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e-Waste: a man sifts through hundreds of damaged mobile phones. such wastes, if not properly disposed pose a great danger to the environment.

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“Be alert, watch over other passengers and see how they are behaving. Ensure there are no unattended luggages in the matatu.”

—Joseph Irungu, Deputy Principal Secretary Ministry of Interior

“Security starts from me, you and then everybody else. Be alert always and if you see something or someone suspicious, immediately report it/him/her to the authorities.”

—Asin Martin, Deputy OCPD, Nairobi Central Police Station.

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Experts warn over e-waste TUESday, JUNE 3, 2014

From Page 1 Experts have raised alarm over the increasing risks posed by e-waste products that may be slowly leading Kenyans to an early grave.

They have urged the government to develop policies to regulate the products.

Experts attending a conference hosted by the Kenya Industrial

Research and Development Institute (KIRDI) at KICC last Wednesday said most e-waste products that were carelessly dumped in major towns contain poisonous substances which put many Kenyans at risk of developing diseases.

Electronic products such as computers, TV sets, radios and mobile phones, are said to contain lead

and mercury which are harmful to human beings. Apart from causing damages to key organs like brain, kidney, liver or lungs, they may also cause pregnant women to give birth to babies with defects.

Researcher Francis Omoto, who is also a lecturer at Masinde Muliro University, warns that the effects could be more adverse.

“The effects are more dangerous than illicit brews because it kills slowly and harms many more people,” he told the conference.

In 2012, Dr Omoto led a team of researchers who discovered that electronic products emit more than 5000 kilogrammes of dangerous gases into the atmosphere in a day.

TV sets contribute up to 2,000kilo-

grammes, while computers account for another 300kg of dangerous gases emitted in Nairobi alone.

Mobile phones discharge 60 kg of poisonous gases.

“These might seem like small amounts of kilogrammes but you should note that a microgramme of the dangerous gases is enough to cause harm,” Dr Omoto said.

Kenyans consuming fruits with cancerous chemical Calcium Carbide, a cancer-causing chemical, might have been used to ripen the fruits you take every day.

Investigations reveal that unscrupulous traders and supermarkets in Nairobi have been using the chemical to hasten the ripening of bananas, mangoes and apples.

A study by researcher Kiprotich Koros which has been published in Kenyan journal Science Africa, confirms that the chemical makes the fruits ripe and admirable to consumers.

Samples taken from three leading supermarkets and groceries in Nairobi and Mombasa tested positive for the poisonous chemical used for welding and making plastics.

“Calcium carbide, when broken down, also contains phosphorus and arsenic compounds. This causes poisoning. Arsenic, for example, is highly carcinogenic (causes cancer). Skin damage also results from exposure to these two chemicals,” Dr Daniel Sila, a Food Science and Technology lecturer at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) warns.

Among the places termed as having more use of the chemical are Gikomba and Marikiti markets in Nairobi.

“My stock is always ripe in one day and ready for sale,” a trader confirmed to X-News.

attractive: traders at a fruits market. Some unscrupulous traders (not the ones in picture) have found ways of speeding up the ripening of fruits using calcium carbide, a chemical that has been linked to cancer.

Measures to take to protect yourself from chemically-ripened fruits 1. avoid fruits that are uniformly ripe 2. Wash fruits thoroughly before eating them

3. Experts advice on slicing fruits before eating them

Basic education holders may be barred from polls Politicians with basic education papers may soon be locked out of elective leadership positions as MPs consider changes to the election law.

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Chairman Samuel Chepkonga says the plans are not meant to demean elected leaders.

“We don’t want to cast any aspersions about the people who have been elected,” said the Ainabkoi legislator.

His team is said to have already discussed the matter at various

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meetings and plans to hold discussions with interested parties before changes to the Elections Act are put together in a Bill.

The Elections Act only requires President, Deputy President, governors and deputy governors to have a degree from a recognised university to be allowed to run for

seats.

The 10th Parliament had proposed that MPs be required to have a university degree arguing that it was difficult to legislate on matters they did not fully understand.

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It would have required MCAs to have at least a post-secondary certificate.

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DP’s office is now Harambee House Annex

More than 30 per cent of job seekers regret going to college About a third of job seekers feel that going to college was a waste of time, a recent survey has revealed. The study was conducted by Millennial Branding, a research and consulting firm, and Beyond.com, an online career site.

Thirty-three percent of job seekers across multiple generations said they wish they had chosen to start a business rather than pursue a college degree.

Generation Z includes those who are either 20 or younger while generation Y includes ages 21 to 32.

Generation X comprise ages 33 to 49 while the Baby

Former Shell BP House which is the current office for the Deputy President has again been renamed.

The building will now be called Harambee House Annex to conform to the new to the constitution which places the office of the DP under the presidency.

It will now be an extension of the President’s Harambee House.

Spokesman for the DP David Mugonyi said the decision was arrived at two months ago and the building is now set to bear two signboards.

One will read Office of the Deputy President with the other inscribed “Harambe House Annex.”

Boomers are those who are between the ages of 50 and 68.

The research has shown that even human resource managers are not looking for educated recruits, since skills and experience are more important than academic papers.

In fact, as many as 64 per cent of HR managers surveyed said that they would consider candidates who had never gone to college.

Additionally, the top three skills they are looking for include a positive attitude, good communication skills and the ability to work with a team.

Invest in infrastructure, IMF urges Developing infrastructure to open up markets in Africa is key to the growth of the region, the International Monetary Fund has said.

The IMF’s director, Christine Ligarde, says ridding the continent of poverty, corruption and poor infrastructure is key to development.

Speaking at a summit dubbed Rising: Building to the Future in Maputo last week, Ms Ligarde said poverty in Africa can be eliminated with proper investment is in infrastructure.

She said only 16 per cent of the roads in Africa are tarmacked compared to South East Asia’s 58 per cent. According to Ms Lagarde, foreign investment, creation of jobs and regional integration will be born if infrastructure is modified.

Ethiopia, Cote D’Ivoire, Kenya and Mozambique were praised for meaningful strides in in the promotion of cross border trade in electricity, initiating regional infrastructure projects in power roads and rail.

Kenya is set to draw more than 500 megawatts (MW)

this is the point: iMF’s director, Christine Ligarde speaking in Maputo.

of power from Ethiopia’s Gibe III power project that will generate close to 1870 MW. Djibouti, Sudan, Yemen, Somalia and Eritrea are also going to import power from Ethiopia, yielding it over $400 million (Sh35b) from the

power trade.

