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    <title>Questionable land deals put KAA bosses in audit trouble</title>
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    <description>The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) risks losing billions of shillings in questionable contracts and land deals that its management has signed with third parties.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-19T14:27:15Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Sports agency plans to sell naming rights of three stadia</title>
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    <description>The State stadia manager is seeking to sell the naming rights of three of its playgrounds, including Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.</description>
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    <description>Kenya Tourism Board (KTB) is gearing to market the country as a Yellow Fever-free destination to attract tourists from countries which had issued travel advisories based on WHO reports.</description>
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    <description>Setting up a metal exchange, identifying the minerals in the country and making laws to guide the sector will be the priorities of the new Mining ministry.</description>
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    <title>MPs target House teams in new push to tame salary body</title>
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    <description>MPs will on Monday attempt to tame the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) for opposing their higher salary demands when they elect chairpersons of two committees.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-19T13:38:13Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Local statutory agencies are pushing for the establishment of a centralised registration database for Kenyans to ease tracing of clients.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-19T08:39:10Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Treasury to focus funds on projects to spur growth, job creation</title>
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    <description>The Treasury will focus on funding projects in infrastructure, agriculture, service and industry to spur economic growth in the coming financial year.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-17T10:07:00Z</dc:date>
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    <title>PS, board differ over top airports authority position</title>
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    <description>The Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has been thrown into a fresh management row in the wake of sharp divisions in its board over the tenure of managing director Stephen Gichuki.</description>
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    <description>The Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) has proposed further cuts on budgetary allocations to ministries whose functions have been devolved to the counties.</description>
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    <title>Funds shortage holds back transition agency</title>
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    <description>The Transition Authority (TA) requires Sh4 billion to hire auditors of assets and liabilities of the 175 defunct local authorities, it told the Senate Thursday.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T17:15:49Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Activist Omtatah wants telcos ordered to provide emergency number</title>
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    <description>The High Court has been asked to order mobile service companies to provide a toll- free emergency hotline.</description>
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    <description>At least 6,000 Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) pensioners are demanding a raise as the cost of living rises, but trustees say it is not within their powers to make such changes.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-16T17:09:26Z</dc:date>
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    <description>Former Trade minister Mukhisa Kituyi is set to become the next head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), taking over from Thailand’s Supachai Panitchpakdi who beat him four years ago.</description>
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    <title>Speaker Ekwee Ethuro declares Makueni Senate seat vacant</title>
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    <description>The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) has been notified of a vacancy in the Senate arising from the death of Makueni Senator Mutula Kilonzo.</description>
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    <title>Ignorant Asian buyers push up demand for ivory</title>
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    <description>The demand for ivory has been surging in the Asian market leading to a massacre of African elephants. However, consumers in Asia are oblivious of how they are contributing to illegal killing of elephants in Africa.</description>
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    <title>Kenyans support SRC in salary row</title>
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    <description>An overwhelming majority of Kenyans support the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) in its dispute with MPs over salaries, a new survey has revealed.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T18:44:32Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Cord abandons its bid to control two watchdog teams</title>
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    <description>Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (Cord) has given up the fight to control two watchdog committees, ceding power to the Jubilee Coalition.</description>
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    <title>Uhuru plans new laws to woo investors</title>
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    <description>President Uhuru Kenyatta plans to review laws governing public-private partnerships in the Jubilee government’s effort to improve infrastructure.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T18:28:45Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kenya Maritime Authority trains Lamu Port handlers</title>
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    <description>Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) has launched training programmes ahead of an expected huge demand for professional services at the Lamu Port.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T18:21:17Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kimemia, Rawal next for Parliament vetting</title>
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    <description>President Uhuru Kenyatta has submitted  the names of Secretary to the Cabinet Francis Kimemia and deputy CJ Kalpana Rawal for House vetting.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T18:08:22Z</dc:date>
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    <title>State to settle local authority debt</title>
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    <description>The national government will now clean up the mess left by the defunct local governments after the Senate passed a resolution that the State take over servicing and payment of debts they incurred.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T18:07:55Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Kenya pastoralists set to gain if govt sets up insurance fund</title>
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    <description>Parliament has approved a motion asking the government to urgently establish a livestock insurance fund to cushion farmers in arid and semi-arid areas (ASAL) from losses occasioned by drought.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T16:19:34Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Use of pigs in protest irks Muslim MPs, demand apology</title>
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    <description>Members of Parliament from the Muslim community have expressed outrage over the use of pigs by civil society activists who protested against lawmaker's demand for salary increase on Tuesday.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T15:19:52Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Uganda gets Sh8.36bn World Bank's boost for economic reforms</title>
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    <description>The World Bank said on Wednesday it had approved $100 million (Ksh8.36 billion) worth of credit for Uganda to help boost its economic growth and jobs, relieving fiscal pressure on the east African country squeezed by last year's aid cuts.</description>
    <dc:date>2013-05-15T15:12:47Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Uhuru Kenyatta roots for EAC integration to spur growth</title>
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    <description>President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the East African Community to enhance integration to spur economic growth in the region.</description>
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