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  1. Revitalising Kenya’s tourism through e-marketing

    13-03-2007 12:25 door Evans Wafula
    -  11 March 2007, by Evans Wafula - For Kenya to develop and realise sustainable development as envisaged in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it must learn the art of bridging the gap in 'digital divide" and emphasis the crucial role of Information Technology (IT) in promotion and marketing of its service sector. The role of Information Technology (IT) in the development and marketing of tourism must be over emphasised, if the sector has to grow and be able to compete with other technologically compliant tourist destinations like Europe, America and Asian destinations. The tourism sector has a higher multiplier as its growth stimulates further development in other acti…

  2. Criminal intent: Africa’s shame and the sins of its great sons

    13-03-2007 11:48 door Evans Wafula
     12 March 2007, by Evans Wafula. Last week, l took a journey inside the dungeons of torture where innocent civilians bore the burnt of years of misrule and Africa"s despotic tendencies that have characterized its leadership. Whichever way you may take it, torture is prevalent and remains the worst form of human treatment in most states of Africa. - I saw in Kenya something that ought to be preserved as a national monument of shame and what properly represents a legacy of impunity. I was privileged to accompany a group of torture survivors, civil society representatives and a representative of the ministry charged with the preservation of national heritage and the media on a return …

  3. Why the Search for Rwanda genocide suspect remains elusive and the ICTR continues to become irrelevant

    22-02-2007 17:20 door Evans Wafula
    21 February 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Last year l visited the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda- based in Arusha, Tanzania. My visit was precipitated by the fact that the ICTR has indicated that one of the most wanted suspect Felician Kabuga was in Kenya. Indeed the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Hassan Bubacar Jallow, and representatives of 25 diplomatic missions in Kenya met on 27 September 2006 in Nairobi and renewed their call for urgency in apprehending Felicien Kabuga. - Before the genocide in 1994, Kabuga was Rwanda's best-known businessman. He is known to have owned Gikondo Prison, a warehouse building that now houses nearly 6,000…

  4. The Face of Corruption in Kenya

    10-02-2007 09:22 door Evans Wafula
    - How Kenya"s anti graft body is abetting corruption.10 February 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. In Kenya, the fights against graft have become a question of a national ignominy, the country"s anti graft body; the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC) has been accused of selectively dealing with graft and of politicizing the war on graft. The institution, according to its critics; has been turned into a pawn of political wizardly useful for fixing political equations and balances at the expense of the taxpayer. According to a coalition of non-governmental organization (NGOs) and Community based organization (CBOs) working in Kenya, KACC"s competence in the fight against sleaze has been b…

  5. Burundi’s opposition leader expresses fear over security situation

    06-02-2007 19:01 door Evans Wafula
    -  5 February 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Burundi"s opposition leader Leonard Nyangoma has warned that if the peace deal brokered by former South African president Nelson Mandela is to hold, then the current elect-government of President Pierre Nkurunziza has to sort out issues with the Palipehutu-FNL, respect human rights and exercise political tolerance with all political parties in the country and release all detained opposition leaders.This is due to the growing indications that the Forces for National Liberation (FNL) who are the remaining rebel group opposed to the current transitional arrangement continue to display opposition to president Nkuruziza"s government and have st…

  6. Kenya Airways announces fourth flight on route

    02-02-2007 10:35 door Evans Wafula
    - 2 February 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Kenya Airways expansion plan continues to attract passenger volume in its routes in Africa. The airline operates 20 flights on its Africa routes and has announced an additional flight to its Bamako –Dakar route The announcement is part of the airlines expansion plan that is aimed at increasing its flights route in Africa and to offer quality and reliable service to its clients. The flight which will make its median trip to Bamako is scheduled to depart from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Saturday morning at 8.55am and will arrive in Bamako, Mali at 12.45 pm, local time. Increase in demand  Announcing the new development, Kenya…

  7. The Islamic Question in Kenya: is it fundamentalism or a mistaken identity?

    02-02-2007 09:21 door Evans Wafula
    - 2 February 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Comparatively Islam has a longer history in Kenya than Christianity and other minor faiths inspite of its smaller popular spread, the latter factor attributed to historical and cultural factors.According to Professor Ali Mazrui Islam reached the East Coast of Africa, comprising what would later become part of the Republic of Kenya by the seventh century AD, much before its advance on many nations of the Arab Peninsular.Visiting the East Coast of Africa in the Middle Ages North African writers Ibn Battuta and Ibn Khaldun recorded thriving muslim cilisations and cities in Mombasa , Lamu, Mogadishu and Kismayu reports that have been confirmed by ar…