The IMF pledged its willingness to aid Africa realize its advancement through infrastructure projects which annually cost $93 billion (Sh81.84tr).

While the IMF is working on

assisting the continent in its public investment and debt management, critics view this as a way to curtail Africa’s ties with China, which has been greatly financing the continent’s infrastructure projects.

Ms Lagarde also added

that Africa is the cradle for more than 30 per cent of the world’s mineral resources but lack of managing institutions. Tapping these minerals properly will push Africa to a higher Economic growth rate.

The IMF boss said that the

vast resources will nourish the continent if the institutional and governance frameworks that run these resources are reinforced.

Transparency must also be applied in order to uphold accountability.

Abuja police ban protest marches over abducted girls Police in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja have banned all protests planned in support of the more than 200 girls kidnapped in April.

Commissioner of Police Joseph Mbu said the proliferation of such protests “is now posing a serious security threat” to those living

around, and driving through, demonstration sites in the capital city of Abuja.

“I cannot fold my hands and watch this lawlessness,” he said in a statement on Monday.

“Information reaching us is that soon dangerous elements will

join the groups under the guise of protest and detonate explosives aimed at embarrassing the government. Accordingly protests on the Chibok Girls is hereby banned with immediate effect,” he said.

More than 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped in northern Nigeria in

April by Boko Haram, in an act that has since drawn international condemnation.

The terror group abducted an estimated 276 girls on April 14 from a boarding school in Chibok.

Dozens escaped, but more than 200 girls are still missing.

Nigerians and others have accused their government of not acting swiftly or efficiently enough to protect the girls seized in the dead of night.

Boko Haram loosely translates as “Western education is a sin” in the Hausa language.

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Commission meets 1,600 OCPDs ahead of vetting

brief them: the National Police Service Commission chairman Johnstone Kavuludi says they expect to complete the vetting of OCPDs by August this year. The team met the officers today for a briefing on the vetting procedure.

District police commanders, otherwise known as OCPDs, and their deputies serving in Nairobi County today gathered at the Kenya School of Monetary Studies for a sensitisation programme ahead of their vetting.

The meeting which is to be presided over by the National Police Service Commission seeks to share what is required of them during the exercise.

The commission is set to vet more than 1,600 OCPDs and their deputies across the counties between June and August.

A total of 189 officers of the ranks of assistant commissioner of police and above have been vetted in the exercise that started in December.

Panelists are checking suitability and have so far recommended the sacking of more than 20 officers who have been found unsuitable to continue serving.

Nine others are still under investigations over alleged criminal activities.

Vetting is mandatory for all officers before they are promoted to the next rank, confirmed or posted.

The vetting is meant to

Motorists to test for quality at fuel pumps Motorists will get special kits that will allow them test the quality of fuel at pump stations.

With the rising number of rogue traders mixing petrol with kerosene for higher profit, the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC) is in the process of preparing regulations that will ensure motorists acquire kits to protect them from mischievous traders.

The kits will be sold at Sh200Sh500 to all motorists.

The rising prices of diesel and petrol have prompted traders to mix the two products with cheaper kerosene due to the huge differences in the prices.

The instant testing follows quest by marketers for the re-establishment of tax on kerosene that was removed to cater for poor households

that rely on it for cooking and lighting.

The new regulation will ensure the industry marks all kerosene sold in Kenya for local consumption and petrol for export.

Those who fail to comply with the regulation and mark the fuel face a fine of Sh5000 each day they remain non-compliant.

The fines will be extended to those offering sub-standard products who will pay Sh1 million fine for not marking the products.

“The regulations provide for suspension from operations by way of sealing of tanks for all non-compliant sites and road tankers,” said ERC. The rule will remain until the commission is satisfied that that operators pay fines and penalties to KRA.

clean up the service which has been listed as the most corrupt institution in Kenya by many surveys.

Vetting was among the more than 200 proposals of a commission set up following the 2007-2008-post election violence.

The goal of the National Task Force on Police Reforms headed by retired judge Philip Ransley was to transform the service into an efficient, effective, professional and accountable security agency that Kenyans could trust with their safety and security.

The need for police reforms was reinforced by recommendations by the Waki Commission of Inquiry into the 2007 Post-election Violence. This was after police were largely blamed for the violence that broke out after the disputed polls that claimed more than 1,000 lives. National Police Service Commission Chairman Johnston Kavuludi said they plan to finish vetting OCPDs by end of August.

“We are moving on well and hope to finish with the OCPDs and their deputies by end of August. We need to meet our mandate,” he said.

Wife torches spouse’s car in domestic row

WaitiNg: a petrol station attendant. the energy regulatory Commission will equip consumers with gadgets that will allow them to test for fuel quality at the stations.

Police are investigating an incident in which an angry woman burnt down her husband’s car at Ngei Estate, Langata, in Nairobi. The woman had arrived home and picked up a quarrel with the man before she allegedly burnt down the Mark10 salon car. A fire engine from County Brigade that drove to the home to contain the blaze found the vehicle already reduced to ashes. Police say they are investigating the incident.

Meanwhile, an Ethiopian woman was Monday evening arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport with a stolen passport.

The suspect had planned to fly to Saudi Arabia using the document when she was stopped by police and immigration officials.

Airport CID boss Joseph Ngisa said the passport had earlier on been reported stolen by the owner. Police say the woman will be charged in court this morning.

Cases of Ethiopians fleeing their country to other destinations are on the rise.

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Anger as land grabbers dig up Kayole playground Police yesterday fought battles with youths in Kayole protesting the grabbing of a playground by a private developer.

Unknown people ploughed the field, commonly known as the Komarock Calvary Ground, and which is the only playground serving the expansive Kayole and Komarock estates. They uprooted the goal posts to drive away those who use the field.

The ground is said to have been set

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aside as a community playground by the late Embakasi MP David Mwenje Residents, however, claim he registered the land in his name and that his two sons want it back.

“This land was given to Kayole residents as a training ground by the late Mwenje and previous attempts to grab it were not successful,” Kayole Chief Joseph Muiru, said.

“Today they had to come at 3am when people were still sleeping and that is

when they destroyed the structures and dug this ground with tractors,” Muiru said. “Nobody has come to us to claim this land with any papers and we are shocked these people have the audacity to do this.”

Some of the youths were arrested long after the skirmishes and detained at the Kayole Police Station on charges of malicious damage to property.

This angered parents, who also exercise at the same ground.

