The insurance industry's profit before taxation declined by 31.5 per cent for the year 2007 compared to 2006. The combined profit before taxation was Sh4.1 billion compared to Sh5.85 billion in 2006.

It's a warm, humid afternoon, and hundreds of students are gathered at Flamingo Secondary School Hall, chatting animatedly in small groups.

Kenya is stepping up the fight against tuberculosis, other lung diseases and leprosy as infections continue to rise.

The corporate world was last week treated to the bizarre spectacle of the mass "resignation" of almost all the top managers of the Kenya Planters' Co-operative Union.

Although Kenya has increased its share of trade within east Africa and Comesa, its trade levels with the world have reduced by half in the last two decades.

The African Union is now turning to the Diaspora in a bid to boost its development capacity.

Few Zimbabweans ever imagined the prospect of President Robert Mugabe sitting in the same room with his political archrival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), let alone shaking hands.

Water minister Charity Ngilu Tuesday cancelled the inauguration of the board of directors of the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company after protests marred the occasion.

Operation Rudi Nyumbani (Return Home, in Kiswahili), designed to help about 350,000 IDPs living in camps across the country go back to their homes and farms has achieved its primary objective, at least according to the Kenyan government. Officials claim

On December 27, 2007, Pastor Robert Birgen of the African Inland Church, Chepsiria, stood patiently in line at Kapkuis Primary School polling station in Kuinet, a few kilometres north of Eldoret Town.

Up to ten pupils became pregnant in one school last year. And residents of one area in Nyanza are angry, with a local councillor saying this was the cause of the high drop out rates.

Dissenting parties within PNU scored a major victory Tuesday after a proposal to dissolve affiliate parties and merge them into one was shelved.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga has vowed that never again shall Kenya descend into the orgy of violence that rocked the country after the disputed presidential election results.

Driving past Limuru on the Nakuru-Nairobi highway, the road opens up to a viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley escarpment.

Thousands of people are trooping into Mau forest with the hope of benefiting from the planned Government resettlement of illegal farmers, Maasai leaders claimed Tuesday.

Two MPs Tuesday differed in public over the Government's decision to evict squatters from Mau Forest by the end of October this year.

The agreement reached on Monday between Dr Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai should hopefully deliver the people of Zimbabwe from misery.

A school affiliated to the Catholic church was yesterday closed after riots.

Students from schools affected by unrest have given a wide range of reasons for their actions, most of which resulted in losses running into millions of shillings.

Last Friday, students of Kuoyo Kochia Secondary School in Homa Bay District damaged their school after objecting to being frisked before entering the examination room.