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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Wed, 22 May 2013 21:47:30 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 5/22/2013 9:47:30 PM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 NAIROBI AFP - Kenyas reconciliation commission has said the president, security forces and judiciary should publicly apologise for past abuses going back 50 years, its final report seen Wednesday said.Set up after bloody post-election violence in 2007-08, Kenyas Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission TJRC handed over its weighty fou ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/465161/1/kenyan-truth-panel-urges-president-to-apologise.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/465161/1/kenyan-truth-panel-urges-president-to-apologise.html Wed, 22 May 2013 13:40:15 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YW5fdHJ1dGhfcGFuZWxfdXJnZXNfcHJlc2lkZW50X3RvX2Fwb2xvZ2lzZS5qcGd8MTUw http://www.modernghana.com/news/465161/1/kenyan-truth-panel-urges-president-to-apologise.html NAIROBI AFP - Kenya said Tuesday it was fine with US President Barack Obama avoiding the country on an Africa tour next month, rejecting reports it was due to upcoming crimes against humanity trials of its leaders.Obama will leave on a first African tour in late June, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses K ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/464933/1/kenya-fine-about-obama-avoiding-it-on-africa-trip.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/464933/1/kenya-fine-about-obama-avoiding-it-on-africa-trip.html Tue, 21 May 2013 14:30:04 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YV9maW5lX2Fib3V0X29iYW1hX2F2b2lkaW5nX2l0X29uX2FmcmljYV90cmlwLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/464933/1/kenya-fine-about-obama-avoiding-it-on-africa-trip.html THE HAGUE AFP - Kenyas Deputy President William Ruto pledged his countrys continued cooperation with the International Criminal Court on Tuesday where he and President Uhuru Kenyatta face crimes against humanity trials, but maintained he was a victim of a conspiracy of lies.The new Kenyan administration, popularly elected in free and f ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463780/1/kenyas-deputy-leader-pledges-commitment-to-icc-tri.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463780/1/kenyas-deputy-leader-pledges-commitment-to-icc-tri.html Tue, 14 May 2013 20:10:09 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YXNfZGVwdXR5X2xlYWRlcl9wbGVkZ2VzX2NvbW1pdG1lbnRfdG9faWNjX3RyaWFsLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/463780/1/kenyas-deputy-leader-pledges-commitment-to-icc-tri.html NAIROBI AFP - Kenyan demonstrators released two dozen piglets at the gates of parliament and poured blood on the pavement Tuesday to protest demands by newly elected lawmakers for a wage hike.Police, who fired tear gas to disperse the protestors and beat others with truncheons, scurried after the pigs as they scampered through the grassy area ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463727/1/kenyans-stage-greedy-pig-protest-against-lawmakers.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463727/1/kenyans-stage-greedy-pig-protest-against-lawmakers.html Tue, 14 May 2013 15:00:04 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YW5zX3N0YWdlX2dyZWVkeV9waWdfcHJvdGVzdF9hZ2FpbnN0X2xhd21ha2Vycy5qcGd8MTUw http://www.modernghana.com/news/463727/1/kenyans-stage-greedy-pig-protest-against-lawmakers.html NAIROBI AFP - Ten of 40 mentally ill patients who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, have been returned to the facility, officials said Monday.We are now talking of 30 mental patients who are not back. Some have come back on their own volition while some were captured and brought back by their relatives, poli ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463590/1/40-psychiatric-patients-escape-from-kenya-hospital.