Violet Tinah, 40, a resident of Korogocho slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, is living with HIV and was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis, but her biggest problem today is not disease – but hunger.

Kenyans voted for Mwai Kibaki and his NARC brigade in 2002 because they promised to deliver a new constitution in 100 days of power, and to clamp down hard on the monster of corruption.

Sovereignty means government freedom from external control. It can also be interpreted as dominion of a monarch. At a personal level, it is the liberty to decide one’s thoughts or actions without external coercion, or interference

Jemima Mwende brought her son Kevin to the clinic. He was one of the few children who didn’t seem to have major health problems, although his mother complained his appetite was poor.

Four years after an innovative slum-upgrading project was launched in Huruma, to the northeast of the Kenyan capital, at least 200 households are now living in improved homes, complete with infrastructure such as running water, sewage connection, electricity, drainage, paving and renovated toilet blocks.

Bumper harvests being reported in several east African countries will do little to improve long-term food security in countries like Kenya, where almost six million of its 38 million inhabitants receive some form of food aid.

After stabilizing Akinyi with fluids and oxygen, we put her in an ambulance, which rushed her to the hospital for admission. She stayed in the emergency ward for about three days, where she was put on IV (intravenous) fluids.

The Kenya Prisons Service has won praise for its HIV programmes, including education, testing and the provision of anti-retroviral drugs to prisoners, but specialists say unless the issue of unprotected sex is addressed, HIV transmission will continue unchecked.

Our first week in Kibera was largely uneventful. The clinic did not get as busy as we had anticipated. We were told that word was still getting round, and that in time, people would come, “once they have learnt to trust us.

Talk of Sodom and Gomorrah, the coalition government in Kenya is it. People think with their stomachs, spin issues very dear to the common man, and strangle their livelihood.

From Mutahi Ngunyi’s last piece, it is easy to tell why he takes Kenya for granted. By his own assertion; Kenya is Ngunyi, his woman and children!

If you were a fishmonger in Kisumu, a city on Lake Victoria in western Kenya, you would have to sleep with the fishermen to get stock to sell so you could make a living