“They were angry when they came to exercise and found the land had been grabbed,” said Timothy Aroka.

Another open space in the area near the Mwangaza SDA church in Komorock Phase III B was subdivided and fenced off less than a month ago denying many residents space for play and physical exercise. Hired thugs beat up a coach of a local children’s team and assaulted the chairman of the Komarock Residents Association.

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Seeking justice

Activists hold candles during a vigil to protest against the gang rape of two teenage girls, in New Delhi, India. India has a long history of tolerance for sexual violence. The two girls, 14- and 15-year-old cousins, from an impoverished family with no toilets in their home, disappeared Tuesday night after going into fields to relieve themselves. They were later were found hanging from a tree. On Sunday, three brothers confessed to involvement in the rape, a police officer told CNN. “The men have pleaded guilty to the rape charges but have not admitted to killing the girls,” police spokesman Mukesh Saxena told the CNN.

‘Exciting’ trials give hope for skin cancer patients Patients of skin cancer have been given renewed hope after two international trials against the disease were hailed as exciting and striking.

The average survival for such patients is normally six months but the results of the trails indicate patients can now survive for at least a year.

Both treatments, for advanced melanoma, are designed to enable the immune system to recognise and target tumours.

The findings were released at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference in Chicago.

The experimental drugs, pembrolizumab and nivolumab, block the biological pathway cancers use to disguise themselves from the immune system.

Advanced melanoma - skin cancer which has spread to other organs - has proved very hard to treat.

In a trial of 411 patients evaluating pembrolizumab – 69 percent of patients survived at least a year.

The drug, which used to be known as MK-3475, is also being tested against other tumour types which use the same mechanism to block attack from the immune system.

Dr David Chao, consultant oncologist at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, is conducting trials in both melanoma and lung cancer patients.

“Pembrolizumab looks like it has potential to be a paradigm shift for cancer therapy,” he said. Scans of his lungs reveal that after just three infusions, the drug appears to have completely cleared the cancer.

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Cord chiefs in plan to push Uhuru on talks: Cord leaders yesterday resolved to keep up the pressure on the Jubilee and agreed to call a follow-up rally in Mombasa on June 14 according to Nation sources. The round of rallies, according to Cord, is intended to convince Kenyans to support its call for national dialogue with the government. Opposition MPs were yesterday adamant that they were not interested innpower-sharing arrangements...

Jubilee, Cord draw dialogue battle lines: Cord’s demand for national dialogue conference which they propose to be on July 7, include security, governance, equity and disbandment of IEBC. The opposition has said the four issues are critical and will form the basis of the envisaged deliberations which they say unless urgently addressed could lead to Kenya slipping into failed state. This morning, members of the Jubilee coalition are to meet at State House...

Uhuru hosts TNA MPs in bid to ‘save’ Waiguru: The sgtorm swirling around Devolution Cabinet Secretary Anne Waiguru, despite last week’s intervention

by Deputy President William Rutom and now the bid to block her impeachment, has moved to State House. This is because Jubilee Members of Parliament will this morning be at State House Nairobi to meet President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy before parliament resumes this afternoon...

Police target four over Mate disappearance: Detectives investigating the recent dissapearance and resurfacing of Embu Speaker Justuys Kariuki Mate are probing a link between former Embu-chief magistrate Margaret Wachira, Speaker’s driver Robert Mate and the CID officers charged with abducting Mate, Corporal Nicholas Karangi. Police have recorded statements from the magistrate and Muturi’s driver Robert...

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Dry weather escalates

prices of food, power Bank lending rates, prices of food and basic commodities have sharply risen due to the deteriorating cost of living, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has said.

The cost of living for the month of May went up due to high electricity bills and a sharp rise in prices of food commodities.

KNBS says consumers should expect further increases in food prices due to the failing rains in May. Electricity prices went up by 21.7 per cent after the country started using thermal generators for power production.

Thermal generators use expensive fossil fuels and the cost is passed directly to consumers, says KNBS. The failed March to May rains

led to a dip in water levels at the Seven Forks Hydropower dam that is now generating below capacity, forcing the country to rely on diesel fuel.

The cost of power has gone up by Sh2 per unit.

“There was significant rise in prices of several food items, including maize flour, potatoes and sukuma wiki,” said KNBS. “The increases outweighed falls in prices of sugar, milk, resulting in an aggregate rise in the food index.”

“Unseasonably dry weather in Kenya and the country’s continued reliance on rain-fed agriculture are helping to pressure prices,” said Razia Khan, the Head of Research at Standard Chartered Bank.

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arket. the hard times: Customers line up to pay for goods in a superm sharply. risen has living of cost the says ent Governm

Project Inspire Sh2.2m for ideas Project Inspire, a worldwide initiative that gives 18 to 35-year-olds chance to pitch inspiring ideas, is calling for applications for a chance to win a $25,000 (Sh2.2 million) grant.

Individuals, social enterprises and non-profits who work with women and girls in Africa, Middle-East and the Asia-Pacific region can make

an inspirational five-minute video that empowers women.

Dubbed ‘Project Inspire: 5-minutes to Change the World’ the initiative says applicants should download forms from projinspire.com.

Videos must be uploaded through Youtube or Vimeo and the link must be shared in the set space in the application form.

“The organisations are encouraged to come up with existing or planned project to empower women through entrepreneurship and business literacy,” the group says.

Project Inspire has posted instructions on their website, projinspire.com, describing the basic requirements for participants.

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Mini Bakeries to construct residential estate in Kiambu Mini Bakeries, the maker of Supa Loaf bread, plans to construct a Sh3.5 billion residential estate in Kiambu.

The family-owned company plans to build a gated community off Kamiti Road, about 16 kilometres from Nairobi, as it seeks to reduce reliance on revenues from the sale of bread.

Joy Makena, an officer for real estate group, Construction Kenya, says the project’s ground-breaking

ceremony is scheduled for this month.

The project includes 178 semi-detached, three bedroomed houses, and 171 detached houses of four bedrooms each.

“There has been a rapid increase in the number of people moving to urban areas which has led to an increase in demand for housing,” the baker says.

Demand for residential housing in the outskirts of Nairobi is growing faster than supply, says the Insti-

tute of Surveyors of Kenya.

The cost of housing units is set to gradually increase in coming years, making it expensive for tenants to live in more developed parts of the country.

Data shows that the country provides 30,000 units a year against an annual demand of more than 150,000.

