The El Nino-like rains are finally with us and the destruction is already being felt across the country.

We badly need to increase the level of investment in electricity distribution and transmission. That is the lesson from massive national power blackout we experienced the other day.

Kenyans abroad eagerly await the granting of dual citizenship status to those who hold citizenship of the countries in which they are domiciled.

At the faculty of law, while in university, Tony, a good friend told me that if I wanted to be a leader I had to be shrewd, demanding on friends, merciless when they let me down, and make sure I made more money than they did. Leadership, he said, was about power, influence and results.

City Hall has maintained that it will continue with efforts to keep long-distance matatus out of Nairobi city centre, even as plans to do so failed to start on Monday.

Aid activists Oxfam complained recently that "it is time for G20 leaders to stand up and deliver the money needed to protect poor people," as heads of the world's biggest economies met in Pittsburgh in September.

The Music Copyright Society of Kenya (MCSK) has been stopped from collecting royalties from Cellulant Kenya Ltd pending the outcome of an appeal in the Court of Appeal.

An influential US lobby is pushing for Kenya to remain in the list of countries eligible for trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).

A strong rally in commodity prices could help put Kenya's economy back on the growth path, analysts said even as they warned of persistent risk of imported inflation from the steady surge in the prices of key imports such as oil.

Kenya's government requires a massive $4.8 billion (KSh368 billion) over the next five years to finance various energy sector developments in the country.

Settlers in Mau Forest with crops on their farms will be given time to harvest, it was announced on Sunday. Forest and Wildlife minister Noah Wekesa said some of the settlers owned livestock and other property that may require more time to dispose of.

When Rose Mibei, 35, and her husband sold her one-acre plot in Bomet in 2000 and bought three acres in Mau Forest, she thought she had struck gold. Little did she know that she was opening a dark chapter in her life.

Eight people were arrested when police broke up an illegal oathing ceremony in Kirinyaga South district. More than 30 other suspected members of the outlawed Mungiki sect escaped arrest at Ng'othi village in Mwea division.

An essay-writing and cartoon competition on the theme of leadership has been launched targeting secondary school students.

Police were on Sunday deployed to Nairobi's Kibera slum following a night of fighting between two groups over a piece of land. Five people, including three children, were feared dead in Mashimoni area, where the fighting took place.

Treasury on Sunday gave a breakdown of how billions of shillings meant for resettlement of internally displaced people, now at the centre of investigations, was shared out to the respective ministries.

With exactly a week to go before a deadline for those settled in a section of the Mau Forest complex expires, thousands of anxious settlers are grappling with the inevitability of eviction. A two-pronged plan in the past week has cleared any doubts on the government's determination to get the settlers out and start rehabilitation work.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Sunday threw his weight behind the inclusion of Kadhis courts in the new constitution as a controversy with Christian groups rages.

Vice-President Kalonzo Musyoka on Sunday urged governments and donors to increase funding for research and control in order to eradicate malaria.

Shocking details have emerged on the extent to which school girls fall prey to sexual predators -- their own teachers. Up to 12,660 girls were sexually abused by teachers over a five-year period, reveals a government report to be launched on Monday.