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463590/1/40-psychiatric-patients-escape-from-kenya-hospital.html Mon, 13 May 2013 21:30:04 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF80MF9wc3ljaGlhdHJpY19wYXRpZW50c19lc2NhcGVfZnJvbV9rZW55YV9ob3NwaXRhbF8xMF9iYWNrLmpwZ3wxNTA= http://www.modernghana.com/news/463590/1/40-psychiatric-patients-escape-from-kenya-hospital.html ADEN AFP - Armed tribesmen kidnapped two expatriate employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross and their interpreter in southern Yemen on Monday, witnesses and militia sources said.The Swiss and Kenyan ICRC staffers were abducted in the southern city of Jaar, which was held by loyalists of Al-Qaeda for 12 months until it was re ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463577/1/yemen-tribesmen-kidnap-swiss-kenyan-red-cross-staf.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463577/1/yemen-tribesmen-kidnap-swiss-kenyan-red-cross-staf.html Mon, 13 May 2013 20:00:35 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF95ZW1lbl90cmliZXNtZW5fa2lkbmFwX3N3aXNzX2tlbnlhbl9yZWRfY3Jvc3Nfc3RhZmYuanBnfDE1MA== http://www.modernghana.com/news/463577/1/yemen-tribesmen-kidnap-swiss-kenyan-red-cross-staf.html NAIROBI AFP - A top official in a Kenyan conservation group was Monday charged with illegal possession of 19 kilogrammes of elephant ivory worth more than 20,000.Susan Soila, 50, deputy director of the community development wing of the Amboseli Trust for Elephants, a not-for-profit organisation conserving wildlife in one of Kenyas most famo ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463501/1/kenyan-conservationist-charged-for-ivory-possessio.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463501/1/kenyan-conservationist-charged-for-ivory-possessio.html Mon, 13 May 2013 16:10:03 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YW5fY29uc2VydmF0aW9uaXN0X2NoYXJnZWRfZm9yX2l2b3J5X3Bvc3Nlc3Npb24uanBnfDE1MA== http://www.modernghana.com/news/463501/1/kenyan-conservationist-charged-for-ivory-possessio.html NAIROBI AFP - Kenyas attorney general on Saturday distanced himself from a move by the countrys ambassador to the United Nations seeking to drop an international trial for crimes against humanity for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy.Githu Muigai, the governments top legal advisor, said he had not been aware of the confidential lette ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463219/1/kenya-attorney-general-disowns-bid-to-drop-kenyatt.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463219/1/kenya-attorney-general-disowns-bid-to-drop-kenyatt.html Sat, 11 May 2013 13:50:03 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YV9hdHRvcm5leV9nZW5lcmFsX2Rpc293bnNfYmlkX3RvX2Ryb3Bfa2VueWF0dGFfdHJpYWwuanBnfDE1MA== http://www.modernghana.com/news/463219/1/kenya-attorney-general-disowns-bid-to-drop-kenyatt.html NAIROBI AFP - Kenya coach Adel Amrouche says he is not too worried about his teams lowly position in the 2014 World Cup qualifying competition and will take one match at a time.With only a single point from three matches, Kenya face two decisive games against Group F co-leaders, Nigeria and Malawi, which they must win to stay in contention. ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/463105/1/kenyas-amrouche-unfazed-by-lowly-position.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/463105/1/kenyas-amrouche-unfazed-by-lowly-position.html Fri, 10 May 2013 15:50:06 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YXNfYW1yb3VjaGVfdW5mYXplZF9ieV9sb3dseV9wb3NpdGlvbi5qcGd8MTUw http://www.modernghana.com/news/463105/1/kenyas-amrouche-unfazed-by-lowly-position.html NAIROBI AFP - Kenya has written to the UN Security Council seeking to scrap the international crimes against humanity trials for President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Vice President William Ruto, according to a letter seen Thursday.Kenyatta, 51, voted into power in March elections, is to go on trial in July at the International Criminal Court ICC ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/462910/1/kenya-asks-un-to-drop-icc-charges-for-kenyatta-rut.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/462910/1/kenya-asks-un-to-drop-icc-charges-for-kenyatta-rut.html Thu, 09 May 2013 16:10:37 +0100 http://img.modernghana.com/thumb.aspx?img=XGltYWdlc1xjb250ZW50XGFmcF9rZW55YV9hc2tzX3VuX3RvX2Ryb3BfaWNjX2NoYXJnZXNfZm9yX2tlbnlhdHRhX3J1dG8uanBnfDE1MA== http://www.modernghana.com/news/462910/1/kenya-asks-un-to-drop-icc-charges-for-kenyatta-rut.html