This leaves a shortfall of 120,000 houses. Mini Bakeries estimates that the high-end estate will serve about 2,000 residents.

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businesstool Livecard links job seekers with employers Employers receive mountains of job applications every day.

Every year, 800,000 people apply for jobs either in formal or the informal sector, yet only 50,000 are lucky to find formal employment, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) has reported.

Many of the applicants post CVs online in the hope of landing a job. Because online job searches have become less effective, a new service, ‘Livecard’, has been developed to help individuals and small businesses connect on the web.

People can expand their professional identity through exposure to potential employers through search engines, Facebook pages, websites and online trade shows.

“In today’s global economy, it is more important than ever that you are discoverable online,” says a statement from the organisation. Its tool helps improve a user’s visibility on the web.

Their website, ‘livecard.co.ke’ works like a social networking service by allowing businesses to add names on a list of more than 1,000 other enterprises. It also allows job seekers to search for openings from the list.

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Kenya’s investment ranking drops Kenya has dropped five places to 61st on the list of the world’s best investment destinations, a report by research group, Foreign Policy, says. The ranking is done using a scale known as the Baseline Profitability Index (BPI).

The BPI helps foreign investors decide whether or not to bring business into a country.

The scale uses three factors, which affect the ultimate success of foreign investment in a country. They include how much an asset’s value grows, the maintenance of that value, and the ease of bringing home the proceeds from selling the asset. “Each of these factors requires a different kind of assessment. It’s not enough to worry only about rates of return, corruption, political stability, investor protection, or exchange rates,” said Daniel Altman from New York University’s Stern School

of Business.

The BPI combines these factors into a summary statistic that conveys a country’s basic attractiveness for investment.”

“The idea of the BPI is to see how all of these factors might affect a foreign direct investment, the kind a private equity firm might make, over five years,” he explained.

While Kenya is half a world away from the top spot, Botswana, Hong Kong and Taiwan rank first, second and third in that order.

“To my knowledge, it’s the first publicly available tool that explicitly takes a holistic approach to forecasting investment returns,” said Altman. “It’s not perfect, because it doesn’t account for the interactions between all of these factors; just looking at them individually already involves many layers of complexity. But it’s a start.”

nairobi: Kenya’s Capital City.

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pricedriver Brooksides raises raw milk prices by Sh5

Treasury’s Sh647m for fish farming The government has released Sh647 million to boost farming.

Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Felix Koskei said this is in line with the governments appreciation of the great potential the fishing industry has in contributing to the economic development of the country “This programme is one of the Vision 2030 flagship projects to ensure food security, create wealth and employment,’’ Koskei said.

The Export Promotion Council (EPC) says Kenya as the potential to earn billions

of shillings from fish exports.

“South Korea is an outstanding seafood market with good growth potential for a wide variety of imported products,” says a statement from the EPC. The EPC says Kenya could become a lucrative partner because South Korea’s domestic fish supply has been decreasing due to the reduction of its fishery resources as well as increased restrictions on international deep-sea fishing.

Kenya can earn revenue by exporting live fish, frozen fish, fish fillet, crustaceans

Google to delete EU users’ personal data

and molluscs.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) says a sudden increase in lake fillet production has made it necessary for Kenya to consider exporting its excess supply.

“Recently, Nile perch fillets from Uganda have been successfully launched on the Nairobi market without leading to a reduction in the sale of tilapia,” says a statement from FAO. Exporting to neighbouring countries, however, has

proven to be difficult since African markets will not accept fish offered for sale in the frozen state.

Korea on the other hand, does not mind.

In fact, the country imports about $3.65 billion (over Sh32 billion) worth of fish every year.

Kenya exports close to $52 million (Sh3.9 billion).

Internet giant, Google has launched a service to allow Europeans to ask for personal data to be removed from online search results. The move comes after a European Union court ruling earlier this month, which gave people the “right to be forgotten”.

Links to irrelevant and outdated data should be erased on request, the ruling said.

Google said it would assess each request and allow users to fill in a form to have their online history removed.

“When evaluating your request, we will look at

Brookside Dairy Ltd will buy unprocessed milk from farmers at Sh35, up from Sh30 per litre. The dairy company announced that the introduction of a 16 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT) has encouraged them to help address the challenges that farmers have been facing as their milk prices have been low. Unprocessed milk was selling at Sh40 per litre in January and has since been falling since.

Following the move, farmers will now increase their earnings, said John Gethi, Brookside’s General Manager in charge of milk procure-

whether the results include outdated information about you, as well as whether there’s a public interest in the information,” Google says on the form.

Google said it would look at information about “financial scams, professional malprac-

ment, in a statement.

The move is set to boost farmers’ earnings as competition between Brookside and New KCC hots up. New KCC, which controls 20 per cent of the market share, lowered its consumer prices by Sh4 per half litre packet from Sh45 last week. Gethi said Brookside, which controls 44 per cent of Kenya’s milk market, will help over 160,000 local farmers with its new initiative. “Brookside will continue to review the prices paid for raw milk to suit the prevailing environment,” Gethi said in a statement.

tice, criminal convictions, or public conduct of government officials” while deciding on the request.

Earlier this month, it was discovered that more than half of the requests sent to Google from UK individuals involved convicted criminals.

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Some absolutely wonderful news could come your way, Capricorn, possibly about career or financial success, perhaps involving positive changes in your neighborhood. If you’ve been thinking about working in writing or publishing - or any art, for that matter - this is the day to set events in motion.

aquarius Jan 20 - Feb

You should feel especially warm and loving today toward just about anyone you meet, Aquarius. Good news about money may have caused you to feel especially positive. This could attract new people to you and bring closer those already in your life.

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This is fine, since you’re looking and feeling great. You’re likelier than usual to project warmth and friendliness to others.

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Today you should be glowing with good health, energy, and stamina, and be doing well at work, whether career, volunteer work, or a personal project.

Success should come your way on all fronts, Libra, particularly since you’ve been working hard.

scorpio oct 23 - nov 21

Love and romance are likely to be tops on your agenda today, Scorpio.

You’re feeling especially warm and loving now. Current and potential love partners could feel strongly drawn to you.

sagittarius nov 22 - Dec 21

Important enterprises centering on your home could take up a lot of your energy over the next few days, Sagittarius. Many people might come and go.

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If you’ve considered a career in publishing, Cancer, this is the time to go for it. It’s also a great day to enroll in law school, an advanced degree program, or any field of higher education.

Love with someone from far away could well be in the offing.

