Wishful thinkers, chewing the proverbial meat of contentment, have been head over heels on blogosphere and e-groups with a somewhat mundane argument, that President Mwai Kibaki won the 2007 elections.

Though coming rather late in the day, we applaud President Mwai Kibaki’s decisive action on the scandal plaguing Nairobi City Council.

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.

Mr. Ayumba looked anxious as he sat watching his wife narrate his story. For some reason, he seemed unable to express himself. When I asked the wife why he was unable to talk, she said his voice was hoarse, so he preferred not to talk.

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.

Faced with high food prices, low income and barely a patch of arable land, hundreds of residents of Nairobi’s densely populated slums have adopted a novel form of intensive agriculture: a farm in a sack.

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.