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1.	USA suspends Kenya school funding
	Author: Correspondent	Date Written: 26 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: BBC News, UK
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk
	Key Words: Kenya, USA, school funding,
	Summary & Comment: The USA has pushed for reform in Kenya since deadly violence swept the country after an election in 2007. The US has suspended $7m of funding for free primary schools in Kenya until fraud allegations are investigated. The UK government has also pulled out of the project. DN
2.	Tackling the crisis of urban poverty
	Author: IRIN, Nairobi	Date Written: 19 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, urban poverty, health, nutrition, risk,
	Summary & Comment: Nairobi has over 100 dense, unsanitary, and insecure slums where almost half of the city's population lives with little or inadequate access to safe water and sanitation. Because this urban population living in slums is expected to double in the next 15 years, urban poverty must be urgently addressed. DN
3.	President, Prime Minister clash over conservation
	Author: PANA, Nairobi	Date Written: 15 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Afrique en ligne
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.afriquejet.com
	Key Words: Kenya, President, PM, Mau forest, gazetted forests,
	Summary & Comment: On 1 January, President Kibaki declared 2010 as Kenya’s Green Year, but did not turn up at a recent tree-planting exercise in the Mau Forest. Has the President made a secret pact to compensate large-scale landowners? If so the President has breached a collective, cabinet decision in which people evicted from the gazetted forests would not be compen . . . [expand]
4.	Media gagging and constitution review process
	Author: Release Political Prisoners	Date Written: 14 January 2010
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 465
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Africa in the Media	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Kenya, media, draft constitution, review process,
	Summary & Comment: Kenyans want to focus on getting a new consitution this year. The Harmonised Draft Constitution strengthens freedom of the press and enhances democracy in the field; so, this seems to the authors, Release Political Prisoners, to be an inappropriate time to bring a media gagging law. DN
5.	Storymoja: Publishers with a mission
	Author: Tujuane interviews Muthoni Garland	Date Written: 23 December 2009
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Pambazuka News 463
	Secondary Category: Africas Image: Africa in the Media	Source URL: http://www.pambazuka.org
	Key Words: Kenya, Storymoja, publishers, East African writing,
	Summary & Comment: Tujuane interviews the managing director of Storymoja, a Kenya-based company formed with the ‘dream of publishing contemporary East African writing of world-class standard’. Storymoja’s mission is to grow East Africa’s reading culture and to improve writing standards. DN
6.	Kenya: Refugees flee drought-stricken Somalia
	Author: Andy Needham, Dadaab	Date Written: 18 December 2009
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: UNHCR
	Secondary Category: Ecology	Source URL: http://www.unhcr.org/
	Key Words: Kenya, Somalia, refugees, climate change, UNHCR,
	Summary & Comment: Dulane Jama fled Somalia not just because of war but also because of climate change. Grazing grounds and lack of water forced him and his family to move to an over crowded refugee camp in northern Kenya in order to to find the basic necessities of life. Extreme climatic events are on the rise in many parts of Africa. DH
7.	Court nullifies election of ODM National Treasurer
	Author: Nairobi	Date Written: 17 December 2009
	Primary Category: Kenya	Document Origin: Afrique en ligne
	Secondary Category: -none-	Source URL: http://www.afriquejet.com
	Key Words: Kenya, ODM, court, parliamentary seat,
	Summary & Comment: A Kisii High Court Judge nullified the 2007 election victory of the National Treasurer of the ruling Orange Democratic Movement. An election to fill the seat is expected soon. DN