Today you’re likely focused on sex, romance, and committed relationships.

The planetary energies surrounding love are promising, Virgo. If you’re in a relationship, you and your partner could make plans to embark on a new enterprise together, which is likely to succeed.

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Jim Stegner the artist is known for his provoking paintings, violence and alcoholism.

A few years ago, Stegner compulsively shot a man in a bar. His marriage evaporated when his teenage daughter died mysteriously. After losing the one person who meant the world to him, Jim moves from Santa Fe to Colorado for a fresh start.

He spends days painting and fishing as he struggles to find a way to cover the dark side of life.

Life is good to him; he works with a beautiful model and his paintings are selling for handsome returns.

Everything changes one

afternoon when he meets a man who is assaulting a small horse.

Suddenly, all the hard work he has put in to curb his violent side goes down the drain. He is forced to flee and return to Santa Fe where his conscience relentlessly torments him.

Yahoo’s video stream plan to rival YouTube Yahoo is planning to launch a videostreaming service to compete with YouTube, the most popular video streaming service in the world, Yahoo requires to make its platform more appealing for video producers.

They plan to offer fixed advertisement rates and share revenues generously with producers. This has been one of

the concerns for many video creators along with loss of rights once they are added to Yahoo’s channel.

Yahoo will also lift restrictions on producers preventing them from uploading videos to YouTube if they already have done so on Yahoo channel. The producers will be allowed to make channels and playlists, just like

on YouTube.

Viewers will also be able to embed videos and share them on Yahoo platforms such as Tumblr.

Among other plans Yahoo has is to introduce its own full-length TV series on the site.

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Nkosi among pioneers of war on Aids TUESday, JUNE 3, 2014

The late Nkosi Johnson is a South African child who served as a global inspiration and hope in the face of HIV/ AIDS. During his final battle with AIDS, his outspokenness made mighty impact on the public insight of AIDS. Nkosi, born Xolani Nkosi, tackled AIDS for 12 years since the day he was born 4 February 1989.

His fearless fight and strength saw him named fifth amongst SABC3’s (South African

stylestar

Broadcast Corporation) Great South Africans.

His biological mother died of AIDS related complications when he had just started school. Before her death, he had been adopted (at two years) by his foster mother Gail Johnson, a Johannesburg Public Relations practitioner.

Xolani came to be known in 1997 when a junior school in Johannesburg denied him enrollment because of his HIV positive status.

The nation condemned the school’s insensitive act of discrimination which forced it to rescind its decision and accepted Nkosi as a pupil.

The award winning child gave keynote speech at the 13th International AIDS Conference. He encouraged those with AIDS to fight for their rights and equal treatment. An excerpt from his speech at the AIDS conference goes; “Care for us and accept us — we are all human beings.”

BRaVEHEaRt: Nkosi Johnon. His strength and courage is a landmark in the fight against HiV/aids.

talent spotters Elite academy pupils to study at Bolton Wanderers

Frasha’s hidden identity Francis Amisi, aka Frasha, is on third of Kenyan Hip hop group P-Unit.

The trio’s songs have been topping charts for years, but it is Frasha’s style that many fans find fascinating. He usually has a cap on that hides almost half his face, and dark glasses. This has become his trademark.

He will not be seen without these accessories even in

music videos, concerts and interviews.

It was at first believed that he deliberately wore the cap and dark glasses so that he can hide his identity because of his other “serious” job, as a physiotherapist at The Aga Khan Hospital but he quit the job in 2011 but he still sports the look, further propagating the mystery.

Elite Soccer Academy in Nairobi is one of main football talent spotting organisations in Kenya.

The Karen based academy is dedicated to giving opportunities to young people whose ambition is to reach greater heights in football world.

The development of the youngsters comprised honing of football skills and together with pursuit of formal education.

The Elite Academy was started in Sep-

tember 2011 by Yoga Komagazani, Ali Kiplagat and Benson Njoroge.

Most of the training is done at the De Paul Centre along Langata road.

In 2013, the team toured England where five of the players were lucky to be admitted to the Bolton Wanderers Football Academy.

According to the English club, the boys showed great potential and will be at the academy for three years.

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SoMEtHinG to HiDE?: Frasha never leaves his visor-cap and sunglasses behind.

Top three African TV drama series Despite the general bias by Kenyans for European television content, the quality of African content is improving as productions such Mali, Scandal and The Hostel.

Mali a Kenyan TV drama that airs on NTV, is a story of a very wealthy family headed by a strict chauvinist and polygamous patriarch, G Mali who dies suddenly without leaving a will. His two families are divided by greed as they fight for a share of his wealth.

Scandal shines a spotlight on the colourful and fascinating lives of the people of Nyathi Zwane Holdings (NZH), a media conglomerate based in Newtown, Johannesburg.

The characters are plagued by various problems like drug addiction, HIV/AIDS.

1 Ugandan drama series The Hostel seeks to explore the experiences of six university students. The comedy sheds light on the good moments and predicaments the students face. It is a reflection of the way the youth cope while in settings away from home.

action!: a scene from Mali. toP LEFt: actors in Ugandan drama, the Hostel. LEFt: Scandal’s cast.

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Maya Angelou Maya Angelou, the world’s most celebrated poet, author and activist died on Wednesday at age 86. Born Marguerite Annie Johnson in 1928, she grew up in a secluded America that threw her into the civil rights movement to work alongside Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X. She was a dancer and singer before venturing into poetry and activism.

She published seven autobiographies, several poetry books and received many awards, including three Grammy awards for her spoken word recordings.

Here are a few of her works that have made impact in the literary world.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

The autobiography of Maya’s earlier years is the most famous of her works. The book recounts Maya’s childhood and that of her brother as they are taken from the grandmother to the mother after the parents separate. Angelou tells of her experience with racism, rape by the mother’s boyfriend and segregation.

Readers see Angelou transformed from a young timid girl to a strong young woman who gives birth to a son at 16.

Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie (1971) was Angelou’s first poetry collection. The book is divided into two sections: Where Love is a Scream of Anguish that contains poems about love and Just Before the World Ends, which has poems about being an African-American in a racially charged atmosphere.

The book became a bestseller and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1972.

The Heart of a Woman (1981) This was Angelou’s fourth autobiography that relives her life from the years of 1957 to 1962.

She moves from California to New York to take part in

the civil rights movement. She tells the story of how she fell in love with a South African freedom fighter who made her travel the world.

