Uhuru Kenyatta, who appears to be President Daniel arap Moi's chosen heir, now has three cabinet ministers racing with him to be the ruling party's presidential candidate. Raila Odinga, Katana Ngala and Musalia Mudavadi have said they will fight Mr Kenyatta, son of Kenya's first president, for the Kenya African National Union (Kanu) nomination ahead of the elections due later this year.

Although the government has criminalised female genital mutilation, it must still go the extra mile to eradicate the outdated practice from the 55 districts where it is prevalent.

The Anti-Corruption Police Unit has established a secretariat to oversee training of personnel in the fight against the vice.

Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives is writing to express its support for the statement by the Kenyan Union of Journalists (KUJ) that the offence of criminal libel should be abolished under the new Kenyan constitution. According to an article posted on allAfrica.com, dated 17 July, the KUJ told the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC), that the laws of contempt and criminal libel are "anachronistic and serve no useful purpose in a constitutional democracy". In the same presentation, the journalists' organization said, "Freedom of expression is rendered a big mockery so long as the government can ban publications it finds offensive without reference to the courts of law".

The Government yesterday received a major boost in the anti-malaria war when the British Government gave a Sh510 million grant, spread over the next five years.

The elimination of ignorance has been a standing objective of the Kenyan government since independence from Britain in 1963. Lately, however, the country's education sector has faced severe tests.

A paralysed Kenyan journalist is seeking compensation from the Kenyan authorities following an incident in 1991 when police threw him out of a fourth-floor window, the media watchdog Reporters sans Frontieres (RSF) reported. Wallace Gichere, the-then chief photographer of the government-owned 'Kenya Times', was beaten and thrown out of the window by a group of 15 Special Branch members who broke into his Nairobi flat to arrest him, RSF official Jared Obuya told IRIN on Wednesday.

Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK) is an NGO founded in August 1993 by a group of women, the majority of whom are HIV positive. WOFAK targets women, who are particularly vulnerable to infection, in the following three regions: Homa Bay (South Nyanza), Kayole in the Eastlands of Nairobi, and Nairobi City Center.

The stalemate preventing Kenya from regaining access to World Bank and IMF credit is also jeopardising the country's chances of negotiating lenient loan-repayment terms with the Paris Club of donors.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has described as "malicious" and "outrageous" allegations of corruption and mismanagement levelled against it by a group of Kenyan politicians over the agency's management of refugee camps in the northern part of the country.

Plans for a titanium mine in southeast Kenya, approved by the Kenyan government last week, could lead to environmental damage and adversely affect the lives of people, local rights groups warned on Tuesday.

The 41-year-old Kenyan food and travel writer Binyavanga Wainaina has won the £9,600 Caine prize for African writing for his short story, Discovering Home, that tells of a young man working in Cape Town who returns to his parents' Kenyan village for a year.

ACORD is looking for a new Executive Director to be responsible for the strategic leadership and overall organisational management of all areas of ACORD's work.

The UN refugee agency UNHCR has denied media reports claiming that hundreds of refugees stormed its offices in northwestern Kenya, demanding a solution to a dispute over firewood.

As many as 200,000 teachers in five sub-saharan African countries could be killed by Aids over the coming decade, according to an International Labour Organisation study.

The Kibera Community Self Help Program (KICOSHEP) is a youth center situated in the middle of one of Nairobi's biggest slums. It caters to youngsters who are diagnosed as HIV positive as well as those who are not infected – but who, statistically, are at risk of becoming so. KICOSHEP is also one of the best examples in Africa of a homegrown, privately-funded AIDS prevention program.

More than 500 IT and telecoms professionals and policy makers from across the continent are expected to attend the fourth annual African Computing and Telecommunications summit.

The Kenyan authorities have given details of an outbreak of highland malaria, which has killed a total of 294 people since June.

A split has emerged within the ruling Kanu party in Kenya over the announcement by some party members that the son of Kenya's first president, Jomo Kenyatta, should be the party's presidential candidate at the next election.

Kenya has a shortfall of 22,000 teachers in both primary and secondary schools. The shortfall will be reduced through recruitment beginning this month, the government says.