The considerable interest in the US presidential election around the world may partly reflect just its entertainment value.

American politics is tribal. Not in the sense of Kikuyu and Luo and Kalenjin and Kamba and all our competing ethnic groups, but is the racial and ethnic characteristics that make up the richly diverse country.

In a year when compliance with international accounting standards carried the top score, Standard Chartered Bank has come out tops to win this year's overall FiRe Award.

Kenya is now among a select group of countries - including Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Uganda - to be rated as emerging markets by the IMF.

The push for an indigenous shipping service within the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) is on its way to fruition.

The credibility of the marketing function is at stake and only marketers can redeem their image and restore public faith in the profession, a respected marketer has said.

For the first time in a long while, the Government has directed its attention to the long-suffering provincial administrators.

It is said that the amount of electricity you consume shows your standard of living.

When I called for Somali's division last week, I expected the vitriolic reaction I have received from the war-weary country's refugees in the US, Britain, Denmark, Eritrea and Mogadishu.

It is official: the Government receives an average of two new applications daily from people seeking to register churches.

When my oldest son was a little boy, he'd always cause a ruckus at the local restaurant.

This article offers a critical perspective on the making of the Kenya post-colony using the example of 'The Kenya of the North', a region that has been relegated to the periphery - politically, legally, economically, socially and culturally - in the building of a nation. Using northern Kenya as a case study, the paper asks whether Kenya has ever been inclusive of all its regions and peoples, and whether it has succeeded in building consensus on issues affecting all its citizens, especially in as far as the rule of law, democracy, human rights and their protection are concerned.

Somali pirates holding a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks denied that there were talks with the company that belongs to the ship following media reports said that the two sides agreed $8mln for the release of the ship.

Experts have called for a 40 per cent reduction in fishing activities in Lake Victoria to counter the rapid dwindling of Nile perch stocks in the world 's second largest lake.

Kenya's Ministry of Health has launched a four-day nationwide campaign to retreat at least 1.8 million bed nets with long-lasting insecticide to control the spread of malaria as the rainy season sets in, a senior health official said.

The peculiar circumstances of the African continent that has put it at the lowest rung of developmental ladder despite its enormous human and material resources, again, came into focus on Thursday.

Postmaster-General of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST), Ibrahim Mori Baba, on Thursday stated that the need to improve on service delivery and meet global trends in postal administration has spurred the agency to adopt the Nairobi Postal Strategy (NPS).

Kenyan Prime Minister, Raila Amolo Odinga, yesterday identified mediocrity, bad governance, lack of respect for the rule of law, injustice and inequality as some of the factors responsible for the underdevelopment of Nigeria and African countries alike.

Kenya's Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are dominating the ongoing trade fair meaning that Uganda's could be missing an opportunity to showcase their potential.

When the magungu bird flies higher in the sky than usual and seems to float in the air in its passage from south to north, the Abasuba people living on the islands of Kenya's Lake Victoria and on the highlands near the lake know the rains are on their way and that it is time to plant.