The book was selected by Oprah Winfrey as part of Oprah’s Book Club selection which catapulted it into the best seller’s list.

Maya Angelou.

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Amazing twin worlds of the traditional Pokot Members of the traditional Pokot community believed that the world was split into two, with humans occupying a lower tier as their god, Tororot, and other supreme beings occupied the upper sphere.

The sun, Asis, and rain, Ilat, lived on the upper sphere with Tororot.

Little was known about this tier, but the lower region was understood to be home for plants, humans and other animals.

The community prayed to deities and believed the three supreme beings worked in harmony.

An article, Trip Down Memory Lane, says while Tororot listened to the supplications of the people, the sun monitored their activities. The rain was the messenger between

the two spheres.

Deities controlled the people’s morality and warned or rebuked in case the people misbehaved.

Another site, everyculkture. com says prophet Werkoyon had divine powers to tell when disaster would strike.

Elders offered animal sacrifices to save the community from impending calamities.

Elders organised religious festivals and dances during which sacrifices and libations were offered to appease god.

Slaughtering of animals was not encouraged in this largely pastoral community because they attached more value to cows, goats and sheep than anything else.

Sorcerers were feared among the Nilotic community and people protected themselves using a talisman.

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Below are the top Windows apps downloaded in May from the Windows Store

OneDrive version 4.1.3 This application allows users to easily store and share photos, videos, documents and more. When photos or videos are uploaded from your Windows Phone to OneDrive, they can be transmitted through a personal

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Facebook Version 5.2 The new version has new features, including faster and more reliable notifications, redesigned primary tile, messaging improvements, performance improvements and support for additional languages.

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Another messaging app that works with the mobile data plan. It allows users to view all messages without opening Facebook, let them have group conversations, share location and never lose the history or contacts.

Pandora It lets one to explore a universe of music.It allows one to pin favourite stations to the start screen and see what is playing by looking at the Pandora Live Tile.

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computer or phone. One can easily get to, manage, and share files on the go.

You can also upload multiple photos, videos and files at once, fix bugs and performance improvements

Instagram BETA Version 0.4.2 This allows one to share pictures on Instagram.

One can share photos in a simple stream with friends to see and follow friends’ pictures at the click of a button.

It also allows instant photo sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Tumblr.

Music Xbox Music brings all the music you love in a simple-touse app.

You can play and manage personal collections, buy songs from Xbox Music Store, or stream/download unlimited content on your phone.

You may also create and edit playlists of favourite songs.

MUSIC+ MUSIC+ makes it easy to play and download songs on Windows Phone. It allows

unlimited free music and unlimited song downloads.

Weather This helps one to prepare for the latest conditions with hourly, daily, and 10-day forecasts. The app is designed for Windows Phone and features beautiful weather images and maps.

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Adobe Reader Adobe Reader is the free, trusted leader for reliably viewing and interacting with PDF documents across platforms and devices.

It allows access to a wide range of PDF types, including password-protected documents.

YouTube HD It app allows one to watch videos in HQ and HD and download videos into the phone for free.

Hiroshi Fuji recycled

Toys sculptures Hiroshi Fuji is a Japanese installation artist who uses recycled materials in his creations. In one of his most famous installations, he used toys to create sculptures. The artist used up to 50,000 toys that were left over from a toy exchange programme that he had organised.

He created the sculptures based on the colours and sizes of the toys. Amon the items he created were dinosaurs, flying birds and mountains.

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FUN

Spicy bhajia dare you to resist them

TUESday, JUNE 3, 2014

Bhajia is a very popular Kenyan snack that has its origins in India.

The dish is what you would call a mixture of vegetables fried together to make one heavenly-delicious food. It is the kind of dish no one is supposed to eat alone because it is a happy meal. Bhajias are usually served with a cold drink because they are quite

CRISPY: Bhajia ready to serve.

spicy.

The main ingredients are sliced Irish potatoes, are then dipped into thick batter made from a variety of spices including flour, food colouring (optional), salt, red chili powder, ginger, masala and coriander leaves and water. The coriander leaves are roughly chopped to bring out the rough texture of the bhajia.

The ingredients are mixed together in a bowl into a thick solution. The potato slices are then dipped in the mixture before being transferred to pan of heated oil to fry.

It is important that the oil is heated before the potato slices are put in. With the slices sizzling in the oil, lower the heat to medium because high heat will leave the potatoes charred on the outside and undercooked on the inside. Low heat, on the other hand, will make the potatoes absorb too much oil and ruin the taste.

Cook on both sides until golden brown then remove and drain them on a paper towel covered plate.

Kachumbari is the best accompaniment for bhajias but a side of salad or a slice of lemon will also do.

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Michelle Obama loves chips Sam Kass, President Barack Obama’s personal chef, admitted during a recent discussion that Michelle Obama finds one not-so-healthy food item completely irresistible.

And that food is...French fries! Of course it is! (Mrs Obama later confirmed the same).

And how many French fries can she eat in one sitting? “As many as I give her,” said Kass. “If they’re there, she’ll eat them.”

In what could be viewed as a disclaimer, Kass added that Mrs. Obama works out every single day, and that she only eats French fries occasionally as a special treat. And in case you are wondering, President Obama’s guilty pleasure is Burgers!

BLooDY: Snake’s heart ready for the diner. Inset: A butcher extracts blood from a snake.

Dining on cobra heart, blood for virility Snakes in Vietnam are an endangered species. They are hunted down for their hearts, blood, bile and meat. In Vietnam, eating snake is associated with virility and enhanced male sexual performance.

In the Vietnamese city of Hanoi, eating snakes is a way of life. The city is full of snake restaurants

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to which tourists flock in droves to get a taste of a beating snake heart.

The snake is traditionally killed in front of the diners. A snake handler presents a menu of live snakes by taking the customer to cages containing live snakes.

The cobra is often the most expensive item on the snake menu.

The handler then brings the snake to the customer’s table, pins its head down, cuts its belly open to and lets the blood drip into a shot glass containing rice wine. The heart is then sliced out and dropped into the shot glass.

The contents of the snake’s gall bladder are emptied into another shot glass containing rice wine changing to an emerald green

colour. It has been said that one can feel the snake’s heart beating as it goes down the throat.

The shot containing the heart is downed at one go followed by the shot containing the snake bile.

While choosing a snake, one is advised to pick the one with the most fight in it when poked.

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three timeS unlucky Italy forward Giuseppe Rossi was left out of the World Cup squad, for the third time in a row p.15

Stars will make it to Morocco, says Wanyama Kenyan captain Victor Wanyama is elated the national team qualified for the next stage in the battle for 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifications.

