Before the post-election violence in Kenya in January and February 2008, Wangui Mwangi Theuri was a landlady in a city slum, but she is now displaced, living in a tent at the Mathare chief's camp in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Prospects for her return to Mathare, where she owned 14 rooms - which were destroyed - are bleak after "rich" people took over her land. She spoke to IRIN on 21 July:

Erratic rainfall, soaring farming costs, and a shortage of materials in the western district of Mt Elgon could compromise food security in the region.

Kenya is among countries in the Horn of Africa facing a humanitarian emergency with more than 12 million people requiring urgent food aid and other assistance over coming months.

It was song and dance at the High Court on Wednesday when five murder suspects were released and the State ordered to compensate them for illegal confinement since 2005.

A total of 1,600 nurses are to be recruited in the next few weeks.

Absentee owners of public land have been put on notice - utilise the resource or risk having it revert to Government ownership.

After two miserable years of inertia by Rift Valley Railways, it has dawned on our leaders that the "marriage" between it and the Government is on the rocks.

Cuddling her three-month-old son, Lonah Muruli struggled to hold back tears running down her face. She could not believe she would never see her husband and her brother-in-law alive again; they had just been shot dead by forest guards as they herded cattle in Kakamega Forest.

Key players in education have termed measures announced by minister Sam Ongeri to curb school strikes short-term and want a lasting solution.

Kenya will chair the 24th Universal Postal Union Congress that is taking place in Geneva, Switzerland.

Alarmed at the current upsurge in strikes in secondary schools in which one student has been killed and property worth millions of shillings destroyed, Ruth Gituma is urging the Ministry of Education to immediately close all schools until the causes are determined and decisive action taken to end the unrest.

Sixty councillors on Wednesday called for urgent action to stop the destruction of Mau Forest.

The Media Council of Kenya has denied accusations that it intends to muzzle the Press through the introduction of laws requiring journalists to pay an annual subscription for them to be allowed to practise.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has praised the decision of the Government and people of Kenya to "step back from the brink" after disputed presidential election results and form a unity administration.

Speaker Kenneth Marende urged Cabinet members to streamline their operations in the House.

Coming so soon after the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudanese President Hassan al-Bashir, the capture on Monday of former Serbian President Radovan Karadzic reinforces the message that leaders everywhere must ultimately be called to account.

The term of the commission set up to investigate the post- election chaos has been extended by a month.

A new head of the Prisons Service should be appointed from outside the force to spearhead radical reforms, a probe team has recommended.

Kenya Ports Authority has suspended landing of transshipment cargo in Mombasa port from next Monday due to over congestion.

Unlike their male counterparts in the 1,500 metres, Kenyan women are finding it hard to underline their authority in this race.