There is no faulting the Catholic Church’s position that abstinence outside of marriage and fidelity within marriage, as well as the avoidance of intravenous drug abuse, are the only morally correct and medically sure ways to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.

On Thursday, September 24, 2009, Barack Obama became the first serving US President to chair a meeting of the United Nations when he presided over a special Security Council session on nuclear non-proliferation.

I differ with Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka, Justice Minister Mutula Kilonzo, and all those lawyers and pundits who have argued that, in re-appointing Justice (rtd) Ringera the Director of the Kenya Anti-corruption Commission (KACC), the President did not breach the law.

For quite some time now, successive American and other Western governments have been toying with the idea of establishing two separate states, Israel and Palestine, as the solution to the Palestinian problem.

This late in the day we can neither claim not to know the root cause of our failures nor can we keep on blaming our tribulations on others, especially colonialists and the capitalist West. Without a doubt these two constructed the prison of poverty and dependency, but who has ensured it survives to this day, and even expanded and upgraded it into a maximum security facility?

By OKIYA OMTATAH OKOITI
Published August 16, 2009

Even if President Mwai Kibaki, Premier Raila Odinga and their bloated cabinet talk for ages about the crises facing Kenya, it will not do much for the country beyond its political symbolism. The country is broke, and we should cut the costs. Nothing short of radically downsizing the cabinet [...]

Worldwide, the death penalty is a most debated issue in the criminal justice system. The Catholic Church opposes the death penalty in nearly all cases, but it teaches that the death penalty is not intrinsically evil…

The very cloudy rhetoric against the circumcision of women is darkened further by the usually suspicious and antagonistic relationship between modern and traditional lifestyles.

Though there are compelling moral arguments to cancel crippling third world debt, they don’t amount to much when they appeal to pity and not to enforceable law. Furthermore, debt relief will not solve the problem of third world poverty if it does not address the root causes.

It is now clear that hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spitefully rejected US President Barack Obama’s very lenient demands that he freezes all Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank to advance the peace process.

I have a feeling that we cannot fight or kill tribalism. Like terrorism, tribalism is a method, a means to a goal, it doesn’t have a life of its own.

Dr. Patrick Otieno Lumumba and myself joined residents of Kenya’s second largest city, Mombasa, to mark this year’s United Nations International Day in support of victims of torture.