A Bill presented to the Kenyan Parliament suggests that those found guilty of causing the transmission of HIV/AIDS should be jailed. The HIV/AIDS Prevention Bill proposes three-year jail terms and will cover not only sexual transmission, but also transmission through contaminated instruments, health care supplies and physical contact.

Kenya's NGO forum, led by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, has called on African Elephant Range States to oppose the reopening of the ivory trade at the 12th Conference of Parties for Convention on the International in Endangered Species in November in Santiago, Chile.

Renewed ethnic tensions in the Gucha, Transmara and Migori districts of western Kenya, in which several people have been killed since last week, have been linked to crucial presidential and parliamentary elections expected later this year.

The Project currently seeks to expand its geographic scope and establish effective HIV programmes through local implementing partners within Kenya. This is a new position. It will be key in ensuring the development, adjustment and implementation of gender-sensitive HIV programmes with local partners.

The Strengthening STD/HIV Control in Kenya Project seeks to reduce the incidence and mitigate the impact of STD/HIV in Kenya. Responsible for the implementation of the capacity building component of the Project.

An organisation called The Kenyan Community Abroad (KCA) has expressed concern about the political climate in Kenya and the conduct of the outgoing president, Daniel arap Moi.

Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi has given his approval to the Industrial Property Act, which allows the country to import generic versions of patented antiretroviral drugs, the Kenyan Daily Nation reports.

Kenya has decided to equip its game wardens with new AK-101 and AK-102 Kalashnikov automatic rifles, replacing the old AK-47 and G-3 rifles which had been used by the Kenya Wildlife Service rangers for the past 10 years.

Some 3,000 people displaced by recent inter-ethnic conflict in Isiolo, central Kenya, are refusing to return to their homes for fear of further violence, according to local sources in Isiolo.

The Kenyan president has sacked a junior minister and told those Kanu party members who oppose his choice of successor to quit the party. On Monday, the official presidential press service announced that deputy Foreign Minister Peter Odoyo had been relieved of his duties with immediate effect.

This position is in the Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) Programme (www.asb.cgiar.org) whose objective is to identify, develop and implement innovative policies, institutions and technologies that can reduce poverty and conserve tropical forests.

The government is to spend 150m shillings [1.8m dollars] to train public officials to fight corruption. Some 970 officers from government departments, parastatals and local authorities will be trained to help combat corruption at their places of work.

High levels of corruption continue to persist in Kenya despite various efforts made to fight the phenomenon, according to two newly released reports.

Traffic police are the most corrupt, a new report on corruption reveals. Traffic officers were found to have developed numerous creative ways of soliciting for bribes, giving the entire police force a bad name.

More than 10,000 girls drop out of school annually due to unwanted pregnancies, with those in day and mixed schools being the most affected. Some girls are said to opt for abortion to remain in school, risking their lives in the process.

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The European Union has earmarked Sh1.8 million for poverty alleviation through the Ministry of Tourism.

Many women in Nairobi did not take part in the voter registration exercise. The latest figures released by the Electoral Commission of Kenya show that the number of registered women voters in Nairobi is almost half that of men.

Neoliberal globalization is based on patriarchy and therefore on the widespread oppression of women. Confronted by accelerating impoverishment and by more and more sophisticated forms of exclusion, numbers of women are aware that the diversity of their demands and their experience of economic pluralism form a counter-current to the dominant economic theory -- neoliberal and patricidal -- and represent serious forms of resistance.

The overall responsibilities will be to provide efficient and effective leadership in the development, co-ordination and control of CAFS activities to meet its obligations as negotiated between donor agencies, regional governments and other stakeholders.