The national team will play Lesotho in the second round of the qualifiers on July 18, with a return leg clash set for Nairobi on August 2.

Wanyama highlighted the importance of the team to make it to Morocco next January.

“We were a bit sloppy on Friday in Comoros but the good thing

is that we got what we wanted,” said the player on arrival on Sunday.

“We all want to play in African Cup of Nations final because most of us have never been there. It is our hunger and thirst and we are working hard to get there. We are taking match by match and I am optimistic if we keep working hard we will get there.”

Lesotho, Kenya’s opponents in the second round, managed a similar aggregate score line against Liberia on Sunday.

Kenya last played out to a 2-2 draw against Lesotho, during the Cosafa tournament at Aurthur Davies Stadium, in Zambia, where Adel Amrouche’s charges featured as a guest team.

The aggregate winner of the clash will advance to Group ‘C’, where home and away clashes against Burkina Faso, Angola and Gabon lie in wait.

The top two teams from the group will feature at the Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Morocco in January.

focused: Captain Victor Wanyama (Left) is confident Harambee Stars will make it to 2015 Africa cup of Nations tournament in Morocco.

Confidence was ripe, Kifaru coach declares UAP Kifaru have reached the 2014 Rugby Super Series final with a 2219 win over defending champions Ndovu.

Kifaru Coach Charles Ngovi said self belief played a key part in the weekend encounter.

Kifaru, which features players from university sides, will meet Papa Nguvu, who eliminated Bollore Chui 30-23 in the finals set for next weekend at RFUEA Grounds, Nairobi, on Saturday.

“It was a tough match but I’m happy we won although it wasn’t easy. We were playing a good side who are defending champions and I congratulated the boys for giving their best.

“I’m happy for Harun Lubisia who took us to the finals. We hope to become champions,” said coach Ngovi.

FINALISTS: UAP Kifaru (in navy blue) are in the finals, where they are set to play Papa Nguvu.

Nadal top play Ferrer at Roland Garros quarters Rafael Nadal, an eight-time winner at Roland Garros, booked his place in the quarter-finals following straight sets win over Dusan Lajovic.

Nadal, who will face compatriot and world No 5 David Ferrer for a place in the last four, prevailed 6-1, 6-2, 6-1 after outclassing his Serbian rival on Monday.

The World No1 is hoping to secure a fifth straight title on the clay in the French capital and remains favourite to do so.

But Ferrer defeated Nadal for the first time on clay in 10 years in April -- one of three defeats the reigning champion suffered in the lead-up to the French Open.

“I think that I am playing a little bit better than when I was playing

against him in Monte-Carlo, but I think he’s playing great, too,” Nadal said.

“He played three weeks in a row at a very high level. In Madrid he played great, in Rome he played great, and he’s playing great here.

“I know how to play against him and to have chances to win I need to play very well. That’s what I’m going to try,” said Nadal.

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Tuesday, june 3, 2014

The countdown is on— 8 days to go

YELLOW PERIL: Brazil have scored more goals from free kicks at World Cup finals than any other team.

Brazil are the free-kick kings As hosts Brazil plot a sixth Fifa World Cup title, they need goals from every angle and they are not lacking in the one crucial source – free kicks.

The Samba stars really are the free-kick kings having scored more direct free-kicks at the World Cup finals than any other team.

The Selecao have converted

nine goals from dead-ball situations outside of the penalty area and most of them are worthy of appearing on a showreel of the tournament’s best set-pieces.

Dirceu’s arcing left-footed effort against Peru in 1978, sweetly flicked over the opposing wall before flying into the corner, plus Zico’s unstoppable curler against

Scotland four years later, are two of the best examples of Brazilian free-kick brilliance.

Roberto Carlos’s vicious strike against China in 2002, or Rivelino’s accurate effort against East Germany in 1974 - where he placed the ball over the head of ducking team-mate Jairzinho who was stood in the opposition wall - are also worthy of

Twitter on Monday.

“You will be surprised.

Challenges? Fear? What a laugh,” added Rossi, who is probably Italy’s most reliable forward when fully fit. ‘The most important thing now is to support Italy.”

Prandelli did not give any interviews on Sunday when he named the squad but had said before that Rossi would be judged on his fitness and his showing against Ireland.

Initial reaction was mixed.

Fans of Rossi’s club Fiorentina, a team Prandelli used to coach, were furious, but some said the coach was consistent with his stance that he would not take players who were not fully match fit.

and 2006) since they were introduced by Fifa ahead of the 1978 tournament. They have lost all three.

Only Italy have also experienced a trio of shootout losses, although the Azzurri can point to keeping their nerve on one occasion.

That came in the 2006 final, where they beat France 5-3 to lift the trophy.

Loew puts faith in 35 year old striker Klose

It’s third time unlucky for Rossi

Italy forward Giuseppe Rossi is out of the Azzuri team to the 2014 World Cup squad, the third time in a row the former Manchester United man has missed out on a major tournament.

Rossi, who has just recovered from his latest knee injury, took part in last week’s training and played Saturday’s friendly against Ireland, only to be left out when coach Cesare Prandelli trimmed his provisional squad to the final 23 on Sunday.

Rossi poured scorn on suggestions that he was still not fully fit. “Everyone is saying I’m out of shape: ask anyone the results of the tests from last week and from the match,” said the American-born forward on

inclusion. Perhaps their amount of free-kick goals is not surprising considering they have taken 166 freekicks - again more than any other team.

On the other hand, the Three Lions have the worst penalty shootout record in World Cup history.

England have taken part in three shootouts (1990, 1998

LEFT OUT: Rossi did not make Italy’s final 23.

Germany will travel to this month’s World Cup in Brazil with only one out-and-out striker after coach Joachim Loew cut Kevin Volland from his final 23-man squad on Monday. Hoffenheim forward Volland joined defender Shkodran Mustafi and left back Marcel Schmelzer, still nursing a knee injury, on the list of rejects.

Volland’s exclusion came as a surprise given the stocky striker’s physical strength and all-round play were seen as a good alternative to veteran 35-year-old forward Miroslav Klose.

“Obviously Shkodran, Marcel and Kevin are very disappointed and I can understand that because they had every right to hope they

would be in Brazil,” Loew said. “All three are players who still have the chance to take part in several big tournaments in their careers.”

