the two-day visit by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinajad have complained that they were blocked from meeting him. - Esther Wanjiku Flynn who is director of the Families of Patriotic Freedom Fighters and her husband, Irish born William Terence Flynn said they were scheduled to meet the Iranian leader but were shortchanged by Kenyan authorities. The couple showed a sheaf of letters exchanged between the Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation (IKRF), the development agency for the Iranian government, the…

- This is how people perished when a tanker carrying petrol exploded at Sachang'wan Molo along Nakuru Eldoret Highway in Kenya

Kenyan authorities have deported Jerome Corsi, an American who tried to launch a book smearing Barack Obama. He had been planning to launch his book, "The Obama Nation Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality." Corsi, was arrested on Tuesday. He is a leading American neo-conservative author. - Dr Corsi was described as "author of a smear crusade" by local newspapers in Kenya. Immigration officials claim he had been detained because he did not have a work permit, however one of Dr Corsi’s assistants said he was “just answering some questions”. In the promotional literature for his book, Dr Corsi promised to reveal sinister links between Kenyan pol…

- By FRANCIS LUCHIVYA (NAIROBI) With the Official Opposition Bill having been finally published, it is now clear that battle lines have been drawn between backbenchers in Parliament and staunch supporters of the Grand Coalition Government. Dissent from within both the Party of National Unity and the Orange Democratic Movement has been noticeable since President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga agreed to form a grand-coalition Government. It was apparent that not all their supporters were for the idea, understandably so. This was for the simple reason that the move was moving the country back to a one party system. That ODM had joined PNU in Government meant there was n…

- The Minister had applied for the visa on Tuesday. Kenya's delegation to the forum is headed by her Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Dorothy Angote. As if that was not enough, her son, a university student in Australia had his re-entry to Australia at the end of his stay in Kenya denied. As if this was not enough, more disaster has been visiting her. Another of her kids was deported from another western capital. For Martha Karua, disaster has come following disaster. After being spurned by bandit Kibaki before he signed the power-sharing arrangement, she is devastated. Ms Karua, one of the hardliners of the bandit regime has been ruffling the Emine…

Kibaki's foot soldiers have fought many battles for him. Now is payback time. In life, some things come to haunt you so soon that you wish you had not said or done. At such times, one wishes that he owned a huge eraser and had access to the audience 'hard-disk' to erase the memories and sanitize self. But no! - Kenya has its fair share of loose talkers who have never spared a moment in their moment of glory and drunkenness with illicit power to call the Peoples' Prime Minister Raila Odinga unprintable names. Those vicious vipers never spared a moment to lambast, demonize and condemn the country's foremost reformer and agent of real regime change. Take one Musikar…

- At the moment Kenyans are in great need of peace more than anything else in this world. Much of what we are hearing by the end of the day is trouble and hopelessness. But I have a question, what are we doing in regard to peace? As businessmen are we waiting for the day when our businesses in the central business district will be looted or burnt down for us to talk about Peace? As journalists or media houses we are waiting for the day when there will be no one to watch or listen to the news we have covered since Kenyans raised against each other as we tried to capture the best shot of the most brutal murder then we can talk about peace? As professionals are we waiting for the day…