  8. African renaissance and the question of Peace and Stability in a fragile continent

    28-01-2007 23:35 door Evans Wafula
    -  28 January 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. One year after being hailed for showing unprecedented progress toward turning itself around, Africa veered towards the precipice due to rising political and humanitarian catastrophe resulting to serious ramification.The much-vaunted "African renaissance," a three-way equation of democracy, culture, and economic growth is in tatters. Instead, sagging economic performance, backsliding on democracy and increased national and regional tensions threatens much of the continent. A new war in the Sudan"s Darfur has drawn the infant African Union (AU) to mobilize support to end the slaughter of black Muslims in Darfur while other conflicts in…

  9. The Spread of transnational Islam and the future of nation states in the Horn of Africa

    24-01-2007 13:32 door Evans Wafula
    -  24 Januari 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Early this year Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, the military mastermind behind Somalia"s Union of Islamic Court"s spectacular sweep across Somalia between February and late December issued a chilling warning to his country"s neighbors thus: "I"m saying that if IGAD or the UN were impulsive to send troops to Somalia, there would be bloodshed and a new destruction. "We will fight fiercely to the death any intervention force that arrives in Somalia."  IGAD is the acronym for the Intergovernmental Authority on Development a regional group of seven nations: Somalia, Uganda, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Uganda that have been manda…

  10. Issues in human rights and democracy in Kenya

    23-01-2007 23:15 door Evans Wafula
    - 22 January 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. The Kibaki administration will be evading a historic responsibility if it fails to resolve issues that are pertinent to a peaceful transition and the very future of democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Kenya. The NARC government was voted into power primarily because the Moi government was regarded as deceptive and undemocratic. Undemocratic because the previous elections were characterised by violence and claims of malpractice; the state instruments were partisan; the government was intolerant to divergent opinions; and the government was insensitive to popular demands. However, since NARC came to power, there have been undercurr…

  11. There is no respect for humanity in Africa as yet

    23-01-2007 23:13 door Evans Wafula
    - 23 January 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. When Africa entered the final decade of the 20th century, interesting words had replaced the traditional political vocabulary. In came new catchwords like democracy, transparency, accountability and human rights. It was a tremendous improvement. Sadly, by the millennium dawned, these new words had lost their meaning and the continent had once again reverted to its previous wretched state.Coups and countercoups were in the political menu as electoral fraud and brutal civil wars became the order of the day. The political and civil gains that ordinary people had died for in order to wrest freedom from long entrenched oppressive governments appears…

  12. Corruption hampers urban development in Africa - warns Kenyan minister

    23-01-2007 12:46 door Evans Wafula
    - 22 January 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi. Africa"s long quest to achieve the Millennium Development Goals is far from realization and is doomed to fail if radical reforms are not enforced in urban managements in Africa. A member of the Africa Ministerial Conference on Housing and Urban Development (AMCHUD) has warned.Kenya"s housing minister, Mr. Soita Shitanda has expressed fear on the pace of urban development in Africa and has blamed it on endemic and institutionalized corruption in a continent ravaged by poverty and diseases despite huge resource potential. "During the AMCHUD meeting we provided a framework for urban management on the continent, but corruption remains the major chal…

  13. Kenya slated to become an international aviation hub

    23-01-2007 12:45 door Evans Wafula
    - 16 January 2007, by Evans Wafula in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) has launched a grand USD1.23 billion (Ksh9 billion) expansion programme for the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), which will see the facility transform into Africa"s preferred aviation hub. Expansion of the facility is expected to roll out in three phases, up to 2009, with areas planned for expansion being the construction of a new apron, taxiways, and an extended fuel hydrant system similar to the modern Unit 4 terminal at Heathrow and an ultra modern three-storey car park.Upon completion of the expansion programme, JKIA will compare to OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, receive Inter…

  14. Introduction

    16-01-2007 11:39 door Evans Wafula
    - Evans Wafula (1972) lives in Nairobi, Kenya. Wafula has been practicing journalism since 1998. He holds a Diploma in journalism and has other specialty in other fields; including human rights training. He has worked for various including the West Africa Magazine, Central Africa Journal, Eastern Africa Magazine, Business Week, and the London based Africa Week magazine.Areas of interest: His main area of interest is market intelligence- including investigative reporting on business trends in Africa, developmental, political and social development in Africa, World Trade policy on Africa, Liberalization, and transport (aviation).Wafula is a board member of the Foreign Correspondent Association…