According to the East African Standard,a special software, Consumer Insight has started monitoring Internet usage in Kenya just like any other media outlet. The results, says Consumer Insight's managing director, Ndirangu wa Maina, now give a "complete picture of the demographic characteristics of Kenyans using the Internet and the web sites they visit."

Nairobi is set to see public advertisements on billboards and in newspapers condemning the Catholic Church's ban on the use of condoms in the fight against HIV/Aids.

There is currently "no agreement on program infrastructure, a standardized [HIV treatment] regimen, drug procurement and distribution and no agreed-upon monitoring levels" in Kenya, making it difficult for a "common strategy and coordinated approach" against HIV/AIDS to be mounted, Miriam Taegtmeyer of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Kenneth Chebet, director of the AIDS Control Program in Kenya, write in the "Personal View" column of the January issue of the Lancet Infectious Diseases.

UNIFEM's Nairobi-based African Women in Crisis Programme has commissioned two short studies of groups of women living in the margins of society to ensure that the issues they represent are restored to the development agenda. The first study will examine the impact of a large refugee camp (65,000 inhabitants) on a local population of agro-pastoralists whose fragile economy is teetering on the edge of extinction after several years of drought. Young girls and older women from the Turkana community in Northern Kenya are drawn to the opportunities afforded by Kakuma camp, which offers access to medical and educational facilities, but also forced marriages and work in camp brothels. The second study revisits the situation of internally displaced women in Kenya's Rift Valley and Laikipia Plateau, many of whom remain displaced since the so-called "land clashes" which preceded the 1992 elections and others as a result of subsequent ethnic conflicts. For more information, contact Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Regional Programme Director for East, Central and Horn of Africa.

Nairobi is said to have given its consent for US and British special forces to use Kenya as a base for any military action in neighbouring Somalia, according to a report in the Times newspaper.

A Kenyan NGO has launched a capacity-building peer education training programme targeting 15 primary schools in an effort to eradicate female genital mutilation.

After weeks marked by tension, violent clashes, killings, rioting and looting, residents of Kenya’s biggest slum, Kibera, have slowly begun rebuilding their lives. But even as an anxious calm returned this week, deep-rooted tensions remain in the sprawling suburb, home to hundreds of thousands of people.

The World Bank has said that it had launched criminal investigations in the US against it's former task manager for the Kenya Urban Transport Infrastructure Project (Kutip) over allegations of corruption.

Fourteen people were killed in renewed violent clashes on Sunday between Orma and Pokomo communities in Tana River District, eastern Kenya, bringing the death toll from fighting in the district to more than 50 in the last week.

Fourteen people were killed in renewed violent clashes on Sunday between Orma and Pokomo communities in Tana River District, eastern Kenya, bringing the death toll from fighting in the district to more than 50 in the last week.

Fourteen people were killed in renewed violent clashes on Sunday between Orma and Pokomo communities in Tana River District, eastern Kenya, bringing the death toll from fighting in the district to more than 50 in the last week.

Though difficult to follow at times, this interview with Robert, a 30 year old farmer from the Sabaot people yields interesting and illuminating material, and the narrator describes many of the problems which he perceives face the Sabaot. Intermarriage between his people and the neighbouring Bukusu is, for him, the main reason why there have been changes in his culture, particularly in relation to education, social relations, language, technology, and agricultural practices. Although this has led to what he perceives as positive changes, such as the introduction of new agricultural technology and cash crops, he laments the loss of language and custom, and the social disruption that has come about. This interview highlights the ambiguity the Sabaot seem to feel towards the changes that have been affecting their society, a theme that runs through most of the testimonies in this collection.

Two suspected poachers have been arrested in Mombasa and game trophy recovered. They were allegedly captured trafficking in rhino horns, barely a fortnight after four endangered rhinos were killed in the Tsavo East National Park bordering Tanzania.

Poor women living in slums of Nairobi have been able to tell the world about their appalling living conditions by filming their lives on borrowed video cameras.

Kenyan women's groups accuse the security forces, sent to quell the ongoing unrest in the Kibera slum, of rape, arson and robbery. More than one hundred women marched to the Presidential Office, Thursday, to demand government intervention to end the violence.

A Bill designed to deal with cheating lawyers is being drafted, the Attorney-General has said.

Kenyan MP Jimmy Angwenyi is reported as saying that FGM rites are important to the community as they mark a "new" stage in life.

Police in Nigeria's southern Rivers State on Tuesday broke up a rally of the National Youth Council of Ogoni People (NYCOP) on grounds that they had not sought authorisation to hold the demonstration.

The intended de-gazettement of 170,000 acres of forest cover will be of an unprecedented magnitude since independence, a forest organisation has said.

UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Mary Ann Wyrsch on Tuesday stressed the need for the Kenyan government to enact national refugee legislation to ensure the rights of some 218,00 refugees being housed by the east African country are upheld.