The Kenya Economic Report 2009 just released exposes the challenges the country faces in fostering economic growth and also offers vital lessons for recovery.

Have a heart for the top government officials who have been dragging their feet over the small matter of handing over their luxury vehicles. They are being asked to go against the grain, and who knows where all this giving up business will stop?

I read a story (Nation, October 26) with great dismay. A new council of elders for the Kalenjin community had been assembled at the Reformed Church of East Africa's conference centre in Eldoret.

Along Kenya's border with Somalia is a point where illegal immigration thrives. At the Liboi Border Control in Lagdera, one should not be misled by the implied function of the Immigration office at this far-flung part of the country.

A lot of times, it is difficult for anyone to comprehend how government leaders think or why its officials operate at cross purposes. It is incomprehensible why, for instance, issues contained in the negotiated Agenda Four are so hard to be addressed even through they are the thread the nation hangs its future of peace and stability on.

The government has been asked to beef up security for Labour minister John Munyes as a diplomatic row over espionage claims involving Southern Sudan escalates.

Heavy rains threatened to wreak havoc on the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education examination after roads in parts of the country became impassable.

Parliament will, after all, have the final say on whether Mombasa port will be privatised or not, a House committee said on Thursday.

Thirty two Cabinet ministers, 40 assistant ministers and 27 permanent secretaries were by Thursday yet to comply with a new government policy to use more economical vehicles.

Kenya is to blame for the action taken against a senior government official by the United States, Justice minister Mutula Kilonzo said on Thursday.

The trial of a policeman accused of killing an MP and his companion on Thursday ended in tears of rage and disappointment for families of the victims.

The Comoros has asked Kenya to help it fight pirates threatening its port business.

The proposal to merge water service companies in Coast Province to form only two came under heavy criticism during a critical shareholders' meeting held on Thursday.

Engineers plan to build a temporary bridge on the Garsen-Malindi road after the one at Kanagoni was damaged by floods.

Usain Bolt, the world's fastest man, is in town.

Should Kenya's aid donors direct their support towards infrastructure development and leave governance reforms to Kenyans, or should they be involved in both?

Kenya risks being thrown out of a list of countries that will next year trade with the US on concessionary terms contained in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa), analysts warned, citing a raging diplomatic row between the two countries over the pace of reforms.

The government's plan to regulate the country's fledging co-operative movement through a central authority has to be lauded as it sets the stage for proper regulation of a sector that is too critical to the economy.

Maina Njenga yesterday warned that he may not be in full control of the sect as a new leader might emerge to replace him.

Kenyan taxpayers pay retired British civil servants Sh79 million every month, the Star has learnt.