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    <title>Cabinet in race to beat deadline for land reforms</title>
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    <description>The Cabinet was on Thursday rushing to beat the February 27 deadline with publication of three Bills that will overhaul the management of land and establish the National Land Commission.</description>
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    <description>The African Union faces a setback in its plan to create a single continental market in the next five years because a growing number of traders turn to informal channels to transact.</description>
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    <description>In a report handed to the National Assembly Thursday, the commission said though most Kenyans had requested for the creation of more constituencies and wards, that was not tenable.</description>
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    <description>Motorists have been spared further increases in parking fees until the City Council of Nairobi instals meters,  which will ensure that vehicles will be charged only for the time spent in a parking slot.</description>
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    <description>Different cultures and languages are a cause of non-tariff barriers as the regional bloc seeks economic unity, writes George Omondi</description>
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    <title>Regulator stokes CMC board wars with ouster of directors</title>
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    <description>Move said to be in breach of November court orders that were issued in favour of CMA</description>
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    <description>Pay-television provider Smart TV has closed shop after failing to secure adequate funding for its operations, leaving thousands of its subscribers and dealers with obsolete decoders.</description>
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    <description>Judge gives the fuel marketer green light to appeal in Sh5bn case</description>
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    <description>High prices lifted coffee earnings up 15 per cent to Sh17.8 billion last year from Sh15 billion in 2010 despite a drop in production caused by drought.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T13:45:55Z</dc:date>
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    <title>KenolKobil to appeal decision in Sh5bn KPC case</title>
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    <description>KenolKobil will challenge a two-judge decision setting aside a Sh5 billion arbitration award that it was to receive from the Kenya Pipeline Company.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-05T13:43:12Z</dc:date>
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    <description>The number of matatus operating along a route could soon be limited in new efforts to restore order in a sector that has been a law unto itself for nearly four decades.</description>
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    <description>The government is preparing to revive part of the controversial Anglo Leasing projects in a tied aid deal with China that will see firms from the West barred from bidding.</description>
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    <description>The UK has unveiled tighter conditions for foreign workers and their spouses eyeing to settle in the country as it seeks to curb the inflow of immigrants.</description>
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    <description>IMF and State agree highly  paid  Kenyan employees will contribute more so as to maintain their lifestyles in old age</description>
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    <title>Printing company boss sues over attempts to deport him</title>
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    <description>The production manager of a security printing firm is waging  a legal battle on the Immigration Department for wanting to throw him out of the country –again– on the grounds of his Indian citizenship.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-02T17:49:16Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Kisumu International Airport was officially opened on Thursday, paving the way for increased trade and investment in  the Western Kenya region .</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-02T17:44:52Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Customs agencies face fines for slowing down trade</title>
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    <description>Binding deal will enforce non-tariff barriers and impose sanctions against offenders</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-02T17:37:26Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kenya urged to fund public transport industry</title>
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    <description>In most developed countries, funding for the public transport system is a preserve of the government but in Kenya it is mostly owned by the private sector. 
This has made the country's mass transport to be characterised by inadequate infrastructure, high costs, poor safety and inefficiency. Adequate public transports systems require heavy infrastructures are that need high levels of investments in order to be built and set up which makes the private sector unable to carry out without government assistance. 
Matatus (14 seater mini-buses) which provide the backbone of the transportation system in Kenya emerged in the early years after independence in order to fulfill unmet transport needs inside Kenya's rapidly growing cities. They have continued to maintain their dominance despite their inefficiencies.  This has led to a steady increase in the number of private vehicles on the roads which are a less economical form of transport. 
Kenya's public transport system is a major contributor to economic inefficiency as it encourages use of low capacity vehicles compared to the high capacity ones. As a result, Kenya's public transport system is facing challenges that inhibit it from performing the role of facilitating economic growth and development. Out of a vehicle population of about 1 million in Kenya, public service vehicles make up only 45,000, a majority of them having a carrying capacity of just 14 passengers. 
Stakeholders in the industry have blamed lack of adequate investment, which has led to an inefficient public transport.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-02T11:16:53Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Mutunga swears in tribunal to probe Baraza’s conduct</title>
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    <description>Team will not summon DCJ immediately since case is in court</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T18:31:39Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Refinery hit with Sh1.6bn tax demand</title>
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    <description>The taxman rejects the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL) quest not to pay Sh1.6 billion and insists that the customs duty and penalties must be collected in full.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T18:21:31Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Bill robs MPs of powers to fill county jobs with cronies</title>
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    <description>Officials will be hired through open selection with politicians not allowed to recruit even their top  aides</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T18:15:32Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Judge moves Mumias Sugar land case to Busia</title>
    <link>http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Judge+moves+Mumias+Sugar+land+case+to+Busia+/-/539546/1318342/-/6n12uf/-/index.html</link>
    <description>A judge  orders a case in which a lobby group and sugarcane farmers have sued the chief executive and managing director of Mumias Sugar Company over alleged alienation of a huge chunk of land, be transferred to the High Court in Busia County.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T18:09:52Z</dc:date>
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    <title>State pledges funds to hire teachers for public schools</title>
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    <description>The government will allocate funds in the next Budget to hire more teachers as shortage remains one of the main of hurdles to quality education.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T17:55:53Z</dc:date>
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    <title>House Budget team wades into Portland dispute</title>
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    <description>Parliament will wade into the East African Portland Cement Company (EAPCC) controversy after watching the drama from the sidelines for weeks.</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T17:51:44Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Manufacturers brace for low returns as costs rise</title>
    <link>http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Manufacturers+brace+for+low+returns+as+costs+rise+/-/539546/1318304/-/b5lulw/-/index.html</link>
    <description>Industries say gains made in exports were eroded by high input prices</description>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T17:45:21Z</dc:date>
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