Attacking midfielder Mario Gotze played as a striker in the 2-2 warm up draw against Cameroon on Sunday. Loew, however, included Borussia Dortmund’s Erik Durm, who can play as left back, in the final squad after he won his first cap on Sunday as well as first-choice keeper Manuel Neuer and captain Philipp Lahm, who are racing to get fit following injuries. Little-known Mustafi, a surprise call-up in the provisional squad, made way for a more experienced backline, arguably Germany’s weakest point.

I’m not yet in perfect shape, says Rudisha

David Rudisha became the first man to break a world record at the London Games with an equally brilliant performance in the 800m.

The then 23-year-old Kenyan showed just why he was labelled by Lord Coe as “probably on paper the most impressive track and field athlete at these games” as he broke his own world record.

He also became the first man to run inside one minute 41 seconds, clocking 1:40.91. In short the two lap king has won every major event since 2009.

On Saturday, Rudisha, the

Olympic 800m champion and world record-holder, put forth a gallant effort before fading badly to seventh place in his first race in nearly a year due to a knee injury.

Nijel Amos of Botswana sprinted to victory in a world-leading 1:43.63 to break the meeting record.in the 40th edition of the Prefontaine Classic, the third leg of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League “It was tough, but I’m happy to run 1:44,” said Rudisha after running 1:44.87.

“I can recall the last time I finished seventh, It was not

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easy for me especially in the last 100m, my fans must be disappointed, to be honest that is what they expect of me,” he said.

“It feels good to make a return” Rudisha told reporters after the race. I started training a bit late due to the knee problem and it has been like a crash programme for me. To my fans, I will be back stronger,” declared the most dominant middle distance runner of his generation.

gallant: Rudisha finished seventh at the 2014 IAAF Diamond League meeting in New York.

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Froch won’t retire soon

Carl Froch set his sights on a title war in the boxing capital of Las Vegas after defending his IBF and WBA super-middleweight titles.

Froch beat George Groves for a second time in front of 80,000 fans at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night.

The win brings to an end months of wrangling between the pair since Froch controversially beat Groves in the first fight between the two in November.

Froch said: “I am unbelievably elated, this is the best moment of my career. I have been involved in some magnificent fights with some top, top world champions and this is by far the biggest and best crowd I have boxed in front of and the biggest event I have been involved in” “I have been in with some of the best fighters in the world and let’s be honest it was neck and neck.”

“I showed tonight why I’ve defend-

ed my world title 13 times on the spin.” Groves taunted Froch in the build-up to the fight and predicted he would knock his opponent out with a left hook.

Froch went down on one knee in the ring but there was some confusion over whether he had proposed to girlfriend Rachael Cordingley.

manchester City FC @mCFC“Congratulations to @aguerosergiokun @ pablo_zabaleta and @demichelisok on being named in Argentina’s 23 man World Cup squad! “

Sergio Aguero@aguerosergiokun“So thrilled after seeing all the birthday wishes I’m receiving from everywhere in the world. Thank you, from the heart!”

man City send striker Aguero birthday card There’s no Bugatti for Aguero, but the Premier League champions have at least tried to avoid a repeat of the infamous Yaya birthday row The team have sent Sergio Aguero a personal birthday message from their official Twitter account on the superstar’s 26th birthday.

It was only last month that Yaya Toure’s agent, Dimitri Seluk, said that the gesture of a birthday cake was not enough for Yaya’s birthday, and that the player would leave if City chose not to respect him.

Seluk made comparisons between the treatment of Yaya and that of Roberto Carlos, who

received a Bugatti car on his special day, from the president of Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala.

Yaya’s agent continued: “There is a big possibility Yaya will leave this summer. He is very upset.

“What happened at his birthday means the club don’t care about him. It was proof.”

Later on, it had emerged that Yaya’s birthday had in fact been celebrated, and the Ivory Coast star had been presented with a cake during a flight to Abu Dhabi at the end of last season.

Aguero is preparing for the World Cup alongside fellow Argentine teammates Lionel Messi and Gonzalo Higuain.

humbLeD: IbF and WbA middleweight champion Carl Froch proposes to girlfriend Rachael Cordingley after defeating George Groves at Wembley.

Kariobangi, Lakers in Copa Coca Cola finals Kariobangi Sports and Makadara Juniors became the first boys’ teams to qualify for the Nairobi provincial Copa Coca Cola finals.

The two sides held an unassailable lead heading into the last round of Nairobi East branch matches to guarantee their progress after crucial wins at the weekend.

Kariobangi cruised past Indomi-

table Lions 4-0 to all but end the Lion’s slim hope of advancing as Makadara skinned hapless Ajentos Youth 6-0.

The class in both sides was evident but it was Kairobangi who grabbed the bragging rights after toiling to a 1-0 win.

Golden Angels joined Tia Hope Girls into the provincials with a

6-1 thrashing of Kayole Starlets.

Already qualified Tia Hope drew 1-1 with St. Anne Girls.

Mvita Youth and Changamwe took the boys’ honours in South Coast.

Mvita needed to win against Brighstars and Taveta Heroes and did so by beating the former 2-0 through goals from Kasim Mohamed and Mohamed Ali.

hAppY bIRthDAY: man City sent a happy birthday message to Argentine Sergion Aguero.

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Chargers break bank for rhinos

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TOUGH MACHINES: Participants in the 2014 edition of the Rhino Charge, which was won by Car No.5. Car No.53 (Bottom left), sponsored by Cheki Kenya emerged third, after Car No.22

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The 2014 edition of the Rhino Charge raised Sh103million for the conservation of the Aberdares ecosystem, the highest amount ever raised in a single event.

This brought the total amount that has been raised through the initiative in 26years to more than Sh1billion.

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Car 5, who completed the course in 31.340km.

Car 5 was also the team that brought in the highest sponsorship, raising Sh7.23million.

Second place overall was Car 22, followed by Car 53, who had gone into the race hoping for a top-ten finish.

The Bushbabes’ Car no.19 took home the Coupe des Dames Award.

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Other winners Unmodified Category Award -Car 17 Properly Shafted Award- Car 48 The Garmin MMBA Award- Car41 Kamran Fazal Memorial Award- Jasper Epsom Best First Time Entrant Award-Car 15 (who sold the red plastic horns, you may have seen stuck on the grilles of cars around town) Most Meritorious International Team Award - Car 39 The Victor Ludorum Award-Car 5 The Gauntlet Award-Car 64 The Spirit of the RhinoCharge Award-Philip Hechle

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